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WireGuard vanity keygen

by simonpure on 5/19/25, 8:16 PM with 26 comments

• by jkingsman on 5/19/25, 10:56 PM

  I used a similar tool[0] for my SSH key to get a nice suffix to spot it easily.

  [0]: https://github.com/danielewood/vanityssh-go

• by burnt-resistor on 5/19/25, 9:40 PM

  Reminds me of people where I worked having vanity GPG key ids. I'm wondering how much CPU time and on what machines it took to find them.

• by sedatk on 5/20/25, 2:54 AM

  I love that the app has ARM64 builds for Windows. I use a Windows ARM64 laptop daily, and every native ARM64 build I come across brings me joy.

  Take note, Discord.

• by jethro_tell on 5/20/25, 12:50 AM

  Given a situation in which you have a decent way to guess user names, such as ‘first-initial-lastname’ how much entropy does this take away?

  It seems like I’ve seen several of these over the years when a patch to parse comments would probably be simpler and less of an anti-pattern. What am I missing here?

  Edit: or a config dir that allows multiple key files.

• by WarOnPrivacy on 5/20/25, 12:32 AM

  Setup my first WG server last month. WG key gen obligingly put an f-bomb by the front of the key. "You're welcome" I said. True story.

• by kuratkull on 5/20/25, 7:06 AM

  I'd like to see mentions/confirmation that it has top-notch randomness so that nobody else can come up with the same keys.

• by turblety on 5/20/25, 6:24 AM

  Would this run faster on a gpu?