This paper investigates methods to secure communication between employee devices and the company network, namely virtual private networks (VPN), specifically for mobile devices using the Android operating system. Two widely used open-source protocols are compared for use in remote work, OpenVPN and Wire-Guard, to determine which has the more secure and efficient encryption method, and how these affect their performance. Three performance tests were done; a bandwidth test, a latency test, and a file transfer test to simulate a task employees would encounter during remote work. The tests were done by hosting the VPN servers using Linux containers, and a OnePlus 11 as the Android device.OpenVPN outperformed WireGuard with an average bandwidth of 131 Mbps compared to 124 Mbps using a WiFi connection, while WireGuard gave better results during the latency test, having an average latency of 25.86 ms compared to 28.62 ms using a WiFi connection. Despite OpenVPN showing better bandwidth results, WireGuard was significantly faster during the file transfer tests, performing the tasks in two-thirds of the time it took using OpenVPN. Based on the results from the file transfer test and having similar encryption strength as OpenVPN, WireGuard is concluded to be the preferred choice for remote work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-226402 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Johansson, Vincent |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UMNAD ; 1484 |
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