I2P 🔴 🟡 🟢

The I2P #Rust project looks very promising. Get involved - https://github.com/altonen/emissary

Every participant in the I2P network is a peer / node. This means that everyone participates in routing traffic. It also means that the greater amount of peers, the better the network functions resulting in better connectivity, and also increased traffic protection.

I2P 2.10.0 Release : https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2025/09/08/2.10.0_release

I2P FAQ:
I Can See My IP Address!

Yes, this is how a fully distributed peer-to-peer network works. Every node participates in routing packets for others, so your IP address must be known to establish connections. While the fact that your computer runs I2P software is public, nobody can see your activities in the network. For instance, you cannot see if a user behind an IP address is sharing files, hosting a website, doing research or just running a node to contribute bandwidth to the network.

The really bad age verification bill is back in Canada's Parliament https://youtu.be/cBJe3gB2Po4?si=kFSB2vC6hMdPuWYw&t=6

🧄 🔒 I2P uses garlic routing, bundling and encryption in three places:
1. For building and routing through tunnels (layered encryption).
2. For determining the success or failure of end to end message delivery (bundling)
3. For publishing some network database entries (dampening the probability of a successful traffic analysis attack)

How is I2P network traffic protected from potential observers?

The server is hidden from the user and the user from the server. All I2P network traffic is internal to its network.
Encrypted unidirectional tunnels are used between peers to send traffic. No one can see where that traffic is coming from, where it is going, or what the contents are. I2P transports also offer resistance to pattern recognition and blocking by censors.

Configuring Privacy Browser for I2P on Android https://eyedeekay.github.io/Configuring-Privacy-Browser-for-I2P-on-Android/

All traffic on the I2P network is encrypted. An observer cannot see message contents, source, or destination. All traffic you route as a participant is internal to the I2P network, you are not an exit node.

Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish Online Content

https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/07/iran-proposed-cyber-bill-gives-authorities-sweeping-new-powers-to-block-and-punish-online-content/

I2P asks to setup HTTP proxy on the web browser, but are there reasons to use SOCKS instead ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1mbnfug/http_or_socks_proxy/