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"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.

While the first generation filesharing evolved to download from a server (like napster), the second generation of filesharing was decentral (=serverless) like gnutella and emule-kademlia, the third generation like JetiANts p2p or i2Phex tried to load indirect and encrypted, which means to simulate an overlay proxy network in which you download over a friend: Alice loads over Peter from Bob.

This paradigm is not wrong, were only organized with peers, with the risk: one peer going offline will destroy the whole tunnel-route and the direct neighbour (public peers!) and endpoints are always exposed for attacs.

Friend-to-Friend Instant Messengers have a more stable structure of connections to trusted persons, so even if one is offline, he can later rezume from a trusted neighbour.

This Friend-to-Friend (F2F) Network with hopping over Friends working as a proxy is so called NEW THIRD Generation.

To keep it short: The problem with existing filesharing networks is that you have no control over who you share information with. I don't want to share with the whole wide world, but I would love to share stuff with my friends. But this is not easy to do, safely and securely, over the Internet.

Retroshare Instant Messenger is the solution of these problems and worldwide one of the first serverless Friendslist with Filesharing and Chatrooms for trusted Friends only.

It is a simple Messenger & Filesharing Program which connects you and your friends together for safe and secure sharing. But even more: you can download from friends of friends, without knowing their IP adress: Alice is downloading a file from Bob by hopping over Peter, Paul and Mary. This means, in this friends-chain Alice knows only Peter´s IP and the one of Bob is hidden." --Retroshare

Note: Retroshare is listed under Private networks and not Friend-to-friend networks because of the following. "Retroshare Instant Messenger [is] not F2F since when two computers exchange files, they will get to know each other's IP addresses (there is no anonymous forwarding)."--Wikipedia

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