I2P
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	• baimafeima
	Sep 16 2016, 7:39 AM

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Name: I2P
Homepage: https://geti2p.net
FOSS: yes
Source: https://geti2p.net/en/download#source
Description: "I2P is an anonymous overlay network - a network within a network. It is intended to protect communication from dragnet surveillance and monitoring by third parties such as ISPs. I2P is used by many people who care about their privacy: activists, oppressed people, journalists and whistleblowers, as well as the average person."

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R4206 i2p
	D2363	R4206:5f75c81909ed The inclusion of i2p fixes T687

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Mentioned In: R4183:0000835e4804: inclusion of java-service-wrapper, running depend for T687

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• baimafeima created this task.Sep 16 2016, 7:39 AM

That is the advantage of this over Tor?

I have been using both, and I can say

I2P much faster than Tor
Packet switched instead of circuit switched
Unidirectional tunnels instead of bidirectional circuits, doubling the number of nodes a peer has to compromise to get the same information.
Tunnels in I2P are short lived, decreasing the number of samples that an attacker can use to mount an active attack with, unlike circuits in Tor, which are typically long lived.

These are only few advantages over Tor, and there are many more.

Thank you for taking the time to write a proper justification!

JoshStrobl moved this task from Backlog to Accepted For Inclusion on the Package Requests board.Sep 29 2016, 8:31 PM

• Pat awarded a token.Oct 16 2016, 9:45 AM

At the moment it looks like I2P just builds an installer for you to run to install it wherever you like. Moreover, it doesn't seem to have any of the bits for systemd.

For now I'm going to close this. If in the future I don't have to reverse engineer their build process to package it, we can revisit this.

Devil505 added a subscriber: Devil505.Feb 23 2018, 8:10 AM

In T687#34798, @DataDrake wrote:

At the moment it looks like I2P just builds an installer for you to run to install it wherever you like. Moreover, it doesn't seem to have any of the bits for systemd.

For now I'm going to close this. If in the future I don't have to reverse engineer their build process to package it, we can revisit this.

@DataDrake Any progress ?

BTW, there is a tarball here https://launchpad.net/i2p/trunk/0.9.33/+download/i2psource_0.9.33.tar.bz2

@Devil505 If you can clean up your package.yml that you showed me on IRC and submit a patch to Differential with a Test Plan, I am willing to reconsider my previous decision.