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>> My guess is the I2P gets more scrutiny from the US government, because it's much harder to break versus TOR > How so? Is this what is alluded to by "onion v
by pwg 10y ago
>> My guess is the I2P gets more scrutiny from the US government, because it's much harder to break versus TOR
> How so? Is this what is alluded to by "onion vs garlic" routing design?
For one, it is a closed overlay network. There are no "exit nodes" (well, not unless someone explicitly setup a proxy to provide "exit" functionality). So everything that happens anywhere within I2P remains inside I2P.
So any attacks on TOR that require control of one or more exit nodes in the TOR network to function will not directly function against I2P (no exit nodes).
Now, that has no bearing upon whether there are other, different, exploits in I2P that would break its hidden aspects, but you can at least know you are immune when using I2P to any TOR exploit that requires exit nodes.
- 616c 10y agoI was under the impression out proxies are a thing, and thereby not so different from exit nodes; they are the big weakness. https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/46yan0/are_i2p_outproxies_safer_than_tors_exit_nodes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/46yan0/are_i2p_outprox... (Again, I am having trouble with the geti2p.net site, which I believe is an public Internet<->I2P HTTP service bridge, which was originally the only outside view in.) Are they similar? Not sure. To agree with you, I believe the culture and philsophy of Tor is looking out, with exit nodes. I2P was designed to only look in, and the out proxies and bridges are run by select volunteers as a convenience and not the priority. My favorite part of I2P was there POP3 mailer service, but testing it with friends never seemed to work great. https://zwadderneel.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/thunderbird-as-mua-for-i2p-mail/ https://zwadderneel.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/thunderbird-as-...
- synchronise 10y ago>My favorite part of I2P was there POP3 mailer service, but testing it with friends never seemed to work great. You should try it out with I2P-Bote instead, it also has inbuilt hooks so you can use it through your favourite mail client.