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<b class="title">Introducing I2P</b><br />
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<b class="title">Introducing I2P</b><br />
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<span class="subtitle">a scalable framework for anonymous communication</span><br />
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<span class="subtitle">a scalable framework for anonymous communication</span><br />
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<i style="font-size: 8">$Id: index.html,v 1.22 2005/10/03 00:31:27 jrandom Exp $</i>
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<i style="font-size: 8">$Id: techintro.html,v 1.1 2005/10/03 01:21:08 jrandom Exp $</i>
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particular, the appropriateness for use in hostile regimes against state level
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particular, the appropriateness for use in hostile regimes against state level
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adversaries has been tremendously overstated, and any analysis on the implications
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adversaries has been tremendously overstated, and any analysis on the implications
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of resource scarcity upon the scalability of the network has seemingly been avoided.
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of resource scarcity upon the scalability of the network has seemingly been avoided.
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Further review of this "globally scalable darknet" will have to wait until the
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Specifically, while publishing the "anonymous" topology in the darknet does not
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Freenet team makes more information available.
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necessarily immediately expose all identities, it is equivilant to publishing an
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organizational chart for a covert group, which can in turn be used by an adversary
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along side existing knowledge of their target to narrow down or identify different
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participants. In addition, by using only peers that are locally connected, the
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network's mixnet layer is vulnerable to a class of
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<a href="http://www.im.pwr.wroc.pl/~klonowsk/LocalViewAttack.ps">local view attacks</a>.
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Further questions regarding suceptability to traffic analysis, trust, and other topics
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do exist, but a more in depth review of this "globally scalable darknet" will have
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to wait until the Freenet team makes more information available.
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<h1 id="app">Appendix A: Application layer</h1>
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<h1 id="app">Appendix A: Application layer</h1>
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