[How to] Securely Communicate Online with Free RetroShare
Well, we all communicate online with our friends, relatives, girl friends 
by using various means. For example, messengers. Be it Yahoo, Gtalk, or MSN. All serves same purpose of letting us communicate online.
There is another free communication platform about which many of us don’t know. Its called as RetroShare.
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 file sharing, chat, messages, forums and channels.
Below is a screen shot :
Supported operating systems.
Windows(I tested it on Vista), Ubuntu, Mac.
Installation and prerequisite
You must install GPG4Win v1.1.4 in you are installing RetroShare under windows. Well, you don’t have to search for GPG4Win separately because win32 installer of RetroShare automatically installs it but you will need to first remove any more recent version of gpg4win.
Features
- Serverless, encrypted Chat & File transfer
- Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
- Search Friends
- Messages
- Forums
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- GnuPG Authentication
- OpenSSL Encryption
- DHT support
- Plugins support
- Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
- System tray integration
One of the feature which I personally like about RetroShare is that
RetroShare is serverless, which means – unlike other messengers, you don’t* need to register, complete annoying registration forms and receive tons of ads. Sending a key to your friend by e-mail is enough to set up your own IM network. This also means no IM spam, because people you didn’t invite absolutely cannot connect.
Download and more information
Visit official page to download and explore more about RetroShare.
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