[Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using Retroshare?

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 11 September 2011 23:37, drbob <drbob at lunamutt.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Melvin,
> I'm glad you've already had a chance to try out Retroshare.
> We've improved a bunch of things since last year, especially firewalled
> connections.
> The GUI remains a little bit "Retro"... hence the name ;)
> We hope to get a Web Interface in place - which should make Retroshare
> more suitable for mini-server based system like the freedombox
> As Keith pointed out, we build packages for both debian and ubuntu systems,
> though we are not officially part of the debian distribution...
> Is this important/essential for inclusion in the freedombox?

Been playing with this all morning.  Must say it's kind of got
awesome, since I last looked at it.

Since it integrates so well with GNOME keyring, it seems a very good
with freedom box, perhaps even a no brainer.

Some of the useful features:

- NAT busting
- GPG integration
- Secure Chat
- Forums
- Message system
- Secure sharing

I've set up a "Freedombox" forum for anyone else that wants to help testing

Definitely a +1 from me on this app!

> Mark.
> On 8 Sep 2011, at 03:04, freedombox-discuss-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
> wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:46:36 +0200
> From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho at gmail.com>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using
> Retroshare?
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> On 7 September 2011 14:27, drbob <drbob at lunamutt.com> wrote:
>
> Hi FreedomBoxers,
>
> I was directed towards your project by a friend. I'd seen Eben Moglen's TED
> talk previously
>
> but had no idea that there was a debian project to create such a system.
>
> I've been working on a project (Retroshare) with similar goals for a number
> of years:
>
> http://retroshare.org
>
> Are you interested in using Retroshare, or its components for your
> FreedomBox?
>
> I tried this about a year ago with some of the gnu social people.
>
> Back then it worked pretty well, tho the interface was slightly basic in
> places.
>
> Do you know if it's a debian package?
>
>
> As mentioned earlier on this list, this is a do-o-cracy type project...
>
> and I can offer some limited time to adapt Retroshare into something useful
> for FreedomBox.
>
> Retroshare an Open Source (LGPL core/GPL gui) application to provide a
> Secure Social Network.
>
> It uses/provides lots of the technologies that you've described in this
> mailing-list.
>
> 1) OpenGPG Web-Of-Trust for Authenticating your Friends.
>
> 2) Direct SSL connections between Peers.
>
> 3) A DHT-based system to locate your Peers.
>
> 4) UDP Firewall-busting connections.
>
> 5) Discovery System to Introduce you to Friends-Of-Friends.
>
> 6) services like chat, file-sharing, forums, etc, etc.
>
> As I said, I would love to get involved, and more than willing to modify
> things to make RS
>
> useful in general.... perhaps modify libretroshare to provide a pseudo-VPN
> for other services?
>
> Mark.
>
>
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