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TailscaleProject

Tailscale makes a secure private network (tailnet) between your devices, built on WireGuard.

3 things

WireGuardSoftware

loved

Our base layer is the increasingly popular and excellent open source WireGuard package

Avery Pennarun on the base layer of Tailscale

tailscale.com ↗·2020-03-20Wrong?

WireGuardSoftware

recommended

Tailscale is built on top of WireGuard. WireGuard is a modern VPN designed for usability, performance, and security.

Tailscale security page: connections are end-to-end encrypted with WireGuard (undated page)

tailscale.com ↗Wrong?

wireguard-goSoftware

uses

The data plane in Tailscale is built atop wireguard-go, a userspace WireGuard implementation written in Go.

Tailscale's data plane on wireguard-go

tailscale.com ↗·2023-04-13Wrong?

GoSoftware Google

uses

Go is a language that provides automatic memory management

Tailscale security page on why its core is written in Go (undated page)

tailscale.com ↗Wrong?

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