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1strongswan-5.5.1
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4- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
5 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
6 Peter Schwabe.
7
8- The VICI flush-certs commands flushes certificates from the volatile
9 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
10 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
11
12- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
13 tss2_tcti_finalize().
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19- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
20 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
21 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
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23- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
24 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
25 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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27- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
28 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
29
30- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
31 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
32
33- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
34 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
35 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
36 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
37 and prefer those with a reqid.
38
39- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
40
41- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
42 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
43 identities and EAP types.
44
45- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
46 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
47 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
48
49- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
50 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
51 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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57- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
58 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
59 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
60 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
61 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
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63- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
64 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
65 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
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67- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
68 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
69 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
70 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
71 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
72 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
73 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
74 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
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76- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
77 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
78 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
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80- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
81 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
82 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
83 support arbitrary ranges.
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85- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
86 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
87 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
88 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
89
90- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
91 used as owners of shared secrets.
92
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96
97- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
98 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
99
100- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
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106- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
107 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
108 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
109 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
110
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111- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
112 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
113 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
114 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
115
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119
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120- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
121 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
122 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
123 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
124 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
125 cipher for ESP SAs.
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63d37038 127- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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128 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
129
130- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
131 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
132 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
133 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
134
135- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
136 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
137
138- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
139 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
140 daemon when it installs its policies.
141
142- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
143 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
144 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
145 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
146
147- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
148 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
149 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
150 same config as responder).
151
152- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
153 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
154
a215008c 155- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 156 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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157 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
158
159- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
160 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
161
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165
166- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
167 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
168 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
169 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
170 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
171
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176- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
177 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
178 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
179 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
180 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
181 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
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183- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
184 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
185 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
186 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
187
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192- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
193 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
194 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
195 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
196 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
197 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
198 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
199
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200- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
201 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
202 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
203 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
204
205- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
206 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
207 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
208 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
209 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
210 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
211 enough.
212
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213- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
214 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
215 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
216 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
217 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
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219- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
220 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
221 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
222 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
223 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
224 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
225
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226- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
227 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
228 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
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230- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
231 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
232 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
233 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
234
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235- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
236 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
237 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
238
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239- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
240 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
241 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
242
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243- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
244 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
245 PT-TLS transport medium.
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251- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
252 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
253 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
254 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
255 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
256 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
257 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
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259- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
260 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
261 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
262 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
263
30a90ccf 264- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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265 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
266 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
267
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268- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
269 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
270
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274
275- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
276 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
277 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
278 supports native systemd journal logging.
279
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280- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
281 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
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283- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
284 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
285 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
286 per segment basis.
287
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288- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
289 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
290
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291- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
292 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
293 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
294 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
295
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299
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300- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
301 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
302 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
303 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
304 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
305 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
306 WinHTTP API.
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308- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
309 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
310 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
311 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
312 for more control and better reliability.
313
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314- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
315 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
316 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
317 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 318 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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320- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
321 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
322
37cb91d7 323- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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324 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
325 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
326 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
327 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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329- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
330 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
331
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332- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
333 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
334
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335- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
336
03b5def0 337- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 338 Connect.
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340- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
341 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
342 6Wind.
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347
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348- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
349 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
350 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
351 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
352 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
353
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354- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
355 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
356 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
357 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
358
359- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
360 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
361 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
362
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363- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
364 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
365
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369
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370- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
371 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
372 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
373 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
374 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
375 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
376 the current defaults.
377
378- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
379 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
380 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
381 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
382 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
383 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
384
385- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
386 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
387 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
388 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
389 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
390
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391- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
392 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
393 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
394 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
395 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
396 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
397
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398- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
399 Attestation IMV.
400
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401- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
402 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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404- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
405 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
406 Andrea Bonomi.
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408- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
409 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
410 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
411
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416- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
417 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
418 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
419 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
420
421- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
422 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
423 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
424
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426 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
427 plugin.
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429- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
430 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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432- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
433 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
434 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
435 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
436 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
437
438- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
439 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
440 as pluto used it.
441
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442- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
443 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
444 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
445 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
446
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447- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
448 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
449 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
450
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451- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
452 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
453 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
454 from a internal network.
455
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456- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
457 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
458 more trustworthy alternative.
