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.
TL;DR They are moving to wireguard only.
I’m ok with that.
Except the 5 device limit. With OVPN it means 5 connected devices, with WG it means 5 registered public keys.
Say you use the official Mullvad app and also setup some 3rd party WG client on your phone. That’s now taking up 2 devices. Or perhaps you do have 6 devices, but you never have more than 2 of them running at once. With WG, that’s still 6 devices regardless of them being connected or not, while with OVPN it will indeed be just 2 devices.
Can you not use the same keys for multiple devices like you’d normally be able to?
Not at the same time as they would conflict.
That’s true. I use user profiles on GrapheneOS and have to have each profile count as its own device in Mullvad, when obviously I’m not going to be using them simultaneously.
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.
And when exactly did we declare openvpn a legacy protocol?
About the same time VPN platforms started migrating away from it
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.
That’s what makes software legacy; it falls out of popularity. Plenty of terminal applications have barely changed since the 80s, but they’re not “legacy” because they’re actively used and maintained.
Well thats the day I stop using them wtf
mullvad is overrated, i agree. use riseup, calyx, strongswan
Why? Wireguard i a great protocol and Mullvad best in class with regards to privacy.
Because openvpn works easier in complex setups like Qubes or Ubiquity
any good wireguard documenation? only found few random company blog, some stackoverflow and reddit.
If wire guard is just bettr then I don’t see any reason to suport OpenVPN anyway.
i can’t get wire guard to work on my home network so it is not better for me
edit: to be fair my internet connection is being tapped and recorded by law enforcement so i am assuming that is the problem.
How are you trying to using WG? I had issues with wg quick up or whatever it is, not bothered to check, but adding wireguard connections as NetworkManager interfaces works flawlessly for me.
Is that with any vpn provider? or hosting your own? And that is kind of a shame I guess you just won’t be able to use Mullvad vpn, good thing there are heaps of other options.
Legacy devices with OpenVPN support only.
I can’t get WG to work in Qubes. OpenVPN just works
That’s kind of weird, because the reason why I never bothered with (selfhosted) VPNs before Wireguard was because it was the first one that just worked. Granted, due to its nature, you don’t get a lot of feedback when things don’t work, but it’s so simple in principle that there’s not a lot that can go wrong. For external VPNs like this, it should just be: Load config, double-check, done.
