https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn

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OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn
• Owner: OpenVPN
• License: other
• Created: 2012-04-26T20:42:48.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-26T09:51:47.000Z (15 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-27T03:55:21.538Z (14 days ago)
• Topics: security, vpn
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://openvpn.net
• Size: 22.6 MB
• Stars: 10,877
• Watchers: 438
• Forks: 2,999
• Open Issues: 143
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon

Copyright (C) 2002-2022 OpenVPN Inc. This program is free software;

you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2

as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to:

	https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/

To Build and Install,

	tar -zxf openvpn-.tar.gz

	cd openvpn-

	./configure

	make

	make install

or see the file INSTALL for more info.

For information on how to build OpenVPN on/for Windows with MinGW

or MSVC see README.cmake.md.

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For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page

  http://openvpn.net/man.html

For a sample VPN configuration, see

  http://openvpn.net/howto.html

To report an issue, see

  https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/new

  (Note: We recently switched to GitHub for reporting new issues,

   old issues can be found at:

   https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report)

For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,

  see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.

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Other Files & Directories:

* configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure

  script and makefile.

* sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn

  A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's

  --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication

  test on embedded X509 certificate fields.

* sample/sample-keys/

  Sample RSA keys and certificates.  DON'T USE THESE FILES

  FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.

* sample/sample-config-files/

  A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from

  the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html

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Note that easy-rsa and tap-windows are now maintained in their own subprojects.

Their source code is available here:

  https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa

  https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6

Community-provided Windows installers (MSI) and Debian packages are built from

  https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build

See the INSTALL file for usage information.