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WireGuard

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Fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

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WireGuard is an open-source VPN tunnel that connects peers into private networks with a small auditable codebase, modern Noise-based cryptography, and in-kernel speed.

Decisive facts

  • Fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel for many circumstances
  • About 4,000 lines of code for a small attack surface and easy audit
  • Noise protocol framework with Curve25519, ChaCha20, and Poly1305
  • In the Linux kernel since 5.6 for high performance
  • Clients for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, iOS, and Android
  • Cryptokey routing with roaming between IP addresses
Security & Identityvpnopen-sourceremote-accesssite-to-siteself-hostedencryption

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