Python Wrapper for wireguard-tools

[Mo Balaa]

We also wrap wg command and provide a high level config interface via
Python for our personal networking framework, Noteworthy.

See https://github.com/decentralabs/noteworthy/blob/master/plugins/wireguard/noteworthy/wireguard/wg.py

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:35 PM Mo Balaa <buddybalaa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We also wrap wg command and provide a high level config interface via Python for our personal networking framework Noteworthy.
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> https://github.com/decentralabs/noteworthy/blob/master/plugins/wireguard/noteworthy/wireguard/wg.py
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 14:00 Ryan Whelan <rcwhelan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> At this point, it's very old and not in use, but I once worked on a
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>> project that would wrap the `wg` command in python.
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>> If helpful, I posted it here:
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>> https://gist.github.com/rwhelan/f46d1f6f07df71f1bd1786eda447b97f
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>> I don't think its feature complete as it was only used internally for
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>> a project that took another direction. But in case it's helpful...
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>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 3:03 PM Andrew Roth <andrew at andrewjroth.com> wrote:
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>> > Hello,
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>> > Recently joined the list, but reviewed the archives as best I could.
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>> > I figured before I get too far in writing this, I should ask here.
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>> > I'm looking for a way to create and configure WireGaurd interfaces
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>> > programmatically using Python.  Has anyone created a Python wrapper
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>> > for the wireguard-tools?  If not, could I try my hand at it?
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>> > In my research, I was not able to find any true libraries supporting
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>> > configuring a WireGuard implementation.  Since wireguard-tools [1] is
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>> > cross-platform, and Python is cross-platform, I wanted a
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>> > cross-platform library to configure WireGuard interfaces.  This would
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>> > help application programmers or tool developers who want to utilize
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>> > WireGuard as part of the application or tool written in Python,
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>> > potentially cross-platform.
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>> > I did see wgnlpy [2], but don't think it is a fit since it relies on
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>> > Netlink (Linux kernel interface), so it's not cross-platform.  I also
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>> > found a few other packages on Pypi, but none of them seemed to
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>> > interface with the WireGuard module interfaces.
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>> > In the wireguard-tools repository, I noticed the embeddable-wg-library
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>> > [3] with C source and header.  Python (using CFFI) supports creating
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>> > an extension module that is compiled from C sources to directly invoke
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>> > the target C function [4].  It claims to be fast, simple, and
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>> > platform-agnostic (by that, I mean it can be compiled for any
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>> > platform).  I am planning on writing a python module to expose the C
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>> > functions from the embeddable-wg-library using CFFI.
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>> > Does this make sense?  Any comments, gotchas, or limitations?
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>> > Thanks for your time,
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>> > Andrew
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>> > [1]:  https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/about/
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>> > [2]:  https://github.com/ArgosyLabs/wgnlpy
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>> > [3]:  https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/tree/contrib/embeddable-wg-library
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>> > [4]:  https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#api-mode-calling-c-sources-instead-of-a-compiled-library
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>> > --
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>> > ~Andrew Roth
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>> > http://www.andrewjroth.com
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>> > "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every
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>> > time we do." -Confucius
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