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### Table of contents
* [About Wiretrustee](#about-wiretrustee)
* [Why Wireguard with Wiretrustee?](#why-wireguard-with-wiretrustee)
* [Wiretrustee vs. Traditional VPN](#wiretrustee-vs-traditional-vpn)
* [About Netbird](#about-netbird)
* [Why Wireguard with Netbird?](#why-wireguard-with-netbird)
* [Netbird vs. Traditional VPN](#netbird-vs-traditional-vpn)
* [High-level technology overview](#high-level-technology-overview)
* [Getting started](#getting-started)
### About Wiretrustee
### About Netbird
Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of [WireGuard®](https://www.wireguard.com/) making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
Netbird is an open-source VPN platform built on top of [WireGuard®](https://www.wireguard.com/) making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, vpn gateways, and so forth.
There is no centralized VPN server with Wiretrustee - your computers, devices, machines, and servers connect to each other directly over a fast encrypted tunnel.
There is no centralized VPN server with Netbird - your computers, devices, machines, and servers connect to each other directly over a fast encrypted tunnel.
It literally takes less than 5 minutes to provision a secure peer-to-peer VPN with Wiretrustee. Check our [Quickstart Guide Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTsGUJAUaU) to see the setup in action.
It literally takes less than 5 minutes to provision a secure peer-to-peer VPN with Netbird. Check our [Quickstart Guide Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTsGUJAUaU) to see the setup in action.
### Why Wireguard with Wiretrustee?
### Why Wireguard with Netbird?
WireGuard is a modern and extremely fast VPN tunnel utilizing state-of-the-art [cryptography](https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/)
and Wiretrustee uses Wireguard to establish a secure tunnel between machines.
and Netbird uses Wireguard to establish a secure tunnel between machines.
Built with simplicity in mind, Wireguard ensures that traffic between two machines is encrypted and flowing, however, it requires a few things to be done beforehand.
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The undertakings mentioned above might not be complicated if you have just a few machines, but the complexity grows as the number of machines increases.
Wiretrustee simplifies the setup by automatically generating private and public keys, assigning unique private IP addresses, and takes care of sharing public keys between the machines.
Netbird simplifies the setup by automatically generating private and public keys, assigning unique private IP addresses, and takes care of sharing public keys between the machines.
It is worth mentioning that the private key never leaves the machine.
So only the machine that owns the key can decrypt traffic addressed to it.
The same applies also to the relayed traffic mentioned below.
Furthermore, Wiretrustee ensures connectivity by leveraging advanced [NAT traversal techniques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal)
Furthermore, Netbird ensures connectivity by leveraging advanced [NAT traversal techniques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal)
and removing the necessity of port forwarding, opening holes in the firewall, and having a public static IP address.
In cases when a direct peer-to-peer connection isn't possible, all traffic is relayed securely between peers.
Wiretrustee also monitors the connection health and restarts broken connections.
Netbird also monitors the connection health and restarts broken connections.
There are a few more things that we are working on to make secure private networks simple. A few examples are ACLs, MFA and activity monitoring.
Check out the WireGuard [Quick Start](https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/) guide to learn more about configuring "plain" WireGuard without Wiretrustee.
Check out the WireGuard [Quick Start](https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/) guide to learn more about configuring "plain" WireGuard without Netbird.
### Wiretrustee vs. Traditional VPN
### Netbird vs. Traditional VPN
In the traditional VPN model, everything converges on a centralized, protected network where all the clients are connecting to a central VPN server.
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Traditional centralized VPNs are often compared to a [castle-and-moat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moat) model
in which once accessed, user is trusted and can access critical infrastructure and resources without any restrictions.
Wiretrustee decentralizes networks using direct point-to-point connections, as opposed to traditional models.
Netbird decentralizes networks using direct point-to-point connections, as opposed to traditional models.
Consequently, network performance is increased since traffic flows directly between the machines bypassing VPN servers or gateways.
To achieve this, Wiretrustee client applications employ signalling servers to find other machines and negotiate connections.
To achieve this, Netbird client applications employ signalling servers to find other machines and negotiate connections.
These are similar to the signaling servers used in [WebRTC](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API/Signaling_and_video_calling#the_signaling_server)
Thanks to [NAT traversal techniques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal),
outlined in the [Why not just Wireguard?](#why-wireguard-with-wiretrustee) section above,
Wiretrustee installation doesn't require complex network and firewall configuration.
outlined in the [Why not just Wireguard?](#why-wireguard-with-netbird) section above,
Netbird installation doesn't require complex network and firewall configuration.
It just works, minimising the maintenance effort.
Finally, each machine or device in the Wiretrustee network verifies incoming connections accepting only the trusted ones.
Finally, each machine or device in the Netbird network verifies incoming connections accepting only the trusted ones.
This is ensured by Wireguard's [Crypto Routing concept](https://www.wireguard.com/#cryptokey-routing).
### High-level technology overview
In essence, Wiretrustee is an open source platform consisting of a collection of systems, responsible for handling peer-to-peer connections, tunneling and network management (IP, keys, ACLs, etc).
In essence, Netbird is an open source platform consisting of a collection of systems, responsible for handling peer-to-peer connections, tunneling and network management (IP, keys, ACLs, etc).
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<img src="media/high-level-dia.png" alt="high-level-dia" width="781"/>
</p>
Wiretrustee uses open-source technologies like [WireGuard®](https://www.wireguard.com/), [Pion ICE (WebRTC)](https://github.com/pion/ice), [Coturn](https://github.com/coturn/coturn),
and [software](https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee) developed by Wiretrustee authors to make it all work together.
Netbird uses open-source technologies like [WireGuard®](https://www.wireguard.com/), [Pion ICE (WebRTC)](https://github.com/pion/ice), [Coturn](https://github.com/coturn/coturn),
and [software](https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird) developed by Netbird authors to make it all work together.
To learn more about Wiretrustee architecture, please refer to the [architecture section](../docs/architecture.md).
To learn more about Netbird architecture, please refer to the [architecture section](../docs/architecture.md).
### Getting Started
There are 2 ways of getting started with Wiretrustee:
There are 2 ways of getting started with Netbird:
- use Cloud Managed version
- self-hosting
We recommend starting with the cloud managed version hosted at [app.wiretrustee.com](https://app.wiretrustee.com) - the quickest way to get familiar with the system.
We recommend starting with the cloud managed version hosted at [app.netbird.io](https://app.netbird.io) - the quickest way to get familiar with the system.
See [Quickstart Guide](../docs/quickstart.md) for instructions.
If you don't want to use the managed version, check out our [Self-hosting Guide](../docs/self-hosting.md).