1 ## Contacting the authors
5 If you have a question about tinc, or would like some help in
6 configuring tinc or your networking setup, you should write to the
7 tinc [[mailing lists|mail]], preferably not to the authors in
8 private. You will get a response faster this way.
12 If you wish to contact us in private you can do so via the
13 following addresses. Note that we use
14 [GnuPG](https://www.gnupg.org/), our emails are (almost) always
15 signed. This will also allow you to send us encrypted emails.
17 - Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>
21 There is a channel on the [OFTC](https://www.oftc.net/) and [Libera.Chat](https://libera.chat/) IRC networks.
22 Connect to [irc.oftc.net](irc://irc.oftc.net/#tinc) or [irc.libera.chat](irc://irc.libera.chat/#tinc),
23 make sure you have registered your nick (`/msg nickserv help register`) and join the channel `#tinc`.
24 We are logged in most of the time, but may not be active. If you
25 run your IRC client in screen just like us, just ask your question
26 and wait. If you cannot stay on IRC and really want to ask a
27 question, please do so via email, see above.
28 A history of the channel is available on request.
30 ### Reporting security issues
32 In case you have found a security issue in tinc, please report it via email
33 to Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>, preferrably PGP encrypted.
34 We will then try to get a CVE number assigned, and coordinate a bugfix release with major Linux distributions.