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Retroshare now provides a Tor version: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/release-notes-for-v0-6-4/ https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2018/03/13

Retroshare now provides a Tor version: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/release-notes-for-v0-6-4/ https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/release-note... > Running Retroshare over Tor has a number of definite advantages: it does not require firewall management (Tor does it for you); you do not need a DHT to find your friends (Tor does it for you), and whatever code is tied to ensuring security of your IP information is not needed anymore.

anc84 9y ago
Retroshare is fantastic. I wish it would do less though, or at least make its UI more suited to newcomers. As it is, it is overwhelming and confusing.
skrowl 9y ago
For what it's worth, they've provided a version that can use Tor for a while now. What's new is that the provide a portable version that ONLY uses Tor. Pretty handy!
shp0ngle 9y ago
Retroshare tries to do many things at the same time with few programmers, so I get a suspicion it is not doing any of them well
e12e 9y ago
How does tor "find your friends" (stand in for dht)? Is this some new feature of the protocol/network?
- e12e 9y ago
  I guess the idea is rather than a user@host identifier, that looks up via first dns, then at protocol level on the host (eg look up mx record for <host>; attempt rcpt to <user> via smtp) - or a dht protocol - one could simply use a tor node identifier as user identifier. Which might make rotating keys hard - but at least that makes sense; onion "addresses" are unique and "secure".