[tor-talk] comparison of Tor and Kovri in regards to deanonymization attacks

qubenix qubenix at riseup.net
Thu Dec 6 18:09:00 UTC 2018


Eugen Leitl:
> I was curious for Monero dev's rationale to pick I2P over Tor, and then even forking I2P as Kovri.
> 

Kovri is just a new implementation of i2p that anonimal is working on
and Monero intends to use, not a fork of the i2p project. It still is
using the existing i2p network.

> Whatever I've seen online doesn't strike me as particularly convincing.
> 

I agree.

> Is there published research in regards to deanonymization attacks against both Tor 
> and I2P, and given the design changes of Kovri, should we expect the attacks to be easier, or harder? 

I think it's a fact that Tor is more battle tested and thus anti-fragile
than i2p, but I could be wrong. I'm also interested in what the list has
to say.

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