Re:GotaTun -- Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
by gvkhna on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:27AM
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In this case with the, I believe it’s called quantum tunneling by mullvad, it’s actually a good thing. Because the encapsulation protocol is just UDP/IP, a well established existing protocol that can masquerade as any kind of internet traffic easily.
Makes it difficult to block by censors. Great video I saw here: https://youtu.be/pZiG8r-diTM?si=wy35elqMt1T6euq0
This also means wg is just doing one thing instead of a dozen it doesn’t “need” to.
(Btw, same sort of thing occurs with zfs combining raid and filesystem to close the parity raid write hole. Often strictly layered systems with separation of concerns are less than the sum of their parts.)