[Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: [SocialSwarm-D] New Retroshare Release: V0.5.3a

[dkg@fifthhorseman.net (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)]

On 02/05/2012 02:56 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Retroshare now has GPG based secure 'chat lobbies'.  I've tested them
> out and they seem pretty cool.  Quite similar to IRC, but all traffic
> is encrypted.

This is interesting, thanks for the pointer.  other than the source
(which i haven't had time to audit) i'm unable to find documentation on
how the "GPG based secure chat lobbies" are implemented.  There are a
number of tradeoffs to be made when trying to cryptographically secure
instant messaging type communications.

I'm curious to know what tradeoffs the retroshare folks decided were the
ones to go with.  Does anyone have any pointers to their protocol design?

	--dkg