I’m curious if anyone here has ever tested a DC++ client and hub entirely over I2P.

I’ve started working on a fork of existing DC++ client and hub projects with the goal of making them I2P-only. The idea is to block normal clearnet connections completely and make setup as simple as possible.

Before I spend too much time on it, I’d like to know if anyone thinks this is actually useful or if there are technical reasons why DC++ is a poor fit for I2P.

EDIT

AirDC++ and Luadch are communicating over real I2P through SAM, with separate i2pd instances on each node. Hub connections work, chat works, search works, file lists work both ways, and real file transfers work in both directions.

I’ve also tested larger ISO transfers and verified the files with SHA-256 afterwards.

The Windows client is currently keeping its DC traffic on loopback and letting i2pd handle the actual external traffic. I’ve tested things like killing i2pd in the middle of a transfer and trying normal clearnet hub addresses, and so far the client has failed closed instead of falling back to normal TCP/UDP.

There’s still work left: a few more fail-closed tests, hostile/malformed peer data testing, GUI cleanup, packaging, and a proper security review of the I2P-specific changes.

The final goal is basically: install it, start it, connect to an I2P DC hub. No port forwarding, UPnP, SOCKS or manual I2P setup.

Estimated time to a decent public PoC on github: around 3 weeks.

Looking for some testers for an application. Dandelion-IS2FP (invisible stem-to-fluff propagation) is a project for learning more about p2p using the rust-libp2p library. It ships with embedded i2p so that each peer runs an i2p relay server. When broadcasting a message a random peer is selected via i2p (invisible stem) to propagate the message to the rest of the network. New peers are automatically discovered via mDNS and gossipsub. Nodes exchange base32 addresses upon connection. There is chat functionality in the console. The API for adding peers, invisible stem selection etc. still needs some work. Check it out if you have a spare linux machine laying around and let me know what you think. Thanks!

Before we begin: Snap(and AppImages) are still not official packages. This still an experimental package and just a side-project of mine.

A few years ago, I got way too interested in these semi-novel packaging systems that the various distributions came out with. I went on a rampage of experimental package creation, often without necessarily knowing the future of the packages themselves. Many versions ago, the most popular of those packages broke in a particu`larly annoying way, and I did not have time to fix it. Until a few weeks ago, that is, and now, it's actually a lot easier for me to be sure that what I'm packaging is going to actually work because I can generate and test the packages continuously.

TL:DR the Snap, which I created, then broke, is now fixed, and it's likely to stay that way. If you are a snap user stuck on an old version, update as soon as possible.

It is generated using jpackage combined with the Easy-Install source. As a package, it functions like the Easy-Install bundle and not like the .deb or .jar installers.

https://snapcraft.io/i2pi2p

What's the real point? Nobody really cares about Snapcraft that much, except maybe Canonical. A lot of people don't even like them. That's not why there's a Snap of I2P now. The reason there's a Snap of I2P now, and that this experiment was not discontinued outright, is because it demonstrates the power of jpackage, the technology underlying the Easy-Install Bundles for Windows, to generate self-contained images that can easily be adapted to Linux package formats. Once you can stick a jpackage inside a Snap, you can just as easily stick it inside of an AppImage. A slightly different manifest format will leave you with a working Flatpak. The same applies to docker-compose and probably many other tools. Or, you can just stick it all into a .zip file and treat it like an I2P portable installation. The files your packaging are always the same, and are simply generated by jpackageing a custom I2P router launcher.

For more information, see:

• https://snapcraft.io/i2pi2p
• https://github.com/eyedeekay/I2P-Snaps-and-Appimages/

Details about this project and source is in the link:

https://github.com/Nemesis0U/I2P-Browser

A lot of blogs like the now archived "the tin hat" have talked about this.

It looks like a cool project, but a lot of plugins seem to be abandoned:

Orginal GitHub last Update 2019

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There was a try to Resurrecting I2P-Bote by u/mhatta

but the GitHub page seems to be unupdated since December 2020.

