> Each circuit requires the relays to do expensive public key operations, and many of our relays are now maxed out on CPU load.
Yep. That's one way to attack the network.
Yep. That's one way to attack the network.
Note that the handshake is the CPU-limited part, so a CPU-limited node benefits (in terms of MB/s) from having few clients which use high bandwidth, the opposite of these bots.