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Is WireGuard faster than OpenVPN on Reddit?

I'm looking at WireGuard now.

A friend of mine has used WireGuard and OpenVPN and told me it was faster in general. Is there any truth to this? I'm asking because I'm looking into changing from PPTP and want to know if it's worth switching to WireGuard before I change. Also does WireGuard allow a tunnel for multiple apps? ie do they offer multi-accounts like OpenVPN? I understand with OpenVPN, you can use the same key for multiple servers (or use a unique key), but is this possible with WireGuard? Thanks. 1 Answer.
WireGuard doesn't provide any form of mutual authentication, so you can't really trust that any given server can be trusted. Therefore you can't trust that your private key will stay private, which means you shouldn't even bother creating a new key pair if you've already spent that kind of money on a server.

WireGuard doesn't provide any other form of security, such as TLS or a Diffie-Hellman exchange for setting the encryption key. There are some features of WireGuard that could conceivably create a strong enough protocol that it could be considered an alternative to OpenVPN, such as the ability to negotiate and set encryption keys over the network. However, that requires knowing what those exact capabilities of WireGuard are before one can decide whether it's worthy of the name "secure VPN".

Your best bet is to look up the WireGuard website, read through the documentation, and see what the feature sets are that it can offer. Then decide for yourself if that's a sufficient security protocol for you. Most cloud providers allow 1-2 simultaneous connections anyway, so you'll save money using the more expensive OpenVPN instance.

If you don't have the money for a dedicated virtual server, then you can use a paid VPS provider that gives you access to an OpenVPN-compatible instance. As a general rule, using a paid service means you'll lose any privacy advantage and potentially some privacy concerns if the provider records your traffic and logs it.

Should I use WireGuard with Surfshark?

This post will compare the network performance of two VPN services.

I've been using them for over a year now.

My original choice for VPN services was an application called Surfshark that offers unlimited traffic. I chose that over OpenVPN because I liked the idea of a VPN service that allows me to route the connection through a server in Russia (at least this way it felt like they were doing something for the whole world). After a few weeks, though, I found it to be a frustrating mess of setup requirements and inconsistent network connections.

In addition to that issue, Surfshark only allows you to forward ports on a specific IP. For example, at work I am only allowed to use port 22 for ssh. This means there is no way to use this app when outside the house, or when I travel and need the ability to make outbound connections through a proxy.

The WireGuard client has solved all these problems for me. WireGuard is free software, simple to set up, offers more granular control, and has better network performance.

I decided to set up WireGuard with Tincid, an existing client that I already use for the OpenVPN application. I wanted to be able to start with a clean test environment so as not to inadvertently corrupt my normal Tincid configuration or get other apps confused.

Setting up WireGuard isn't nearly as easy as setting up OpenVPN, but it's still pretty straightforward. First, install the server software (you'll need about 2GB of disk space for the software). Then, download and unzip the wireguard installation scripts from You'll need to change to your home directory when you enter the files:

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Cd /home/username. The default directory is /home//Downloads but you can change that with the -d parameter when running the scripts. The next step is to edit the start.sh file.

Sudo nano start.sh You can scroll to the bottom of the file and comment out the wireguard-server section. This will prevent the machine from autostarting the server each time. Then, uncomment the line referring to the user you want to run the server as. Mine is

If you didn't change the location of the .