Spam more i2p outproxies? (Was: Re: BlackHat2014: Deanonymize Tor for $3000)

[Cathal Garvey]

> I checked one comes preconfigured but as such expect
> it to be far overloaded. No reason there can't be many,
> there just aren't.

Quite right, there's no reason why there can't be more, except for the
liability of actually hosting those exits. OTOH, there are now plenty of
hosts who accept bitcoin for hosting in countries that probably don't
give a damn about outproxies, so why not crowdfund a set of dedicated
high-bandwidth outproxies?

On 05/07/14 00:00, grarpamp wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Paweł Zegartowski <pzegar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I2P (aka Invisible Internet Protocol) is designed to be "a real undernet"
>> Using I2P to acces a "standard" Internet but in anonymous way is much less
> 
> Right, in the likely context of the subject exploit, I referred only to
> the similar .onion/.i2p hidden constructs that available for users.
> Binding to and using them is a bit different of course but it all works.
> And the .i2p's are generally as 'efficient' (speedy) in use regarding
> initial connect, latency and bandwidth, if not better. (A lot of filesharing
> is on i2p.) Bootstrapping into the net does take a while though. And
> of course as with any other darknet you should run a 'non-exit' relay
> to help out.
> 
> i2p does have 'exits' you can compare to tor as well.
> Anyone can run an exit. But users have first find one
> on a wiki list or somesuch, and then manually configure
> their i2p to use it. Consider it like a bolt on proxy. Last
> I checked one comes preconfigured but as such expect
> it to be far overloaded. No reason there can't be many,
> there just aren't.
> 
>> http://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
> 

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