If you have been following along on my Gain Flexibility & Increase Privacy with WireGuard VPN “mini-course”, you’ll notice that there are a few areas that we need apply configurations in order for our devices to get connected.

Typing all of this in manually on mobile can be a massive pain, especially if you are supporting a remote device for a user.

QR Codes to the rescue!

We can use QR codes to send VPN configuration files out. This is brilliant engineering on WireGuard’s part.

Prerequisites

• You need a working Ubuntu 20.04 WireGuard VPN Server (learn how to set that up here)
• You will need the qrencode package installed on your server

Installing the package is easy. Run this command on your SERVER:

sudo apt install qrencode

I am continuing my “mini-course” on Gain Flexibility & Increase Privacy with WireGuard VPN. If you haven’t seen that, that link is a great place to start. What you’ll achieve We will be connecting our macOS client to send traffic through our Ubuntu 20.04 WireGuard VPN server This is what it looks like: Prerequisites You […]

This post belongs to my “mini-course” on Gain flexibility & increase privacy with WireGuard VPN. I’ll only be walking through how to set up a client for WireGuard on Windows 10. If you don’t have a server (or even if you already have one), definitely start from the top. I make a few assumptions and […]

This post is a continuation of my free mini-course on Gain flexibility & increase privacy with WireGuard VPN. This post focuses on installing WireGuard VPN Server on Ubuntu 20.04 only. If you are new to WireGuard VPN, I highly encourage you to start from the top. If you are all set, let’s get to it! […]

VPNs have exploded in use over the last few years. We all know it increases our privacy, but there are a lot of crap VPN solutions out there too. WireGuard is the latest “cool kid” to come to the VPN block and it shows up with a lot of promises: It’s lightweight: WireGuard uses 4,000 […]