Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network
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I wager that TOR would still be extremely slow without the dark net markets and payment rails.
The I2P stewards have similarly has been affiliated with several cryptocurrency projects. But The Monero team's Kovri implementation of I2P will be the best.
I have considered adding such a thing for i2pd optionally enabled but there is no such interest from the community to maintain such entities.
I've been reading the i2pd source the past few weeks and would love to pick your brain over a couple of emails!
What we need more than a 0% trust and 100% anonymity is just a decentralized internet where so many nodes are not controlled by centralized organizations.
So while I2P and Monero etc are great, I think we can replace banks and credit card payments for most things with less stringent requirements.
Can you give examples?
They claim its unique, cool whats unique about it? What are these improvements, security enhancements and new features? Would it not make more sense to list the new improvements, security enhancements and features? Their table "What does Kovri do/not do for you?" shows it can do everything I2P can do and nothing else, unless I am missing something.
Call me paranoid but renaming another project and then, marketing it as more secure and trustworthy without proof is what dodgy fuckers do.
i2pd has been abandonned by their devs for roughly 6 months and they have not been available at all. Since the Monero team believed, i2p would be better than Tor, they forked i2pd to Kovri and started cleaning up the code and fixing bugs. Why not the official i2p Java client? Because of Java, which is not common in secure environments, fucks up Proxy settings or just ignores them eg.
Zcash's very computing expensive shielded transactions are rarely used and no GUI (and mobile) wallets simply offer them. You can see this in their block explorer: https://explorer.zcha.in/transactions Here is some more information on their own forum: https://forum.z.cash/t/low-percentage-of-total-shielded-zec-... Most exchanges also don't accept shielded Zcash deposits/withdrawals.
DASH's private send is just similar to a bitcoin mixer and takes even more than 24 hours to finish, since the Masternodes have to wait for mixing partners for you. This mixing creates a shitload of transactions on chain, it were around 70 when I tested it lately and that's a huge overhead. That are probably the (main) reasons why it's rarely used and since Chainalysis, Blockseer and all the Bitcoin tracking companies have no troubles to track mixed transactions, like they did with Wanna Cry, I think it's only a matter of time to extend them for DASH with more adoption: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-shapeshift-h...
Summarising optional privacy makes where almost no one uses it, makes you suspect just for opting in for the privacy feature. It's also much easier to track just the few percent of private transactions by design.
This is the problem with all the so called "secure anonymous" coins I looked at until I read up on Monero and how it works. Security and anonymity is baked in by design, not retrofitted after the fact which never works.
So as far as I can tell Monero is the only one that has this right. Now, again, time will tell if their technology choices actually deliver what they say it will deliver regarding anonymity and security.
But for now it's the only game in town as far as I am concerned.
0) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xa7mz/europol-he...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaBay#Timeline for a summary.
After they went down, another major mixer, BitMixer, apparently saw this as a significant legal change to the status quo and announced they were shutting down by choice, shuffling users off elsewhere.
kovri is a rebrand of i2pd, someone took one of the worst revisions of i2pd back when it sucked more and called it kovri and to this very day still have loads of bugs that are fixed for over a year in i2pd. somehow the kovri people managed to make the code worse than it was when they started complexity wise.
disclosure: I work on i2pd a bit.
[1] - https://github.com/monero-project/kovri-docs/blob/master/i18...
there is an off-by-one that prevents the dht from working properly, it actively poisons the network. i fixed this in i2pd last year, the code changed so much I think that's where it is located now. there are a few more bugs like that i know of off the top of my head but i'd need more coffee. i got kicked off kovri for trying to fix bugs, good luck to them in the future. they're going to need a major management additude readjustment if they want to provide a proper functioning i2p router, so far all they have done is shoo away competent developers with the way they treat PR.
further updates:
kovri does not provide extra "security" or "quality" as seemingly none of the bugs I and many others fixed in i2pd have been fixed in kovri. that document is a huge load.
if anyone wants to contribute to i2pd see: https://github.com/purplei2p/i2pd/
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/graphs/contributors
Where have you been between June and November 2015? Kovri was meant to be just an integration of i2pd into Monero, not a fork. But yeah... When the only maintainer of a project is gone for half a year, what do you expect? Anyone familiar with Git is able to see when anonimal finally forked away...
https://github.com/monero-project/kovri/graphs/contributors
But yeah, then you came back and started developing again after 6 months of nothing? Just don't be like an offended asshole and maybe try to cooperate or just let it go the open source way and the better solution will probably get the most adoption.
Also-- why all the comments about Monero? Is it the only altcoin that supports I2P?
If you check https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html , ARM is only tier 2 support, while Kovri seems to care enough to cover ARM. That's a legitimate reason to not choose Rust.
Btw. are we already again in these HTML / Flash wars where the second one was shilled as the only possible future for websites and incoming death for HTML? Oh wait, children can't even remember it... Search for it on Wikipedia (or probably even a printed encyclopedia).
The best C++ pros make mistake all the time. Because it doesn't matter how much skill you got with a can of spray paint, if you do makeup with it, you will mess up from time to time.
If you've had 100 problems writing c++, rust will reduce 99 of them. No data races, no SEGFAULTS - yes its impossible, no pointer mathematics, no bad (nullptr) state of pointers and much much faster than c++. Just see the benchmarks here - https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/regexredux.htm...
Rust is 2.73 seconds and c++ is at 17 seconds LOL. C is ahead but not too much. ( 1 sec difference and who cares about a second when c++ is ....). Btw, have fun with your spray paint ;)
But you only tell us about one of them!
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...