NepTUN

Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust

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Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust

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kevincox·Dec 19, 2025

BoringTun is unmaintained. There are various forks being developed. I work at Obscura VPN and faced with boringtun bugs a few years ago we evaluated a few of the forks and switched our client to be based on top of NepTUN (https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN). I am curious why Mullvad started their own fork rather than building on top of one of the existing ones. It would be nice if there could be reconsolidation somewhere.

In GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust

tumdum_·Dec 19, 2025

You do know that NordSec maintains its own rust fork of BoringTun: https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN ? :)

In GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust