I2P 0.9.15 Released

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I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (a la IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (a la TCP). All communication is end to end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).

 

0.9.15 adds preliminary support for Ed25519 EdDSA signatures. It includes a new persistent configuration backend for i2psnark and fixes several issues with i2psnark's handling of file names. There are several improvements to speed up SAM. Plugins now support stronger signatures in the su3 file format. Plugin installation via the console, which was disabled in 0.9.14, is re-enabled.

We have supported ECDSA signatures since 0.9.12, and we would like to start using ECDSA by default. Unfortunately, some of you are still running older I2P versions, and for others, their distribution or Java runtime does not support ECDSA. Red Hat (RHEL, Fedora) distributions are reported to be missing ECDSA. Some have fixed the Java issues by upgrading from Java 6 to Java 7; others have had success with installing the "unlimited strength policy files". We've added information about missing crypto to the log file and the /logs page in the console. After you update to 0.9.15, please check if you are missing ECDSA support, and attempt to fix it if necessary. This is particularly important for those that run popular eepsites and services.

As usual, we recommend that you update to this release. The best way to maintain security and help the network is to run the latest release.

 

RELEASE DETAILS

 

Changes

• Add support for Ed25519 signatures
• i2psnark move to separate config file for each torrent to better support per-torrent settings
• Add i2psnark support for data outside the i2psnark/ directory
• Enable stronger signatures (su3 format) for plugins
• Speed up SSU introductions by responding to hole punch messages
• Several improvements in SAM efficiency

Bug Fixes

• Form submission fixes in the console and i2psnark
• Streaming fixes for long signatures
• i2psnark fixes for file name character mapping when seeding
• I2PTunnel fixes stopping client tunnels
• I2PTunnel fix updating options on a running delay-open client tunnel

Other

• Re-enable plugin installation via the console, removed in 0.9.14
• i2psnark now remembers uploaded count across restarts
• i2psnark increase max piece size to 8 MB
• i2psnark several UI fixes
• Prohibit SSU peer test requests unless a connection is established
• i2ptunnel add support for local SSL connections for standard and IRC client tunnels
• Console and log warnings for unavailable crypto
• More consistent routing for Delivery Status Messages to reduce network connections
• Disable external entities in UPnP XML parser
• More escaping and cleanups in forms and messages
• Translation updates
• Update GeoIP data (in both new installs and updates)

 

https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2014/09/20/0.9.15-Release