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{% block title %}I2P Status Notes for 2005-03-29{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}<h3>I2P Status Notes for 2005-03-29</h3>
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Hi y'all, time for the weekly status notes
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* Index
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1) 0.5.0.5
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2) UDP (SSU)
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3) Q
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4) ???
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* 1) 0.5.0.5
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Since y'all did such a great job at upgrading to 0.5.0.4 so quickly,
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we're going to have the new 0.5.0.5 release come out after the
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meeting. As discussed last week, the big change is the inclusion of
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the batching code, bundling multiple small messages together, rather
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than giving them each their own full 1KB tunnel message. While this
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alone won't be revolutionary, it should substantially reduce the
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number of messages passed, as well as the bandwidth used, especially
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for services like IRC.
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There will be more info in the release announcement, but two other
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important things come up with the 0.5.0.5 rev. First, we're
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dropping support for users before 0.5.0.4 - there are well over 100
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users on 0.5.0.4, and there are substantial problems with earlier
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releases. Second, there's an important anonymity fix in the new
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build, that while it'd require some development effort to mount, its
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not implausible. The bulk of the change is to how we manage the
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netDb - rather than play it fast and loose and cache entries all
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over the place, we will only respond to netDb requests for elements
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that have been explicitly given to us, regardless of whether or not
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we have the data in question.
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As always, there are bugfixes and some new features, but more info
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will be forthcoming in the release announcement.
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* 2) UDP (SSU)
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As discussed off and on for the last 6-12 months, we're going to be
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moving over to UDP for our interrouter communication once the 0.6
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release is out. To get us further down that path, we've got a first
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draft of the transport protocol up in CVS @
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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/udp.html?rev=HEAD">http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/udp.html?rev=HEAD</a>
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Its a fairly simple protocol with the goals outlined in the doc, and
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exploits I2P's capabilities to both authenticate and secure data, as
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well as expose as little external information as possible. Not even
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the first part of a connection handshake is identifiable to someone
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that isn't running I2P. The behavior of the protocol is not fully
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defined in the spec yet, such as how the timers fire or how the three
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different semireliable status indicators are used, but it does cover
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the basics of the encryption, packetization, and NAT hole punching.
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None of it has been implemented yet, but will be soon, so feedback
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would be greatly appreciated!
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* 3) Q
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Aum has been churning away on Q(uartermaster), a distributed store,
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and the first pass of the docs are up [1]. One of the interesting
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ideas in there seems to be a move away from a straight DHT towards
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a memcached [2] style system, with each user doing any searches
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entirely *locally*, and requesting the actual data from the Q server
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"directly" (well, through I2P). Anyway, some neat stuff, perhaps
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if Aum is awake [3] we can wressle an update out of him?
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[1] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://aum.i2p/q/">http://aum.i2p/q/</a>
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[2] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/">http://www.danga.com/memcached/</a>
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[3] damn those timezones!
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* 4) ???
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Lots more going on, and if there were more than just a few minutes
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until the meeting I could go on, but c'est la vie. Swing on by
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#i2p in a few to chat.
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=jr
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{% endblock %}
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