Mule
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive (such as IMule or E-mail) applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties or central authorities.
For more detailed description visit the I2P website.
Wikipedia.org writes about I2P:
I2P (originally short for Invisible Internet Project) is a free and open source project building an anonymous network (or, more accurately, an overlay network). The network is a eay to use layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. Possible uses include anonymous surfing, filesharing, chatting and blogging.
The network itself is strictly message-based (like IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (similar to TCP, and UDP-based SSU transport). All communication is end-to-end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).
I2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer distributed communication layer designed to run any traditional internet service (e.g. Usenet, E-mail, IRC, file sharing, Web hosting and HTTP, Telnet), as well as more traditional distributed applications (e.g. a distributed data store, a web proxy network using Squid cache, and DNS).
I2P users will see references to the following terms on the I2P home page and on the router console.
I2PTunnel is an application embedded into I2P that allows arbitrary TCP/IP applications to communicate over I2P by setting up "tunnels" which can be accessed by connecting to pre-determined ports on localhost.
Eepsites are websites that are hosted anonymously within the I2P network. Eepsite names end in .i2p, such as ugha.i2p or orion.i2p. EepProxy can locate these sites through the cryptographic identifier keys stored in the hosts.txt file found within the I2P program directory. Typically, I2P is required to access these eepsites.
The EepProxy program handles all communication between your browser and any eepsite. It functions as a proxy server that can be used by any web browser.
Other machines using I2P that are connected to your machine within the network. Each machine within the network shares the routing and forwarding of encrypted packets.
Every ten minutes, a connection is established between your machine and another peer. Data to and from your machine, along with data for other users, passes through these tunnels, and are forwarded such that the packets eventually reach their final destination.
IMule is based on the I2P Anonymity Network.
Which is a Router or Mixer-Network.
Try to adjust the sliders in the graphical simulation above.
The *I*nvisible *I*nternet *P*roject ("I2P") is routing the Files from Alice to Bob over Peter, Paul and Mary. This means, a Tunnel is created (Alice -> Peter -> Paul -> Mary -> Bob), over which the File is sent.
Your IP-Adress is not shown to the requester or owner of the file.
Second, I2P uses no IP-Adresses to let Alice and Bob communicate, but virtual generated IP-Adresses, so called Base-64-Keys. Once an Anonymity Tunnel is created, many applications are routing Traffic over I2P, because it is (thrid) all encrypted, you even do not know, if it is an Email or a Mp3-File.
Fourth, IMule then uses as well *new*/*other* virtual generated Client-Keys, which stuck (saddle up) to the I2P-Base-64-Keys.
This means it is a perfect Mixer, anonymous Tunnel and all encrypted. Read more about I2P»
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