Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of petconpaper

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Feb 26, 2009 8:45:23 PM (11 years ago)

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anonymous

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         <li> Hidden services oriented - P2P friendly - only one HTTP outproxy (~= "exit node")
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+I2P
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+Abstract
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+In the following we explain the I2P network, a message based low latency mixing network build
+for anonymity and security. In detail the functions to sort and measure the
+capacity and speed of the network nodes will be described. We show that this
+approach works better than fixed speed rating used e.g. in the TOR network.
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+I2P Overview
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+I2P itself is a overlay network based on unidirectional tunnels routed between 
+the I2P nodes. The used garlic routing is similar to the onion routing used by 
+TOR, trnasmitting data from hop to hop until the endpoint of the tunnel is
+reached. In contrast to TOR we use only hidden services in I2P with addition
+of a few otproxies operated by private individuals.
+The ancestor of the I2P project was IIP - a specialiced IRC server and clients
+transmiting their data via a mix network between themself. I2P was first started
+as a specialized low latency transport protocal for The Freenet Project but soon
+grew into a independent software project, driven by the author jrandom from 
+2003 on until end of 2007. Other people joined coding and vanished in time between and
+after jrandom vanished the project end of 2007, zzz and complication took over
+active programming. The codebase itself is public domain or licensed under GPL
+with exception, MIT or other free licenses. Most code is written in JAVA to
+support the three main operating systems, Windows,Linux and MacOS X.
+To maintain 1024bit pub-key encryption, some external libs as the GMP (GNU MP
+Bignum Library) are interweaved with the java code.
+The codebase is under active development with 7 releases in the year 2008 and
+more than 100 development builds between those public releases. 
+Beside the core router itself some bundled software (e.g. a bittorrent client
+based on snark, I2Psnark) are maintained by zzz and complication.
+
+In time writing this paper 830 active nodes are active in the I2P net. This 
+varies over time, as 50-100 new nodes joining the network every day and others
+vanish. Usual on weekend times the peak of 1000 active nodes are reached and
+in weekdays night the lower peak at 700 active routers happens. This shows a
+quite stable base net on which the ~550 active destinations can act on.
+I2P is oriented towards hidden services, all destinations inside the network
+upon the nodes. Only one http outproxy (exit node in TOR terms) is known running
+beside a IRC gateway for I2P development discussion. In contrast to TOR is I2P
+peer to peer friendly and distributes the encrypted traffic between all
+participating nodes.
+The current bandwith used by all nodes is roughly 11 MByte/sec with peaks at 16
+MByte/sec and the net builds ~40.000 tunnels producing this load.
+In the last 6 month the net grew from 400 up to 800 nodes, from 5 to 10 MByte/sec
+and from ~20.000 to ~40.000 tunnls, which shows the vital stats of the net
+doubled in half a year. The forthcoming time shows ongoing stable growth.
+
+ Tunnel Overview
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 <h2>Tunnel Overview</h2><ul> - echelon will do this part