'No major vulnerabilities' — Mullvad’s WireGuard implementation gets thumbs up from independent security audit

Two minor issues requiring correction were identified and reported, but Mullvad claims to have already resolved them

• New audit found no significant vulnerabilities in Mullvad's GotaTun
• Minor identified issues are already fixed, says Mullvad
• GotaTun replaced the old WireGuard implementation in December

Mullvad VPN's WireGuard implementation, GotaTun, has received the green light in a security audit completed by independent auditors, reporting no significant vulnerabilities.

Written in the Rust programming language, GotaTun is a user-space implementation of the WireGuard network tunneling protocol that Mullvad introduced as an open-source replacement for its previous Go-based implementation.

Implemented in December, shortly before Mullvad’s complete retirement of the OpenVPN protocol, it has so far brought faster performance, longer battery life on mobile devices, and significantly fewer app crashes, making the app much more stable overall.

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