## Contacting the authors

### Mailing lists

If you have a question about tinc, or would like some help in
configuring tinc or your networking setup, you should write to the
tinc [[mailing lists|mail]], preferably not to the authors in
private. You will get a response faster this way.

### By mail

If you wish to contact us in private you can do so via the
following addresses. Note that we use
[GnuPG](https://www.gnupg.org/), our emails are (almost) always
signed. This will also allow you to send us encrypted emails.

- Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>

### On IRC

There is a channel on the [OFTC](https://www.oftc.net/) and [Libera.Chat](https://libera.chat/) IRC networks.
Connect to [irc.oftc.net](irc://irc.oftc.net/#tinc) or [irc.libera.chat](irc://irc.libera.chat/#tinc),
make sure you have registered your nick (`/msg nickserv help register`) and join the channel `#tinc`.
We are logged in most of the time, but may not be active. If you
run your IRC client in screen just like us, just ask your question
and wait. If you cannot stay on IRC and really want to ask a
question, please do so via email, see above.
A history of the channel is available on request.

### Reporting security issues

In case you have found a security issue in tinc, please report it via email
to Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>, preferrably PGP encrypted.
We will then try to get a CVE number assigned, and coordinate a bugfix release with major Linux distributions.