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Free Talk Live => General => Topic started by: Lothar on January 13, 2012, 05:13:13 AM
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Anyone familiar with this?
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ (http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/)
"RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform.
It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels"
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Looks interesting. Reminds me of a pet peeve. Apple and Microsoft should have gotten together a long time ago and built secure email and messaging into every copy of their OS so people would use secure communications by default. I'm thinking they could have leveraged PGP, or somesuch. Instead, they both seem to act like the government's bitches. I've never quite heard why this is impractical.
On the other hand, I've never delved into PGP, etc., so maybe there are real issues, other than the political ones.
To the point on this, though...seems sorta like saying "Here we are, the people who don't want you knowing what we're communicating; come and get us."