I know it’s a simple program, but a few months ago I wrote a little python script to find prime numbers. The little python script was able to find all the prime numbers up to 10,000,000 in 2:40 minutes. I wonder if rust can beat that?
Following up on my previous posting about the programming language rust, I figured I may as well release the code I have written so far. It’s really been a fun journey, and I don’t claim at all to be a rust expert by any means, but here you go.
Recently, I started using a new language on the block: go. However, I found myself quickly reading about other new languages that have showed up recently within the last few years.
One such language was rust.
In some of my previous posts, I spent some time attempting to squeeze out the best NFS performance as possible from OpenBSD. This time, I wanted to run a similar test, but on Linux and see if the same findings were applicable.
I found the results rather interesting, as they show that Linux is capable of faster transfer speeds than OpenBSD, with much less work. Of course, this doesn’t make me dislike OpenBSD any less (obviously), as the OS is still capable of fast transfers, and I am not building any supercomputers at my home.
Since it has been a couple weeks since first starting to work with wireguard on OpenBSD, I figured it was about time to figure out how to get my OpenBSD desktop to act as a wireguard client. Who knows, perhaps this will one day allow me to drop my PIA VPN and shift exclusively to running my own personal VPN’s.
Well, I am no networking pro. I know there is a wg-quick script out there, but the couple of times that I tried it out on OpenBSD, it failed. I figured that there shouldn’t be that much to a wireguard tunnel, all I have to do is figure out how to establish the tunnel and force data out the tun device.
This is an announcement for a new repo I made on GitHub. Since I am constantly testing new deployments on vultr, I realized that it would make my life easier if I put all of my current projects into one public repo, to ease scripted deployments on Vultr.
This new repo will hopefully be the location of future projects, which may make their way into other public repos of mine. Be warned, it will probably be changing often, and may be broken at times.
In a previous article, I wrote of my OpenBSD-Wireguard ansible configuration that I’ve been using for my personal VPN’s recently.
Using Vultr’s startup scripts in addition to the OpenBSD-Wireguard ansible playbook, one is able to deploy a wireguard VPN to any of Vultr’s datacenters within ten minutes. This includes the OS installation by Vultr, as well as the playbook execution following a final reboot.
Welcome to part two of using WireGuard on OpenBSD! The first post was about the initial release of the project; This followup is about one new role added to the playbook. Now in the initial release, I wasn’t attempting to compile wg or wireguard within the playbook itself. I had just planned to update the binaries every day/week with a cronjob run on one of my servers. However, thank you reddit user techsnapp for pointing out that there is actually a script that wireguard provides to assist in compiling the software on OpenBSD. This post will go over the new role written to reliably download and compile wg, wg-quick, and wireguard-go.
I recently published my OpenBSD-Wireguard project on GitHub. There is now a published wireguard role, found in my OpenBSD Dev repo, found here. Compared to some of my other playbooks, this one is fairly simple. All it does is configure a fresh OpenBSD server to act as a wireguard server, to which multiple connections over one tun3 device are allowed.
I have tested multiple times deploying the playbook in minutes to a Vultr VM. By the way, I would eagerly recommend vultr to anyone looking for a fast yet cheap VPS solution. I have had zero problems while using their services the past few months.
Earlier this week, I was casually discussing various VPN’s with my colleagues. I’ve tried my hand at OpenVPN a couple times in my life, but was turned off by the complicated setup, poor iOS compatibility (at the time), and slow reconnection speeds. The conversation quickly came to revolve around a relative newcomer to the VPN world: wireguard. With the promise of ease of use, minimalistic code base, proven security, wireguard threatens to take the VPN world by storm.