The new handshake type is indeed only used at the first connection. Once a node is connected, it will supply its own PGP key using discovery (as before), which will be checked to match the fingerprint in the certificate and then be marked to be used in type-1 handshake later on for future connections. This part of the security model is still up to the user. In both cases the handshake is eventually validated by information provided by your friend using a supposedly secure transmission (hand-to-hand, encrypted email, etc). SSL handshake It appears that we can afford to only send the PGP fingerprint instead of the full key, without losing any security. Up to v0.6.5, Retroshare used certificates containing the SSL id, the PGP public key and naming information. Use the double image below to compare both views:īoth in channels or boards, the new visualization system is now based on an abstract item model (instead of manually inserted items as it was in v0.6.5) making it much faster to load and offering a lot more possibilities for how to display the information. Two different visualization modes are possible (top right blue button, left to the search field): grid or list. Completer release notes here.Ĭhannels benefit from a new layout that is more suitable to their usage. As you will see, it was totally worth it. While we decided to stop developing new features in November 2020, it took us 4 months to fix all the bugs, mostly thanks to a really good user-feedback. In the end, lots of bugs have been introduced in the process and it took some time to reach a perfectly stable product again. token system, notifications, etc), which had us re-implement some GUI parts taking the opportunity to make them more efficient or re-designed to a better layout (e.g. This is for one simple reason: we changed lots of core features of the software (e.g. This release took even more time than the previous ones. The win32 installer automatically installs it, but you will need to first remove any more recent version of gpg4win. Notice: Under Windows you must install GPG4Win v1.1.4 RetroShare requires it without you can't create your RetroShare Key.
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