Tinc (protocol)
| Original author(s) | Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Tinc development team |
| Initial release | 14 November 1998 |
| Stable release | 1.0.36
/ 26 August 2019[1] |
| Preview release | 1.1pre18
/ 27 June 2021[2] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, iOS, Android[3] |
| 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
[edit]Tinc is available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, iOS (jailbroken only), Android with full support for IPv6.[4]
Future goals
[edit]The authors of Tinc have goals of providing a platform that is secure, stable, reliable, scalable, easily configurable, and flexible.[4]
Embedded technologies
[edit]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".[4]
Projects that use tinc
[edit]- Freifunk has tinc enabled in their routers as of October 2006.[5]
- 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 variants Shibby and FreshTomato include Tinc support.
- NYC Mesh uses tinc to connect parts of the mesh over the public internet that would be otherwise out of range.[6]
See also
[edit]
- stunnel, encrypts any TCP connection (single port service) over SSL
- OpenVPN, an open source SSL VPN solution
- VTUN, an open source SSL VPN solution that can bridge Ethernet
References
[edit]- ^ Sliepen, Guus (26 August 2019). "Tinc version 1.0.36 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Sliepen, Guus (27 June 2021). "Tinc version 1.1pre18 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Tinc supported platforms". 22 Aug 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ a b c "Tinc main page". 4 Nov 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Freifunk firmware 1.4 is out". The Mesh Dot Org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
- ^ "Frequently asked questions". nycmesh.net. Retrieved 2021-06-21.