WireGuard ® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding …

Users of kernels < 5.6 may also choose wireguard-lts or wireguard-dkms + linux-headers, depending on which kernel is used. OpenSUSE/SLE [tools – v1.0.20250521]

By default, WireGuard tries to be as silent as possible when not being used; it is not a chatty protocol. For the most part, it only transmits data when a peer wishes to send packets.

If an additional layer of symmetric-key crypto is required (for, say, post-quantum resistance), WireGuard also supports an optional pre-shared key that is mixed into the public key …

WireGuard, in contrast, starts from the basis of flawed layering violations and then attempts to rectify the issues arising from this conflation using practical engineering solutions and …

WireGuard Installer This utility simply downloads, verifies, and executes one of the below MSIs: wireguard-installer.exe WireGuard MSIs wireguard-amd64-0.5.3.msi wireguard-arm64 …

WireGuard is divided into several sub-projects and repositories. The following is a list of official and supported WireGuard projects, along with their status and maintainer.

WireGuard uses a UDP socket for actually sending and receiving encrypted packets. This socket always lives in namespace A – the original birthplace namespace.

The best bet for post-quantum security is to run a truly post-quantum handshake on top of WireGuard, and then insert that key into WireGuard's pre-shared key slot.

In the intervening time, WireGuard and IPsec have both gotten faster, with WireGuard stil edging out IPsec in some cases due to its multi-threading, while OpenVPN remains extremely slow.