WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security

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Headings…
WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security
Do We Really Need Another VPN Protocol?
What Makes the Difference in Online Security?
Higher Level of Encryption
More Simplicity
Simple Handshakes
Some Issues That Needs To Be Addressed
Conclusion
Emma Thomas
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The upgrade came in the form of OpenVPN, an open-source protocol that dominates the market to this day.
I feel that with the development of WireGuard some significant progress and a breakthrough in online security has occurred.
WireGuard is a type of VPN that aims to be simpler than the current VPNs while offering a higher degree of security.
Some experts are already backing WireGuard as the protocol that will dethrone OpenVPN as the market leader while others are much more skeptical.
Do We Really Need Another VPN Protocol?
Does the world really need more VPN protocols?
WireGuard uses a process called “cryptokey routing” to secure user data.
This is where the tool associates public keys with authorized IP addresses that are allowed inside the VPN tunnel.
When it comes to encryption standards and algorithm, WireGuard takes a completely new approach.
Encryption algorithms that no other protocol even supports:
It is important here to point out that the key length encryption of WireGuard is limited to 256 bits.
Believe me when I tell you this, WireGuard’s simplicity is unprecedented.
To start, this protocol is much simpler than OpenVPN because it takes up ridiculously lower lines of code.
While OpenVPN takes up 600,000 line of code, WireGuard only takes up less than 4000.
WireGuard eliminates cryptographic agility for a much better alternative, crypto versioning.
Let say, if a cryptographic attack against one of the protocol underlying primitives is revealed, a whole new version of WireGuard can be devised.
WireGuard is free open-source that is still a work in progress.
No final version of the protocol has been released as of yet and it has not went through a proper security audit.
On the surface, WireGuard looks extremely promising but the jury is out until we see its final form.
Beta versions of WireGuard are out for macOS, Android and iOS but users of world’s biggest operating system are still waiting for their dedicated client

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