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| I2P | |
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| Developer: | I2P developers |
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| Latest release: | 0.6.1.28 / March 17, 2007 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Genre: | Overlay network |
| License: | Free/Open Source - Multiple licenses Public domain, BSD, GPL, MIT, Artistic license |
| Website: | www.i2p.net |
I2P (originally short for Invisible Internet Project, though it is not commonly referred to by this name anymore) is a free and open source project building an anonymous network (or, more accurately, a pseudonymitous overlay network). The network is a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. Possible uses include anonymous surfing, chatting, blogging and file transfers.
The developers emphasize that there are likely to be bugs in the software and there has been insufficient peer review to date; thus those seeking strong anonymity should look elsewhere.
The network itself is strictly message-based (like IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (similar to TCP, although from version 0.6 there is a new UDP-based SSU transport). All communication is end-to-end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).
Although many of the developers had been a part of the IIP and Freenet communities, there are significant differences between their designs and concepts. IIP was an anonymous centralized IRC server, Freenet is a censorship-resistant distributed data store, but I2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer distributed communication layer designed to run any traditional internet service (e.g. Usenet, E-mail, IRC, file sharing, Web hosting and HTTP, Telnet), as well as more traditional distributed applications (e.g. a distributed data store, a web proxy network using Squid cache, and DNS).
I2P is currently in the pre-alpha development stage and not yet ready for general anonymity use. Therefore the developers have asked the user community not to mention the software in high publicity websites like Slashdot.
The main developer of I2P is jrandom, with support from numerous others.
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