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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: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-31
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 4,348 open

33,020

stars

Forks: 2,701
Commits: 10,877 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: 2026-07-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-15
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 73 open

30,303

stars

Forks: 2,363
Commits: 1,342 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 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: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-01
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,455 open

26,821

stars

Forks: 1,468
Commits: 3,044 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: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 237 open

23,477

stars

Forks: 1,959
Commits: 1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fosrl/pangolin

Identity-aware VPN and tunneled reverse proxy for remote access based on WireGuard®.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React Tailwind CSS Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#identity-management #iot #nat-traversal #oidc #pam #private-access

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-27
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

21,602

stars

Forks: 726
Commits: 7,446 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: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-04
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 389 open

16,891

stars

Forks: 1,952
Commits: 6,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 41 open

15,758

stars

Forks: 11,080
Commits: 1,278 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: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 217 open

14,219

stars

Forks: 3,359
Commits: 4,664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 292 open

13,377

stars

Forks: 2,765
Commits: 2,226 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: 2026-07-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 213 open

11,661

stars

Forks: 646
Commits: 7,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

firezone/firezone

Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®.

AI dev

Stack

Elixir Android Axum Ecto Phoenix Cargo Mix Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud #devsecops #elixir #elixir-lang #firewall #liveview

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-22
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 460 open

8,713

stars

Forks: 425
Commits: 10,618 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: 2025-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 5 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 21 open

7,919

stars

Forks: 595
Commits: 943 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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-29
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 142 open

7,334

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 32,140 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: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-09
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 10 open

7,253

stars

Forks: 574
Commits: 10,422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pomerium/pomerium

Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-02
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 123 open

4,888

stars

Forks: 339
Commits: 4,405 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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 238 open

4,282

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 8,963 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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-05-18
History: 46 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,928

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 1,593 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +24 +1.5%

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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 154 open

2,910

stars

Forks: 926
Commits: 19,869 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-21
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 317 open

2,768

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 1,585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-18
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 104 open

2,292

stars

Forks: 516
Commits: 908 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 113 open

1,673

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 1,455 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 80 open

1,428

stars

Forks: 278
Commits: 272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,155

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

John19187/The-40-Best-VPNs

稳定高速VPN推荐：40款性价比翻墙梯子完全指南，翻墙梯子，电脑、手机、iOS、安卓、windows、Mac、Linux、路由器翻墙、科学上网、解锁YouTube、Netflix、TikTok、ChatGPT、bilibili港澳台。科学上网、梯子、VPN测评，适用Clash、V2ray、小火箭、sing-box等客户端

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-04-08
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

883

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 49 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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

GitHub topics

#clash #shadowsocks #ssr #v2ray #vpn

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-04-15
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

575

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 25,542 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: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 12 open

482

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 2 open

296

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 449 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

157

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 197 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

GeiserX/VPN-Bypass

macOS menu bar app to bypass VPN for specific domains and services

AI dev

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#cisco #corporate-vpn #dns #globalprotect #homebrew #macos

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-14
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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