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Wireguard does claim to be faster. It’s also much simpler from a design perspective, so it might end up being more secure. But other than that, there’s no big
by mikl 7y ago
Wireguard does claim to be faster. It’s also much simpler from a design perspective, so it might end up being more secure.
But other than that, there’s no big reason to switch if you have a setup you’re happy with.
- tptacek 7y agoIt doesn't just claim to be faster; it's clearly, materially, obviously faster, at least in straightforward configurations (which is to say that someone could come up with some weird OpenVPN configuration that makes up the [large] gap, but I haven't see that yet).
- 1996 7y agoIF you only use AH with strongswan then it is faster than either wireguard or openvpn
- mikl 7y agoThe question was if there was a reason to switch away from OpenVPN ;)
- psanford 7y agoIf you are just using AH you aren't encrypting your traffic so it isn't really comparable to wireguard or openvpn.
- 1996 7y agoOr maybe you encrypt at another layer and just want strongswan for the interconnection without too much overhead. Or maybe you do not care about the encryption, but care about the virtual and private part of VPN There are many usecase. There is no one size fit all.