macOS
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installation
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aperçu
Userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust
historique
BoringTun is Cloudflare's Rust userspace implementation of the WireGuard protocol, distributed as both a library and the boringtun-cli command-line tool.
Cloudflare announced BoringTun publicly on March 27, 2019 after evaluating existing WireGuard implementations and choosing Rust for a portable, memory-safe, high-performance userspace implementation. The repository itself was created in October 2018, matching the blog's account that the project had been under development before the source release.
The README describes two deliverables: boringtun-cli for Linux and macOS userspace tunnels, and the boringtun library for client applications that supply their own platform-specific tunnel and network stacks.
BoringTun's adoption story is unusually concrete for a low-level networking library: Cloudflare's README says it is deployed on millions of iOS and Android consumer devices and thousands of Cloudflare Linux servers.
Cloudflare's WARP posts tie BoringTun to the 1.1.1.1/WARP client stack, making it part of a large production VPN deployment rather than only a reference implementation.
As a CLI, boringtun-cli starts a userspace WireGuard tunnel for an interface and can be used with wg and wg-quick through WG_QUICK_USERSPACE_IMPLEMENTATION. As a library, it exposes the WireGuard protocol machinery for clients that implement their own transport and tunnel integration.
Because it is userspace and permissively licensed, BoringTun is useful where the Linux kernel WireGuard module is unavailable or where client apps need portable WireGuard behavior across mobile and desktop platforms.
BoringTun matters to package nerds because it is a Rust networking primitive with a real production pedigree, a split library/CLI shape, and a clear relationship to the broader WireGuard ecosystem.
It also illustrates the packaging distinction between protocol implementation, command-line frontend, and OS integration: installing boringtun-cli gives a binary, but useful operation still depends on TUN devices, WireGuard tooling, and platform networking permissions.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
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exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
boringtun-cli | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
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https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:boringtun |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.1 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/boringtun |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun#readme |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Archive source | https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun/archive/refs/tags/boringtun-0.7.1.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-05-02T04:20:23Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances de compilation | rust |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
| Précautions | boringtun-cli requires root privileges so you will need to run `sudo boringtun-cli utun`. You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges. |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | boringtun |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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