Neorouter review software#

Neorouter review software#

Obviously complexity is not ideal, but in developing software for the real world there’s a tradeoff between simplicity and future proofing (say to transition from one vulnerable algorithm to another uncompromised one). This is why existing protocols are more complex. I have worked on similar projects before, but I worry that this approach of hard coding algorithms is potentially limiting the protocol’s ability to adapt to the future. But WireGuard is simpler, which proponents say reduces the chances for mistakes both by WireGuard’s developers and by users.

That may make it less flexible-IPsec and the open source OpenVPN software have more features than WireGuard. WireGuard is what techies call “opinionated.” Instead of presenting endless options, it makes some decisions for you. But Ptacek argues that supporting multiple encryption schemes makes the software more complex and introduces more room for bugs. For example, other VPN systems, such as IPSec, a VPN protocol defined by the standards body the Internet Engineering Task Force in the 1990s, lets users choose among several encryption algorithms. Donenfeld was able to draw on lessons from decades of VPN and encryption software.