Retroshare.sf.net: Serverless Encrypted Messenger for safe File Sharing
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http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/retro_spacer.jpghttp://retroshare.sf.net (http://retroshare.sf.net) - serverless, encrypted file sharing with Chat Messenger
Welcome to Retroshare Instant Messenger 0.30
RetroShare Instant Messenger is the next generation sharing network, which provides:
A private Peer to Peer (P2P) Network which allows you to share information with only the friends you want to: So actually this Instant Messenger is a Friends-to-Friends Network.
Retroshare Instant Messenger offers reliable Identification and Authentication of your trusted friends (RSA-Keys).An Introduction Scheme to bootstrap your friends over a Distributed Hash Table (DHT), which connects you your friends and facilitates network growth by easy connecting. Friends of Friends never connect. Because you connect direct and enryepted only to your trusted friends, it is a fast and safe transfer of files. No other open and serverless Instant Messenger has such enhanced Filesharing capabilities like you find here. Encrypted Communication, ensuring all shared information is known only to you and your trusted friends (neighbour peers). A Communication Platform which can potentially support services such as Secure Email to all of your friends, File Sharing, Video or Voice over IP and of course Instant Messaging. Roundabout, it is a decentralised (serverless), open source, social Sharing Network designed *for Friends* with no dependancies on any corporate system or central servers.
:source: Homepage: http://retroshare.sf.net
:down: Download Link: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/en_download.html
:view: Changelog: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/en_download.html
:pic: Screenshot: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/screen06_downloads.jpg