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Good to see I2P get some attention here. For those who don't know about I2P: * Anonymity network similar to TOR in some ways, but rather than focusing on gett

Good to see I2P get some attention here. For those who don't know about I2P: * Anonymity network similar to TOR in some ways, but rather than focusing on getting someone out to the internet anonymously, I2P is a low-latency mix network with no out proxies. See: https://ritter.vg/blog-mix_and_onion_networks.html https://ritter.vg/blog-mix_and_onion_networks.html * Virtually every I2P router relays traffic, unlike TOR the network is very "flat". Directory servers are replaced with a DHT called the netDB. Recently I've been working on a Go implementation of the I2P router: https://github.com/hkparker/go-i2p https://github.com/hkparker/go-i2p. It isn't on the network yet, would be really interested in working with anyone who wants to contribute.

daxorid 10y ago
To clarify, since modernity has stripped us of patience: "low latency" here means on the order of 1500ms, not tens of ms, as most people expect. As opposed to tens of seconds or minutes in mix message protocols.
- hkparker 10y ago
  Hah, yes. Mixminion is a good example of a high latency mixnet. There has been some talk of adding a high latency option to I2P as well at some point.
  - daxorid 10y ago
    That's what bote is for.