{"id":357,"date":"2015-08-13T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedstechshack.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T23:58:30","slug":"how-to-setup-openvpn-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedstechshack.com\/2015\/08\/13\/how-to-setup-openvpn-on-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up OpenVPN on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenVPN is a popular open source VPN protocol and it is cross platform. While OpenVPN runs on OS X there are no official packages for it. Most VPN providers offer their own OS X binaries that will usually support OpenVPN. A popular proprietary cross platform OpenVPN client is Viscosity. It is reasonably priced at $9 and there is a 30 day trial for Windows and OS X. But there are many reasons beyond cost, why a user may want to use an open source client.<\/p>\n<p>A popular open source OpenVPN client for OS X is Tunnelblick. Tunnelblick is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and as such all the source code is available. I went ahead and downloaded the latest source repository to take a look. Technically, Tunnelblick is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that interfaces with the OpenVPN code. The repository includes the OpenVPN source code as well as a few other open source projects it makes use of such as the popular OpenSSL project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestvpnz.com\/how-to-setup-openvpn-on-mac-os-x\/\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenVPN is a popular open source VPN protocol and it is cross platform. While OpenVPN runs on OS X there are no official packages for it. Most VPN providers offer their own OS X binaries that will usually support OpenVPN. A popular proprietary cross platform OpenVPN client is Viscosity. 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