--- title: "Sanctum introduction" url: https://daily.dev/posts/sanctum-introduction-aquppp0pz source_url: https://sanctorum.se/sanctum/ type: article source: "Lobsters" published: 2024-04-29T17:25:35.195Z updated: 2026-03-15T03:21:35.971Z tags: ["encryption", "networking", "privacy", "security", "vpn"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sanctum introduction **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sanctum is a small, experimental, fully privilege separated VPN daemon that transports encrypted network traffic between two peers. It uses a multi-process approach for fine-grained sandboxing, supports traffic encryption with AES256-GCM or Agelas, and uses shared symmetrical secrets for key exchange. The author wrote sanctum for personal privacy reasons and because they have experience building similar systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption), [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#vpn](https://daily.dev/tags/vpn) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sanctum-introduction-aquppp0pz)