Using Wireguard VPN

Rom
Rom’s Ramblings
Published in
3 min readApr 28, 2020

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I have been keeping tabs of this new open source VPN protocol, Wireguard. It has been in constant development for quite sometime already, but I never really jumped into using it until it was added to the latest Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 20.04 LTS. This means that Wireguard is now going mainstream.

Wireguard, as described on its website, is

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 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more…

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