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Assmira Lahcen
Assmira Lahcen

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Building SecureVPN — An Open-Source VPN in Go for Developers & SMEs

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on SecureVPN — an open-source VPN system written in Go.

The idea came from a simple observation:

Many developers and small businesses need secure networking solutions, but most VPN systems are either:

  • expensive,
  • closed-source,
  • or difficult to self-host and customize.

So I decided to build a lightweight, developer-friendly VPN focused on simplicity, security, and open-source collaboration.

SecureVPN includes:

  • Secure encrypted tunneling
  • X25519 key exchange
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption
  • TUN-based networking
  • CLI tools for server & client management
  • Modular Go architecture

Main goals:

  • Help developers learn networking & cryptography
  • Provide a self-hosted VPN solution for SMEs
  • Build a scalable open-source foundation for future SaaS infrastructure

This is still an evolving project, and I’d really appreciate feedback from:

  • Go developers
  • Security engineers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Open-source contributors

GitHub:
https://github.com/lahcenassmira/open-source-vpn

If you’re interested in networking, cybersecurity, or self-hosted infrastructure, feel free to contribute or share ideas 🚀

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