Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

• narrowlink

  5 517 9.2 Rust

  A self-hosted solution to enable secure connectivity between devices across restricted networks like NAT or firewalls

  

Not sure if I'm just bad at reading Rust code, but it looks like the end-to-end encryption is implemented by pre-sharing a symmetric key, and communicating a 24 byte xChacha20Poly1305 nonce over the wire as websockets are established. This key and nonce are subsequently used to encrypt and decrypt messages sent between the two parties. It looks like the encrypt and decrypt functions are called as new websocket traffic is read or written to the stream.

If true, this means that every message sent via this means an identical keystream used to encrypt all messages, and thus a loss of confidentiality of all messages. Am I missing something?

https://github.com/narrowlink/narrowlink/blob/abf35e38567b88...

https://github.com/narrowlink/narrowlink/blob/abf35e38567b88...

• mobile_nebula

  5 112 6.1 Dart

  Brings nebula to mobile devices (iOS, Android)

  

Hey me too and I fully agree! Nebula is super underrated in this market space. I use Nebula to connect my primary datacenter rack with a bunch of dedicated servers and VMs all together on an overlay network. This makes it easy for me to add Nomad client nodes quickly in different parts of the world and everything just works.

I actually use https://defined.net for a managed Nebula experience and it makes everything super easy to get going and the team is super helpful with the few issues that I have run into. The free tier is super generous with up to 100 hosts for free and you don't need a credit card to get started. I highly recommend checking it out.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• awesome-tunneling

  112 13,381 8.5

  List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

• Nebula

  140 13,717 8.6 Go

  A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

  

Interesting. I thought recognized the logo, apparently seems to be a commercial support offering of https://github.com/slackhq/nebula and they support the "nebula" iOS app. I had been using for nebula/defined in the past.

• netbird

  104 8,888 9.7 Go

  Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

  

Another option in this space is https://netbird.io/

Unfortunately they still don't have an iOS client (which e.g. Tailscale and ZeroTier has).

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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