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There is another Bote implementation named pboted, but a planned feature is "Sending email anonymously" so it does not do that at the moment? If someone would be able to clarify this, it would be greatly appreciated

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But since whonix still seems to use Bote it is not totally dead?

So it there a way to go with this? And if so, which? Any help or infos are very welcome :-)

So, there I was, trying to get a decent browser setup for I2P. After a lot of fighting and annoyance, I finally got this setup which seems to do fine (correct me if I'm wrong). I snagged the official profile, did some tweaks to the user.js and prefs.js and added some bookmarks. This is then paired with my bash script I made to fetch LibreWolf as easily as possible.

So, this project can get a working I2P browser by running one bash script. This only applies to those on Linux and only tested on a Debian-based distro. Have fun.

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EDIT: It would help if I gave the URL

https://github.com/AmyMoriyama/i2p-browser-maker-linux

EDIT2: Did an update. Cleaned up some stuff and now the script fetches latest release profile from:
https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox

i've read through the docs for the extension and i cant figure out how to do this. every tab i open says "using private browsing extension". i'm not a regular firefox user so dont flame me too hard lol

Any estimated timeline for the Firefox I2P extension (I2P In Private Browsing) to be updated and considered stable?

The following provide Python code for a complete system for one to many - peer to peer audio streaming solution for I2P. (Should be easily adaptable for video streaming as well.)

The software should be considered "Alpha" status and your input is greatly appreciated as I am by no means a seasoned python developer.

I believe by adding the ability to securely stream both audio and video via peer to peer would provide a key feature missing in TOR.

• A station directory service via RSS feed.

Create a streaming station directory that uses zeroconf and outputs data with RSS feed

https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/12odx8z/create_a_streaming_station_directory_that_uses/

• A station announcement service,

Python Zeroconf "station" announcement script

https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/12ofjb2/python_zeroconf_station_announcement_script/

• A service that provides peer to peer transfer of continuous live audio streams.

Python adaptation of peer to peer (one to many) audio streaming

https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/12oabrc/python_adaptation_of_peer_to_peer_one_to_many/

Hello r/i2p. I am writing concerning the apparent lack of support for the MuWire I2P plugin. At this point, I am running the MuWire desktop app. I do not want to run the desktop app if I do not have to. I prefer the webui for MuWire and I don't want to have any I2P applications running outside the web interface if I don't have to. The webui has a cleaner interface while supporting the same features. The desktop app lacks an appealing interface and is overly complicated. Mentions of the MuWire plugin are missing from the website and I wonder why?

Not one of these things carries any guarantee from any project or set of developers. It is all experimental and largely developed by one person. That person is me. They will make most browsers work with I2P, as long as you already have an I2P router running.

This is a browser extension which creates a Container Tab in regular Firefox which applies I2P-specific settings and also configures the browser with I2P-related user-interface integrations in the browserAction and pageAction areas. It does not work on Goanna Firefoxes. It will recieve automatic updates.

• I2P in Private Browsing

This is experimental software which automatically configures an I2P Browser on the most common platforms. It is experimental, and if you are using the Windows Easy-Install Bundle you DO NOT NEED IT. It does not work on Goanna Firefoxes. They must be updated manually.

• Linux instructions
• OSX instructions
• Windows Instructions

There is also a golang port of i2p.plugins.firefox. You must build this version yourself. It does not work on Goanna Firefoxes. It does not work on Chromiums.

• go-i2pbrowser

I have successfully installed the I2P Docker from https://geti2p.net/en/download/docker

However, when trying to install the I2PBote Plugin, I receive the information that the file is corrupted or not made for this version.

Has somebody an idea how to solve this?

GUI2P Vanity

Thanks for your support in the previous post! Here is a major update to the GUI adaption of i2pd-tools' vanity eepSite (i2p site) generator / miner.

Click here for screenshots!

