Enlarge / Forget bendable mobile phones, we’re holding out for working mobile phone plushies. (credit: Carol Yepes via Getty Images ) The WireGuard VPN project announced a major milestone for its Windows users today—an all-new, kernel-mode implementation of the VPN protocol called WireGuardNT. The new implementation allows for massively improved throughput upon 10Gbps LAN connections—and […]
Enlarge / FreeBSD’s core development team, for the most part, does not appear to see the need to update their review and approval procedures. (credit: Aurich Lawson (after KC Green)) At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, […]
Enlarge / ♫ Pop goes the tunnel! ♫ (credit: Aurich Lawson) Earlier this week, we covered progress integrating an implementation of the WireGuard VPN protocol into the FreeBSD kernel. Two days later, there’s an update—kernel-mode WireGuard has been moved out of FreeBSD 13 development entirely for the time being. The change only affects kernel-mode WireGuard. User-mode […]
Expand / / that I heroically resisted the desire to make a”WireGuard for Workgroups 0.3.1″ picture with this particular piece. This Monday, WireGuard creator and lead programmer Jason Donefeld declared a fresh WireGuard launch for the Windows platform. The launch is still something of a godsend for mates expecting to employ WireGuard as a substitute […]