459
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460- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
461 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
462
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463- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
464 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
465
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466- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
467 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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469- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
470 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
471
472- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
473 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
474
475- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
476 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
477
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478- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
479 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
480 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
481 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
482
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486
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487- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
488 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
489 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
490 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
491
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492- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
493 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
494 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
495 few simple command line options.
496
497- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 498 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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499 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
500
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501- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
502 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
503
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504- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
505 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
506 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
507 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
508 backend for IKEv1.
509
78e6f69e 510- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
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511 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
512 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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513
514- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
515 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
516 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
517 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
518 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
519 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
520
521- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
522 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
523 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
524
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525- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
526
3a938a6f 527- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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528 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
529 between peers.
530
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533 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
534 and/or device.
535
536- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
537 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
538 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
539 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
540 production releases).
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542- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
543 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
544 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
545
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546- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
547 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
548 hashtables.
549
550- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
551 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
552 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
553 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
554
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555- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
556 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
557 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
558 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
559
560- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
561 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
562 TCP connections from a different host.
563
78e6f69e 564- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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568----------------
569
570- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
571 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
572 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
573 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
574 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
575 legitimate one.
576
577- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
578 was fixed as well.
579
580- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
581 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
582
583- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
584 requests.
585
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587
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590----------------
591
592- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
593 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
594 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
595 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
596 created by Reto Guadagnini.
597
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598- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
599 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
600 device ID in the attest database.
601
602- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
603 if the hardware supports it.
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605- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
606 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
607 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
608 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
609 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
610 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
611 to Accounting-Stops.
612
613- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
614 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
615 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
616
617- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
618 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
619
620- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
621 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
622 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
623 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
624
625- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
626 IKE packets.
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628- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
629 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
630 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
631 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
632 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
633
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635 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
636 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
637 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
638 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
639 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
640 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
641
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643----------------
644
645- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
646 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
647
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648- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
649 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
650
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651- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
652 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
653 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
654 or receive notifications.
655
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656- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
657 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
658
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659- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
660 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
661 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
662 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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664- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
665 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
666 section.
667
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668- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
669 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
670 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
671 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
672 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
673
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674- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
675 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
676 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
677 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
678
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680 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
681 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
682
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683- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
684 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
685 Volker Rümelin.
686
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687- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
688 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
689
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690- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
691 guest images based on Debian.
692
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695----------------
696
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697- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
698 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
699
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701 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 702 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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704- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
705 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
706 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 707 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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709
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710- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
711 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
712 against a RADIUS server.
713
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714- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
715 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
716 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
717 including xauth-pam.
718
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719- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
720 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
721 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
722 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
723 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
724 aware clients.
725
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726- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
727 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
728 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
729
730- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
731 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
732 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
733 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
734
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735- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
736 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
737 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
738 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
739 IP addresses to return.
740
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741- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
742 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
743 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
744 specified or referenced named pools.
745
746- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
747 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
748
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749- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
750 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
751
752- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
753 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
754 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
755 is preserved.
756
757- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
758 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
759
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760- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
761 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
762 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
763
764- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
765 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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771- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
772 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
773 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
774 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
775 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
776 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
777 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
778 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
779
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780- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
781 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
782 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
783 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
784 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
785 the thread calling the listener.
786 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
787 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
788 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
789 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
790
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791- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
792 reappear.
793
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794- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
795 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
796 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
797 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
798 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
799 feature).
800
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801- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
802 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
803 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
804 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
805 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
806 using SHA-256 or better.
807
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810----------------
811
812- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
813 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
814 a legitimate one.
815
816- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
817
818
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821
822- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
823 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
824
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825- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
826 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
827 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
828 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
829
830- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
831 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
832 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
833 console.
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835- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
836 RFC 4595.
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838- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
839 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
840
4e2e77d5 841- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 842 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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845 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
846
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849----------------
850
851- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
852 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
853 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
854 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
855
856- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
857 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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858 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
859 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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861- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
862 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
863 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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865- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
866 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
867 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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869- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
870
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874
875- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
876 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
877 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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878 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
879 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
880 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
881 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
882 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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884- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
885 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
886 post-installation phase.
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891
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892- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
893 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
894 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
895
896- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
897 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
898 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
899 for the initial patch.
