-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi y'all, update time again * Index 1) 0.4.2.6-* 2) 0.5 3) i2p-bt 0.1.6 4) fortuna 5) ??? * 1) 0.4.2.6-* It doesn't seem like it, but its been over a month since the 0.4.2.6 release came out and things are still in pretty good shape. There have been a series of pretty useful updates [1] since then, but no real show stopper calling for a new release to get pushed. However, in the last day or two we've had some really good bugfixes sent in (thanks anon and Sugadude!), and if we weren't on the verge of the 0.5 release, I'd probably package 'er up and push 'er out. anon's update fixes a border condition in the streaming lib which has been causing many of the timeouts seen in BT and other large transfers, so if you're feeling adventurous, grab CVS HEAD and try 'er out. Or wait around for the next release, of course. [1] http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/history.txt?rev=HEAD * 2) 0.5 Lots and lots of progress on the 0.5 front (as anyone on the i2p-cvs list [2] can attest to). All of the tunnel updates and various performance tweaks have been tested out, and while it doesn't include much in the way of the various [3] enforced ordering algorithms, it does get the basics covered. We've also integrated a set of (BSD licensed) Bloom filters [4] from XLattice [5], allowing us to detect replay attacks without requiring any per-message memory usage and nearly 0ms overhead. To accomodate our needs, the filters have been trivially extended to decay so that after a tunnel expires, the filter doesn't have the IVs we saw in that tunnel anymore. While I'm trying to slip in as much as I can into the 0.5 release, I also realize that we need to expect the unexpected - meaning the best way to improve it is to get it into your hands and learn from how it works (and doesn't work) for you. To help with this, as I've mentioned before, we're going to have a 0.5 release (hopefully out in the next week), breaking backwards compatability, then work on improving it from there, building a 0.5.1 release when its ready. Looking back at the roadmap [6], the only thing being deferred to 0.5.1 is the strict ordering. There'll also be improvements to the throttling and load balancing over time, I'm sure, but I expect we'll be tweaking that pretty much forever. There have been some other things discussed that I've hoped to include in 0.5 though, like the download tool and the one-click update code, but it looks like those will be deferred as well. [2] http://dev.i2p.net/pipermail/i2p-cvs/2005-February/thread.html [3] http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/ tunnel-alt.html?rev=HEAD#tunnel.selection.client [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter [5] http://xlattice.sourceforge.net/index.html [6] http://www.i2p.net/roadmap * 3) i2p-bt 0.1.6 duck has patched up a new i2p-bt release (yay!), available at the usual locations, so get yours while its hot [7]. Between this update and anon's streaming lib patch, I pretty much saturated my uplink while seeding some files, so give it a shot. [7] http://forum.i2p.net/viewtopic.php?t=300 * 4) fortuna As mentioned in last week's meeting, smeghead has been churning away at a whole slew of different updates lately, and while battling to get I2P working with gcj, some really horrendous PRNG issues have cropped up in some JVMs, pretty much forcing the issue of having a PRNG we can count on. Having heard back from the GNU-Crypto folks, while their fortuna implementation hasn't really been deployed yet, it looks to be the best fit for our needs. We might be able to get it into the 0.5 release, but chances are it'll get deferred to 0.5.1 though, as we'll want to tweak it so that it can provide us with the necessary quantity of random data. * 5) ??? Lots of things going on, and there has been a burst of activity on the forum [8] lately as well, so I'm sure I've missed some things. In any case, swing on by the meeting in a few minutes and say whats on your mind (or just lurk and throw in the random snark) =jr [8] http://forum.i2p.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCSaRGnFL2th344YRApVpAKCEypMmgxmJu7ezMwKD5G3ROClh8ACfRqj6 +bDiCX8vfeua3lkyUfiF7ng= =+m56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ i2p mailing list i2p@i2p.net http://i2p.dnsalias.net/mailman/listinfo/i2p ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]