Just as everyone got nice and comfy with Tor, and being private, the world comes crumbling down when news got out that Tor wasn’t, in fact, secure at all. Down went Tor, up went the red flags. Luckily, there is an alternative that does seem (for now) to actually be secure. For now; the Invisible Internet Project, or i2P for short. Installation Installing i2P is pretty simple since there’s a Debian repo and Ubuntu PPA available. To start with, open a terminal and enter: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:i2p-maintainers/i2p sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install i2p That will add the PPA, update your list of software and then install i2P.

Maintenant que tout le monde se sent à l'aise et en confiance avec Tor, et en privé, le monde s'écroule alors que des nouvelles annoncent que Tor n'était en fait pas sécurisé du tout. Tor : 0 ; drapeaux rouges : 1. Heureusement, il existe une alternative qui semble (pour l'instant) être réellement sécurisée. Pour l'instant ; le Projet Internet Invisible, ou i2P pour faire court.

Installation

Installer i2P est assez simple puisqu'il y a un dépôt Debian et un PPA Ubuntu disponibles. Pour commencer, ouvrez un terminal et saisissez :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:i2p-maintainers/i2p

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install i2p

Ceci va ajouter le PPA, mettre à jour votre liste de logiciels, puis installer i2P.

Starting To start i2P you need to keep that terminal open and enter: i2prouter start That will display something like: Starting I2P Service… Waiting for I2P Service……. running: PID:17372 The PID will not be the same on your machine, but you get the idea. Now that the i2P server is running, we need to configure the browser. Please note that once you configure the browser to use i2P it won’t load normal http pages, so it’s probably best to install another browser just for i2P. I normally use Chrome, so I configured Firefox for i2P to try it out for this tutorial.

Proxy Before you can use i2P properly, you need to edit the proxy settings of the browser you’re going to use with i2P. I won’t go through the settings for all the different browsers as all the steps are well written at: https://geti2p.net/en/about/browser-config. In short: you’re setting your http (and ftp) proxy to 127.0.0.1:4444 and your SSL proxy to 127.0.0.1:4445. Browsing To gain access to the i2P settings, open your i2P browser and enter: http://127.0.0.1:7657/home You’ll see a page something like the one shown right. This is where you can gain access to the i2P configuration page (as a link near the top of the homepage) or go straight to recommended i2P sites. You’re now using i2P. Just to prove this, try going to a regular http page. If you’re really on i2P it should not load. Here’s an i2P site to get you started: http://i2p-projekt.i2p/how. It’s some technical documentation on the i2P project on their own i2P site.

Email Obviously, there’s no point in signing up to an anonymous site using your real-world email address, so i2P comes with a built in email client called susimail. In your i2P home page, click the email link (bottom of the page, under Local Services). Here, shown above, you can login (if you already have an @mail.i2p address) or click to create a new email. This new page (Postman HQ) will, at the bottom of the page, let you create a new email address. This email address is valid only on i2P, so don’t bother trying to send from your regular email to @mail.i2p. It won’t work. You’ll get a bounce back. Don’t email from @mail.i2p to the outside world. That would obliterate any, and all, privacy. The i2P server also comes with built-in web hosting and bittorrent clients as standard. That’s not even getting into the plugins that are available. There’s a lot to i2P. Sure, it’s not as fast as the regular internet, but it’s something new to check out. Obviously, and it should go without saying, be careful what you do on i2P as I do not guarantee its anonymity. Remember when everyone was sure Tor was secure?