re: safe to use? depends on your risk tolerance and threat model.

The code quality and completeness is very high. Rust is a "safe" language that eliminates a lot of possible issues. But this is a one-person project that just appeared out of nowhere, it will need a lot of testing and review to gain confidence. There's a lot of subtleties in i2p protocols that, if implementers are not careful, may lead to deanon, crashes, etc.

It does have UPnP/NATPMP to open firewall ports. if you're not on a direct IP and it can't open your firewall ports, it's not going to work well, because its SSU2 implementation isn't done, so it can't do peer test and relay.

For now, I wouldn't use it for eepsite hosting if you're concerned about possible deanon. Safe for running with qbittorrent or i2psnark-standalone? Depends on your threat model.

It also may not "look" exactly like other routers, so it may be apparent that there's an emissary running on your IP.

For brave people, please start testing and opening github issues for any problems you find.

this is fucking hot as hell mad respect i'd love to experiment

Interesting. How safe can it be to use? Also can it increase speeds of I2P network? I am really new to i2p so enlighten me :p

I have noticed that with release 2.8.0, SAM applications are negatively impacted. I have a SAMv3 application that worked fine on release 2.7.0, it no longer works on 2.8.0.

I'm trying to find out where to file bug reports:

http://i2pforum.i2p/viewtopic.php?t=1322&sid=c7fcb2c2c880bc8199e69acba2ab5215

I'm investigating the issue. Details can be found at:

http://sovereign.i2p/sam-issue.html

it's growing in power

Very nice collection.

zzz posted too
Top 100 Jump Requests for 2023, Top 100 Jump Requests for 2024

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if you're talking about running a reseed server through a vpn i think you could do this but i wouldn't. pretty sure you need an outernet domain name with ssl cert. if the vpn has a dedicated ip this could probably be setup, or look into doing reverse proxy through one of those dynamic dns things. never tried that so no idea if or how it'd work, but probably be easier running off a vps somewhere sans vpn. i know everyone loves cloudflare but that could also be an option https://homepage.np-tokumei.net/post/notes-i2p-reseed-over-cloudflare/

I2P 2.7.0 has also been released.

Access to information from the console and applications has been improved. Issues have been fixed in I2PSnark and SusiMail search. The netDB search embedded into the router console now operates in a more intuitive and useful way. Minor improvements have been made to diagnostic displays in advanced mode. [...]

If it works for you, great. There are some fingerprints based on keys. For your own protection, I decided not to drag you into my crap.

Shouldn't I2P (or TOR) protect from being pinpointed, assuming you aren't sharing personal information?

I do use retroshare but I do change ID's often. Sometimes it is a just one use only. It is very useful and recommended software but you can't be a sitting duck.

Differences in the sha hashes are a result of infrequent updates to the i2pupdate.zip being served from http://skank.i2p/i2pupdate.zip ... occasionally a new update will appear, either to add new features (in the recent case, more complete translations) or fix bugs. To identify exactly which revision you're running, you can view the hashes on 127.0.0.1:7657/jars.

In addition, for some users a new release will revert them to vanilla I2P, so updating the I2P+ zip available on skank.i2p will sometimes fix this if it's date stamped after the update to vanilla.

As for "corrupt" downloads, if you're in the middle of an update when a new version is uploaded, your download will become corrupted, in which case re-downloading the update should fix. It shouldn't happen for release updates very often, slightly more chance when updating from the /dev/ path as that's sometimes updated several times a day.

http://skank.i2p/installers/i2pinstall_2.6.0+.exe inside i2p+ also fails on Motrix error 19: If name resolution failed. Similar with other down-loaders including browser.

I2P: 2.6.0-0+ API: 0.9.63 Wrapper: 3.5.51  Built by: dr|z3d Platform: Linux amd64 6.8.9-1kaisen-amd64 Processor: coreibwl  Skylake Core i3/i5/i7  [Jcpuid version: 3] Java: N/A 21 (OpenJDK Runtime Environment 21+-adhoc.nixbld.source) Jetty: 9.3.30.v20211001 Servlet: Jasper JSP 2.3 Engine (3.1) JBigI: Native BigInteger library libjbigi-linux-coreibwl_64.so loaded from resource [version: 4] GMP: 6.1.2 JSTL: standard-taglib 1.2.0 Encoding: UTF-8 Charset: UTF-8

sha256sum i2p+ torrent downloaded: 736f38a5ac5121d33b7576cb1f61e6a9b5a28008b82795fdb31c7fb00dfd9b56

sha512sum i2p+ downloaded:

898866b715e8a32cd87d559a61d48b0d5c644d695807389f0d02bc87561cd949771e09c926df248cb422ca99b78c16dc70d375b2f64c42b4d3d70f631f29d29d

Some (all that I tried) of the downloads from Gitlab fail on bad header. You can see that on Motrix (error 22) and other secure down-loaders... Maybe just a fluke. Example: https://gitlab.com/i2pplus/I2P.Plus/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/i2psnark-standalone.zip?job=Java8

Nix OS Dutch Fart: If you try to download Nix OS (https://nixos.org/download/#) with Motrix you get error 22 (https://github.com/agalwood/Motrix/wiki/Error#22).

With sugar on top: Ass do, bliss (please in Dutch), fix it! I mean like in the next 2 weeks... Yes you are hacked!

You shouldn't need a flatpak solution, installation isn't complex. The only dependency for installation is a Java installation, openjdk-{version}-jdk-headless on Linux normally works fine and should be available in your repos.

Once you've got Java installed, downloading an installer for I2P+ and then running java -jar ./i2pinstall.exe or whatever the name of the download is will launch the graphical installer. Running ~/i2p/i2prouter start post-installation (assuming you installed to ~/i2p/) should start the router and launch the console in your browser. Additional instructions available on skank.i2p.

Can confim. This works. I've placed quite a few bets.

Your site has issues, specifically on Java I2P: Unsupported encryption options

Hello!

I'm new to all this. I installed I2P from flathub here: https://flathub.org/apps/website.i2pd.i2pd

Is there going to be a flatpak for the newer I2P+ to make it easy for newbies to use? Would you recommend I switch to the java-based solution here?

An issue with 2.5.2+ has been identified and fixed in the latest release and dev updates and the installer on skank.i2p and i2pplus.github.io.

The issue manifests as a gradual loss of peer connections and floodfills. This was due to the temporary blocking of peers sending unsolicited NetDb store requests. Updating to the latest version (2.5.2-11+) is recommended.

Reference: git.skank.i2p/i2pplus/I2P.Plus/commit/65a4606e1c29a45cf50a661b0ac2c6d93bc977bf

There will be cross interference from other extension for permission to read the url even with container tabs enabled. I think it is a nightmare project and you'll lose plenty of time and make lots of enemies. Good luck!

True on few being uninitiated on the network itself... Videos goal is to help new, never tried it before users into checking out I2P.

Ramble also showing up search engines / clearnet as ramble.pw. Video like this might let a user know "it's not broken, it's under attack". That's why I shared it here, while most users may already know this.

For a while there had trouble updating my i2p blog. Now, network working much better for me, without issue lately (running I2P+ 2.5.1-0+)

Due to the recent network attacks, prior to rolling out mitigations I2P+ may have presented some issue for some due to the extra-aggressive Sybil detection/banning implementation. This should now be resolved. Please let me know if you're still experiencing issues.