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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Foundations of VPN Sovereignty
- Understanding why commercial VPNs often log metadata and comply with legal demands.
- OpenVPN: A mature, feature-rich solution with TAP/TUN flexibility.
- WireGuard: A modern, minimal architecture delivering high-performance cryptography.
- Selecting the optimal protocol aligned with your specific threat model.
Implementing OpenVPN
- Installing OpenVPN using Easy-RSA for PKI management.
- Configuring the server: setting ciphers, HMAC, TLS-auth, and topology.
- Generating and distributing client configurations.
- Managing revocation and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL).
Deploying WireGuard
- Installing kernel modules and the WireGuard-tools suite.
- Generating keys and configuring peers.
- Managing wg-quick and systemd units for service control.
- Setting up road warrior and site-to-site mesh topologies.
Authentication and Authorization Strategies
- Implementing certificate-based authentication with OpenVPN.
- Integrating LDAP and RADIUS backends.
- Enabling two-factor authentication via TOTP plugins.
- Defining Access Control Lists (ACL) and assigning per-user IPs.
Routing and Network Architecture
- Distinguishing between full tunnel and split tunnel routing.
- Configuring pushed routes, DNS, and WINS settings.
- Applying NAT and masquerading for outbound traffic.
- Implementing Multi-WAN and policy-based routing.
Optimizing Performance and Scaling
- Comparing WireGuard and OpenVPN throughput benchmarks.
- Optimizing for multi-core performance and kernel bypass.
- Load balancing traffic across multiple VPN servers.
- Implementing DDoS protection and connection rate limiting.
Monitoring and Maintenance
- Logging connections and tracking bandwidth usage.
- Integrating with Syslog and Prometheus exporters.
- Automating certificate renewal and setting expiration alerts.
- Planning disaster recovery and configuration backups.
Requirements
- Intermediate proficiency in Linux networking and firewall management.
- Solid understanding of PKI, digital certificates, and encryption standards.
- Knowledge of routing, NAT, and IP forwarding mechanisms.
Target Audience
- Network administrators seeking to transition from commercial VPN providers.
- Remote teams requiring secure, sovereign access capabilities.
- Organizations operating in regions prone to VPN blocking or surveillance.
