Master's thesis about VPN performance featuring WireGuard

Master's thesis about VPN performance featuring WireGuard

[Paul Emmerich]

Hi,                                                                             

one of my students wrote his Master's Thesis about performance of VPN gateways.
It's available here:
https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/theses/2018-pudelko-vpn-performance.pdf

The thesis features a performance comparison between Wireguard, OpenVPN, and Linux
IPsec. He also implemented several different possible architectures for VPN
gateways and draws some conclusions about possible improvements in Wireguard.

Like most good theses it was written under time pressure close to the deadline,
so there are some rough edges. Despite this I think it's a quite excellent thesis that
I'll be transforming it into a (shorter) journal article later this year, but I've wanted
to share the thesis with you hoping that it's helpful or interesting for some of you.               


 Paul


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Technical University of Munich
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Re: Master's thesis about VPN performance featuring WireGuard

[Aaron Jones]

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On 05/03/2019 16:37, Paul Emmerich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> one of my students wrote his Master's Thesis about performance of 
> VPN gateways.> The thesis features a performance comparison
> between Wireguard, OpenVPN, and Linux IPsec. He also implemented
> several different possible architectures for VPN gateways and draws
> some conclusions about possible improvements in Wireguard.
> 
> Like most good theses it was written under time pressure close to 
> the deadline, so there are some rough edges. Despite this I think 
> it's a quite excellent thesis that I'll be transforming it into a 
> (shorter) journal article later this year, but I've wanted to share
> the thesis with you hoping that it's helpful or interesting for
> some of you.

One of the rough edges is that it refers to peer identities as Ed25519
public keys, but they are in fact Curve25519 public keys; WireGuard
does not use an elliptic-curve signature scheme, but only
elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key agreement.

- -- 
Aaron Jones

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