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This tool searches for a WireGuard Curve25519 keypair with a base64-encoded public key that has a specified prefix

6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-02-08 · latest 2026-01-04

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  1. You can get yourself a vanity key using https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key tool: % wireguard-vanity-key -prefix=NAS/ private public attempts duration attempts/s EiBsDB8zt/G4+VWGvxW2ZznNXYmcslcIyJimNR2PpF4=…
  2. …Check out my other vanity generators (they all use crypto/rand): https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/ether
    comment by age123456gpg · 2025-10-30 · in Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy
  3. …I decided to create my own tool. I've implemented first version of https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key and then continuously profiled it to improve performance. From profiling I saw that field inversion
  4. You can create prefixed keys (aka vanity key) for each peer using https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key $ wireguard-vanity-key --prefix=mac/ private public attempts duration attempts/s…
  5. …You seem to be interested in performance engineering - I did some work recently, check this out https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key
    comment by ayastrebov2 · 2025-03-24 · in The Prospero Challenge
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    Show HN: wireguard-vanity-key – find WireGuard keypair with a given prefix
    story by ayastrebov2 · 2025-02-08 · 0 comments