Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM
The article discusses the implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshakes within a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It explains that the administrator of the website has installed Anubis to safeguard against AI companies scraping websites, which can cause downtime and render resources inaccessible. Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash, designed to deter scrapers by increasing the cost of scraping.
However, this solution is a temporary measure, with the ultimate goal of identifying and blocking headless browsers. The article notes that Anubis necessitates modern JavaScript features, which plugins like JShelter would disable, hence users should disable such plugins for the domain in question.
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