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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: 2026-08-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-26
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 277 open

74,656

stars

Forks: 4,862
Commits: 2,638 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: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 177 open

59,509

stars

Forks: 3,132
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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-08-25
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-16
History: 15 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 470 open

44,851

stars

Forks: 4,702
Commits: 11,225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nginx/nginx

The official NGINX Open Source repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-08-06
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 461 open

31,567

stars

Forks: 8,301
Commits: 8,709 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openssl/openssl

General purpose TLS and crypto library

Stack

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-12-21
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,509 open

30,703

stars

Forks: 11,416
Commits: 40,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-19
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 245 open

14,003

stars

Forks: 2,420
Commits: 11,173 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: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 296 open

13,524

stars

Forks: 2,777
Commits: 2,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 501 open

13,340

stars

Forks: 2,504
Commits: 2,028 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: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-01
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 248 open

9,182

stars

Forks: 1,143
Commits: 5,503 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: 2026-08-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-10-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 287 open

8,787

stars

Forks: 581
Commits: 5,715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-07-09
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,832 open

5,976

stars

Forks: 1,221
Commits: 31,876 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

4,451

stars

Forks: 486
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-08
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 31 open

3,775

stars

Forks: 494
Commits: 1,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-02-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

2,452

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-19
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 36 open

2,345

stars

Forks: 131
Commits: 1,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 493 open

2,235

stars

Forks: 617
Commits: 14,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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: 7 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: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 137 open

1,666

stars

Forks: 233
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: 2026-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 60 open

1,647

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 1,433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,617

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

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: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,051

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 299 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: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 20 open

1,009

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 2,909 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-28
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

922

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 346 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: 2026-08-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-09
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

892

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 2,981 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ozeranskii/httptap

Rich-powered CLI that breaks each HTTP request into DNS, connect, TLS, wait, and transfer phases with waterfall timelines, compact summaries, or metrics-only output.

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#cli #diagnostics #http #http2 #monitoring #networking

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-10-22
History: 111 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

811

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +8 +3.4%

Website GitHub

tardy-org/zzz

A framework for writing performant and reliable networked services.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#http #http-server #https #tardy #tls #zig

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-28
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 16 open

772

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 434 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ribbybibby/ssl_exporter

Exports Prometheus metrics for TLS certificates

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificate #expiry #metrics #prometheus #prometheus-exporter #prometheus-metrics

Updated: 2024-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-20
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

597

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

gizmodata/gizmosql

🚀 GizmoSQL — High-Performance Database Server

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#adbc #apache-arrow #apache-arrow-flight #apache-arrow-flight-sql #database #databases

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-14
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

363

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 906 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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