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emmelaich on April 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Getting Started with WireGuard

Not generally understood but .. my analogy is the castle and the keep.

The keep has a smaller attack surface than the castle. Of course if the keep is compromised, your security just failed, dramatically.

tptacek on April 7, 2020 [–]

Not in this case; what you're talking about here is putting more apertures into the keep.

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