[buovjaga]

Retroshare now provides a Tor version: 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.

[skrowl]

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]

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]

How does tor "find your friends" (stand in for dht)?

Is this some new feature of the protocol/network?

[e12e]

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".

[anc84]

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.