WireGuard

2 articles in the Atlas on wireguard - What Is a VPN Protocol?; What Is WireGuard?. A VPN protocol is a specification for a tunnel. Here is what the main ones actually…

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What Is a VPN Protocol?

A VPN protocol is a specification for a tunnel. Here is what the main ones actually decide, how they differ, and why the choice is a censorship question.

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What Is WireGuard?

WireGuard is a layer-3 tunnel over UDP with a deliberately tiny codebase and a fixed set of cryptographic primitives. Small, fast, auditable, and not built for censorship.