# ghostunnel mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ghostunnel in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ghostunnel
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ghostunnel
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ghostunnel
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostunnel/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ghostunnel
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Simple SSL/TLS proxy with mutual authentication
- **Homepage:** <https://ghostunnel.dev/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ghostunnel/ghostunnel>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-29T16:05:00+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ghostunnel (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.11.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Ghostunnel is a Go TLS proxy for placing mutual TLS in front of services that do not speak TLS themselves.

### Projektgeschichte

The Ghostunnel repository was created in 2015 and its first GitHub release, v1.0.0, was published in 2016. Its README frames the project as a simple TLS proxy with mutual authentication for securing non-TLS backend applications.

The project evolved around two complementary modes: server mode terminates TLS and forwards to an insecure backend, while client mode accepts local insecure connections and forwards them to a TLS-secured service. Over time the README grew to document certificate reloads, ACME, PKCS#11, macOS Keychain, Windows Certificate Store, SPIFFE Workload API, Prometheus metrics, systemd and launchd socket activation, and Windows service management.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Ghostunnel's adoption sits in security and operations teams that need a small proxy rather than a full service mesh or general reverse proxy. Official materials point users to GitHub releases and Docker Hub, and the project documents Linux, macOS, Windows, and other Go-supported Unix systems.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use Ghostunnel to wrap legacy TCP services with mutual TLS, add client-certificate authorization, run local TLS clients for remote services, reload short-lived certificates, expose metrics, and deploy the proxy under a service manager.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about Ghostunnel because it packages a focused security boundary as one executable: install it, provide certificates, and put mTLS in front of a service without rewriting the application.

### Zeitleiste

- 2015: GitHub repository created.
- 2016: v1.0.0 initial release published.
- 2020s: Documentation covers OPA policies, SPIFFE identities, hardware-backed keys, certificate reloads, metrics, and service-manager deployment.

### Related projects

- Ghostunnel is adjacent to stunnel, OpenSSL tooling, mkcert, cfssl, SPIFFE, Open Policy Agent, systemd, launchd, and Docker-based deployment workflows.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ghostunnel/ghostunnel>
- <https://ghostunnel.dev/docs/getting-started>
- <https://github.com/ghostunnel/ghostunnel>
- <https://github.com/ghostunnel/ghostunnel#readme>
- <https://github.com/ghostunnel/ghostunnel/releases/tag/v1.0.0>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - ghostunnel: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghostunnel/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ghostunnel.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ghostunnel.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph