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+SoftEther VPN - An Open-Source Cross-platform Multi-protocol VPN Program

+http://www.softether.org/

+

+We use GitHub as the primary official SoftEther VPN repository:

+https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/

+

+Source code packages (.zip and .tar.gz) and binary files are also available:

+http://www.softether-download.com/

+

+Copyright (c) 2012-2014 SoftEther Project at University of Tsukuba, Japan.

+

+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.

+

+SoftEther VPN ("SoftEther" means "Software Ethernet") is one of the

+world's most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software.

+

+SoftEther VPN runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris.

+

+SoftEther VPN supports most of widely-used VPN protocols

+including SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP

+by the single SoftEther VPN Server program.

+

+More details on http://www.softether.org/.

+

+

+SOFTETHER VPN ADVANTAGES

+------------------------

+

+- Supporting all popular VPN protocols by the single VPN server:

+  SSL-VPN (HTTPS)

+  OpenVPN

+  IPsec

+  L2TP

+  MS-SSTP

+  L2TPv3

+  EtherIP

+- Free and open-source software.

+- Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN.

+- SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls.

+- Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features.

+- Resistance to highly-restricted firewall.

+- Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN.

+- Embedded dynamic-DNS and NAT-traversal so that no static nor

+  fixed IP address is required.

+- AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.

+- Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner

+  VPN tunnel.

+- 1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and

+  CPU usage.

+- Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone are

+  supported.

+- The OpenVPN clone function supports legacy OpenVPN clients.

+- IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack.

+- The VPN server runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.

+- Configure All settings on GUI.

+- Multi-languages (English, Japanese and Simplified-Chinese).

+- More details at http://www.softether.org/.

+

+

+GETTING STARTED

+---------------

+

+Visit the SoftEther VPN Project official web site at first:

+        http://www.softether.org/

+

+If you are not a developer, it is recommended to download the binary

+installers from:

+        http://www.softether-download.com/

+

+To build from the source,

+see "BUILD_UNIX.TXT" or "BUILD_WINDOWS.TXT" files.

+

+

+HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SOURCE CODE PACKAGE

+----------------------------------------------

+

+Go to http://www.softether-download.com/ and you can find the latest

+source-code package file in both .ZIP and .TAR.GZ format.

+

+This is the easiest way to obtain the source code of SoftEther VPN.

+

+

+HOW TO GET THE LATEST SOURCE CODE TREE FOR DEVELOPERS

+-----------------------------------------------------

+

+If you are an open-source developer, visit our GitHub repository:

+https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/

+

+You can download the up-to-date source-code tree of SoftEther VPN

+from GitHub. You may make your own fork project from our project.

+

+The download and build instruction is following:

+

+$ git clone https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN.git

+$ cd SoftEtherVPN

+$ make

+$ make install

+

+

+TO CIRCUMVENT YOUR GOVERNMENT'S FIREWALL RESTRICTION

+----------------------------------------------------

+

+Because SoftEther VPN is overly strong tool to build a VPN tunnel,

+some censorship governments want to block your access to the source code

+of SoftEther VPN, by abusing their censorship firewalls.

+

+To circumvent your censor's unjust restriction,

+SoftEther VPN Project distributes the up-to-date source-code

+on all the following open-source repositories:

+

+  - GitHub

+    https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/

+

+  - SourceForge

+    https://sourceforge.net/projects/softethervpn/

+

+  - Google Code

+    https://code.google.com/p/softether/

+

+

+To fetch the source code from GitHub:

+$ git clone https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN.git

+

+To fetch the source code from SourceForge:

+$ git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/softethervpn/code

+  - or -

+$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/softethervpn/code

+

+To fetch the source code from Google Code:

+$ git clone https://code.google.com/p/softether/

+

+We hope that you can reach one of the above URLs at least!

+

+

+DEAR SECURITY EXPERTS

+---------------------

+

+If you find a bug or a security vulnerability please kindly inform us

+about the problem immediately so that we can fix the security problem

+to protect a lot of users around the world as soon as possible.

+

+Our e-mail address for security reports is:

+softether-vpn-security [at] softether.org

+

+Please note that the above e-mail address is not a technical support

+inquiry address. If you need technical assistance, please visit

+http://www.softether.org/ and ask your question on the users forum.

+

+

+DISCLAIMER

+----------

+

+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY

+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,

+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE

+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

+THIS SOFTWARE IS DEVELOPED IN JAPAN, AND DISTRIBUTED FROM JAPAN,

+UNDER JAPANESE LAWS. YOU MUST AGREE IN ADVANCE TO USE, COPY, MODIFY,

+MERGE, PUBLISH, DISTRIBUTE, SUBLICENSE, AND/OR SELL COPIES OF THIS

+SOFTWARE, THAT ANY JURIDICAL DISPUTES WHICH ARE CONCERNED TO THIS

+SOFTWARE OR ITS CONTENTS, AGAINST US (SOFTETHER PROJECT, SOFTETHER

+CORPORATION, DAIYUU NOBORI OR OTHER SUPPLIERS), OR ANY JURIDICAL

+DISPUTES AGAINST US WHICH ARE CAUSED BY ANY KIND OF USING, COPYING,

+MODIFYING, MERGING, PUBLISHING, DISTRIBUTING, SUBLICENSING, AND/OR

+SELLING COPIES OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE REGARDED AS BE CONSTRUED AND

+CONTROLLED BY JAPANESE LAWS, AND YOU MUST FURTHER CONSENT TO

+EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE IN THE COURTS SITTING IN TOKYO,

+JAPAN. YOU MUST WAIVE ALL DEFENSES OF LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION

+AND FORUM NON CONVENIENS. PROCESS MAY BE SERVED ON EITHER PARTY IN

+THE MANNER AUTHORIZED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR COURT RULE.

+

+USE ONLY IN JAPAN. DO NOT USE IT IN OTHER COUNTRIES. IMPORTING THIS

+SOFTWARE INTO OTHER COUNTRIES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME COUNTRIES

+PROHIBIT ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS. USING THIS SOFTWARE IN OTHER

+COUNTRIES MIGHT BE RESTRICTED.

+

+

+ADVERTISEMENT

+-------------

+

+SoftEther VPN is developed by SoftEther VPN Project at University of Tsukuba.

+Department of Computer Science has dozens of overly-enthusiastic geeks.

+Join us: http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/admission/

+