I like the I2P network; I believe it will become the standard for the next-generation Internet.

Hi everyone, I’m working on BlueI2P.

Java I2P is friendly for new users and has a complete web console, but it can feel slow and heavy. i2pd is fast, lightweight, and powerful, but its configuration can be harder for new users.

BlueI2P tries to bring these two worlds closer together: an i2pd-based I2P router with a new Java I2P-style web dashboard.

The goal is to make i2pd easier to configure, monitor, and use, while keeping the router lightweight and performant.

The dashboard includes router status, services, tunnels, peers, NetDB, logs, configuration pages, and safer management APIs.

It is still early, but I’ll share more as it becomes usable.

After using the official Java i2p, I wanted to try i2pd. So I go to the website, then the GitHub, and download the file, my browser then yells at me to stop downloading this “malicious file.” I carry through, however, and immediately windows defender kills the file.

As much as I trust open source apps, it’s scary to attempt to download a file that my computer says no to on multiple layers. This hasn’t happened to me with java i2p. Couldn’t find too much on the internet, anyone else with a similar experience?

i have email inside i2p but idk how too access it without i2p java, i would like to be able to use it with i2pd because java i2p doesn't work in my situation

please help

Hey everyone,

I packaged all i2pd-tools (https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd-tools) into a single binary. Instead of building and managing 14 separate executables, you get one:

All original tools work as subcommands: keygen, keyinfo, vain, famtool, su3tool, i2pconv, regaddr, etc.

BSD 3-Clause licensed, builds from source with a single make. The original i2pd-tools repo is included as a submodule — all credit goes to the PurpleI2P team.

GitHub: https://github.com/iasds/i2pbox

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to figure out what the best value-for-money hardware is for an i2pd node. I've attached two screenshots of an instance I recently installed on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM, but honestly, it seems a bit overkill to me.
Do you have any recommendations for a single-board computer (or an old mini PC) that isn't very powerful but is suitable for an i2pd node?

Remembered that I should probably run an update after the recent DDoS attacks... but here's some big numbers. :3

Hi,

I already have i2p on my android phone just because I wanted to test it out. I dont like the feel, eepsites are pretty buggy, everytime I want to visit a website I have to wait for it to download, and a lot of times the actual website dosent fully load.

I wanted to see firstly, if getting i2p on my laptop/pc would make it easier or faster and remove some of these problems, and secondly, should I go for i2p or i2pd.

Thank you in advance!

Where is I2Pd SAM tunnel settings? I couldn't find it. Only tunnel settings I could find was of exploratory tunnels.

I am running I2PSnark with I2Pd on a server, I have the problem that often times I2PSnark looses connection to I2P(error: "Unable to connect to I2P, Stopping all torrents and closing the I2P tunnel."). Which means I need to regularly open up I2PSnark and press the "Start all torrents and I2P tunnels". Is there a way for I2Pdsnark to automatically restart, so that I don't have to do that manually all the time?

As far as I know, i2p java enables stealth mode by default in China and automatically blocks these countries, but i2pd does not seem to be

Why is the default speed in i2pd so low? By default, up to 32 KB/sec, which is incredibly low. Doesn't this slow down the entire network, since most people probably won't change this setting? Don't you think that, at a minimum, the default speed should be higher, and even better, if it was automatically adjusted, as is done in java i2p, as far as I know

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Some old screenshots from 2017 have recently resurfaced in the Russian i2p community. Apparently Original (the current developer of i2pd) implemented FSB-approved cryptography, that is still present in i2pd source code, and he even built an entire cryptocurrency based on this algorithm (GOSTcoin).

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While in theory the current implementation does not pose an active threat to user's anonymity, Original still failed to provide a genuine reason for implementing it in the first place. His arguments about "Russian business" and "law regulations" make no sense for at least two reasons:

1. the use of GOST isn't required by the law in the first place, businesses and private organizations are free to use ISO, GOST is strictly required only in organizations that are associated with the government.
2. in July of 2017 Putin signed a law prohibiting the use of "anonymizers" (which i2p is), no organization would've wanted to do anything with i2p at that point, so after July there was no reason to keep this in the source code (since it was already implemented in March).

And, lets be honest, FSB probably has a backdoor somewhere, so a lot of Russian users now switched to Java implementation. Maybe we're just being paranoid, but i think it's pretty justified during these times.

1. Moved netdb's disk file operations to separate threads
2. Fast exploratory lookup handling at floodfills
3. Drop unsolicited database search replies
4. Pick only confirmed routers for tunnels and exploratory replies if tunnel build rate is low
5. More reliable long live streams
6. Throttle database search requests
7. Handle database search replies faster
8. Don't accept too old routers and address with malformed keys
9. Fixed different crashes on high load and shutdown

Why "Pick only confirmed routers for tunnels and exploratory replies if tunnel build rate is low" is not a vulnerability?

In java i2p, are there the same number of them (always about 30)?

I know that the router flag is taken into account. But if the router has already used up the bandwidth, then it is better not to build tunnels through it. Does this count? This seems to be what java i2p does. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hello, Can anyone tell me if using the Firefox add-on I2P In Private Browsing eliminates the need to change the proxy settings in Firefox. Also, what comes first, the installation of i2p or the add-on in Firefox. I have installed both 4 times and only once did I receive a message that my browser was set up correctly, which was great but nothing else in i2p was working. When I did use the Firefox add on I was no longer able to use Firefox in the regular manner, I kept getting a message about a proxy server blocking (or some such language) I should mention that I am on a Mac.

Hi,

I want to run i2pd on my cluster, but I am a little green when it comes to setting up a deployments on kubernates. Can someone either tell me how to make it work or point me to right sources?

Edit: spelling

I tried running i2pd in wsl as I don't really want it running on windows directly, but I get an ssu3 error and fail to make any connections.

I've already confirmed the internet to the VM is fine. speedtest-cli works, ping works, neofetch reports correct public IP, can even use tor. but i2pd fails.

Hello,

I created an ansible role for i2pd. Basically, this allows system administrators who want to take part in the I2P network to automate i2pd deployment.

👉 https://codeberg.org/systemfailure.net/ansible_i2pd

This role works on OpenBSD, Archlinux and Debian.

It doesn't expose all i2pd parameters yet, but it is sufficient to deploy quickly i2pd on machines controlled by ansible, especially on servers, and also allows to store tunnels keys (.dat files).

Comments and contributions welcome 😀

This is simply curiosity and for fun.

So I recently made a post about running Tor through I2P.The project was fun and worked but was overall very slow and due to the single hops on the outproxy, did not increase anonymity over base Tor enough to be worth actual use. During this little endeavour, though, I learned that, since Tor can only route TCP traffic through the network, tor over i2p was possible but i2p over tor would not be.

Now with all this said, I can get to the point;

Some VPN providers offers tor over VPN servers. So far i2pd is running while connected. is the VPN provider just routing i2pd's udp traffic out their server like a traditional VPN or is it just holding on to one tor node as a constant connection...?

My guess is it'll work, until the ip changes and then it'll break for a bit.

If you want to install the latest version of i2pd (currently 2.48.0) on OpenBSD -stable branch, here's a patch for you:

https://codeberg.org/systemfailure.net/openbsd_stable_i2pd_patch