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WhyNotHugo • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Not sure why you'd vibe-code a new VPN protocol, double ratchet or otherwise, when you can just take WireGuard and make a new transport for it.

Why TFA explains it, it's also in the title: "stealth". WireGuard is trivial to detect and block, and has no aspirations at being stealth.


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ronsor • yesterday at 10:49 PM

He literally acknowledged that:

> WireGuard by itself is not a stealth VPN, but the things that make a VPN "stealthy" are all things you'd layer on top of a WireGuard design, not thread through the middle of it. A datagram-based protocol can run under any obscured transport.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r • yesterday at 11:02 PM

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