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Donenfeld</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Jason A. Donenfeld</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">2015<span class="noprint">; 9 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2015</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">1.0.20220627<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-c8704ecabe0bf6874f14e1958f70d3b262af35fa-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-c8704ecabe0bf6874f14e1958f70d3b262af35fa-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28975568?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span> / 27 June 2022<span class="noprint">; 2 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">27 June 2022</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux">git<wbr />.zx2c4<wbr />.com<wbr />/wireguard-linux</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28975568#P1324" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> kernel drivers), <a href="/wiki/Go_(programming_language)" title="Go (programming language)">Go</a> (userspace implementation)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NetBSD" title="NetBSD">NetBSD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenBSD" title="OpenBSD">OpenBSD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> 7+</li> <li>Other<sup id="cite_ref-Install_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Install-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ARST-100_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARST-100-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Virtual_private_network" title="Virtual private network">Virtual private network</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data">various <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wireguard.com/">www<wbr />.wireguard<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28975568#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>WireGuard</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Communication_protocol" title="Communication protocol">communication protocol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> software that implements encrypted <a href="/wiki/Virtual_private_network" title="Virtual private network">virtual private networks</a> (VPNs).<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-site_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-site-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It aims to be lighter and better performing than <a href="/wiki/IPsec" title="IPsec">IPsec</a> and <a href="/wiki/OpenVPN" title="OpenVPN">OpenVPN</a>, two common <a href="/wiki/Tunneling_protocols" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunneling protocols">tunneling protocols</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The WireGuard protocol passes traffic over <a href="/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" title="User Datagram Protocol">UDP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-limitations_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-limitations-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2020, the Linux version of the software reached a stable production release and was incorporated into the Linux 5.6 kernel, and <a href="/wiki/Backport" class="mw-redirect" title="Backport">backported</a> to earlier Linux kernels in some <a href="/wiki/Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distributions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ARST-100_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARST-100-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Linux kernel components are licensed under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL) version 2; other implementations are under GPLv2 or other free/open-source licenses.<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-site_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-site-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name <i>WireGuard</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Registered_trademark" class="mw-redirect" title="Registered trademark">registered trademark</a> of Jason A. Donenfeld.<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-site_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-site-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protocol">Protocol</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Protocol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WireGuard uses the following:<sup id="cite_ref-wg-protocols_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wg-protocols-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curve25519" title="Curve25519">Curve25519</a> for <a href="/wiki/Key_exchange" title="Key exchange">key exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ChaCha20" class="mw-redirect" title="ChaCha20">ChaCha20</a> for <a href="/wiki/Symmetric_encryption" class="mw-redirect" title="Symmetric encryption">symmetric encryption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poly1305" title="Poly1305">Poly1305</a> for <a href="/wiki/Message_authentication_code" title="Message authentication code">message authentication codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SipHash" title="SipHash">SipHash24</a> for hashtable keys</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BLAKE2s" class="mw-redirect" title="BLAKE2s">BLAKE2s</a> for <a href="/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function" title="Cryptographic hash function">cryptographic hash function</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HKDF" title="HKDF">HKDF</a> for <a href="/wiki/Key_derivation_function" title="Key derivation function">key derivation function</a></li> <li>UDP-based only<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-limitations_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-limitations-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Base64" title="Base64">Base64</a>-encoded private keys, public keys and preshared keys</li></ul> <p>In May 2019, researchers from <a href="/wiki/INRIA" class="mw-redirect" title="INRIA">INRIA</a> published a machine-checked proof of the WireGuard protocol, produced using the <a href="/wiki/CryptoVerif" title="CryptoVerif">CryptoVerif</a> <a href="/wiki/Proof_assistant" title="Proof assistant">proof assistant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Optional_pre-shared_symmetric_key_mode">Optional pre-shared symmetric key mode</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Optional pre-shared symmetric key mode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WireGuard supports <a href="/wiki/Pre-shared_key" title="Pre-shared key">pre-shared</a> symmetric key mode, which provides an additional layer of <a href="/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm" title="Symmetric-key algorithm">symmetric encryption</a> to mitigate future advances in quantum computing. This addresses the risk that traffic may be stored until quantum computers are capable of breaking <a href="/wiki/Curve25519" title="Curve25519">Curve25519</a>, at which point traffic could be decrypted. Pre-shared keys are "usually troublesome from a key management perspective and might be more likely stolen", but in the shorter term, if the symmetric key is compromised, the Curve25519 keys still provide more than sufficient protection.