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Old 7th February 2017
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WireGuard is a next generation VPN protocol, which lives in the Linux kernel, and uses state of the art cryptography. One of the most exciting recent crypto-networking developments, WireGuard aims to drastically simplify secure tunneling.
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/wireguard/
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Old 4th May 2020
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I am more than a month late with this news, but this belongs here anyway.
WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0—and into the next Linux kernel
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We've been anticipating WireGuard's inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel for quite some time—but as of Sunday afternoon, it's official. Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.6 kernel, which includes (among other things) an in-tree WireGuard.
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Old 19th May 2020
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The effort is underway to get WireGuard in OpenBSD: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158926407905492&w=2

But if you can't wait that long, there is a userland implementation called WireSep which is available in ports: https://netsend.nl/wiresep
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https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wi...ne/005588.html
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Originally Posted by Jason A. Donenfeld
Hey everyone,

I'm happy to announce that WireGuard has been merged into the OpenBSD
kernel, with integration into userland as well.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=159274150512676&w=2
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I was playing with wg(4) yesterday. As VPN tech goes, this is thing is simple and easy to provision and use.
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Or one could use one of these.

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I was playing with wg(4) yesterday. As VPN tech goes, this is thing is simple and easy to provision and use.
Do you still need the userland tools from net/wireguard-tools?
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They are optional. See the EXAMPLES section of the wg(4) man page for using ifconfig(8) alone.
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Both ipv4 and ipv6 work well for me, and either can be tunneled over either. So testing is over. I'm now using it in (personal) production, with a dual-stack implementation running on an OpenBSD VPS, for my smartphone. At the moment I have two Android apps on the exclusion list so they can access devices on the home WiFi network.
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If you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard you will notice that it uses a lot of crypto developed by Daniel J. Bernstein or is derived from it.
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Indeed. It uses Bernstein's Curve22159, Chacha20, and Poly1305 primitives.

I've added my personal workstation as a VPN client, too. I'm very pleased with the outcomes for both phone and laptop. For the laptop, it was the first time I've added routes with -priority metrics, which permitted me to provision the correct routing table.

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And there is one additional feature I did not expect: since the VPN can tunnel IPv6 within IPv4 (or vice versa), I can use IPv6 from within IPv4-only networks, a common limitation here in North America.
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And there is one additional feature I did not expect: since the VPN can tunnel IPv6 within IPv4 (or vice versa), I can use IPv6 from within IPv4-only networks, a common limitation here in North America.
It is not that bad:
Google stats:
Poland: 12,57%
USA: 43,25%

Akamai stats:
Poland: 11,9%
USA: 45,3%

It is weird, because Poland doesn't have that bad Internet connectivity.
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Many local networks in North America do not support IPv6, even if the ISP they are connected to support it. Often, SOHO routers are not provisioned for it, or the ISPs have IPv6 blocks assigned but do not actually offer IPv6 services to their customers, or they do not have trained staff or documentation to support customer deployments, which amounts to the same thing.
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In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
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WireGuard probably won't make it into 13.0-RELEASE, but 13.1 seems very likely.
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This collaboration clearly wasn't all smooth sailing. Donenfeld expressed some frustration concerning Netgate's failure to reach out to him directly, and—once he'd discovered their commissioned port—a perceived lack of interest in working together with him:
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