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Course Outline
Fundamentals of VPN Sovereignty
- Reasons why commercial VPNs log metadata and comply with legal requests.
- OpenVPN: Mature, feature-rich, with TAP/TUN flexibility.
- WireGuard: Modern, minimal, offering high-performance cryptography.
- Selecting the appropriate protocol for your threat model.
OpenVPN Deployment
- Installing OpenVPN with Easy-RSA PKI.
- Server configuration: cipher, HMAC, TLS-auth, and topology.
- Generating and distributing client configurations.
- Managing revocation and CRL.
WireGuard Deployment
- Installing kernel modules and WireGuard-tools.
- Generating keys and configuring peers.
- Using wg-quick and systemd for unit management.
- Implementing road warrior and site-to-site mesh topologies.
Authentication and Authorization
- Certificate-based authentication with OpenVPN.
- Integrating LDAP and RADIUS backends.
- Adding two-factor authentication via TOTP plugins.
- Setting up access control lists and per-user IP allocation.
Routing and Network Design
- Comparing full tunnel versus split tunnel routing.
- Configuring push routes, DNS, and WINS.
- Using NAT and masquerading for egress traffic.
- Implementing Multi-WAN and policy-based routing.
Performance and Scaling
- Comparing throughput benchmarks between WireGuard and OpenVPN.
- Optimizing for multi-core CPUs and kernel bypass.
- Load balancing across multiple VPN servers.
- Implementing DDoS protection and connection rate limiting.
Monitoring and Maintenance
- Logging connections and accounting for bandwidth.
- Integrating Syslog and Prometheus exporters.
- Automating certificate renewal and setting up expiration alerts.
- Preparing for disaster recovery and backing up configurations.
Requirements
- Intermediate knowledge of Linux networking and firewall administration.
- Understanding of PKI, certificates, and encryption protocols.
- Familiarity with routing, NAT, and IP forwarding.
Audience
- Network administrators looking to replace commercial VPN services.
- Remote work teams requiring secure, sovereign access.
- Organizations operating in regions with VPN blocking or surveillance.
14 Hours
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