spiped (pronounced "ess-pipe-dee") is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses, so that one may connect to one address (e.g., a UNIX socket on localhost) and transparently have a connection established to another address (e.g., a UNIX socket on a different system). This is similar to ssh -L functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key.

❗ Official releases on www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html have POSIX-compliant Makefiles; please use those.

⚠️ The git repository (including the tag-based "release" snapshots on github) uses BSD Makefiles, which may or may not work on your operating system.

The official releases should build and install on almost any POSIX-compliant operating system, using the included Makefiles:

make BINDIR=/path/to/target/directory install

See the BUILDING file for more details.

The POSIX-compatible Makefiles are generated via make Makefiles from the included (far more readable) BSD Makefiles. To run this target, you will need to have a BSD make(1) utility; NetBSD's make(1) is available for many operating systems as bmake.

Release tarballs are generated via make VERSION=x.y.z publish, subject to the same caveat of needing a BSD-compatible make.

For more details about spiped, read the README file.