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Mullvad plans to remove support for OpenVPN in little over a year, on 2026-01-15(mullvad.net)

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Support will be removed on both client and server side.

The process of removing OpenVPN from our app starts today and may be completed much earlier.

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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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Wireguard is more elegant and performant, and has a smaller attack surface. OpenVPN, meanwhile, is a legacy protocol, and retiring it should be a good thing.

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dhtseany@lemmy.ml
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And when exactly did we declare openvpn a legacy protocol?

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Rogue@feddit.uk
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About the same time VPN platforms started migrating away from it

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I feel like that’s kind of a case of circular reasoning though: we move away from it because it’s legacy, and it’s legacy because we’re moving away from it… Mind you, I’m no expert on VPNs; this is just something I thought I’d bring to attention here.

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