Utilities

2025

• OpenBSD Wireguard Keygen Script

  Dec 26

  WireGuard has been officially included in OpenBSD as a native, in-kernel implementation since OpenBSD 6.8 released in October 2020.

  It is quite simple to create a private WireGuard key using the “openssl” command. However, the process of key derivation from a known private key isn’t as simple.

  This is a simple little script that I wrote to solve the problem of generating a WireGuard keypair using only the tools from a base install without the need for any additional software: