Installing Wireguard on a Rasbperry Pi 3 Running Octoprint and Windows

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:28:19 -0400

First Things First – What’s the Point?

Why would you want to setup wireguard in the first place? Simply put – it makes life easier. What wireguard is a VPN, what this means it that it allows you to open up a secure tunnel through the internet from one point to another. Think of it like a concrete tunnel running through the ocean– no one can see into the tunnel, and you are protected from all of the sharks. A vpn is really the only secure way to connect to something which is on your home network when you are not on your home network, as the only hole it opens up in your network is protected by crypographic keys, which, until everyone has a quantum computer, is virtually uncrackable. Thus this allows you to access you Octoprint setup from anywhere in the world without having a hole in your network a country mile wide.

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Installing Wireguard on a Rasbperry Pi 3 Running Octoprint and Windows

First Things First – What’s the Point?