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$53 Kills the Tor Network

Summary by sambent.com
Tor's directory protocol has a fundamental design flaw that costs $53 to exploit. Purdue researchers disclosed it December 2024, published the fix, and got ghosted. The vulnerability lives in the bounded synchrony assumptions target five directory authorities with basic DDoS traffic and the entire network collapses. 2 million daily users relying on infrastructure held together by hope.The current protocol fails completely under bandwidth exhaust…
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sambent.com broke the news in on Saturday, November 15, 2025.
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