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Wireguard is not a vpn, there is no usable vpns built on wireguard, is extremely limited primitive that can be used to build one. Security expert, not understanding basic things, as usual. These people live in their own world where unusable but purportedly secure software is the solution to a problem.
Hell, even Mullvad uses WireGuard. Your argument is the most confidently incorrect I've seen on Lemmy ever since that one furry shouted over me to recommend Matrix instead of Signal.
uses wireguard and being generally usable is two different things, sorry not interested in speaking with you personally.
You're the one that chose to comment on my post lol
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eduVPN
Please don't flamewar here, especially not if you haven't fact checked your own claims before posting.
That wasn't flame, I have a dubious honor of supporting wireguard based vpn service. What part of my claims is false? There is no general purpose vpn suite based on wireguard (I'm talking openvpn style, not just pseudo lan that can't even tell if the other end is alive), wg included with kernel is extremely limited and pretty much worthless for anything but p2p connections, and as much as I hate ike I would prefer to use it instead. As for me not replying to the author, I have seen his posts before, he is not a pleasant person to speak to.
Edit: After re-reading my first post it might look as a personal attack, that wasn't my intention at all, just this post came after I've finished trying to debug another wireguard problem in our app. 🫠
The list of management tools available for it isn't exactly short. Others mentioned specific tools too.
https://github.com/cedrickchee/awesome-wireguard
Before you vent by attacking it and attacking everybody recommending it, how about explaining your problems and what you've already tried?
Tell me your not a security expert without saying your not a security expert
I think I never claimed being a security expert. Do you need to be a security expert to state that wireguard as it is not really usable and needs a lot of resources to build something of it and the final result will be worse than openvpn by all metrics except purity from security standpoint?
Wireguard is simple and it works. I don't know what your experience has been but it doesn't reflect mine.
Wireguard is also used by many VPN providers.