July 18, 2023, 12:15 p.m. | Alex

DEV Community dev.to

If you've worked much in networking, you've probably heard of WireGuard®. If not, allow me to introduce it.


WireGuard is a VPN protocol developed several years ago which is exremely fast, lightweight, and uses state-of-the art cryptography. Its performance blows legacy VPN's out of the water.



A lot of people stumble upon WireGuard when they're looking to:

a) Build their own VPN

b) Set up remote access

c) Build a site-to-site network


The thing is, WireGuard can also be a …

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