Recently I happened across a bitcoin talk thread while peeking at my blog's http access log at a time when I should've been doing work instead.

I'll probably take this chance to make it very clear what llarp/lokinet is and is not and why it even exists in the first place.

I can say that, in my opinion, llarp/lokinet is attempting to be a protocol to replace i2p.

I2P has a mountain of technical debt in their protocols that have been taking several (5+) years now to rectify. It is in fact easier to rewrite the whole thing than to rebase the protocol atop sanity. I am not the first person to suggest this by any means, nor the first to attempting it. The first attempt I have seen was the shadow protocol from 2013. For whatever reason it died off, I personally suspect it was because of …

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my unofficial static arm build for i2pd 2.23.0 is up here.

make sure to check the signature and verify the hash

b2sum:

e4cf21c06ae441030253dcb636eb05f0b5dc6405879b86b3b8f734a3195856ab20163c780c1c144e47f50dd9f8dc748bd243739262e2bd98fe05dac473c5c4b8  i2pd

the build was compiled with -Os and stripped for smaller size, so you may have better speed on systems without speculative execution like the raspberry pi 1.

uses:

• openssl 1.1.1a
• boost 1.62.0

Before the final post I'll give on this topic, a bit of backstory as I understand it.

During winter of 2015 (or was it 2016? I forget.) orignal the original author of i2pd took a 2 week winter vacation while the codebase was in shambles. During this break some of the contributors of i2pd decided to hard fork the codebase starting with turning all the tabs to spaces. It is unclear if Anonimal was a part of the group or not.

When original came back he flipped his living shit and put his new changes that used openssl onto Bitbucket and then later merged it on Github in another branch. This is the historical reason why i2pd uses the openssl branch and not master as the primary branch.

Kovri is based off the code base before the openssl branch which is truly godawful, however almost none of it remains in …

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Kovri has decided to fork the i2p protocol stack [1]. I too have had frustrations with the direction and pase of java i2p and I can understand why they made this descision.

In my personal opinion, I don't think kovri will succeed in their fork of the i2p protocol stack with its current talent pool. After their 2 years of shuffling whitespaces around and not noticing code leaking regions of memory (until stiffing a security researcher that found it while exploit hunting) I don't think they'll produce a minimum viable product for a very very very long time, if ever. This is not meant to poke fun at the people at monero and kovri as I really wanted to see the fork succeed, very much so and I am dissapointed in the net result of the effort.

Parallell to all this kovri tom foolery, since Late April 2018 I have …

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i2pd (I2P Daemon) is a full-featured C++ implementation of I2P client.

I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) is a universal anonymous network layer. All communications over I2P are anonymous and end-to-end encrypted, participants don't reveal their real IP addresses.

I2P client is a software used for building and using anonymous I2P networks. Such networks are commonly used for anonymous peer-to-peer applications (filesharing, cryptocurrencies) and anonymous client-server applications (websites, instant messengers, chat-servers).

I2P allows people from all around the world to communicate and share information without restrictions.

i2pd is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, binary packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, OS X, FreeBSD, Android and Windows.

View release on GitHub

Changelog for i2pd version 2.21:

Added

• NTCP2 ipv6 incoming connections
• Support android api > 26
• Show total number of destination's outgoing tags in the web console

Changed

• Use EdDSA, x25519 and SipHash from openssl 1.1.1 if available

Fixed

• Bandwidth …

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my unofficial static arm build for i2pd 2.20.0 is up here.

make sure to check the signature or verify the hash

b2sum:

f10bf0c2e913e420125ac392fa9c27f8ccdd16268acec5a1ef7e5b96621e813b05c5361c862e2bfa48e3d3590c7dff127c9676ddc78f7497945f120161ac43be  i2pd

sha256sum:

bc5ab06804f076c0b8118e1bf29aef1ba5432bf39440c0b5d696187b87312f84  i2pd

the build was compiled with -Os and stripped for smaller size, so you may have better speed on systems without speculative execution like the raspberry pi 1.

uses:

• openssl 1.1.1
• boost 1.62.0

i2pd (I2P Daemon) is a full-featured C++ implementation of I2P client.

I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) is a universal anonymous network layer. All communications over I2P are anonymous and end-to-end encrypted, participants don't reveal their real IP addresses.

I2P client is a software used for building and using anonymous I2P networks. Such networks are commonly used for anonymous peer-to-peer applications (filesharing, cryptocurrencies) and anonymous client-server applications (websites, instant messengers, chat-servers).

I2P allows people from all around the world to communicate and share information without restrictions.

i2pd is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, binary packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, OS X, FreeBSD, Android and Windows.

View release on GitHub

Changelog for i2pd version 2.20:

Added

• Full implementation of NTCP2

Changed

• Provide assets for android
• Use single apk for arm7 and x86 android builds

Fixed

• Don't add address in RouterInfo if transport is disabled in config
• Web-console bugs fixed

my unofficial static arm build for i2pd 2.19.0 is up here.

I use another branch for these builds located here, it contains a few backports so I can compile with the toolchain I use.

make sure to check the signature or verify the hash

b2sum:

84541717ac7c4592c45280ef76283df73604b94eb459d3c7b8f4fdb304c02cbe9caf00f9c38cb7a9829dac0d26958ee728775162eeda2456c9386fad53df6f76  i2pd

sha256sum:

eec2e8bc9926f9fe0943457c7c5b274be6943dbaadc2693bd9341bf7747be499  i2pd

i2pd (I2P Daemon) is a full-featured C++ implementation of I2P client.

I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) is a universal anonymous network layer. All communications over I2P are anonymous and end-to-end encrypted, participants don't reveal their real IP addresses.

I2P client is a software used for building and using anonymous I2P networks. Such networks are commonly used for anonymous peer-to-peer applications (filesharing, cryptocurrencies) and anonymous client-server applications (websites, instant messengers, chat-servers).

I2P allows people from all around the world to communicate and share information without restrictions.

i2pd is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, binary packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, OS X, FreeBSD, Android and Windows.

View release on GitHub

Changelog for i2pd version 2.19:

Added

• ECIES support for RouterInfo
• HTTP outproxy authentication
• AVX/AESNI runtime detection
• Implementation of I2CP reconfigure
• Datagrams to websocks
• Initial implementation of NTCP2
• Added I2PControl method "ClientServicesInfo"

Changed

• Android build using gradle
• EdDSA for RouterInfo …

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my unofficial static arm build has been updated here.

please upgrade if you use these builds as it contains various fixes.

make sure to check the signature or verify the hash

b2sum:

8f5fb682725273685370a0c839b75413914974f9e3030d112f44dfb1490fe1fcd623b911ede7148595d3d4a9de28309290b8623b1197489d71fdc75b17dca439  i2pd

sha256sum:

e27fbefb58aef796d31e2ee4abf8db2058712fb0fab02e128ae4516b544d0aa6  i2pd