chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An open-source, wire-speed hardware implementation of the WireGuard VPN protocol on a low-cost Artix-7 FPGA, written in Verilog with an open-source toolchain (OpenXC7, Verilator, cocotb). It builds a complete hardware-software SoC including a RISC-V CPU and open Ethernet IP for secure, high-throughput tunneling.

Use cases

• implement wireguard vpn in hardware on an fpga
• line-rate encrypted vpn tunneling beyond software performance
• open-source verilog wireguard gateware for security auditing
• learn fpga networking and rtl design with a real project
• build a low-cost hardware vpn appliance with 1g ethernet ports
• verify no backdoors in a vpn implementation via open rtl

When to choose

• you need wireguard throughput that software implementations cannot reach
• you require a fully open, auditable hardware VPN stack with no proprietary IP blocks
• you want an affordable FPGA platform (Artix-7) supported by open-source tooling
• you are studying or teaching hardware security and RTL networking

When to avoid

• you just need a working VPN on general-purpose hardware - use standard WireGuard software
• you need a turnkey product with vendor support or certification
• you lack FPGA hardware or interest in working with HDL toolchains
• you need multi-100G throughput like the proprietary Alveo-based solutions

Facets

library · maturity active

vpn cryptography networking security embedded security networking privacy hardware embedded-systems embedded self-hosted wireguard fpga verilog risc-v rtl cocotb verilator open-source-hardware artix-7 nlnet linux

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