File 002 · Local Intelligence

Record 074 · Networks · 2016

16.74.Q

WireGuard

Jason A. Donenfeld

WireGuard (2016) by Jason A. Donenfeld

The protocol under Tailscale, HA, and a thousand homelab tunnels.

A VPN you can reason about.

WireGuard made a trustworthy tunnel small enough to live in the kernel. Local services became reachable without OpenVPN pain.

The tunnel primitive of the local stack.

Filed notes

  • Small cryptographic VPN
  • Kernel implementation
  • Simple key model

SIC

7375

Information Retrieval Services

NAICS

518210

Computing Infrastructure Providers

Official

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