I2P
Also known as Invisible Internet Project, IIP, Invisible IRC Project
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a mix network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2
Key facts
- Software.language
- Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Gan), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian (Estonia), Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Mongolian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Oromo, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian (Russia), Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Swedish (Sweden), Tagalog, Thai, Turkish (Turkey), Turkmen, Ukrainian (Ukraine), Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba.
- Software.genre
- Anonymity application, Overlay network, mix network, garlic router, peer-to-peer
- Software.license
- Public domain, BSD, GPL, MIT (license varies by component)
- Software.title
- I2P
- Software.name
- I2P — The Anonymous Network
- Software.logo
- I2P logo 2019.svg
- Software.logo_size
- 300px
- Software.caption
- I2P 0.9.8.1 Router Console
- Software.author
- I2P Team
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Article
22 sectionsContents
- Technical design
- Releases
- Funding
- Software
- General networking
- Chat
- File sharing
- Bridging to clearnet
- Instant messaging
- Publishing
- Routers
- The Privacy Solutions project
- Android
- Cryptocurrency
- Terminology
- Vulnerabilities
- I2PCon
- See also
- Software
- References
- External links
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a mix network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2P node". I2P is free and open source, and is published under multiple licenses.
== Technical design == I2P started in 2003 as a fork of Hyphanet, then known as Freenet.