Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT

For people using wireguard, it was not designed to provide anonymity. Otherwise it is fine for use in Countries with decent protections for their citizens. If you need privacy, you should use OpenVPN.

Quote:

>WireGuard is highly secure, but it’s not designed with privacy in mind.

from

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/is-the-new-wireguard-protoc...

Re: Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT

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Post by jbverschoor » Tue, May 23, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #8

For people using wireguard, it was not designed to provide anonymity. Otherwise it is fine for use in Countries with decent protections for their citizens. If you need privacy, you should use OpenVPN. Quote: >WireGuard is highly secure, but it’s not designed with privacy in mind. from https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/is-the-new-wireguard-protoc...

Almost nothing was created with privacy in mind. Security and privacy are different things.

I hate that people think that a VPN is private as in anonymous. But then again, those providers had great marketing.. So now devs and sysops need to call VPNs "tunneled networks".

Re: Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT

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Post by nixcraft » Tue, May 23, 2023, 6:25 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #8

For people using wireguard, it was not designed to provide anonymity. Otherwise it is fine for use in Countries with decent protections for their citizens. If you need privacy, you should use OpenVPN. Quote: >WireGuard is highly secure, but it’s not designed with privacy in mind. from https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/is-the-new-wireguard-protoc...

> WireGuard is highly secure, but it’s not designed with privacy in mind.

I'm sorry, but I must inform you that the Toms guide contains affiliate links to OpenVPN services. However, it is important to note that neither OpenVPN nor WireGuard can guarantee your safety if you are being targeted by government agencies. The guide's attempt from TFA is to promote these VPN services as a solution for anonymity and censorship (deep packets inspection can block all VPN protocols) avoidance is misleading. VPNs are primarily useful for accessing corporate or home resources and viewing geo-blocked streaming content (say from your home network) on insecure networks like hotel or cafe WiFi.