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Anonymous Bittorrent with I2PSnark

Martin Brinkmann
Jun 6, 2007
Updated • Jul 17, 2013
File Sharing, Software
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I personally think that is is very important to use software that anonymizes you whenever possible for most of the tasks on the Internet. All of your movement and actions are tracked and can be easily traced back to you which is probably something that most users on the Internet are either unaware of or do not like at all if they know that this is the case.

One major problem are P2P networks where anonymity is not that easily achieved. If you do lack the technical background you will face severe difficulties on the road to anonymity. There is however a great solution if you want to be anonymous while downloading and sharing files on Bittorrent.

"Unlike many other anonymizing networks, I2P doesn't try to provide anonymity by hiding the originator of some communication and not the recipient, or the other way around. I2P is designed to allow peers using I2P to communicate with each other anonymously — both sender and recipient are unidentifiable to each other as well as to third parties."

Here is what has to be done to setup the anonymous bittorrent client:

  • Download the I2P installer for Windows or Linux
  • Install the application. Just run the executable in Windows
  • Ggo to the start menu and open the I2P folder there. Click on Start I2P (restartable)
  • You have to configure a local proxy now. You do that the following way:
  • Firefox: Go to Tools > Options. Click on Advanced > Network and select the Settings button under Connection. check Manual Proxy Configuration and add localhost as the HTTP Proxy and the port 4444
  • Internet Explorer: Click on Tools > Internet Options. Select Connections from the Tab and click on the LAN settings button. Activate Use a proxy server and enter the same data. (Localhost and 4444)
  • Opera: Select Tools > Preferences and click on the Advanced tab. Choose network from the menu and click on the Proxy Servers buttons. Add localhost and the port 4444 to the HTTP and all other protocols that you want to use.
  • Visit http://localhost:7657/index.jsp to load the main interface. You do have many options such as chatting anonymously on IRC or starting the anonymous bittorrent client.
  • Click on I2PSnark in the header to load the bittorrent interface.

You may now add Torrents by either browsing your local computer or pasting a url with the torrent information.
The speed seems to be a little bit lower than usual which is caused by the anonymization. I think that the download rates are still acceptable if you consider that you download and share anonymously.

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Comments

  1. Aveek said on September 29, 2011 at 2:55 am
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    How to use the i2p proxy through other torrent clients? sat bittorrent 7.2? the port will be http 4444 or http 7657 or socks 7657?

  2. Wumble said on July 4, 2011 at 5:11 am
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    You wrote an article about how to remain anonymous on the internet and offered the I2P download, and the first thing it did was ask me for my email address! What part of anonymous do you not understand?

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on July 4, 2011 at 9:26 am
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      You do understand that you do not necessarily have to use your own email address, right? You could use temporary email addresses for instance.

  3. Evan said on October 17, 2008 at 5:42 pm
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    I tried this, but I just couldn’t figure it out. Somebody help me out

  4. azul said on February 8, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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    There’s no need to be overly cautious though. But yeah, guess it’s worth a try.

  5. butlimous said on August 27, 2007 at 7:57 pm
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    I use a strong Internet Security Suite so i don’t use anonymizer…anyway thanks for the nice post and tutorial!

    1. max said on February 2, 2016 at 7:55 pm
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      strong security suit? what the fuck has that to do with an anonimizer?

  6. Dante said on June 7, 2007 at 1:36 am
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    Umm… port 4444. Is the programmer Asian? If so, I would really really really take a hard look at this program before I run it outside of a sandbox. 4 is synonymous with DEATH in the Asian dialects. This may be a hacker’s snicker at it’s targets. And since I don’t like to have my ISP traced to any P2P’s at this time, I can’t check it in my sandbox.

    1. hah said on March 21, 2012 at 10:15 am
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      You choose the port number yourself. i2p has a whole lot of creators, but I think most are from Germany.

  7. free ps3 said on June 6, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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    Lets hope ppl use it

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