For those who don't already know, Snappy is a distribution agnostic package manager for Linux developed by Canonical.

Snap packages are self-contained archives with all required dependencies included. Applications run in a secure sandbox environment isolated from the main system, using such technology as Linux namespaces, seccomp and AppArmor.

I've recently created snap package for i2pd, and very excited to share my experience.

Awesome features

Security

Snaps are sandboxed and isolated from your main system. Applications can only have access to system resources allowed by package developer.

For example, those are system resources allowed to i2pd package:

plugs: [network,network-bind]

i2pd can only access network, bind ports and use it's own virtual filesystem, everything else will be denied by kernel.

In theory, one could even run untrusted proprietary code safely.

Snap store

Snaps are simple archives, which can be downloaded and installed by hand as regular deb/rpm ones. To …

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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 2.15:

Added

• QT GUI
• Ability to add and remove I2P tunnels without restart
• Ability to disable SOCKS outproxy option

Changed

• Strip-out Accept-* headers in HTTP proxy
• Don't run peer test if nat=false
• Separate output of …

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Recently Tor Project published a blog condemning The Daily Stormer (a very prominent white nationalist forum that has been marginalized off the internet) setting up a hidden service. This is very concerning to all, the light of anonymous free speech seems to have dimmed as a result. It's only free speech until someone calls it hateful... is that what the good people over at Tor Project think? Let's hope not.

I2P (at least i2pd and friends) I2PD (and friends) do not bow to wrongthink pressure from the moral high horse cavalry. Feel free to discuss whatever just try to not break any laws.

I will be doing semi-regular livestreams via i2p.rocks (also via onion) and if I can find someone will be doing a regular on the topic of i2p and related technology.

Contact me via xmpp if you want to contribute.

My public xmpp server has closed public open registration due to spam.

If you desire an account contact me on irc2p as psi.

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 2.14:

• Added option to limit transit traffic bandwidth
• Added ability to use NTCP connections through HTTP and SOCKS proxies
• Added option to disable address helper for HTTP proxy
• Correctly handle comments in addressbook feed
• Added new …

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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 2.13:

• Persist local destination's tags
• Added GOST R 34.10 signature types 9 and 10
• Added options for exploratory tunnels configuration
• Known SAM issues got sorted out
• Inactive NTCP sockets are now get closed faster
• Fixed …

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Preface

Tor browser provides a great brain dead simple interface for using the internet anonymously. Sadly you cannot really hack on it easily because modifying defaults is considered harmful by most people (opinion). This is a step by step guide on configuring a browser to use i2p for i2p and tor for everything else.

Disclaimer

This configuration will not protect you from web browser exploits, fingerprinting, session tagging, traffic correlation, local rootkit, etc.

The setup

Requirements:

• Linux (any flavor)
• tor
• i2pd (or java i2p if you really want to)
• privoxy

The basic setup is the following:

your browser -> privoxy -> tor -> internet / onion
                  |
                  V
                 i2pd -> i2p

Installation

see here on how to install i2pd from latest source code

see here on how to install tor from latest source code

For debian or ubuntu based distributions you can do sudo apt install privoxy and it'll get privoxy. If you're using Fedora it's …

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Preface

Monotone is the version control software used by Java I2P, dn42 and (probably) a few other projects.

monotone is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

Java I2P chose this initially because it was 2006 (aka git doesn't exist yet) and they needed to fast import a CVS dump to rescue their project. SVN suffered the same problem as CVS did, centralization. To this day Java I2P uses monotone internally inside I2P as revision control and it's a great match for I2P.

Advantages:

• Resumeable transactions (this is THE big one)
• Every commit is signed
• It's not Git

Monotone's mtn push and mtn pull are not atomic, they can resume if interrupted. This is a YUUUGE advantage over git as tcp/i2p connections break quite often, git would have to start from the …

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Twister is a little known p2p twitter alternative that uses blockchain and bittorrent technology. Not very many people use twister which is discouraging but the technology powering it is nevertheless genius. Please note that twister is not anonymous by default, I'll cover how to set up twister to run over tor in a future blog maybe.

This blog will be a quick tutorial on building and setting up twister on debian stable.

Building from source and configuring

Right now the most straight forward way of getting the most up to date version of twister is to build from source, there are some Ubuntu PPAs but those leave a bad taste in my mouth and tend to break installs on occasion.

Building from source can be daunting especially for newbies, this will simplify the process as much as possible.

For those unfamiliar with terminal conventions, any line prefixed with # means that …

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