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As you have stated elsewhere negotiation has been a huge problem in other protocols and makes things much more complicated and I agree with that. My concern was merely with how abs…

Thanks for the pointer. I couldn't find any (semi-)official information about this and seeing that the developers indeed care about this puts my concerns at ease to some extent.

In terms of negotiation there is a lot of room between the two extremes of "none" and "highly complex" but I agree that one of the big appeals of Wireguard is that you no longer ha…

While this is a possibility it is still strange to not specify something like the protocol version intentionally. Even if in an updated implementation these fields would be used fo…

You cannot really predict this because you don't know when a weakness in a cypher is discovered. Yes it might never happen but it might also happen three days from now. Any piece o…

I'm a bit unsure about the fact that Wireguard has no negotiation capabilities whatsoever. On the one hand this feature makes the configuration of tunnels dead simple as opposed to…

I always see people caring way to much about the amount of swap space used and not enough about the swap activity going on. It isn't the amount of swap space that slows a system do…

Why rely on the deprecated "ifconfig" and not use the "ip" command? ifconfig/route shouldn't be used by anyone anymore these days.