I haven't gotten the time to look into the code very much yet, but am I the only one who's getting the creeps from this? Where is the catch in all of this?
Is WireGuard part of a government ops?
Kevin Wood
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Nathan Brown
its buttnet
Justin Williams
stay away from it
Easton Foster
Maybe both Torvalds, the Senator, and the Arstechnica writer all value their privacy and have found WireGuard to be very good?
If something new came out and it was better than what was used previously, and more secure, don't you think people would be voicing their opinion in favor of it?
No no no, what am I saying? Of course it's a grand conspiracy to weaken VPNs and snoop on your 8ch posts.
Christian Fisher
What's the problem with Torvalds shilling it?
Aaron Butler
yeah it's totally gov ops that's why they started putting it inside LINUX and not in windows right? after all the whole population uses Linux, right OP?
Andrew Gutierrez
If the senator you're talking about is Ron Wyden, he's one of the few people in congress who actually know something about privacy and technology and has a good track record opposing state surveillance, the Patriot Act, SOPA/PIPA, etc.
Cameron Perry
As soon as I saw the quote from a "US Senator" I knew two things:
1. It was Ron Wyden.
2. OP has no fucking idea who Ron Wyden is.
Says it all, really.
Parker Ross
Linux has the highest server distribution.
Elijah Cruz
OP and you are both goddamned fucking retarded, but OP is a paranoid nutjob that freaks out because Torvalds just sent an email and he didn't see his face, and amerifags government is insanely corrupt and disrespectful of privacy, whereas you are a faggot with no reasoning ability whatsoever. I don't agree with him but god I'd put my money on him over your incompetent ass any day.
Gabriel Hughes
how will it affect the Linux ecosystem
have you looked at source code
only way to really find out how it works out
Torvalds apparently has
Elijah Walker
OP may or may not be stupid, but he's definitely ignorant. You, on the other hand, are a fucking idiot.
like, man toke i don't have time for that politics stuff toke like i'm just livin my life man who cares what some suit thinks, man, like what toke has he done for decriminalization, man, like legalize it man 420 BLAZE IT
Kill yourself.
Luis Perez
I WAS REFERRING TO HIM INVALIDATING OPs OPINION BECAUSE HE DIDN'T THOROUGHLY VET THE CODE HIMSELF YET YOU STUPID ASS NIGGER
Wyatt Moore
Wireguard:
I'll be passing on this one, at least until the OpenBSD guys write a compatible suite, which they won't bother doing if it's flawed or doesn't catch on.
Linus glows in the dark, BTW, and has since he sold Transmeta to the Deep State and they took it black.
Luis Rodriguez
No. Wireguard relies on thoroughly vetted cryptographic primitives. The protocol has been formally verified.
So? So is IPsec in OpenBSD, and you're one of those faggots whose not happy unless his tonsils are resting on an OpenBSD dev's glans at all times.
Meaningless memeing. Hate Wyden all you want, but he's not even remotely a communist. As for him being a cuck, I have no idea about his personal life, but while I find cuckoldry distasteful, it has nothing to do with Wireguard.
It says quite clearly on the Wireguard homepage that the software is still a work in progress and that the code should not (yet) be relied on. This is a valid reason not to use Wireguard (yet), it's the reason I'm not using it (yet), and it's the only semi-intelligent thing in your entire post.
They're already working on it.
OpenBSD is the project that unknowingly hired an FBI mole to write their IPsec stack. They're not gods, no matter how much they make you swoon, buddy.
Adrian Taylor
Bump
Chase Butler
(((pure coincidence)))
Chase Powell
They really need to get some fresh blood down there at Shill Central.
Jeremiah Sanders
And you pointing this out without any rebuttal is a sophic move?
Michael Lee
This. Bump.
Jackson Nguyen
...
Ethan Watson
Not an argument
Ryan Wood
This from the guy who left a flawed random number generator in his kernel for over a decade.
Jaxson Mitchell
I don't think being a bad coder is bad, but the shier tenacity at which Linus defended it for "muh backwards compatibility" was amazing. It's almost as if having broken randomization was useful to someone...
Really gets those almonds activated, no?
Nathaniel Brown
He argumented while you meme'd. This makes you the shill here.
Joshua Allen
It's made by a Gentoo dev who also made pass, nightmare material for Pottery.
Daniel Perez
Linus glows in the dark, this much is nearly certain. As Redhat moves more of system d into the kernel we'll see similar shenanigans as vuln after vuln is discovered and not just as PID 0, but inside the kernel.
I've seen my future and it's OpenBSD and 9front.
Colton Lee
It's amazing how all it took was one email on their mailing list to sustain FUD for decades.
OpenBSD audited their stack after that email and found nothing.
marc.info
tl;dr, yes some dude probably wrote a backdoor but it's highly unlikely it got merged into the main OpenBSD branch.
I am happy to hear the OpenBSD guys are working on a wireguard suite, I have found their configs and utils to be much more sane than linux alternatives.
Jason Johnson
>marc.info
nice damage control KEK
Ryan Cox
Never heard of Arstechnica in my life. Is it (((compromised)))? who owns it?
Nathaniel Anderson
XDDDD
>>>/reddit/
Alexander Campbell
Literally what problems were there with VPNs? I haven't been paying attention. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like OpenVPN is full of bugs. And since it's a US Senator, this is probably about business use for VPNs, not for using them as a proxy. So, stuff like VPN authentication.
Jaxson Morales
torvalds is on our side
senate and aTechnica aren't
Camden Jackson
Code Nast snapped it up. Yes, that counts as compromised in every sense of the word.
Kayden Baker
*Conde Nast. They're a big media conglomerate and they actually bought and ran reddit for a while.
Adrian Reyes
wireguard's implementation is only 4000 lines compared to the massive codebase of openvpn. The fewer lines the smaller the chance for bugs is.
Isaiah Richardson
oh okay, off i go to install it then
Robert Carter
literally the most intelligent thing said in this thread so far.
It would be *so much easier* to hide a backdoor or just an accidental vuln in a codebase as huge as openvpn's than it would a 4k line kernel module
Michael Stewart
can you trust linus torvalds ?
I dunno, i'd say I was a fan but sometimes he'll say something like this: youtu.be
Connor Gomez
Has any of you LARPers spent 5 seconds looking at the code, the bug trackers, or anything but "he said she said" gossip?