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by shrimp_emoji 1071 days ago
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Benefits of I2P over Tor

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Java, not C (ewww)

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Excuse me?
4 comments
owenmarshall 1071 days ago
I feel like “written in a memory-safe language” is a fair selling point, especially when we are talking about a tool designed to accept completely untrusted data from the network and keep you safe from attackers with significant resources.
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chasil 1071 days ago
All of the "boring crypto" has been written in C.

https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf

Unfortunately, Java encryption libraries are far from boring.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bouncy-castle...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7637...

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Avamander 1071 days ago
People have done a lot of things, the track record so far has shown that to be a terrible idea.
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ravenstine 1071 days ago
If you really dislike Java that much, there are other I2P implementations like this:

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

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gloria_mundi 1071 days ago
On the same site:

> Benefits of Tor over I2P

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> - C, not Java (ewww)

It's a joke.

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SolarNet 1071 days ago
It's joke that every one will hate one or the other. They make the same joke the other direction.
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