Welcome to tinc!

Latest stable version: 1.0.36

Latest prerelease from the 1.1 branch: 1.1pre17

Latest news:

Tinc is potentially affected by CVE-2019-14899. Please ensure your firewalls block packets with destination IP addresses in your VPN IP range from being received on WAN interfaces.

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What is tinc?

tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet. tinc is Free Software and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Because the VPN appears to the IP level network code as a normal network device, there is no need to adapt any existing software. This allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information to others. In addition, tinc has the following features: