RShare is an anonymising

Anonymity

Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a...

 peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...

 file sharing

File sharing

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia , documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways...

 system. It offers resistance to the analysis of who downloads or shares files, with strong encryption

Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...

 to resist traffic sniffing. The client is no longer developed or maintained, but the client's source base was used to create the StealthNet

StealthNet

StealthNet is a anonymous P2P file sharing software based on the original RShare client, and has been enhanced.- Drawbacks :* There is no technical documentation about the network protocol.* Anonymity is unproven....

client for the RShare network protocol, which is still developed.

Features

• Search functionality and functions to comment on the quality of files.
• Resumption of interrupted downloads.

Drawbacks

• There is no technical documentation about the network protocol.
• Anonymity is unproven.
• The source code contains no documentation at all.