RetroShare
Sign in to saveRetroshare 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.
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It is catalogued under topics including 2006 software, Anonymous file sharing networks and Cross-platform free software.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- retroshare.cc
- Image
- Retroshare-rs1.png
- Has use
- friend-to-friend
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- operating system
- macOS
- programmed in
- C++
- copyright license
- GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0
- software version identifier
- 0.6.7
- Commons category
- RetroShare
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Qt
- source code repository URL
- github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare
- software quality assurance
- continuous integration
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- official blog URL
- retroshareteam.wordpress.com
- social media followers
- 1740
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Features
- Authentication and connectivity
- File sharing
- Communication
- User interface
- Anonymity
- Caveats
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
==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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RetroShare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.