WireGuard

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wikipedia:WireGuard is a free and open-source software application and communication protocol that implements virtual private network techniques to create secure point-to-point connections in routed or bridged configurations. It use Noise protocol framework, Curve25519, ChaCha20, Poly1305, BLAKE2, SipHash24 and HKDF.


Technical features:

  • WireGuard is invisible to illegitimate peers and network scanners [1]
  • WireGuard uses only UDP protocol (port 41414).
  • Curve25519 used for identified peers, using their public key, a 32-byte Curve25519 point
 $ sudo apt install wireguard

Included in March 2020 into the Linux Kernel 5.6 , available in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 20.10

WireGuard's encryption speed claims to be faster that IPsec group protocols.

  • Debian packages: wireguard, wireguard-dkms, wireguard-tools


  • MacOS: brew install wireguard-tools
  • iOS: allows auto activation on WiFI based on SSID.

Commands

Configuration


Author: Jason A. Donenfeld. Advisors: Trevor Perrin, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Steven M. Bellovin, and Greg Kroah-Hartman[2]

Activities

See also

  • https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
  • https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
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