WireGuard Quick Start — by Jason A. Donenfeld (WireGuard)

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The project's own quick start: generate a private and public key pair with the wg tool, create a wg0 interface, assign an address, configure a peer, bring it up and verify with wg show. Keep the private key file readable only by you.

Quick steps

umask 077; wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey
ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard; ip address add dev wg0 192.168.2.1/24
wg setconf wg0 myconfig.conf (or wg set with peer, allowed-ips and endpoint)
ip link set up dev wg0; wg show

Paraphrased from the source. Menus can differ by version, so check the original for full details.

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Source: WireGuard Quick Start by Jason A. Donenfeld (WireGuard). Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
Link checked: 2026-11-02
Tested hands-on: Not by Oddbyte.Me

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