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tailscale/tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#2fa #oauth #sso #tailscale #vpn #wireguard

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-31
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 4,619 open

36,738

stars

Forks: 3,227
Commits: 11,353 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trailofbits/algo

Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#ansible #encryption #ikev2 #ipsec #security #ssh-tunnel

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-15
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 80 open

30,398

stars

Forks: 2,366
Commits: 1,348 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

netbirdio/netbird

Connect your devices, users, and agents into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go React Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#golang #mesh #mesh-networks #nat-traversal #netbird #vpn

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,156 open

29,741

stars

Forks: 1,733
Commits: 3,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

StreisandEffect/streisand

Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

Archived

Stack

Shell pip

GitHub topics

#ansible #anyconnect #censorship #openconnect #openvpn #shadowsocks

Updated: 2021-05-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 237 open

23,436

stars

Forks: 1,940
Commits: 1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fosrl/pangolin

Modern networking and security platform providing secure access and connectivity to apps, infrastructure, and AI workloads. Connect and protect your users.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React Tailwind CSS Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-gateway #gateway #nat-traversal #oidc #pam #pangolin

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-27
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 113 open

23,019

stars

Forks: 793
Commits: 8,587 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zerotier/ZeroTierOne

A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#decentralization #networking #peer-to-peer #sd-wan #sdn #virtual-network

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-04
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 406 open

17,117

stars

Forks: 1,974
Commits: 6,917 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

getlantern/lantern

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Stack

Dart Android Flutter gRPC Go Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#accelerator #censorship #circumvention #gfw #lantern #router

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

16,032

stars

Forks: 11,044
Commits: 1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 224 open

14,525

stars

Forks: 3,392
Commits: 4,780 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

gravitl/netmaker

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cloud #devsecops #ipv6-support #k8s #kubernetes #mesh

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-25
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 233 open

11,813

stars

Forks: 658
Commits: 7,893 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

firezone/firezone

Blazing-fast remote access

AI dev

Stack

Elixir Android Axum Ecto Phoenix Cargo Mix Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud #devsecops #elixir #elixir-lang #liveview #network

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-22
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 343 open

9,110

stars

Forks: 463
Commits: 11,892 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yarrick/iodine

Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

Stack

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-tunnel #hacktoberfest #iodine #tunnel #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 25 open

7,980

stars

Forks: 598
Commits: 953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mullvad/mullvadvpn-app

The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

Stack

Rust Axum Bundler Cargo .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#electron #nodejs #openvpn #rust #vpn #wireguard

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-29
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 158 open

7,596

stars

Forks: 523
Commits: 33,413 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

telepresenceio/telepresence

Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#docker #kubernetes #local-development #minikube #proxy #tunnel

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

7,301

stars

Forks: 580
Commits: 10,774 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pomerium/pomerium

Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#aigateway #beyondcorp #gateway #go #iam #identity

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-02
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 170 open

5,009

stars

Forks: 356
Commits: 4,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openziti/ziti

The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero-trust, programmable network @OpenZiti

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#appsec #golang #mesh #netsec #network #networking

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 423 open

4,432

stars

Forks: 278
Commits: 9,170 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

octelium/octelium

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#abac #ai-gateway #api-gateway #beyondcorp #homelab #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-05-18
History: 69 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

4,098

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 2,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

P3TERX/warp.sh

Cloudflare WARP Installer | WARP 一键安装脚本

Archived

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#cloudflare #cloudflare-teams #cloudflare-warp #installer #ipv6 #ipv6-support

Updated: 2024-02-28
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2021-06-12
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,930

stars

Forks: 760
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -3 -0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

strongswan/strongswan

strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

Stack

C Android Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ikev2 #ipsec #strongswan #vpn #vpn-client #vpn-server

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 168 open

2,975

stars

Forks: 933
Commits: 20,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DefGuard/defguard

Zero-Trust access management with true WireGuard® 2FA/MFA

Stack

Rust Axum React Vite Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#authentication #forwardauth #keycloak #multifactor-authentication #oauth #oauth-provider

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 310 open

2,843

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 1,747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bjdgyc/anylink

AnyLink是一个企业级远程办公 ssl vpn 软件，可以支持多人同时在线使用。基于 openconnect 协议开发，并且借鉴了 ocserv 的开发思路，可以完全兼容 AnyConnect 客户端。

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Vue Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#anyconnect #enterprise #ocserv #openconnect #openvpn #sslvpn

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-18
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 106 open

2,308

stars

Forks: 518
Commits: 910 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Start9Labs/start-technologies

Monorepo for StartOS, StartWRT, StartTunnel, start-sdk, start-docs, start-cli, start-registry, patch-db, and various shared libraries

AI dev

Stack

Rust Angular Axum Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#open-source #p2p #personal-server #privacy #router-os #self-hosting

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-23
History: 84 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 197 open

1,992

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 4,256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +43 +1.0%

Website GitHub

John19187/The-40-Best-VPNs

2026年稳定高速VPN推荐：40款性价比翻墙梯子完全指南，每周核查跑路与价格。翻墙梯子/科学上网/机场测评，解锁 YouTube、Netflix、TikTok、ChatGPT，适用 Clash、V2ray、小火箭、sing-box，支持 Windows、Mac、iOS、安卓、路由器

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#chatgpt #clash #hysteria #netflix #proxy #shadowsocks

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-04-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,738

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 67 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/kt-connect

A toolkit for Integrating with your kubernetes dev environment more efficiently

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#connect #developer-tools #exchage #istio #kubernetes #mesh

Updated: 2024-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 113 open

1,679

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 1,455 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dockovpn/dockovpn

🔐 Out of the box stateless openvpn-server docker image which starts in less than 2 seconds

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-image #inmemory #openvpn #openvpn-server #out-of-the-box

Updated: 2024-06-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 80 open

1,426

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ivanilves/xiringuito

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#access #aws #bastion-host #network #security #ssh

Updated: 2021-12-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-04
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,159

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

chatgpt-helper-tech/airport-access

机场推荐 | 科学上网 · 魔法上网 · 梯子推荐 · VPN推荐 | 精选稳定机场

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#clash #shadowsocks #ssr #v2ray #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-04-15
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

716

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 25,952 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anasfanani/magisk-tailscaled

Magisk/KernelSU module for running Tailscale on rooted Android devices. The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#android #kernelsu #kernelsu-module #magisk #magisk-module #tailscale

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

539

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vedetta-com/vedetta

OpenBSD Router Boilerplate

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #dns-server #firewall #gateway #http-server #ipv4

Updated: 2019-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-12
History: 5 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 2 open

295

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 449 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

beluganos/beluganos

The new network OS designed for white-box switches based on open API.

Stack

Go pip

GitHub topics

#beluganos #bgp #ipv6 #mpls #network #of-dpa

Updated: 2023-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

157

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 197 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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