WireGuard (2016) by Jason A. Donenfeld

Record 074 · Networks · 2016

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WireGuard

Jason A. Donenfeld

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

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.

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  • Small cryptographic VPN
  • Kernel implementation
  • Simple key model

A VPN you can reason about.