Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

One thing I love about cryptocurrencies is that it has created an economic incentive to accelerate hardening of internet communication.<p>I wager that TOR would still be extremely slow without the dark net markets and payment rails.<p>The I2P stewards have similarly has been affiliated with several cryptocurrency projects. But The Monero team&#x27;s Kovri implementation of I2P will be the best.

It&#x27;s not really fun to be down voted constantly but I guess I can&#x27;t help but share my beliefs.<p>What we need more than a 0% trust and 100% anonymity is just a decentralized internet where so many nodes are not controlled by centralized organizations.<p>So while I2P and Monero etc are great, I think we can replace banks and credit card payments for most things with less stringent requirements.

I don&#x27;t get it they took I2P and just renamed it, why do people care about this? Their faq says &quot;Kovri has become a unique, actively-developed, community-driven C++ I2P implementation with many improvements, security enhancements, and new features over its predecessor.&quot;<p>They claim its unique, cool whats unique about it? What are these improvements, security enhancements and new features? Would it not make more sense to list the new improvements, security enhancements and features? Their table &quot;What does Kovri do&#x2F;not do for you?&quot; shows it can do everything I2P can do and nothing else, unless I am missing something.<p>Call me paranoid but renaming another project and then, marketing it as more secure and trustworthy without proof is what dodgy fuckers do.

With the recent bust of AlphaBay we know bitcoin mixers are vulnerable. It looks like Monero will take over as the favorite cryptocurrency of new markets especially with I2P integration.

How does this compare to i2pd, a more mature C++ implementation of I2P?

The Monero Team is doing lots of cool things, and the proactive security testing they do is comforting. I&#x27;m excited to see what this brings to the project, and I applaud the devs for their hard work.

I don&#x27;t understand-- what&#x27;s the significance of an re-implementation of I2P in a memory unsafe language?<p>Also-- why all the comments about Monero? Is it the only altcoin that supports I2P?

Too bad they couldn&#x27;t build it in anything safer than C++.

If the first adjective is &quot;secure&quot;, how to reconcile this with C++?

This is why I&#x27;ve lost respect for lots of developers. I mean why the heck would someone re-implement a piece of code in memory unsafe language? We&#x27;ve a better language now, but this habit isn&#x27;t dying very soon...