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can someone eli5 i2p to me?
From the article that was posted:
The main new feature is support for I2P, the Invisble Internet Project. It uses a fully encrypted privacy network layer to hide user activity and locations. The network does not use servers. Peers contributed “a portion of their resources” to other network particpants.
The maintainers promise that “non one can see where traffic is coming from, where it is going, or what the contents are” when the Invisible Internet Project is active.
It’s a dark network. Instead of going to a website, you go to an “eepsite”, and to get there you securely route through a bunch of random computers (as if you went through 10+ VPNs). It’s similar to Tor, but the main difference Tor’s primary goal is to visit websites (on Tor, “onion sites” exist, but unlike I2P, “onion sites” are not the primary focus of Tor).
the tor onion network. But no exits to clearnet.
Everybody contributes bandwith. And because everybody contributes bandwith, privacy is created because you can never know if you reached the end of the chain and found the creator of the first network request.
In theory it’s a lot more secure than the tor network. In practice it gets 1/100th of the funding, because you have to be a computer nerd to even install it, need a computer to keep it running 24/7 (longer you run, more privacy) , while tor browser “Just works” and can start providing privacy to everybody right away.
Some documentation would be nice.
I’ve been trying to connect qbittorrent to my local i2pd node for the last 30 minutes and for the life of me I cannot get it to work, even though other services work via SAM in the same port. Everything just times out.
Edit: for anyone else struggling, you need to add your own trackers: https://old.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/13xmr84/tutorial_how_to_use_i2p_in_qbittorrent/
qbittorrent doesn’t seem to be able to fetch those on its own yet
It is experimental indeed. While it “works”, it is no where near the reliability and efficiency of other I2P torrent clients like I2Psnark or BiglyBT, both of which are Java based.
Will it be enabled by default?
Probably not. I2P doesn’t connect to the clearnet like Tor does, it only works if the destination is on I2P as well.
It requires running additional software, a so called “I2P router”.
This can be ran on Linux and Windows systems too, on localhost or for your local network.It’s not enabled in the 4.6 beta version, I think they’ll keep it that way
Is a torrent client behind i2p as reachable as if I had a VPN with port forwarding?
EDIT: is the use of i2p compatible with private trackers? So that they can keep track of what I’m seeding?
I think I’m answering myself as I just read i2p is closed from clearnet. So I suppose the private tracker would need to be connected to i2p.
Yup, unless you specifically set it to use one of the few outproxies then it’s by default just for connecting to other peers within the I2P network
I Like the Idea top Setup Retroshare with I2P. Die people have any experience there?
I don’t believe 4.6 is available yet for -nox version (headless) on ubuntu? I don’t see any update in apt update.