WireGuard
More info
- Creator
- Jason A. Donenfeld
- Released
- Type
- VPN protocol
- License
- GPL-2.0 (Linux), BSD/MIT
- Website
- wireguard.com
- Spec
- WireGuard whitepaper
- Source
- git.zx2c4.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Modern, minimalist VPN implementation — faster, more secure and simpler than OpenVPN/IPsec.
4,000 lines of code (vs OpenVPN's 100,000+). Built into the Linux kernel since 5.6. Built on modern cryptography (Curve25519, ChaCha20). Tailscale and Mullvad use WireGuard as the underlying transport.