900
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901- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
902 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
903
904- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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906- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
907 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
908 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
909 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
910 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
911 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
912
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914 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
915 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
916 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
917 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
918 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
919
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920- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
921 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
922 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
923
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927
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930 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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932
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934 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
935
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937 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
938 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
939
940- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
941 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
942
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946 interfaces.
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948- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
949 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
950
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952 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
953 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
954 the client is admitted to the network.
955 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
956
957- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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959
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961 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
962 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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968- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
969 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
970 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
971 whitelist administration.
972
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976
977- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
978 authentication to previously used certificates.
979
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981 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
982 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
983 only starts|routes the specific child config.
984
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986
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987- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
988 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
989
990- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 991 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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993- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
994 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
995 support configuration reloading.
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998 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
999 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1000 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1001 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1002 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1003
1004- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1005 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1006 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1007
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1012- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1013 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1014 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1016 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1017 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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1020 in place of the external libtnc library.
1021
1022- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1023 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1024 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1025 the corresponding protocol stack.
1026
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1027- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1028 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1029 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1030 in an SQL database.
1031
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1032- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1033 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1034 points in an SQL database.
1035
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1036- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1037 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1038 replaced, respectively.
1039
1040- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1041 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1042 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1043 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1044 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1045 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1046 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1047
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1048- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1049 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1050
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1051- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1052 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1053 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1054
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1055- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1056 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1057 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1058 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 1059
41ed0294 1060- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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1061 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1062 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1063
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1064- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1065 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1066 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1067 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1068 ./configure switch.
1069
77eee25f 1070- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1071 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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1072 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1073 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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1074 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1075 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1076
1077- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1078 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
77eee25f 1079
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1080- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1081 support for delta CRLs.
1082
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1084strongswan-4.5.0
1085----------------
1086
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1087- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1088 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1089 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1090 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1091 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
b14923ec 1092
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1093- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1094 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1095 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1096 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1097
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1098- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1099 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1100 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1101 tokens.
1102
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1103- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1104 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1105 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1106 client authentication.
1107
1108- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1109 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1110 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 1111
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1112- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
1113 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1114 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1115 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1116 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1117 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1118 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1119 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1120
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1121- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1122 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1123 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1124
1125- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1126 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1127
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1128- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1129 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1130 availability.
1131
1132- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1133 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1134 implement a simple event listener.
1135
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1136- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1137 initial responder moves to a different address.
1138
1139- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1140
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1141- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1142 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1143
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1144- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1145 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1146 UNITY_BANNER).
1147
1148- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1149 charon plugins.
1150
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1151- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1152
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1154strongswan-4.4.1
1155----------------
1156
ec40c02a 1157- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1158 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1159 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1160
b22bb9f2 1161- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1162 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1163 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1164
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1165- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1166
e9448cfc 1167- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 1168 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1169
1170- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1171 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1172 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1173
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1174- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1175
1176- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1177 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1178
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1179- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1180 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1181
e87b78c6 1182- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1183 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1184 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1185
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1186- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1187 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1188
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1189- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1190 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1191
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1192- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1193 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1194 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1195 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1196 plugin.
1c1f132a 1197
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1198- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1199 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1200 unauthenticated users.
1201
03b5e4d8 1202
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1203strongswan-4.4.0
1204----------------
1205
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1206- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1207 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1208 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1209 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1210 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1211 secunet Security Networks AG.
1212
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1213- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1214 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1215 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1216 kernel interface.
1217
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1218- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1219 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1220 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1221 from IBM for his contribution.
1222
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1223- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1224 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1225 are allocated.
1226
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1227- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1228 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1229 command line option.
1230
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1231- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1232 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1233 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1234 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1235 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1236 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1237
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1238- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1239 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1240 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1241 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1242
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1243- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1244 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1245 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1246 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1247
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1248- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1249 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1250
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1252strongswan-4.3.6
1253----------------
1254
cdad91de 1255- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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1256 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1257
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1258- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1259 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1260 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1261
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1262- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1263
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1264- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1265
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1266- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1267 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1268 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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1269 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1270
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1271- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1272
2b2c69e9 1273- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 1274
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1275- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1276 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1277 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1278 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1279 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1280
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1281- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1282 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1283 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1284
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1285- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1286 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1287
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1288- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1289 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1290 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1291 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1292 this is the case.
