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 …

Users of kernels < 5.6 may also choose wireguard-lts or wireguard-dkms + linux-headers, depending on which kernel is used. OpenSUSE/SLE [tools – v1.0.20250521]

By default, WireGuard tries to be as silent as possible when not being used; it is not a chatty protocol. For the most part, it only transmits data when a peer wishes to send packets.

Do note that this is only possible because WireGuard is strictly layer 3 based. Unlike some common VPN protocols, like L2TP/IPsec, using authenticated identification of peers at a layer 3 level enforces …

WireGuard Installer This utility simply downloads, verifies, and executes one of the below MSIs: wireguard-installer.exe WireGuard MSIs wireguard-amd64-0.5.3.msi wireguard-arm64-0.5.3.msi …

If an additional layer of symmetric-key crypto is required (for, say, post-quantum resistance), WireGuard also supports an optional pre-shared key that is mixed into the public key cryptography.

For example, maybe you plan to route all your traffic through WireGuard like usual, but the coffee shop at which you're sitting requires you to authenticate using a website before it will give you a real …

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In the intervening time, WireGuard and IPsec have both gotten faster, with WireGuard stil edging out IPsec in some cases due to its multi-threading, while OpenVPN remains extremely slow.

This thesis constructs a mechanised cryptographic proof of the entire WireGuard protocol, including transport data messages, in an ACCE-like computational model using CryptoVerif.