WireGuard on Windows early preview

'WireGuard is a new peer-to-peer VPN technology that has the potential
for greater speed, smaller attack surface, and easier configuration
than commonly used and better-established VPN platforms such as
OpenVPN and IPSec. It has been available on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS,
Android, and even iOS for quite some time now, with Windows being the
one platform frustratingly missing. There are good reasons for
that—lead developer Jason Donenfeld didn't want to inherit the
problems of OpenVPN's OpenTAP adapter code, and when he investigated
Microsoft's built-in VPN API, he didn't like that either. So his first
move was to take a giant step backward on the Windows platform and
develop an extremely simple virtual adapter that could be used not
only for WireGuard, but also for other projects that might need the
same kind of very basic, socket-and-tunnel functionality. This became
Wintun.

For the moment, WireGuard for Windows is still in what creator Jason
Donenfeld refers to as "pre-alpha," with an alpha build due out
sometime in the next week or two. The good news is that it's an easy
install now, with no dev-fu required to get it running happily on a
Windows 10 (or Server 2016, as seen below) system. There are
self-contained, signed MSI installers for both 64-bit and 32-bit
builds there; downloading and running them just works, with no
complaints from Defender about unsigned or untrusted anything. I was
curious about what makes v0.0.14 "pre-alpha" rather than merely
"alpha." Donenfeld told me one reason he called it pre-alpha was to
keep journalists like me (as well as the generally unadventurous) from
writing about it before it's ready.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/taking-a-spin-on-wireguards-windows-pre-alpha/

Here's the link the article covering the Linux version:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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