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
1.0.35 / 8 October 2018 (2018-10-08)[1]
Preview release
1.1pre17 / 8 October 2018 (2018-10-08)[1]
Repository
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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-vpn.org

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

  1. 1 2 Sliepen, Guus (8 October 2018). "Tinc version 1.0.35 and 1.1pre17 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Tinc supported platforms". 22 Aug 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tinc main page". 4 Nov 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Frequently asked questions". nycmesh.net. Retrieved 2018-07-26.


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