Garlic Routing (I2P)

Created on 2020-12-06T15:03:17-06:00

Circuits are built where some number of peers only know about their immediate neighbor in the circuit with the original messages being layered with encryption (as in Onion Routing.)
Onion routing sends single packets for a single client through a circuit.
Garlic Routing (Freedman) bundles multiple packets from multiple clients on the same circuit.
Tunnels are unidirectional: clients need a circuit to send and a separate circuit to receive.