IT lexicon Networking WireGuard

WireGuard

Networking På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23
More info
Creator
Jason A. Donenfeld
Released
Type
VPN protocol
License
GPL-2.0 (Linux), BSD/MIT
Website
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.

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