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Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization

Brad Fitzpatrick · 30 Jan 2020

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  1. Our reading

    Networking, authentication, and web applications are often tedious and overly complex.

    Their wordsI've always found networking and authentication and web apps to be a bit tedious and overly complex.

  2. Our reading

    Users should be able to write private servers where identity and firewalling can be handled by looking at the IP address alone.

    Their wordsYou should be able to write private IP/UDP/TCP/HTTP servers where you can check who the user is by looking at the IP address only, and firewall/audit by just looking at the IP address

  3. Our reading

    Devices on a network should be easily addressable and reachable without modifying applications, regardless of NAT, IPv6, or roaming.

    Their wordsAnd it shouldn't matter whether all the devices on the network are behind NATs, have IPv6 or not, or are actively roaming around between networks. They should all be addressable and reachable easily, and without modifying applications.

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