Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:36 PM Berge Schwebs Bjørlo wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:46:32AM +0100, Phillip McMahon wrote: > > Take a look here > > > > https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide > > > > Would seem to suggest Windows 7 is in decline but

Re: Using WireGuard on Windows as non-admin - proper solution?

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Viktor, I am actually interested in solving this. I took an initial stab at it here, but I'm not super comfortable with the implementation or the security implications: https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows/commit/?h=jd/unprivd-knob Aside from doing this from within our existing UI, the

Using WireGuard on Windows as non-admin - proper solution?

2020-11-12 Thread vh217
Hello, I've been wondering about using WireGuard on Windows as a non-admin user. I have seen Jason's reply in this regard [1] and I understand the rationale. This however effectively means that WireGuard can't be directly used on company-issued machines where users who need to connect to

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:46:32AM +0100, Phillip McMahon wrote: > Take a look here > > https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide > > Would seem to suggest Windows 7 is in decline but still represents > around 25% of OS footprint out there. I read 16% from

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Panagiotis Kalogiratos
It's not really a matter of cost of updating. Windows 10 *STILL* activates using Win7, 8 and 8.1 keys (including OEM licenses implemented via SLIC in BIOS/UEFI by using the COA key on the sticker or directly upgrading an activated Win7 installation). The update is actually free. Stubborn

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:39 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:29 AM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > > > Windows 7 has been EOL'd by Microsoft since January of this year. It > > is no longer receiving security updates or fixes. This email is to get > > the conversation

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Phillip McMahon
actually, they do. it's obsolete. sadly it's still in use at high enough volume that people have to care about it. On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:29 AM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > > > Windows 7 has been EOL'd by Microsoft since January of

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:29 AM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Windows 7 has been EOL'd by Microsoft since January of this year. It > is no longer receiving security updates or fixes. This email is to get > the conversation started about doing the same with WireGuard for > Windows. Microsoft does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Wintun 0.9 Released with Major Usability Improvements

2020-11-12 Thread Guy Godfroy
Just noticed that wintun icon is heavily inspired from french subway warning message "Don't put yout hands on the door" :-) Anyway, great job. Le 09/11/2020 à 17:25, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit : > Hi folks, > > Simon and I are very excited to announce the release of Wintun 0.9, the > release in

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:34:43 +0100 "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > Could you let me know the rationale for your continued use of Windows > 7? Is it economic? Is it just UI preference, and security isn't a > priority to you? Something else? For me, the UI preference absolutely; but security *is*

[ANNOUNCE] wireguard-linux-compat v1.0.20201112 released

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, A new version, v1.0.20201112, of the backported WireGuard kernel module for 3.10 <= Linux <= 5.5.y has been tagged in the git repository. == Changes == * noise: take lock when removing handshake entry from table This is a defense in

wg-quick alternate script

2020-11-12 Thread Ypnose
Good morning, First of all, I would like to thank you kindly for creating WireGuard. It is a wonderful piece of software. My thanks go to Jason, but also to the whole community involved in that project. People tend to forget this kind of work is mostly done during our spare time, it is really

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Philip, On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Phillip McMahon wrote: > > Take a look here > > https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide > > Would seem to suggest Windows 7 is in decline but still represents > around 25% of OS footprint out there. Thanks for

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Phillip McMahon
Take a look here https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide Would seem to suggest Windows 7 is in decline but still represents around 25% of OS footprint out there. On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 09:39, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020

Re: No longer compiles on 5.4.76

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Thanks! Applied. I'll have a new release out today.

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Andrew, On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:29 AM Andrew Fried wrote: > > We recently began deploying clusters of recursive DNS "firewalls" that > use wireguard to secure and authenticate all traffic between the client > and servers. What we quickly learned was that virtually the entire > customer

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Reiner, On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:29 AM Reiner Karlsberg wrote: > I fully understand the intention, to drop support for Win 7. Although I am > still a happy user of it. > I would appreciate a solution, in which further developments of wireguard > still remain backward compatible, > to keep

Re: Add local DNS forwarder to Windows client

2020-11-12 Thread Lech Perczak
Hi, Thing is, most home LANs have dedicated gateways doing this. Running a Windows PC as a home router  is exotic. It might be easier for you to pick up a cheap router which runs OpenWrt and set up it as gateway running Wireguard and local DNS resolver (dnsmasq) too. And even there, local DNS

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Andrew Fried
We recently began deploying clusters of recursive DNS "firewalls" that use wireguard to secure and authenticate all traffic between the client and servers.   What we quickly learned was that virtually the entire customer base in India uses Windows 7 almost exclusively. I can certainly understand

Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?

2020-11-12 Thread Reiner Karlsberg
Am 10.11.2020 um 14:27 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld: Hi, Windows 7 has been EOL'd by Microsoft since January of this year. It is no longer receiving security updates or fixes. This email is to get the conversation started about doing the same with WireGuard for Windows. Supporting Windows 7 is