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Linus Torvalds has released the newest version of the Linux 5.6<\/a>. It includes many new and neat features like\u00a0USB4 support<\/a>, a fix for the 32-bit Epoch problem<\/a>, multi-path TCP<\/a>, and numerous driver patches. The biggest news of all s that Linux now has the popular open-source Virtual Private Network (VPN) WireGuard<\/a> baked in.<\/p>\n

WireGuard is a radical new approach to VPNs. With its minimal codebase — about 4,000 lines of code — it’s much easier to debug and secure than its rivals such as OpenVPN<\/a> with its over 100,000 lines.<\/p>\n

Torvalds himself loves WireGuard for its simplicity. Long before he incorporated WireGuard into Linux, Tovalids said\u00a0 “Can I just once again state my love for it<\/a> and hope it gets merged soon? Maybe the code isn’t perfect, but I’ve skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it’s a work of art.”<\/p>\n

It may be simple, but it supports the most up-to-date cryptography technologies such as the Noise protocol framework<\/a>, Curve25519<\/a>, ChaCha20<\/a>, Poly1305<\/a>, BLAKE2<\/a>, SipHash24<\/a>, and HKD<\/a>. It’s also been shown to be secure by an academic mechanized cryptographic proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final major hurdle WireGuard faced in its acceptance was maintaining compatibility with Linux’s built-in cryptographic subsystem<\/a>. In the end, WireGuard’s primary developer Jason Donenfeld built-in cryptographic compatibility<\/a>. The traditional subsystem also now includes features<\/a> from Donenfeld’s Zinc cryptographic library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While it’s home is on Linux, WireGuard is designed as a general-purpose VPN for everything from Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to supercomputers. It’s also cross-platform with support for the BSD Unixes, MacOS, Windows on computers, and Android and iOS on smartphones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Linux users, who don’t usually touch early Linux kernel builds, will soon be able to give it a try. Donenfeld wrote: “The usual up-to-date distributions like Arch<\/a>, Gentoo<\/a>, and\u00a0Fedora 32<\/a> will be getting WireGuard automatically<\/a> by virtue of having 5.6.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But even if you don’t run leading, bleeding-edge Linux distros like these, you’ll be getting WireGuard soon, too. Donenfeld added: “On the backports front, WireGuard was backported to Ubuntu 20.04<\/a> and Debian Buster<\/a>.” It may end up backported to Linux 5.4, long-term support (LTS) kernel. This will bring WireGuard to almost all 2020 Linux distro releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simple, fast, and secure. WireGuard promises to not only be the future of Linux VPNs but of all VPN programs. Some companies, such as Mullvad VPN<\/a>, are always shipping it. Others, all the others, soon will be.<\/p>\n

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