[VertanaNinjai]

Í think their point was that Wireguard has no physical hardware, so it’s strange as a software project they’d be forced to go through verification for a hardware program.

[nine_k]

Because it's a kernel driver anyway?

[anakaine]

Then the program should have been named the kernel level driver verification program.

[literalAardvark]

Mate this is Microsoft. We're lucky it's not called Azure Copilot Verification Program (New)

[UqWBcuFx6NV4r]

Okay. So they can call it the “hardware and WireGuard” program for all I care. The reality is that MS requires this sort of approval / verification process for whatever WireGuard is doing. In true HN fashion everyone loves getting distracted by utter meaningless semantics.

[anakaine]

Those meaningless semantics are part of how this got missed in the first place, and why it caused such an issue. Microsoft is a large company, and a poorly named program created requirements that were missed.

[olyjohn]

It's a virtual network interface. So it's not really hardware, but the computer treats it like it is.