Features

• Bulk Filter List - Search for vanities more effectively!
• Loading, Saving, & Sorting - Save filter list for future operations
• Key File Organization - Clean file structure with eepSite names
• Auto Key Validation - Ensure keys are correct upon finding
• Customizable Thread Count - Work alongside the generator by lowering your resource usage
• Continuous Scanning - Automated to start scanning after finding an address
• Multi-Threaded - Take advantage of of multiple threads to avoid freezes
• Extended Web Interface - Access your mining operation from anywhere, with extended functionality and a familiar interface! (port forwarding required for outside access, LAN access does not require port forwarding)

Getting Started

• Click here to download the latest release from GitHub!
• .NET 6.0 is required to run the application.
• You will need i2pd-tools applications, click here to download the latest i2pd-tools releases!
  • Download vain.exe and keyinfo.exe from their official GitHub.
  • Move both applications to the GUI2P-Vanity's startup directory.
• Start GUI2P Vanity, enter a list of filters to search for, click start and watch the magic!

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Feedback and suggestions are appreciated in the comments!

I have been having problems with the I2P android app. I have trouble configuring the app to work with my preferred browser, since it does not support editing proxy settings, few mobile browsers do. There is also no alternative to I2Psnark on android, nor is there an email client that works with postman. I suggest integrating these functionalities into the I2P android app itself. Until that happens, there is little compelling use case for me. The I2P android app already has a built in browser that calls upon system webview, although it needs work. Since I2Psnark is written in Java, it should be easy to make a mobile interface similar to simplistic desktop interface. Postman is also written in Java, so it would be easy to make a mobile version of its simplistic interface. I use simplistic as a compilament, simplicity is beauty. I think the I2P project should implement these changes in the I2P android app in the near future.

https://muwire.com/ | http://muwire.i2p/

Release 0.8.11 featuring:

• Library refresh improvements on uploads and results
• Symlink support in library
• JTattoo LnFs
• Apply theme settings without a restart
• Tabs on group-by-file view
• “File Details” frame for group-by-sender view
• I2P router 1.6.1
• Build fixes for JDK 17
• Remember hopeless hosts longer
• Fallback to locale en instead of the system default one
• Add German low-high quotes to split pattern
• plumbing for future regex queries

Also a plugin new release: 0.8.11-b0

Big Thank you to u/zab_

This is a cross-platform, dependency-free Tor binary manager which securely downloads Tor Browser, extracts it to a $PLUGIN directory, and then uses the lifetime of I2P to manage the tor.exe and Tor process inside the bundle. As such, it's intended to be paired with the SOCKS outproxy plugin zzz made last month(I2P Link). I chose to use Tor Browser Bundle instead of Tor Expert Bundle because of it's comparatively robust and uniform method of providing updates.

• Homepage: https://eyedeekay.github.io/i2p.plugins.tor-manager
• Source: http://git.idk.i2p/idk/i2p.plugins.tor-manager
• Other Source: https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.tor-manager

For now, you'll need to download the plugins from the Github Releases https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.tor-manager/releases page, or build from source, or run it in freestanding mode.

In addition to that, it also unpacks a copy of the I2P Firefox profile into the plugin directory and has the ability to launch the Tor Browser with the I2P Firefox profile. This allows us to benefit from application-layer mitigations implemented by the Tor Browser which haven't made their way back to Firefox yet. You can launch "I2P in Tor Browser" by passing the -i2pbrowser flag to the executable or by clicking the "Launch I2P in Tor Browser" button on the control panel(http://localhost:7695).

It can also run without being an I2P plugin, as a freestanding executable. This is so it can work with i2pd, and be easy to package as a .deb. It does not require an installer, either, just run the executable and it unpack everything that it needs automatically. If you pass the -shortcut flag it will create a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications on Linux or in ~/Desktop on Windows. It can also act as a mirror of the Tor Browser and the Firefox profile itself.

Next target is OSX, it looks like it has to work in a very different way than the Windows/Linux one because of the way that .dmg based applications work, it's impossible to unpack Tor Browser into the $PLUGIN directory. Instead it's going to have to be a layer between the Tor Browser install and the $PLUGIN directory to work on OSX. Windows and Linux can unpack to the $PLUGIN directory so they're much easier and much more similar to eachother.

Have a plugin/app for running a i2p router in yunohost could be good launching some i2p services preconfigured easily !