Share (in English, to share means to divide ) is the name of a program of Poste at station quantified and anonymous developed with the Japan by an anonymous programmer. Successor of Winny, it focuses himself on a maximum safety which is not made with the detriments performances.

Advantages of Share

• Share quantifies the data. It is impossible to know the name, the nature and the contents of a file forwarding on the network.

• the coding of the data is not made with the detriments performances of transmission. Share proposes speeds of remote loading and transmission close relations of those of Bittorrent, an exploit for decentralized and quantified routing.

• Share is anonymous. Although total anonymity is technically impossible to reach, Share offers a anoymat diffusion and of remote loading by using a system of routing, quantified fragments, of decentralization and setting out of random mask.

• Share also contains a system of plugins. The plugins and DPKS are easily available via the network of Share. The DPK is in Delphi.

• When a new version of Share is available, you will be informed by a message in the bar of statute of Share. When that arrives, you can seek it on the network of Share or specialized sites and download it.

• At the time of a research, Share indicates to you using a system of colors and a value of mask upstream the degree of availability and diffusion of a file.

Criticisms of Share

• the development of Share seems to be suspended. The last version left in April 2006. The Antivirus Kaspersky and Norton AntiVirus catalog it in the programs at the risk because of several security breaches which could in particular allow the propogation of malicious software.

• the mystery remains whole concerning its operating process. Certain independent organisms would have succeeded in breaking its safety. With the breaking news, the anonymity of Share would be thus non-existent .

• Share is not free, its source code is not available.

• It is available only under Microsoft Windows but could be emulated soon with Wine under Linux.

• Share is currently intended for the high access/very high banc (compatible with 512 K/s but recommended with 2 Mo/s), very current thing in Japan where connections ADSL exceed the flow of 40 Mo/s, but which can penalize certain users in France who do not have the ADSL or who are not completely dégroupés. The current propagation of network ADSL at very high-speed (ADSL2+) on the Européen territory already almost corrected this defect.

• As for all the software of quantified and anonymous P2P, Share poses the problem of the ethical in the field of the remote loading: indeed, a space named " cache" is reserved on your hard drive, on which pieces of quantified files forward, of which you know neither the source absolutely nor the content.

Linguistic localizations

Share includes an option to change localization. In order to make walk the software in your language, you must download the file " locale.txt" on the French site of Share and to copy it in the principal repertory.

Nodes French-speaking people

To connect you on the network of Share, you will need a file named Nodes.txt containing quantified addresses.

Therefore a script of harvest of nodes French-speaking (dead Bond!) was set up and which will enable you to connect yourselves directly on French users and to take part in the Francization of Share.

See too

External bonds

• French Official site.

• French Forum Share on Ratiatum
• English Localization