Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by zx2c4 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:42AM
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We'll actually be producing a Rust implementation for userspace. It'd be interesting to see that work ported back to kernelspace. Cool suggestions.
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Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:45AM
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That sounds good. What's its current implementation language?
Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by tptacek on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:18PM
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It's Linux kernel resident. It's C code.
Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:45PM
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Wow. Talk about overlooking the obvious. Thanks lol...
Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by viraptor on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:30PM
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Maybe most likely, but not necessarily obvious. While there's no popular module for kernel written in something else than C (as far as I know), there are known ways to write working non-C modules.
Re:WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
by nickpsecurity on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:28AM
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C was best assumption as 99+% chance it would be C. Yet, you are right in that I've seen device drivers for Linux done in Ada and ATS languages. It's why I usually don't assume but one was warranter here.