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Re: [ANN] ChipMixer.com - Bitcoin mixer / Bitcoin tumbler - mixing reinvented
by
Lucius
on 18/07/2021, 13:26:35 UTC
Or we can use it to announce we have moved into Tor permanent. Either way there will be changes and we do not like them.

I agree with the suggestion that the service should start using only TOR, because if privacy is important to us, then we should not make any compromises in that regard. I believe that most users who use CM are very familiar with what TOR provides, and that they will have no problem using it as the only way to access the service.



Can someone give me an article, or explain, why the Tor's website can't be DDoS-ed same like clearnet's is?

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks typically rely on having a group of thousands of computers all sending floods of traffic to a victim. Since the goal is to overpower the bandwidth of the victim, they typically send UDP packets since those don't require handshakes or coordination.

But because Tor only transports correctly formed TCP streams, not all IP packets, you cannot send UDP packets over Tor. (You can't do specialized forms of this attack like SYN flooding either.) So ordinary DDoS attacks are not possible over Tor. Tor also doesn't allow bandwidth amplification attacks against external sites: you need to send in a byte for every byte that the Tor network will send to your destination. So in general, attackers who control enough bandwidth to launch an effective DDoS attack can do it just fine without Tor.