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author | moscar <moscar@riseup.net> | 2020-07-11 13:12:49 +0200 |
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committer | moscar <moscar@riseup.net> | 2020-07-11 13:12:49 +0200 |
commit | cd663d67bcc58145191cfe9a5bf03521bca8cd2b (patch) | |
tree | 19c63188f59c2826b675a72e04d5b581ea8d7ee2 | |
parent | ab06f1ac4b17678569f3b3499728082a4715f8d4 (diff) |
Small fixes
-rw-r--r-- | pages/about-us/news/2020/wireguard.md | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/pages/about-us/news/2020/wireguard.md b/pages/about-us/news/2020/wireguard.md index 7f839dd..6aee166 100644 --- a/pages/about-us/news/2020/wireguard.md +++ b/pages/about-us/news/2020/wireguard.md @@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ widely used technology that has been around for almost two decades. As most software with enough history it has grown with a lot of features and code complexity. This is great as it has everything that we need to provide a stable service, but at the same time it brings now and then security issues. The -OpenVPN team has been really good on handling them in a timely manner and in +OpenVPN team has been really good at handling them in a timely manner and in LEAP we've been lucky to have designed our VPN in a way that prevented us from -being affected by most of the ones that has appeared in the last years. +being affected by most of the ones that have appeared in the last years. Since a few years there is a newcomer to the free software VPNs: [WireGuard](https://wireguard.com/). WireGuard uses nice modern cryptography -primitives, a pretty simple protocol and a small code base. This makes it very -fast VPN and is probably less prone to security issues. +primitives, a pretty simple protocol and has a small code base. This makes it a very +fast VPN and probably less prone to security issues. If WireGuard is so great why don't we ditch OpenVPN and use WireGuard instead? WireGuard is great, but (yes, there is always a "but") it wasn't designed for -our use case and is not trivial to make it work for us. +our use cases and it is not trivial to make it work for us. WireGuard uses UDP, which is great for speed. But many of our users are in networks that don't allow UDP traffic and for them to be able to connect we need @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ list](https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-March/002496.html), with proposed solutions like using [ssf](https://github.com/securesocketfunneling/ssf), [socat](http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/) or -[udptunnel](http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/udptunnel/). All of them sounds +[udptunnel](http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/udptunnel/). All of them sound a bit hacky, one extra moving piece that can break. Another problem is that WireGuard doesn't provide dynamic IP allocation. We don't know in advance who will be connected to assign static IPs to each client. -We rely on OpenVPN to do it dynamically each time a client connect. In WireGuard +We rely on OpenVPN to do it dynamically each time a client connects. In WireGuard we would need to build some tooling around to do all this IP assignment without the service operators getting the possibility to correlate users and clients to IPs. @@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ preparing a migration to TLS 1.3, that solves this problem by transferring the cert over a forward secret channel. The dynamic IP allocation and the lack of forward secrecy for client identifiers -are being worked on a separated tool named -[wg-dynamic](https://git.zx2c4.com/wg-dynamic/about/docs/idea.md). wg-dynamic +are being worked on in a separate tool named +[wg-dynamic](https://git.zx2c4.com/wg-dynamic/about/docs/idea.md) which does handle the IP allocation and rotates the client identifier. So maybe in the future those will be solved when wg-dynamic becomes more mature. -Right now for us adopting WireGuard will require a lot of development work to +Right now for us adopting WireGuard would require a lot of development work to get around those issues and to get a new technology stable enough to be used in -production. We already have our hands full maintianing the existing service and -prefer to priorize our energies to provide a more stable and smooth VPN. +production. We already have our hands full maintaining the existing service and +prefer to prioritize our energies on providing a more stable and smooth VPN. |