Distributed Denial of Services attacks are conducted by multiple computers targeting a single system, flooding their system in attempt to take them offline.
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Preventing DDoS attacks against a Monero service while protecting user privacy
How can I best protect a Monero service (clearnet) from DDoS attacks while at the same time protecting the privacy of users? The Monero service will require that I provide users with the IP address of my full node, so they are able to connect to…
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Is the XMR network vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks?
Is it possible to make a Dos-Attack on the Monero network, by creating multiple transactions with small amounts and flooding the network?
How many Moneros would be required to do so?
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Hardening a mining pool
I have setup a mining pool for a smaller project that uses Cryptonight variant 1.
I have been running into problems with ddos attacks when other people started launching other mining pools.
At first it was layer7 attacks which hammered my webserver…
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Could recent DoS attacks be avoided if Dandelion was not implemented?
Dandelion or Dandelion++ was not implemented in Bitcoin because few bitcoin devs thought it could result in DoS attacks: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/81504/
I was reading the blog post…
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