RetroShare

[bzorl]

And yes, @bzorl is the guy to add

@bzorl is the new Hampertinger

Cheers @Like Ra! I'm doing my best! 😉

[SheilaSnow96]

Could you gently explain a geek guy why the heck are you all using TOR? Do you really feel need to hide your IP address from others?

[Like Ra]

Could you gently explain a geek guy why the heck are you all using TOR? Do you really feel need to hide your IP address from others?

Many reasons here:
o- Providers block certain IPs
o- Providers/government track user activity
o- Agencies/services/police can attribute posts to IPs/home address
o- Agencies/services/police/copyright holders know what home address sharing/downloading what files

[friendlychicken]

User 'Bergamot47' here - been offline for a while, been trying to upgrade my Retroshare version from 0.6.0 RC2 to the latest version 0.6.5 (I'm on Mac OS Catalina) to see if it makes a difference in terms of whether people can see my shared files (some could, e.g. Like Ra could see them, and from memory I think SheilaSnow96 above and a few others could, but about half of my friends could not). I reckon something to do with me not being on Tor, or maybe being on a Mac, or both. The latest version 0.6.5 seems to advertise the ability to set up Tor and Non-Tor versions using just the one installation instead of multiple installations, so it seemed like a good idea to try and install and see if that sorted the issue.

But it seems it does not work - the 'dmg' file for the 0.6.5 build seems to include the wrong RS version, someone seems to think on a current Github thread anyway, and when I install it goes back to 0.6.0 RC2, and I can't even get Tor to work at all. Downgrading to an older version of 'libnettle' via brew doesn't seem to help either. I've only found a couple of threads on this but it seems those users have the same problem.

Long shot this, but does anyone have Retroshare working through Tor on a Mac, and if so, what version of Retroshare is showing? If not then no worries, I'll either have to wait for a new 'dmg' package to be issued for Mac OS and hope that works, or buy a cheap Linux/Chrome OS netbook and install it on there - the latter option appeals as I could have a new toy to play with.

[Like Ra]

or buy a cheap Linux

[oedipusafterdark]

Hi guys,
Got a few questions.
1. after i added 290+ keyrings, while some did get accepted - a whole lot of them are shown as "connection denied" - as shown by pic below:
hxxps://i.imgur.com/rGx9ehb.png
i would say of all the keys i added, only 1/10 of them were accepted while the rest are shown as "connection denied".
However, when i go to that person's profile and then manually click on the Accept Connection button, then it seems the connection is established and connected.
hxxps://i.imgur.com/pjTP7AJ.png
The connection denied simply just meant that the connection was unable to be made the first time around right? it doesn't necessarily mean that the other person does not want to connect with me correct?

2. when downloading an entire folder. say i downloaded the folder Athalia from user xxx to my download folder.... but i also want to grab the Athalia folder from another user because that person has a more complete collection. How does retroshare treat folders with identitical names? will it overwrite? create the second folder as Athalia(1)? or will it merge all the contents into one single Athalia folder?

thanks in advance

[Like Ra]

The connection denied simply just meant that the connection was unable to be made the first time around right? it doesn't necessarily mean that the other person does not want to connect with me correct?

It means the other user either did not add your cert, or did not confirm your connection attempt (that user has to go to check logs, find connection attempts, click to accept).

How does retroshare treat folders with identitical names? will it overwrite? create the second folder as Athalia(1)? or will it merge all the contents into one single Athalia folder?

Good question. I'm not sure. At least RS will not download files with the same checksum.

[SheilaSnow96]

Let's assure we are talking about using RS+TOR instead of RS.

o- Providers block certain IPs

Right.

o- Providers/government track user activity

yeah, definitely they could see there is strange encrypted activity going on some port.

o- Agencies/services/police can attribute posts to IPs/home address

posts? What posts? It's just stream of encrypted binary data. There is indeed possible scenario when you upload nasty stuff without making the post anonymous, so they know who sent it and then they may check what ip addresses did this one named "dumbimbo11" used in past time and found him this way, right.

o- Agencies/services/police/copyright holders know what home address sharing/downloading what files

They don't because entire connection between retroshare nodes is encrypted as good as tor unless you tick some checkboxes which I like to tick anyway because it makes sharing plain stuff more convenient.

Tor or I2P is not necessary for having good time with RetroShare and I see that most people who get into RS by tor or i2p aren't coming back after first time.
P.S. it seems I can't into quoting.

[Like Ra]

posts? What posts?

E.g. on forums.

without making the post anonymous

If your IP is not hidden by Tor, your posts are not anonymous

They don't because entire connection between retroshare nodes is encrypted

How do you know, that your peer is not an agency? They can download from you, or you can download from them. In both cases it might be a legal issue.
The traffic is encrypted, but the IP address is not, because, it's, well peer-to-peer connection. Without Tor you can perfectly see all your peers, just like in torrent.

[rockyrambojoe]

why does it show the second path as 0 files even when there are many files in it and I have set access to all 3?