Q279182

Retroshare is a free and open-source peer-to-peer communication and file sharing app based on a friend-to-friend network built by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). Optionally peers may exchange certificates and IP addresses to their friends and vice versa.

Key facts

Software.language count: 38
Software.name: Retroshare
Software.logo: Retroshare-symbol.png
Software.screenshot: RetroShare 0.6 screenshot.png
Software.author: Robert Fernie
Software.programming language: C++
Software.platform: Cross-platform
Software.operating system: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Haiku
Software.language: 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, Vietnamese
Software.genre: Anonymous P2P, friend-to-friend, chat, instant messaging, newsgroups, voice over IP, email client and BBS
Software.license: GNU General Public License

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Source code

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Wikidata facts

Official website: retroshare.cc
Image: Retroshare-rs1.png

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software version identifier: 0.6.7
Commons category: RetroShare
source code repository URL: github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare
inception: 2006-00-00
official blog URL: retroshareteam.wordpress.com
social media followers: 1740

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Contents

History
Design
Features
Authentication and connectivity
File sharing
Communication
User interface
Anonymity
Caveats
See also
References
External links

==History== Retroshare was founded in 2004 by Mark Fernie. An unofficial build for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi, named PiShare, was available since 2012.