chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga
Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and privacy, nothing is private in our codebase. Our door is wide open for backdoor scrutiny, be it related to RTL, embedded, build, bitstream or any other aspect of design and delivery package. Bujrum!
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 276 days ago, with 11 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 126% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a full hardware Wireguard VPN on low-cost Artix7 FPGA using open-source tools and SystemVerilog for wire-speed encrypted network tunneling.
- Delivers an open-source, affordable FPGA-based Wireguard solution without proprietary IP, enabling transparent security and privacy with hardware acceleration.
- Use for developing and testing FPGA-accelerated VPN data planes with integrated RISC-V soft CPU control for embedded security applications.
- Use for academic or research projects requiring open-source hardware VPN implementations with detailed co-simulation and verification environments.
- Use for building custom, high-performance secure network devices that require wire-speed encryption and decryption on commodity FPGA platforms.
Should you depend on it?
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License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are the central and indispensable component of Internet security. They comprise a set of technologies that connect geographically dispersed, heterogeneous networks through encrypted tunnels, creating the impression of a homogenous private network on the public shared physical medium.
With traditional solutions (such as OpenVPN / IPSec) starting to run out of steam, Wireguard is increasingly coming to the forefront as a modern, secure data tunneling and encryption method, one that's also easier to manage than the incumbents. Both software and hardware implementations of Wireguard already exist. However, the software performance is far below the speed of wire. Existing hardware approaches are both prohibitively expensive and based on proprietary, closed-source IP blocks and tools.
We have contributed to the Blackwire project, which is a 100Gbps hardware implementation of Wireguard switch based on AMD/Xilinx-proprietary AlveoU50 PC-accelerator card (SmartNIC form-factor), and implementable only with proprietary Vivado toolchain.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
38+4
Open issues
34+29
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| chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga | 1.4K | — | 25 | 276 days ago |
| Category median | 38.7K | +399 | 60 | — |
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