Retroshare
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| Developer(s) | RetroShare Team |
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| Initial release | 2006 |
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0.6.1 / 3 September 2016
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD |
| Available in | 38 languages |
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List of languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan (Spain), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
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| Type | Anonymous P2P, friend-to-friend, chat, instant messaging, newsgroups, voice over IP, darknet, social network, email client |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | retroshare |
RetroShare is open source software for encrypted filesharing, serverless email, instant messaging, online chat, and BBS, based on a friend-to-friend network built on GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). It is not strictly a darknet since optionally, peers may communicate certificates and IP addresses from and to their friends.
There has been an unofficial build for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi, named PiShare, since 2012.
The web site 'PRISM Break' has recommended RetroShare for anonymous file sharing since 2013.
On November 4, 2014, RetroShare scored 6 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard. It lost a point because there has not been a recent independent code audit.
After initial installation, the user generates a pair of (GPG) cryptographic keys with RetroShare.
After authentication and exchanging an asymmetric key, OpenSSL is used to establish a connection, and for end to end encryption. Friends of friends cannot connect by default, but they can see each other, if the users allow it.
IPv6 support is planned for the RetroShare 0.6 release branch with a possible release in 2016.
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