Features Authentication and connectivity Īfter initial installation, the user generates a pair of ( GPG) cryptographic keys with Retroshare. Users can communicate indirectly through mutual friends and request direct connections. Retroshare is an instant messaging and file sharing network that uses a distributed hash table for address discovery. In August 2015, Retroshare repository was migrated from SourceForge to GitHub.
It lost a point because there has not been a recent independent code audit.
On 4 November 2014, Retroshare scored 6 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard. The web site 'PRISM Break' has recommended Retroshare for anonymous file sharing since 2013. There has been an unofficial build for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi, named PiShare, since 2012.
Retroshare was founded in 2004 by Mark Fernie. Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan (Spain), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician (Spain), 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, VietnameseĪnonymous P2P, friend-to-friend, chat, instant messaging, newsgroups, voice over IP, email client and BBS