• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
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      7 months ago

      Mmm what?

      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 the massive headache. It intends…

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      7 months ago

      Bold statement - how is wire guard not a VPN?

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        7 months ago

        Yeah I’m really curious what his take is going to be on this one lol. Technically it doesn’t have a layer-2 capable bridge mode like other VPN solutions like openvpn, but that’s about all I can think of. It’s still objectively a virtual network, made private by a keypair exchange.

        Probably just blindly paroting something someone told him. Awkward way to learn that one lmao.