Secure Coms

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This is a community for enthusiest who love to ponder new ways for Alice to communicate with Bob in a world where global passive adversarys probably record every bit that ever crosses the wire.

Discuss cryptography, secure key exchange, private messangers, radios, encoding, networking tools, authentication mechanisms and anything relevant to coming up for ways to Alice to get a message to Bob.

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RetroShare is an open source Friend-2-Friend privacy social network with mail, chat, forums, channels, file sharing with zero data on and servers (retroshare.cc)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/securecoms@programming.dev

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This is similar to Utopia, previously shared, with regard to functionality and peer-to-peer operation, but unlike Utopia this one is fully open source, is not blockchain based, and starts out with only connecting to your known friends. The devs are also known, and it uses well known PGP encryption which you share directly with your friend to get authenticated.

'Onion routing' is used for anonymity and needless to say you don't need your real-world credentials to register. Being P2P it does not require any servers or central services to operate - you connect to, and via, your friends directly, completely out of site of Big Tech.

It's a bit like your own private secure Facebook and is actually great for younger children to participate safely. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service. It installs on Windows, Linux and MacOS desktops, and on Android mobile. Sorry no iOS app.

See https://retroshare.cc/

#technology #P2P #decentralized #socialnetwork #privacy

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