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		api on March 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JIT WireGuard Wireguard is more or less just Noise (IK I think) for IP packets. It wouldn’t make much sense for files since there is no counterparty. File encryption is done differently. Edit: http://noiseprotocol.org/

actionfromafar on March 13, 2024 [–]

Aren’t encrypted files like noise?

ramchip on March 14, 2024 | [–]

Noise has one-way handshake patterns for things like file encryption, but the pattern implemented by Wireguard is an interactive one. Compare sections 7.4 and 7.5 in the spec.

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