Getting Started with WireGuard on Debian 12
WireGuard has become my go-to VPN solution for connecting remote machines. It’s fast, simple, and the configuration is refreshingly minimal compared to OpenVPN or IPSec. Why WireGuard? After years of wrestling with OpenVPN configs, WireGuard feels like a breath of fresh air: Performance: Runs in kernel space, significantly less overhead Simplicity: A single config file per interface Modern cryptography: ChaCha20, Curve25519, BLAKE2s — no cipher negotiation headaches Small codebase: ~4,000 lines of code vs. OpenVPN’s ~100,000+ Installation On Debian 12 (Bookworm), WireGuard is available directly: ...