WireGuard
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WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- iPad
- OpenWrt
- Termux
- Self-Hosted
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WireGuard information
Developed by
Edge Security Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.9Alternatives
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- Updated Feb 16, 2023
- 4.35 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Running on an OpenWrt router whilst connected to a Mullvad.net VPN server, it's much faster than OpenVPN -253Mb/s vs 167 Mb/s on speedtest.net - whilst using considerably less of the router's resources. WireGuard appears to be the future.
Simple setup and very good performance.
WireGuard is the next evolution of currently used VPN standards/protocols. It's a newer technology yet has already experienced fast adoption (which is rare for security-focused standards). It provides many features not [natively] supported by current VPN offerings such as OpenVPN, and although there may be a learning curve (as with any newer techs), the resultant seamless/secure WAN/LAN-based network connectivity (a la ZeroTier) is worth it. Cloudflare has even been using it in production as the backbone of their "WARP" (1.1.1.1) DNS/VPN service for some time now.
I love the idea of wireguard, but at the moment it seems out of reach, as it's still acknowledged by the developers as unstable code as of March 2019. A quote from them:
While this was true in March 2019, WireGuard 1.0 was released in March 2020 and added into the Linux 5.6 kernel in the same month. WireGuard passed a third-party audit before this.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/wireguard-vpn-makes-it-to-1-0-0-and-into-the-next-linux-kernel/