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caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #automatic-https #caddy #caddyfile #go #golang

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-26
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 286 open

75,845

stars

Forks: 4,970
Commits: 2,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FiloSottile/mkcert

A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificates #chrome #firefox #https #ios #linux

Updated: 2024-08-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-25
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 177 open

59,725

stars

Forks: 3,142
Commits: 165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

acmesh-official/acme.sh

A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation

AI dev

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-challenge #acme-protocol #acme-v2 #ash #bash

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-26
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

47,657

stars

Forks: 5,672
Commits: 6,855 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mitmproxy/mitmproxy

An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Tornado npm uv

GitHub topics

#debugging #http #http2 #man-in-the-middle #mitmproxy #proxy

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-16
History: 16 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 491 open

45,401

stars

Forks: 4,774
Commits: 11,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nginx/nginx

The official NGINX Open Source repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

#content-cache #http #http2 #http3 #https #load-balancer

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-08-06
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 426 open

31,896

stars

Forks: 8,313
Commits: 8,756 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

openssl/openssl

General purpose TLS and crypto library

Stack

GitHub topics

#cryptography #decryption #encryption #openssl #ssl #tls

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,547 open

30,928

stars

Forks: 11,525
Commits: 41,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gojue/ecapture

Capture SSL/TLS plaintext with eBPF—no MITM proxy or custom CA installation. Supports Linux and Android on x86_64 and arm64.

AI dev

Stack

C Cobra Gin Go modules

GitHub topics

#android #boringssl #ebpf #gnutls #golang #linux

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

15,509

stars

Forks: 1,650
Commits: 1,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +8 +0.7%

Website GitHub

cert-manager/cert-manager

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificate #crd #hacktoberfest #kubernetes #letsencrypt #tls

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-19
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 258 open

14,083

stars

Forks: 2,450
Commits: 11,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#etherip #ike #ipsec #l2tp #l2tpv3 #openvpn

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 297 open

13,652

stars

Forks: 2,790
Commits: 2,277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

Stack

GitHub topics

#forward-proxy #health-check #http3 #kubernetes-ingress #load-balancer #lua

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 502 open

13,384

stars

Forks: 2,508
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

halfrost/Halfrost-Field

✍🏻 Source Code Deep Dives, System Design & Engineering Blogs | Halfrost-Field 冰霜之地：源码解析、系统设计与工程实践笔记

Stack

Go CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#algorithms #blog #cryptography #go #golang #http2

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 0 open

13,229

stars

Forks: 1,875
Commits: 1,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

testssl/testssl.sh

Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#cipher #client-simulation #csv #ct #http-header #ipv6

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 247 open

9,229

stars

Forks: 1,149
Commits: 5,581 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

smallstep/certificates

🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-server #ca #certificate-authority #certificates #go

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-10-05
History: 16 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 310 open

8,958

stars

Forks: 607
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

twisted/twisted

Event-driven networking engine written in Python.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#async #async-python #dns #event-driven #http #imap

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-07-09
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,833 open

5,992

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 32,004 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

letsencrypt/boulder

An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#acme #boulder #ca #certificate-authority #go #lets-encrypt

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2014-12-21
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 240 open

5,764

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 7,535 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +6 +0.1%

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caddyserver/certmagic

Automatic HTTPS for any Go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #automatic-https #go #golang #https #letsencrypt

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-10
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

5,611

stars

Forks: 361
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

lwch/natpass

🔥居家办公，远程开发神器

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#code-server #golang #protobuf #shell #tls #vnc

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

4,444

stars

Forks: 487
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

smallstep/cli

🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificate #cryptography #encryption #jose #jwe #jws

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-07-17
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 204 open

4,348

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 4,107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nabla-c0d3/sslyze

Fast and powerful SSL/TLS scanning library.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#heartbleed #library #python #scans #security #ssl

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-08
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 32 open

3,786

stars

Forks: 494
Commits: 1,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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square/certstrap

Tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #certificate #certificate-authority #crypto #csr #golang

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

2,456

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

static-web-server/static-web-server

A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#alpine-linux #amd64 #android #arm #arm64 #darwin

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 41 open

2,376

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 1,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Icinga/icinga2

The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cluster #distributed-monitoring #elastic #graphite #graylog #icinga

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 494 open

2,240

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 15,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sleep3r/mtproto.zig

Keep the people you love connected — a tiny self-hosted Telegram proxy that hides in plain HTTPS

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#amnezia-vpn #anti-censorship #dpi #dpi-bypass #mtproto #mtproto-proxy

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,124

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hlandau/acmetool

:lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)

Stack

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-server #acmetool #certificate #letsencrypt #ssl

Updated: 2023-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-15
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 72 open

2,092

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop

Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #gui #nitroshare #qhttpengine

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-09
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 137 open

1,664

stars

Forks: 234
Commits: 1,342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chronoxor/CppServer

Ultra fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C++ library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols and 10K connections problem solution

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#async #http #http-server #https #https-server #low-latency

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 59 open

1,652

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 1,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

spolu/warp

Secure and simple terminal sharing

Stack

GitHub topics

#command-line #sharing #shell #terminal #tls

Updated: 2018-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-04
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,618

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 160 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

0x676e67/wreq

An ergonomic, privacy-aware Rust HTTP Client

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#akamai #censorship-resistant #client #crawler #fingerprint #http

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-01
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

1,068

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 2,943 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Hakky54/certificate-ripper

🔐 A CLI tool to extract server certificates

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#certificate #graal-native #graalvm #graalvm-native-image #homebrew #homebrew-tap

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-28
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

927

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bytedance/g3

Enterprise-oriented Generic Proxy Solutions. Maintenance mode now, please switch to use [VEY](https://github.com/VEY-OSS/vey) for new development efforts

Stack

Rust Cargo pip

GitHub topics

#audit #http #icap #mitm #network #proxy

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-09
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 21 open

898

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 2,999 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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