Subject: Re: NNCP road warrior

From: Jonathan Lane <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 21:00:27 +0000

On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 02:26:43PM +0300, Sergey Matveev wrote:
> >Wireguard is also much faster than Tor or even OpenVPN.
> 
> [boring mode on :-)]
> It should not be comparable with Tor: they solve completely different
> tasks. It will be faster anyway, because it is direct point to point
> tunnel. OpenVPN will be slower at least because of its ancient slow
> cryptographic algorithms.
> 
> -- 
> Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)

It's true that Tor does a completely different thing, but John brought
up the raw performance envelope comparison, which is why I thought
Wireguard was worth a mention.  And yes, OpenVPN has many slownesses
baked into the design.  IIRC the Wireguard developers wrote a whitepaper
about it explaining why they needed to build Wireguard in the first
place.

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