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WireGuard

WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

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WireGuard is a general purpose VPN that encapsulates IP packets over UDP, using public key exchange for peer authentication and cryptokey routing to associate public keys with allowed tunnel IP addresses. It is designed to be simple to configure and deploy, cross-platform, and implemented in few lines of code for auditability.

WireGuard adds a network interface, such as wg0, configured with a private key and peers' public keys, and uses the wg(8) tool for its specific settings. It supports IPv4 and IPv6, roaming between IP addresses, and is implemented across Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, and Android. The protocol uses the Noise protocol framework, Curve25519, ChaCha20, Poly1305, BLAKE2, SipHash24, and HKDF, and is documented in a technical whitepaper and academic research paper. It is intended for a range of environments, from embedded devices to backbone routers, and can be embedded into applications.

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    Free planOpen source
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  9. zenVPN

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