WireGuard consists of only 4,000 lines of code – far less than the 400,000 lines found in OpenVPN. Less code means less complexity and greater verifiability by the development community. Complexity increases latency, negotiation, it decreases speed and drains battery life.
OpenVPN vs WireGuard. WireGuard n’étant qu’au stade embryonnaire, OpenVPN gagne forcéement. Il faudra attendre la fin du développement et le lancement officiel de WireGuard pour en tirer des conclusions définitives. Néanmoins, la question de la journalisation des adresses IP est un point de vigilance important qui peut rebuter de nombreux utilisateurs potentiels. Conclusion. Excepté 10/06/2020 28/04/2009 Android OpenVPN 3.0.7 (3565) Android WireGuard 0.0.20191018 iOS OpenVPN 3.0.3 (2104) iOS WireGuard v.0.0.20191015 Update 29/12/19 There is a plan to test out Android 9 and 10. Also, we want to test usage during sleep. WireGuard has a mode where you don't send keepalives when the device sleeps, it will not initiate network connections at all Wireguard was much easier to configure but I agree with most here in that OpenVPN is established while Wireguard is still working out some kinks. Speeds for me have been comparable, I mainly setup WG as it seemed to be the new thing and wanted to try it out. level 1. 2 points · 1 year ago. I decided to go with wireguard as it seemed the easiest to configure for someone with no prior knowledge Auditability: OpenVPN vs WireGuard. To know if you can trust a VPN protocol, it needs to be auditable. Auditability is one of the key reasons that open source software is preferred by most privacy advocates. But just because code is open source doesn’t make it easy to audit. OpenVPN is auditable. But with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, actually doing an audit requires a team of
Ease of Use. WireGuard is easier to install and configure as compared to OpenVPN. It is also easier to setup. OpenVPN is built with complex code.
WireGuard vs OpenVPN? OpenVPN was released in 2001, and while it has been constantly improved and iterated upon–and constantly audited for security bugs, it has grown into a very large code base. OpenVPN has some 100,000 lines of code, and some 500,000 lines of code dedicated to OpenSSL encryption alone. Comparatively, WireGuard only has 4,000 lines of code. But let’s be clear. For now
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7 Feb 2020 What is WireGuard and what makes it so special? I've skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it's a work of art. You know that you can install and configure a WireGuard VPN server on Linux NordVPN provides the VPN protocols (WireGuard) and OpenVPN. A speedtest shows there is a clear winner – one protocol is faster.