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Networking">Networking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Networking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WireGuard uses only<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-limitations_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-limitations-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" title="User Datagram Protocol">UDP</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-site_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-site-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to the potential disadvantages of TCP-over-TCP.<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-limitations_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-limitations-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tunneling <a href="/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol" title="Transmission Control Protocol">TCP</a> over a TCP-based connection is known as "TCP-over-TCP", and doing so can induce a dramatic loss in transmission performance due to the <a href="/wiki/TCP_meltdown_problem" class="mw-redirect" title="TCP meltdown problem">TCP meltdown problem</a>. </p><p>Its default server port is UDP 51820. </p><p>WireGuard fully supports IPv6, both inside and outside of tunnel. It supports only <a href="/wiki/Network_layer" title="Network layer">layer 3</a> for both <a href="/wiki/IPv4" title="IPv4">IPv4</a> and <a href="/wiki/IPv6" title="IPv6">IPv6</a> and can <a href="/wiki/Encapsulation_(networking)" title="Encapsulation (networking)">encapsulate</a> v4-in-v6 and vice versa.<sup id="cite_ref-wireguard-whitepaper_section1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard-whitepaper_section1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="MTU_overhead">MTU overhead</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: MTU overhead"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The overhead of WireGuard breaks down as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-:1_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>20-byte IPv4 header or 40 bytes IPv6 header</li> <li>8-byte UDP header</li> <li>4-byte type</li> <li>4-byte key index</li> <li>8-byte nonce</li> <li>N-byte encrypted data</li> <li>16-byte authentication tag</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="MTU_operational_considerations">MTU operational considerations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: MTU operational considerations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assuming the underlay network transporting the WireGuard packets maintains a 1500 bytes MTU, configuring the WireGuard interface to 1420 bytes MTU for all involved peers is ideal for transporting IPv6 + IPv4 traffic. However, when exclusively carrying legacy IPv4 traffic, a higher MTU of 1440 bytes for the WireGuard interface suffices.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From an operational perspective and for network configuration uniformity, choosing to configure a 1420 MTU network-wide for the WireGuard interfaces would be advantageous. This approach ensures consistency and facilitates a smoother transition to enabling IPv6 for the WireGuard peers and interfaces in the future. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Caveat">Caveat</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Caveat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There may be situations where, for instance, a peer is behind a network with 1500 bytes MTU, and a second peer is behind a wireless network such as an <a href="/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)" title="LTE (telecommunication)">LTE</a> network, where often times, the carrier opted to use an MTU that is far lower than 1420 bytes — In such cases, the underlying IP networking stack of the host will <a href="/wiki/IP_fragmentation" title="IP fragmentation">fragment</a> the UDP encapsulated packet and send the packets through, the packets inside the tunnel however will remain consistent and will not be required to fragment as <a href="/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery" title="Path MTU Discovery">PMTUD</a> will detect the MTU between the peers (in this example, that would be 1420 bytes) and send a fixed packet size between the peers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Extensibility">Extensibility</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Extensibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WireGuard is designed to be extended by third-party programmes and scripts. This has been used to augment WireGuard with various features including more user-friendly management interfaces (including easier setting up of keys), logging, dynamic firewall updates, dynamic IP assignment,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Directory_service" title="Directory service">LDAP</a> integration.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Excluding such complex features from the minimal core codebase improves its stability and security. For ensuring security, WireGuard restricts the options for implementing cryptographic controls, limits the choices for <a href="/wiki/Key_exchange" title="Key exchange">key exchange</a> processes, and maps algorithms<sup id="cite_ref-wg-protocols_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wg-protocols-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a small subset of modern <a href="/wiki/Cryptographic_primitive" title="Cryptographic primitive">cryptographic primitives</a>. If a flaw is found in any of the primitives, a new version can be released that resolves the issue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A review by <i><a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a></i> found that WireGuard was easy to set up and use, used strong ciphers, and had a minimal codebase that provided for a small attack surface.<sup id="cite_ref-ars_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WireGuard has received funding from the <a href="/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund" title="Open Technology Fund">Open Technology Fund</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and donations from <a href="/wiki/Mullvad" title="Mullvad">Mullvad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Private_Internet_Access" title="Private Internet Access">Private Internet Access</a>, <a href="/wiki/IVPN" title="IVPN">IVPN</a>, the <a href="/wiki/NLnet" title="NLnet">NLnet Foundation</a><sup id="cite_ref-wireguard_donations_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wireguard_donations-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and OVPN.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> senator <a href="/wiki/Ron_Wyden" title="Ron Wyden">Ron Wyden</a> has recommended to the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology" title="National Institute of Standards and Technology">National Institute of Standards and Technology</a> (NIST) that they evaluate WireGuard as a replacement for existing technologies.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Availability">Availability</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Availability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Implementations">Implementations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Implementations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Implementations of the WireGuard protocol include: </p> <ul><li>Donenfeld's initial implementation, written in C and Go.