Difference between revisions of "WireGuard"

Revision as of 08:44, 9 August 2021

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:

Curve25519 used for identified peers, using their public key, a 32-byte Curve25519 point

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.

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
4G
Clients behind NAT can keep the VPN established using an optional keepalive parameter; it defaults to no keepalive
wg-watchdog.sh https://gist.github.com/mattkasun/9a0e90d9d31b2c935d3f6d6e71dbece9

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 == Related terms ==
-* <code>[[sysctl]] -w net.ipv4.[[ip_forward]]=1</code>
+* <code>[[sysctl]] -w [[net.ipv4]].[[ip_forward]]=1</code>
 * <code>sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1</code>
 * [[4G]]