Retroshare

Retroshare
Original author(s)Robert Fernie
Developer(s)
  • Cyril Soler
  • Gioacchino Mazzurco
Initial release2006; 18 years ago (2006)[1]
Stable release
0.6.7[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 30 November 2023
Repositorygithub.com/RetroShare
Written inC++
Operating systemLinux, Windows, macOS, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Haiku
PlatformCross-platform
Available in38 languages[3]
List of languages
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
TypeAnonymous P2P, friend-to-friend, chat, instant messaging, newsgroups, voice over IP, email client and BBS
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteretroshare.cc
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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).[4] Optionally peers may exchange certificates and IP addresses to their friends and vice versa.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Retroshare aims to be a private F2F social network | SourceForge Community Blog". Sourceforge.net. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Release 0.6.7". 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Retroshare localization". Transifex.com. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. ^ Amato, Alba, Beniamino Di Martino, Marco Scialdone, and Salvatore Venticinque. "A negotiation solution for smart grid using a fully decentralized, P2P approach". Ninth International Conference on Complex.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming". TorrentFreak. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  6. ^ Shen, Xuemin; Yu, Heather; Buford, John; Akon, Mursalin, eds. (2010). Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking | Xuemin (Sherman) Shen. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09751-0. ISBN 978-0-387-09750-3. S2CID 60783890. Retrieved 4 December 2016.