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I'm particularly interested in Tor onion services. I hope that they can facilitate widely deployed self-authenticating encrypted communication channels at scale.
Anecdotal reports suggest that the current onion services infrastructure does not scale well [1, #8902]. In particular onion service introduction points are susceptible to hammering by clients and malicious attackers. Denial of service attacks where a single Tor process is overloaded by an attackers have also been experienced recently [#15463].
In contrast to modern distribute