Tinc (protocol)

Tinc
Original author(s) Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers
Developer(s) The Tinc development team
Initial release 14 November 1998 (1998-11-14)
Stable release
1.0.28 / 10 April 2016 (2016-04-10)[1]
Preview release
1.1pre14 / 1 May 2016 (2016-05-01)[2]
Written in C (programming language)
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris
Type VPN
License GPL
Website www.tinc-vpn.org

Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol, used for compressed, encrypted, virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project.

Supported network transports

Embedded technologies

Projects that use tinc

References

  1. Sliepen, Guus (2016-04-10). "Tinc version 1.0.28 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  2. Sliepen, Guus (2016-05-01). "Tinc version 1.1pre14 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
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