WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf]

Re:WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf] by pat2man on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:56AM (#17698722)

Looking at the design of WireGuard it seems relatively obvious. Is there a reason it took this long to get such a basic solution?

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Re:WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf] by arghwhat on Monday August 06, 2018 @12:14PM (#17698911)

It took that long for someone with the skill and interest to get annoyed by the status quo, and sit down and develop a bare-bones protocol that does just what is needed.

Cryptographic knowledge is much more available today than it was 17 years ago when OpenVPN started, so that has probably helped. Some of the constructs used in Wireguard (such as ChaCha20Poly1305) are also quite recent, and didn't exist when OpenVPN started.

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Re:WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf] by orbital-decay on Monday August 06, 2018 @12:05PM (#17698818)

Simple is harder than complex, as always.

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Re:WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf] by api on Monday August 06, 2018 @12:31PM (#17699100)

I really wish more people understood this. Over-engineering is the plague of modern software.

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