The source code includes not only the user-mode programs of SoftEther VPN, but also kernel-mode device driver codes for Virtual Network Adapter and Ethernet Bridging Module. The text data of the source code of SoftEther VPN is approximately 380,000 lines. The offense and defense between VPN Gate and Chinese Great Firewall will be reported on USENIX NSDI 2014 International Conference (Seattle, April 2-4, 2014) (*3). Daily 110,000+ unique users (estimated by the number of client IP addresses) are using VPN Gate (*4). Many Internet users behind censorship firewall, including Chinese Great Firewall, are using VPN Gate to browse YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. VPN Gate is a circumvention tool for bypassing governments' censorship firewalls. VPN Gate is 'A Volunteer-Organized Public VPN Relay System with Blocking Resistance for Bypassing Government Censorship Firewalls' (*2).

One of the popular applications of SoftEther VPN is VPN Gate ( ). Individual and corporate network administrators can replace their legacy OpenVPN or Cisco's VPN router products by SoftEther VPN for integration. SoftEther VPN supports multiple VPN protocols including SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP, by a single instance of VPN server program. SoftEther VPN supports Windows, Mac, Linux, and smartphones including iPhone and Android. Since then, SoftEther VPN Server has been installed into over 80,000+ server computers in Japan, United States, China, Taiwan, Iran, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Korea, India and other 164 regions (*1). The binaries of SoftEther VPN were released on March 8, 2013. SoftEther VPN is a product-class VPN software suite with popularity as a tool to build on-premise or cloud-base VPNs. You can also generate your own customized installer packages of SoftEther VPN automatically from the source code. You can build the full SoftEther VPN programs from the source code in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD or Solaris computers. zip formats, and is also published on our GitHub repository. SoftEther VPN is the underlying VPN engine of VPN Gate. The source code is provided as packages in. We are very happy to announce that the source code of SoftEther VPN is released as open-source software under the GPLv2 license.

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