tor replacement - Re: OnionShare Tor

[Greg Newby]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:44:58PM -0300, Punk - Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:06:09 +0100
> Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Isn't that why networks like i2p exist?
> 	
> 	yes, I was about to mention that i2p does have some of the characteristics that a tor replacement should have. Like
> 
> 	1) all users are also routers.
> 	2) it's not funded by the pentagon.
> 	3) there are no central 'directory authorities' - it's a  p2p network.
> 
> 	https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
> 
> 	looks like i2p COULD do traffic padding, but it's not doing it. 
> 
> 	"Other potential benefits of I2P but not yet implemented" 
> 	"create a tunnel that will handle 500 messages / minute, where the endpoint will inject dummy messages if there are insufficient messages" 
> 
> 	for what it's worth, I tried i2p in the past a few times and abandoned it after a few days because I didn't find any interesting content in the network. My assumption was that if there was no 'illegal' content, then the system must have some (serious) flaw. On second thought I realize that's not necessarily the case at all. 

It seems you can configure tor browser to route over i2p:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/di6efs/configure_tor_browser_90a7_to_work_with_i2pd/

Freenet is another like-minded project. In addition to routing, it can host content: https://freenetproject.org/pages/documentation.html