Thursday, March 30, 2023

Re: L2TP vs Wireguard for tunneling (not for VPN)

Den fre 31 mars 2023 kl 00:03 skrev Polarian <polarian@polarian.dev>:
> So whenever you do research into the topic of what protocol to use for
> tunneling the idea of VPN will always come up. L2TP is considered
> obsolete and insecure, however I see a lot of ISPs still use it to pass
> traffic from one source to another.
> Now the two questions come up, privacy or speed. Being OpenBSD privacy
> is the number one priority, and as far as the benchmarks and studies
> show, wireguard has the fastest encryption and also security.
> On the other hand, it appears L2TP, although insecure as a VPN, is still
> a very fast method of passing traffic around.
>
> What protocol (and software) do you guys recommend me to deploy? and

I would suggest going with wireguard, but even if you don't agree it
sounds kind of easy for you to build both and benchmark them to see if
the added security of wireguard actually makes a noticeable impact or
not. My guess is "probably not".

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