kytv/I2P_Website
1
0
Fork 0
forked from I2P_Developers/i2p.www
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Replaced the network comparsions image with a HTML table.

Browse Source 
(ugha)
This commit is contained in:
ugha
2004-07-24 00:32:48 +00:00
committed by zzz
parent 7387540b7a
commit 863078e045
1 changed files with 101 additions and 11 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

112
pages/how_networkcomparisons.html
View File

@@ -29,13 +29,106 @@ of their use outside of academic environments.</p>
<p>Stealing quite directly from the Tarzan paper, the following includes a quick
comparison of Tarzan, Crowds, Onion Routing (OR), and I2P:</p>
<img src="http://dev.i2p.net/~jrandom/wiki/comparison.png" alt="Anonymous networks comparsion" />
<table>
<tr>
<td style="width: 19%;"></td>
<td style="width: 27%;" colspan="4">Bad first relay/router</td>
<td style="width: 27%;" colspan="4">Bad intermediate relay/router</td>
<td style="width: 27%;" colspan="4">Bad last relay/router</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Information exposed</td>
<td><b>OR</b></td>
<td><b>Crowds</b></td>
<td><b>Tarzan</b></td>
<td><b>I2P</b></td>
<td><b>OR</b></td>
<td><b>Crowds</b></td>
<td><b>Tarzan</b></td>
<td><b>I2P</b></td>
<td><b>OR</b></td>
<td><b>Crowds</b></td>
<td><b>Tarzan</b></td>
<td><b>I2P</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sender activity</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Maybe</td>
<td>Maybe</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Maybe</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Recipient activity</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sender content</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Maybe</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Recipient content</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td><b>No</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>(Original image at <a href="http://dev.i2p.net/~jrandom/wiki/comparison.png">
http://dev.i2p.net/~jrandom/wiki/comparison.png</a>)</p>
<h2>TOR / Onion Routing</h2>
<i><a href="http://freehaven.net/tor/">[TOR]</a>
<a href="http://www.onion-router.net">[Onion Routing]</a></i>
<p>
TOR and Onion Routing are both anonymizing proxy networks, allowing people
<p>TOR and Onion Routing are both anonymizing proxy networks, allowing people
to tunnel out through their low latency mix network. The two primary
differences between TOR / OnionRouting and I2P are again related to differences
in the threat model and the out-proxy design (though TOR is working to provide
@@ -72,8 +165,7 @@ database</a> and <a href="how_peerselection">peer selection</a>.</p>
<i><a href="http://mixminion.net/">[Mixminion]</a>
<a href="http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/">[Mixmaster]</a></i>
<p>
Mixminion and Mixmaster are networks to support anonymous email against a very
<p>Mixminion and Mixmaster are networks to support anonymous email against a very
powerful adversary. I2P aims to provide an adequate means to meet their threat
model as we reach I2P 3.0 along side the needs of low latency users, providing
a significantly larger anonymity set. As with TOR and Onion Routing above,
@@ -81,8 +173,8 @@ both Mixminion and Mixmaster take the directory based approach as well.</p>
<h2>Freenet</h2>
<i><a href="http://freenetproject.org/">[Freenet]</a></i>
<p>
Freenet is a fully distributed, peer to peer anonymous publishing network.
<p>Freenet is a fully distributed, peer to peer anonymous publishing network.
As such, generic anonymous communication over it requires the use of the global
blackboard model - storing data somewhere that the recipient will then check
for a message. Freenet also does not support the concept of user defined delays -
@@ -95,8 +187,7 @@ low latency communication.</p>
<h2>JAP</h2>
<i><a href="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html">[JAP]</a></i>
<p>
JAP (Java Anonymous Proxy) is a network of mix cascades for anonymizing web requests,
<p>JAP (Java Anonymous Proxy) is a network of mix cascades for anonymizing web requests,
and as such it has a few centralized nodes (participants in the cascade) that blend
and mix requests from clients through the sequence of nodes (the cascade) before
proxying out onto the web. The scope, threat model, and security is substantially
@@ -110,5 +201,4 @@ on the network. Even though the method of this attack was later found to be ill
in the German courts, the fact that the data was successfully collected is the
concern. Courts change their minds based upon circumstance, and this is evidence that
if a government body or intelligence agency wanted to, they could gather the data, even
if it may be found inadmissible in some courts later)
</p>
if it may be found inadmissible in some courts later)</p>