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# Getting started with WireGuard

# About WireGuard

WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. 

* Official Website: https://www.wireguard.com
* Underlying OS: CentOS 6.7 Server (64 Bit)
* Installer Copyright: https://github.com/Cloudcone/wireguard-install

### Minimum System Requirements

* 1 vCPU Core 
* 512 MB RAM
* 5 GB of Disk

# Getting Started

1) Once the application is installed, download the Connection profile using an FTP/SCP software like [WinSCP](https://winscp.net/eng/download.php) for Windows or [CyberDuck ](https://cyberduck.io/download/) for macOS

2) Login to your server, and download the connection profile (example.conf) from the root directory. 

* Host name: {your-server-ip}
* User name: root
* Password: {your-server-root-password}

|| Replace {your-server-ip} with your server's IP address and {your-server-root-password} with your server's root password

![WinSCP Login Screen](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2d4cd5516f670e00/image_10aqsxa.png)

3) Afterwards, you can go ahead and install it on your computer to tunnel your connection through your new VPN.

![WireGuard](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/2d4cd5516f670e00/image_n461w5.png)

Each device that you use should have it's own user on the VPN server to run reliably. Run the following command on your server through a SSH client like [PuTTY](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html) for Windows or [Terminal](https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/open-or-quit-terminal-apd5265185d-f365-44cb-8b09-71a064a42125/mac) on macOS to add more users or remove some of them.

```bash wireguard-install.sh```
### Application Downloads

Windows/Android/iOS and macOS VPN client software
https://www.wireguard.com/install/

### Important files and documents

WireGuard official whitepaper can be found here: https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf