IPFire Blog company blog

Why Not WireGuard

by IPFire.org - IPFire Development Team blog.ipfire.org 13 min read

The latest thing that is getting a lot of attention is WireGuard - the new shooting star in terms of VPN. But is it as great as it sounds? I would like to discuss some thoughts, have a look at the implementation and tell you why WireGuard is not a solution that will replace IPsec or OpenVPN.

Points

145

HN comments

123

Submissions

1

Cited by

0 commenters

Networking & InternetSecurity & Privacy2020

Related posts from the same era

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

Signal Blog20211,897 points332 commentscited by 21 details

Welcome to Libera Chat

Libera Chat News20211,425 points529 comments details

Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

Mods and Members20191,393 points405 comments details

Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

Null Sweep20201,294 points430 commentscited by 7 details

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

Citizen Lab20201,248 points302 commentscited by 22 details

BitTorrent v2

libtorrent Blog20201,227 points710 commentscited by 10 details