[Cryptography] WireGuard

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Aug 30 13:54:19 EDT 2018


Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>The white paper reveals what appears to be really good and clever design and
>engineering.  Some of the basic principles are things we've discussed (and
>argued about) repeatedly here - e.g., *one* choice of crypto configuration, no
>"algorithm agility", no negotiation at startup.
>
>I'm wondering if others here have looked at WireGuard and have any insight
>into the reality.

I looked at it a while back and pretty much agree with the quoted paragraph
above, it's a very nice design.  A good independent analysis is:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/080

Peter.


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