SoftEther VPN is a secure VPN solution using strong AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryption, an optimal alternative for OpenVPN and Microsoft VPN. When using VPN Gate, users (volunteers) around the world can act as servers.
| Developer: | SoftEther Project at University of Tsukuba (Japan) |
| License: | GPL (Free) |
| Version: | 4.34 Build 9745 RTM / 2021.04.05-build-9745.149777 (VPN Gate Client Plugin) |
| Updated: | 2021-04-05 |
| Systems: | Windows / MacOS / Linux / Android / iOS |
| Interface: | English |
SoftEther VPN is an intuitive and reliable application that allows you to create a fast virtual private VPN network based on a client-server architecture.
The solution supports multiple protocols and embeds a universal engine for creating remote connections as well as site-to-site connections, allowing custom VPN topologies to be configured.
When using SoftEther VPN Client + VPN Gate Client Plugin, the advantage over other services is that users like us ( volunteers ) can act as servers, while usually, all other VPNs are not so transparent. At the same time, the settings are easy and do not require special knowledge.
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| Architecture of SoftEther VPN |
SoftEther VPN Review
SoftEther VPN was originally developed as an academic project, but very quickly became a reliable and stable VPN solution for both end-users and corporations.
Although the product was developed as an alternative to Microsoft's OpenVPN and VPN protocol based on SSTP, SoftEther VPN supports both technologies, allowing users to clone server settings to simplify the migration process.
SoftEther VPN relies on a client-server architecture and supports 6 popular VPN protocols, namely EtherIP, IPsec, L2TP, OpenVPN, MS-STTP, and L2TPv3. VPN tunnels are installed securely with encryption of all traffic, so the transmission of information will be optimally protected.
VPN servers can be installed behind a corporate firewall, allowing employees to access a work machine from home or using a smartphone or tablet.
Regardless of the distance, access to the VPN network will be carried out very smoothly through ad-hoc and LAN to LAN technologies, allowing you to build your own IT infrastructure.
If your company's assets are spread across the country, you can use SoftEther VPN for remote control, allowing IT to build an enterprise-grade network.
Other benefits of SoftEther VPN include firewall transparency, AES 256-bit, and RSA 4096-bit encryption, high performance, support for dynamic DNS and NAT Traversal.
Thus, SoftEther VPN is definitely one of the most powerful and reliable VPN applications on the market and provides a free alternative for building and maintaining VPN server architecture.
Supported operating systems
(32bit, 64bit)
98/98 SE / ME / NT 4.0 SP6a / 2000 SP4 / XP SP2, SP3 / Server 2003 SP2 / Vista SP1, SP2 / Server 2008 SP1, SP2 / Hyper-V Server 2008/7 SP1 / Server 2008 R2 SP1 / Hyper- V Server 2008 R2 / 8 / Server 2012 / Hyper-V Server 2012 / 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 / 10 / Server 2016
Linux (32bit, 64bit)
Linux 2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x
Mac OS X (32bit, 64bit)
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger / 10.5 Leopard / 10.6 Snow Leopard / 10.7 Lion / 10.8 Mountain Lion / 10.9 Mavericks
FreeBSD (32bit, 64bit) (Server and Bridge only)
FreeBSD 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Solaris (32bit, 64bit) (Server and Bridge only)
Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11
What's new in 4.34 Build 9745 RTM / 2021.04.05-build-9745.149777 (VPN Gate Client Plugin)?
SoftEther VPN 4.34 Build 9745 RTM (June 24, 2020)
- All cumulative updates here are included.
- Build 9745 beta is determined to be stable enough and is remarked as RTM.
- The contents of the packages are exactly the same as Build 9745 beta.
SoftEther VPN 4.34 Build 9745 Beta (April 5, 2020)
- Fix security issue: Fix the security of JSON-API. If the administrator password of the Virtual Hub is empty, JSON-API (which was added in 4.30 Build 9696 Beta) will not be able to access to the virtual hub with an empty password since this release. Because there are relatively many cases in which administrator password is empty for a virtual hub, being able to manage a virtual hub without a password using JSON-API was a security problem. In this release, this behavior has been changed so that JSON-API cannot be accessed in the Virtual Hub management mode until it is configured with non-empty password.
- Acknowledgments: falms
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