Tinc (protocol)
Tinc is a self-routing, mesh networking protocol, used for compressed, encrypted, virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Robert van der Meulen, and released as a GPL-licensed project.
Supported network transports
Embedded technologies
- OpenSSL (encryption library)
- zlib ("best compression")
- LZO ("fast compression")
Projects that use tinc
- Freifunk: tinc was enabled in their routers as of October 2006 [1].
- OpenWrt has an installable package for tinc.
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