WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security
It was almost two decades ago that VPN industry saw an upgrade in the tunneling protocols. The upgrade came in the form of OpenVPN, an open-source protocol that dominates the market to this day. I feel that with the development of WireGuard some significant progress and a breakthrough in online security has occurred. WireGuard is a type of VPN that aims to be simpler than the current VPNs while offering a higher degree of security. It is a tool that is free and open source with GPLv2 license – same as Linux Kernel. Some experts are already backing WireGuard as the protocol that will dethrone OpenVPN as the market leader while others are much more skeptical. However, everything so far about this technology has shown great promise. Do We Really Need Another VPN Protocol? It’s a good question. Does the world really need more VPN protocols? I mean we already have IPSEC, PPTP, OpenVPN and an astonishing number proprietary SSL VPNs. More importantly, are VPNs that necessary to begin with? To