[Anunayj]

I would love to see some benchmarks comparing lightway to Wireguard, OpenVPN and other protocols added to the repo. Specially on Battery usage while idle and Performance over a unstable connection.

Also I don't really get this? This to be looks like just the core library that details the protocol and nothing else around it.

Like this is really just wolfSSL + wire format. You'd still have to write the code for getting the data to the server (Handle all retransmission and other stuff), write clients (possibly kernel modules for layer 3 performance) for all major OS, write a server to handle traffic forwarding. And if you're doing all that, one might as well make their own format. Are there plans to release the other parts separately?

[pmembrey]

We have released a reference implementation that uses Lightway Core to create both a client and a server. It can be found here:

https://github.com/expressvpn/lightway-laser

Lightway Core is designed specifically to be embeddable and to work well on any platform without making assumptions about how that platform works (i.e. OpenVPN assumes a tun-like device).

The comparison to WolfSSL is a good one because it was inspired by their library's design. As WolfSSL is to SSL, Lightway Core is to VPN tunnels. Just like WolfSSL, how you use Lightway Core is really up to you.

For example, if you wanted to create a VPN that connects over Google Sheets or uses DNS messages, you’d be able to do that easily with Lightway Core.