Tailscale raises $100M

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boesboes ◴[04 May 22 13:43 UTC] No.31260274[source]▶

For anyone else who wonders wtf tailscale is:

> Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

It seems to take care of key distribution, nat-traversal, authentication etc etc

Neat! No sure how that is 'fixing internet' exactly, but really cool anyway

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zepearl ◴[04 May 22 15:32 UTC] No.31261908[source]▶

>>31260274 #

So basically Wireguard with automated key setup/distribution/identity management?

(btw. I love Wireguard - currenly using it to route traffic between my servers + transfer media between my home and my mother's mediacenter with both PCs being behind their own router - she loves it too as so far there were no problems hehe)

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1. zellyn ◴[04 May 22 18:07 UTC] No.31263842[source]▶

>>31261908 #

That, plus fanatically good NAT Traversal: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

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2. zepearl ◴[04 May 22 21:13 UTC] No.31265916[source]▶

>>31263842 (TP) #

But isn't that just part of Wireguard itself? In the end that's what's happening in my case when I exchange data through Wireguard between my flat and the one of my parents... .

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3. seabrookmx ◴[04 May 22 21:29 UTC] No.31266087[source]▶

>>31265916 #

No, wireguard is just the VPN itself.

The NAT traversal stuff is all magic that happens before the socket is given to wireguard.

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4. dx034 ◴[05 May 22 10:27 UTC] No.31271594[source]▶

>>31263842 (TP) #

A bit offtopic, but how did they create the visualizations? Do they have a designer on their team for that or is there any good tool that creates charts like these?

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5. zellyn ◴[05 May 22 13:20 UTC] No.31272940[source]▶

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A designer drew them: https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1241188397013774337

I took a stab at recreating one of the diagrams here, using pikchr: https://zellyn.com/2022/02/tailscale-diagram-in-pikchr/

6. zepearl ◴[05 May 22 13:38 UTC] No.31273161{3}[source]▶

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thx

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