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Retroshare - Secure Filesharing And Communications decentralized encrypted private p2p, friend-to-friend, f2f, darknet

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Posted 22 March 2015 - 10:14 AM

hi all

new times require new techs. now we have copyright companies and government agencies. both emule and torrent useless against these threats.
privacy and anonymity became a new trend. so we have tor, i2p, freenet and others. but they not much populated and user friendly.
but there is an alternative to both classical networks and new-fashioned total-security, no-trust-anyone networks. and it's called private p2p, friend-to-friend, or darknet.

one of them is RetroShare. i use it like half an year and think it is good. has a potential to replace many of communication programs

the idea of F2F is to connect not to anyone on the internetz, but to selected peers. your friends, family or coworkers.
all connections are secured with strong crypto and noone can watch your traffic.
the system is serverless, and works independent of any commercial or governmental interests.

the program is opensource and multiplatform. website - retroshare.sf.net. it may look like outdated, but this is because all activity is happening inside the network, in distributed forums.

as long time emule user i must notice that interface is very similar, and it feels like home)

speaking of filetransfer... no queues, no torrent files, search by many parameters, collection-file support, system integration... all included.
you can share folder so anyone of your friends can browse contents, or anonymously - files are reachable from search.
friends can be arranged in groups, and have separate access policies to different data.

one great feature of retroshare is turtle routing. basically it is tor-like networking, so you can reach data far in the network through the chain of sequential friends. all transmissions are anonymous, and all you can see on networking level that traffic flows to someone of your peers, but where then - you cant say.

besides filetransfer, retroshare has mailing system, instant messenger, forums, chats, voip and video* calls.
so it can move email and skype to the trashbin of history)

current version is 0.5.5
actively developing beta - 0.6.0 - adds tor capability, video call support, less traffic consuming transfers, distributed wiki platform(not yet working)
NOTE: 0.6.0 is totally incompatible with the current 0.5.5, networks are totally separated. so you can run them at once

security notes: your friends see your IP address. remember it. so watch who you add
(not an issue when using hidden mode in 0.6.0 via tor network, but speed sucks)
peers are authorized by openpgp, connections secured with openssl.

to add a friend you must exchange certificates. (it is not as nice looking as emails and skype)

rs can portmap using upnp, find peers with dynamic IPs over DHT.

the only downside of rs is of it's decentralized nature - you can reach data only when destination is online. this mainly affects the mailsystem, but in the future mail can be stored on common friend nodes.

for quick entering rs has 2 chatservers (only for 0.5.5):
retrosharechatserver.no-ip.org/w2c/
retrochat.piratenpartei.at/w2c/
so you can exchange certificates with these automatic bots and gain access to public hive where you can find most of rs people.
note: chatservers provides access only to chats, so filesearch, downloads, forums and stuff are not accessible. unless you got real live friends.

more info you can find on wikipedia

sorry for my bad english :)

This post has been edited by hub4: 22 March 2015 - 01:42 PM

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