Retroshare creates encrypted connections to your friends.
Nobody can spy on you. Retroshare is completely decentralized. This means there
are no central servers. It is entirely Open-Source and free. There are no
costs, no ads and no Terms of Service.
Main Features
* Chat
Send text and images. Discuss with various people in chat
rooms. Express your emotions with the rich smiley set. Use distant chat to chat
securely with friends-of-friends.
* Voice and Video
Make free and secure calls with the VoIP plugin. Catch up
face to face with a video call.
* Mail
Send encrypted messages to other members of the network.
Retroshare can store encrypted messages on friends nodes to deliver messages
while you're offline.
* File sharing
Share files with your friends or with the whole network.
Use the search to find files. Retroshare uses swarming similar to BitTorrent,
to accelerate the download. This makes it possible to share big files with 1GB or more. Your privacy is protected
with anonymous tunnels. Only your direct friends might learn which files you
download.
* Forums
You can read and write forum posts offline. This is
perfect while you are on the go. When you have an Internet connection,
Retroshare will automatically synchronize forums with your friends.
Decentralized forums are censorship resistant by design.
* Posted
Share your favorite links. See which links others like.
Vote and discuss links.
* Channels
Publish files in channels. Subscribe to channels and
automatically download the latest files. Comment on files and spread them to
your friends.
* Hide with Tor
Need to hide from Internet surveillance? Can't connect to
your friends because of censorship? Use Retroshare over Tor to hide the
connection between you and your friends.
How does it work?
Retroshare is a network of computers. These computers we
call nodes and every user has its own node. Neighbors only know the exact
location (the IP-address) of nodes. You invite someone to become a neighbor by
sending your public key.
Forums use pseudonymous nicknames to identify people. The
nickname system uses cryptographic keys to verify messages come from specific
authors. The nickname information travels wherever the forum post goes.
If you send a message to a user, the system delivers it
to his node by searching for a route by forwarding it via a chain of
neighboring nodes. If you want a certain file, your node asks your neighbors
and they in turn request it from their neighbors.
Website: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
