Rangboom uses shared key authentication to authenticate each user's identity. The client and server encrypt all data they exchange to protect it against unauthorized snooping by intermediate networks carrying the data.
Rangboom can represent shared data from all your group members as a virtual disk drive on your system. Because they appear as a local resource, programs installed on that computer can access and act on those files and folders. There is nothing new to learn. Once the a document is shared, it is visible and accessible to group members just like a local file.
Rangboom does not store any of your data. Instead, Rangboom provides each group a distributed filesystem, made up of the folders that each group member shares with the group. Rangboom routes filesystem requests to each group member's system directly, and does not cache any of your or your group's data on Rangboom servers.
You have complete control over the membership of your group. In turn, each group member decides whether he or she joins your group. To allow new people to join your group you add their Rangboom ID to your group membership list. The invited users can then decide to activate their agent for that group, or not.
Each user in a group decides which folders and files he or she wants to share and the type of access that is allowed. Rangboom client software then makes those files visible for sharing and enforces the access controls, such as READ-ONLY or READ-WRITE, for those files and folders.
Please review the Rangboom Privacy Policy for the type of information that Rangboom servers track and their usage.