I2P doesn’t even attempt to be or say there’re better than Tor. That’s one reason why I2P cannot replace Tor.
https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
This page was last updated in November 2016.
That’s promising.
But please read it before advocating I2P.
According to Servers – Tor Metrics, only 8000 relays operate in Tor network, many of them are under police surveillance.
On the other hand, 44000 routers are operating in I2P. as of September 2024.
And that’s truly promising scale of operating, not some obsolete info you’ve quoted.
Tor relays are relays run by enthusiasts to support the grid.
i2p routers are anyone who uses i2p.
If you make such a comparison, compare the number of i2p routers and all Tor users
The number of all Tor users doesn’t increase tor network security, just showing that Tor is popular. You cannot benefit from other Tor users.
Any I2P user is a public router by default (but this user can put their router into Hidden Mode) and benefits from other I2P users as if they were relays (in Tor terms).
If a lot of the fundamental problems of anonymous networks could be solved simply by increasing the number of nodes it would be a good thing.
It makes no sense to change Tor to i2p just because some Ricoshet application has a bug. It’s a logical error. “survivor bias”.
i2p has fewer users, it’s less popular, it hasn’t been audited, i2p has NO RICOSHET ANALOG of its own, i2p doesn’t have the number of users whose data hackers/governments would want to get their hands on
P.s: think we should finish discussing THIS in the Vanguards thread. Not a related issue
It’s a logical error to think this is a Ricoshet application bug.
It’s a Tor network issue because of Tor developers who broke Vanguard nine months ago and put almost no efforts to fix it.
Please stop making false assumptions about I2P then. There is I2PChat and numerous scientific papers on I2P security. Last successful de-anonymization attack agaist i2p was back in 2014 according to Wikipedia.
Wrong.
The bug didn’t break standalone vanguard add-on for everyone. Only inside VMs for long downloads. Not an anonymity bug.
Standalone vanguards which very few were using is irrelevant. The bug wasn’t about that and therfore irrelevant.
Meanwhile all Tor users not on ancient versions where using Vanguard-Lite which is integrated in Tor and worked perfectly.
It’s nonsense debating this until you understand the difference between Vanguards and Vanguard-Lite.
2MB its not long downloads