Tinc (protocol)
| Original author(s) | Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Tinc development team |
| Initial release | 14 November 1998 |
| Stable release | 1.0.35
/ 8 October 2018[1] |
| Preview release | 1.1pre17
/ 8 October 2018[1] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, iOS, Android[2] |
| Type | VPN |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol and software implementation used for compressed and encrypted virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project.
Platforms
Tinc is available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, iOS, Android with full support for IPv6.[3]
Future goals
The authors of Tinc have goals of providing a platform that is secure, stable, reliable, scalable, easily configurable, and flexible.[3]
Embedded technologies
Tinc uses OpenSSL or LibreSSL as the encryption library and gives the options of compressing communications with zlib for "best compression" or LZO for "fast compression".[3]
Projects that use tinc
- Freifunk has tinc enabled in their routers as of October 2006.[4]
- OpenWrt has an installable package for tinc.
- OPNsense, an open source router and firewall distribution, has a plugin for Tinc
- pfSense has an installable package in the 2.3 release.
- Tomato has tinc support included in the Shibby mod.
- NYC Mesh use tinc to encrypt traffic around their mesh network[5]
See also
- stunnel, encrypts any TCP connection (single port service) over SSL
- OpenVPN, an open source SSL VPN solution
- IPv6
References
- ^ a b Sliepen, Guus (8 October 2018). "Tinc version 1.0.35 and 1.1pre17 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Tinc supported platforms". 22 Aug 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ a b c "Tinc main page". 4 Nov 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Frequently asked questions". nycmesh.net. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
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