Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Make your own encrypted VPN server using Tailscale

Run Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) on a spare home computer:
" ... you can install Tailscale on your personal devices, such as your laptop or your phone. Install Tailscale, then log into your account. You'll see your computer running at home in the list of devices in your private network."
"When your devices use your home computer as their exit nodes, all internet traffic passes through that exit node."
"Without those private keys, there is no way for anyone else — including Tailscale — to decrypt the data that flows through your VPN tunnel. With this setup, you get all the benefits of an encrypted VPN connection without having to manually generate, distribute, and handle your public keys."
"... you may want to build yourself a dedicated Tailscale device and plug it into your router with an Ethernet cable.  In that case, you could buy a Raspberry Pi, a tiny, cheap, single-board micro-computer. We recommend a Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 ..."
As with other solutions, Tailscale can also be installed in a virtual environment ...

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