18.WifiCutout Landscape

Even the best of ideas can take their own sweet time making it into the Linux kernel. Learn how WireGuard - rather than OpenVPN or IKEv2 - made it into the Linux kernel.

Maybe someday – maybe – Zero Trust will solve many of our network security problems. But for now, if you want to make sure you don't have an eavesdropper on your network, you need a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

There's only one little problem with commercial VPNs: many of them are untrustworthy. So, what can you do? Well, run your own of course is the open-source answer. And, today, your VPN of choice is Linux's built-in VPN: WireGuard.