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mojyackon Shortwire: The smallest VPN that connects two computers via the Internet

I've made some improvements to shortwire, including support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 in addition to AES.

It may not perfect, but I think it's a lot better.

mojyackon Shortwire: The smallest VPN that connects two computers via the Internet

Of course, I think WireGuard is more robust and powerful. But I wanted a tool that was simple and quick to set up. And it's a great way to learn about networking.

mojyackon Shortwire: The smallest VPN that connects two computers via the Internet

You can use my server written in the README.

the peer-linker's source can be found here https://github.com/mojyack/peer-linker

The documentation is not ready yet, but I will write it soon.

mojyackon Shortwire: The smallest VPN that connects two computers via the Internet

Author here. Thanks for pointing out the security issue! I'm a novice in cryptography, and the encryption used in this program was just an idea I came up with. I'm going to learn a bit more, but if you have any good ideas for improvements, could you let me know?