WireGuard

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from WireGuard's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 329 ms.
• Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, x-frame-options).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

Not enough discussion yet: 9 classified comments from 4 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

• Positive

  “shadowsocks + CN2 + dns crypt/mask + IPv6 tunneling), since WireGuard is vulnerable to "deep packet inspection" and this is not a priority for WireGuard, as the author makes clear here: If anyone has more recent…”

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• Positive

  “I think that it would be hard for WireGuard to take over the VPN world. IPsec works virtually everywhere without any additional software. I'm sure that WireGuard has some advantages, but I'm still skeptical. That said,…”

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Threads: WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel (2018, 43 comments) · WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available (2019, 35 comments) · WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf] (2018, 25 comments) · Formal verification of the WireGuard protocol (2017, 17 comments)