Update on September 30, 2024: This VPN guide is out of date. Instead, check out TechCrunch skeptics’ guide to VPNs that can help you decide if a VPN is right for you, including how to set up your own ...

Lightweight functions without Linux.

WireGuard is faster, lighter, and more secure than previous VPN encryption standards, but it has some drawbacks, too. We help you decide if the new security protocol is right for you. I'm a senior ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

WireGuard didn’t just enter the VPN scene quietly; it kicked the door down. With blazing-fast speeds and a codebase that’s 100x leaner than OpenVPN, it has quickly become the protocol of choice for ...

The lean-coded, fast, modern, and secure WireGuard VPN protocol has made it into the Linux kernel as Linus Torvalds merged it into his source tree for version 5.6. The wait is closely coming to an end ...

Mullvad’s New WireGuard Implementation Put to the Test in Latest Audit ...

Following our earlier WireGuard coverage, commercial VPN provider IVPN‘s chief marketing officer reached out to me to let me know his company was adding WireGuard support to its offering and asked if ...

OpenVPN in TCP mode is the only one that would work over TOR. It might be slow to the point of nit being usable. Click to expand... OpenVPN in TCP mode is definitely pokier than in UDP mode, but I ...