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@ -372,6 +372,11 @@ You can also read in keys from a file or via command if you don't want to hardco
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PostUp = wg set %i private-key /etc/wireguard/wg0.key <(cat /some/path/%i/privkey)
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Technically, multiple servers can share the same private key as long as clients arent connected to two servers with the same key simulatenously.
An example of a scenario where this is a reasonable setup is if you're using round-robin DNS to load-balance connections between two servers that are pretending to be a single server.
Most of the time however, every peer should have its own pubic/private keypair so that peers can't read eachothers traffic and can be individually revoked.
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## Usage