Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client

Re:Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client by aw3c2 on Saturday June 02, 2012 @12:46PM (#4058451)

You can use torrents anonymously in I2P today. And I think this is the much better solution. I2P lets you do much more than just torrenting. And every user benefits from eachother's actions/traffic since the more traffic there is, the more peers there are, the more anonymous it gets.

You can also use E2DK or Gnutella in I2P. Or plain HTTP. Or mails. Or IRC. Much nicer than being limited to just Bittorrent.

As for speed, if you get a nice swarm and your I2P peer is well integrated, 100Kilobytes/s are possible.

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Re:Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client by ralphc on Sunday June 03, 2012 @02:26PM (#4061435)

It's my understanding that you can only torrent within the I2P network and can't reach out to the "outside" internet, is that true?

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Re:Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client by aw3c2 on Monday June 04, 2012 @04:49AM (#4063174)

Yes.

There are some "outproxies" but only 2-3 and they are slow. I2P is not meant to intermingle with the normal internet.

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