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SoftEther VPN
The SoftEther VPN server management tool
Original author(s)
SoftEther VPN Project at the University of Tsukuba
Developer(s)
Daiyuu Nobori, Tetsuo Sugiyama, Takao Ito, Christopher Smith, Mei Sharie Ann Yamaguchi and other contributors.[1]
Initial release
January 4, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-01-04)
Stable release
5.02.5181[2]
/ 3 December 2023; 5 months ago (3 December 2023)
SoftEther VPN is free open-source, cross-platform, multi-protocol VPN client and VPN server software, developed as part of Daiyuu Nobori's master's thesis research at the University of Tsukuba. VPN protocols such as SSL VPN, L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, and Microsoft Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol are provided in a single VPN server.[5][6][7] It was released using the GPLv2 license on January 4, 2014. The license was switched to Apache License 2.0 on January 21, 2019.
SoftEther VPN supports NAT traversal, making it useful to run VPN servers on computers that are behind residential gateways, facility routers, and firewalls. Firewalls performing deep packet inspection are unable to detect SoftEther's VPN transport packets as a VPN tunnel because HTTPS is used to camouflage the connection.
SoftEther VPN optimizes performance by using full Ethernet frame utilization, reducing memory copy operations, parallel transmission, and clustering. Together, these reduce latency normally associated with VPN connections while increasing throughput.
The SoftEther VPN server architecture
^Authors of SoftEther VPN on GitHub
^"Release 5.02.5181".
^Multi-language, Single Binary Package and Unicode Support
^"SoftEtherVPN_Stable_LICENSE at master · SoftEtherVPN_SoftEtherVPN_Stable". GitHub. 2019-07-30. Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^"The SoftEtherVPN Open Source Project on Open Hub". www.openhub.net. Open Hub. 2019-07-30. Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^Bischoff, Paul (2018-08-31). "6 open source tools for making your own VPN". Opensource.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
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