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloudflare" title="Cloudflare">Cloudflare</a>'s BoringTun, a <a href="/wiki/User_space" class="mw-redirect" title="User space">user space</a> implementation written in <a href="/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)" title="Rust (programming language)">Rust</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Matt Dunwoodie's implementation for OpenBSD, written in C.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ryota Ozaki's wg(4) implementation for NetBSD, written in C.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The FreeBSD implementation is written in C and shares most of the data path with the OpenBSD implementation.<sup id="cite_ref-FreeBSD_import_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FreeBSD_import-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Native <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> kernel implementation named "wireguard-nt", since August 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>AVM <a href="/wiki/Fritz!Box" title="Fritz!Box">Fritz!Box</a> modem-routers that support Fritz!OS version 7.39 and later. Permits site-to-site WireGuard connections from version 7.50 onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vector_Packet_Processing" title="Vector Packet Processing">Vector Packet Processing</a> user space implementation written in C.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early snapshots of the code base exist from 30 June 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four early adopters of WireGuard were the VPN service providers <a href="/wiki/Mullvad" title="Mullvad">Mullvad</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Mullvpn_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mullvpn-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AzireVPN,<sup id="cite_ref-Azirevpn_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Azirevpn-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/IVPN" title="IVPN">IVPN</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and cryptostorm.<sup id="cite_ref-cryptostorm_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cryptostorm-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 December 2019, David Miller – primary maintainer of the Linux networking stack – accepted the WireGuard patches into the "net-next" maintainer tree, for inclusion in an upcoming kernel.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 January 2020, <a href="/wiki/Linus_Torvalds" title="Linus Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a> merged David Miller's net-next tree, and WireGuard entered the mainline Linux kernel tree.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 20 March 2020, <a href="/wiki/Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> developers enabled the module build options for WireGuard in their kernel config for the Debian 11 version (testing).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 March 2020 WireGuard was incorporated into the Linux 5.6 release tree. The Windows version of the software remains at beta.<sup id="cite_ref-ARST-100_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARST-100-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 March 2020, <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> developers added native kernel support for WireGuard in their Generic Kernel Image.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 April 2020, <a href="/wiki/NetworkManager" title="NetworkManager">NetworkManager</a> developer Beniamino Galvani merged <a href="/wiki/GUI" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI">GUI</a> support for WireGuard in <a href="/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME">GNOME</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 May 2020, Matt Dunwoodie proposed patches for native kernel support of WireGuard in <a href="/wiki/OpenBSD" title="OpenBSD">OpenBSD</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 June 2020, after the work of Matt Dunwoodie and Jason A. Donenfeld, WireGuard support was imported into OpenBSD.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 November 2020, Jason A. Donenfeld released an update of the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> package improving installation, stability, <a href="/wiki/ARM_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM architecture">ARM</a> support, and <a href="/wiki/Enterprise_software" title="Enterprise software">enterprise</a> features.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 November 2020, WireGuard support was imported into the <a href="/wiki/FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a> 13 kernel.<sup id="cite_ref-FreeBSD_import_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FreeBSD_import-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 19 January 2021, WireGuard support was added for preview in <a href="/wiki/PfSense" title="PfSense">pfSense</a> Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 development snapshots.<sup id="cite_ref-Paxson_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paxson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2021, kernel-mode WireGuard support was removed from FreeBSD 13.0, still in testing, after an urgent code cleanup in FreeBSD WireGuard could not be completed quickly.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> FreeBSD-based pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 removed kernel-based WireGuard as well.<sup id="cite_ref-netgate-removed_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-netgate-removed-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2021, WireGuard support was re-introduced back into pfSense CE and pfSense Plus development snapshots as an experimental package written by a member of the pfSense community, Christian McDonald. The WireGuard package for pfSense incorporates the ongoing kernel-mode WireGuard development work by Jason A. Donenfeld that was originally sponsored by Netgate.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Paxson_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paxson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2021, the official package repositories for both pfSense CE 2.5.2 and pfSense Plus 21.05 included the WireGuard package.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, WireGuard got over 200,000 Euros support from Germany's <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Tech_Fund" title="Sovereign Tech Fund">Sovereign Tech Fund</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_private_network_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of virtual private network services">Comparison of virtual private network services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secure_Shell" title="Secure Shell">Secure Shell</a> (SSH), a cryptographic network protocol used to secure services over an unsecured network.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Not all platforms may have a currently released version and some may be at beta.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title=""Some may be" true for any major systems after 2020? 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