1293
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1294- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1295 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1296 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1297 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1298 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1299
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1300- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1301 allowing interoperability.
1302
1303
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1304strongswan-4.3.5
1305----------------
1306
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1307- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1308 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1309 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1310 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1311 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1312
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1313- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1314 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1315 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1316 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1317 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1318
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1319- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1320 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1321 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1323- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1324 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1325 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1326
d245f5cf 1327- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1328 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1329
1330- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1331 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1332 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1333
1334- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1335 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1336
1337- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1338 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1339 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1340 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1341 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1342 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1343
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1344- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1345 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1346 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1347 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1348
b80fa9ca 1349- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1350 statements.
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1352- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1353
1354- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1355 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1356
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1357- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1358 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1359
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1360- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1361 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1362 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1363
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1365strongswan-4.3.4
1366----------------
1367
1368- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1369 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1370
1371- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1372 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1373
1374- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1375
1376
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1378----------------
1379
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1380- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1381 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1382 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1383 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1384 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1385
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1386- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1387 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1388
1389- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1390 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1391
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1392- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1393
1394- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1395 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1396 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1397
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1399strongswan-4.3.2
1400----------------
1401
1402- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1403 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1404
1405- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1406 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1407 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1408
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1409- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1410 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1411 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1412 with IKEv1.
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1414- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1415 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1416 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1417 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1418
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1421----------------
1422
1423- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1424 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1425 dynamically.
1426
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1427- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1428 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1429 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1430 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1431 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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1433- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1434 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1435 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1436 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1437 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1438 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1439
09dbca9f 1440- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1441 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1442 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1443
1444- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1445 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1446 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1447
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1448- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1449
1450- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1451 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1452 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1453 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1454 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1455 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1456 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1457 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1458
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1459- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1460 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1461
d44fd821 1462- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1463 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1464 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1465 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1466 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1467
1468
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1469strongswan-4.3.0
1470----------------
1471
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1472- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1473 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1474 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1475 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1476 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1477
1478- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1479 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1480
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1481- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1482 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1483
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1484- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1485 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1486 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1487
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1488- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1489 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1490
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1492strongswan-4.2.14
1493-----------------
1494
22180558 1495- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1496 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1497 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1498
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1499- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1500 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1501 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1502 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1503 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1504 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1505 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1506 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1507 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1508
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1509- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1510 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1511 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1512 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1513
1514- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1515 IDr payload anymore.
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1516
1517
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1518strongswan-4.2.13
1519-----------------
1520
1521- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1522 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1523
f3bb1bd0 1524- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1525 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1526
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1527- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1528 parameters field is optional.
1529
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1531
076e7853 1532
bfde75ee 1533strongswan-4.2.12
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1535
1536- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1537 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1538 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1539
1540- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1541 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1542 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1543
1544- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1545 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1546
b6b90b68 1547
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1548strongswan-4.2.11
1549-----------------
1550
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1551- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1552 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1553
1554- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1555 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1557
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1559-----------------
1560
1561- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1562 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1563 counterparts with better lookup times.
1564
1565- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1566 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1567 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1568
1569- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1570 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1571 on the fly.
1572
1573- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1574 command queries assigned leases.
1575
1576- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1577 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1578
1579- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1580 reliable source of randomness.
1581
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1583----------------
1584
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1585- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1586 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1587
1588- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1589 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1590 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1591
1592- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1593 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1594 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1595 parallelization to multiple cores.
1596
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1597- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1598 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1599
509e07c5 1600- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1601 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1602 memory or hardware.
1603
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1604- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1605 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1606 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1607 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1608
1609- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1610 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1611 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1612 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1613 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1614 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1615
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1616- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1617 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1618 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1619
73937bd8 1620
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1621strongswan-4.2.8
1622----------------
1623
5dadb16e 1624- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1625 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1626 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1627
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1628- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1629 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1630 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1631 long as possible and other fixes.
1632
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1633- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1634 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1635 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1636
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1638strongswan-4.2.7
1639----------------
1640
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1641- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1642 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1643 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1644 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1645 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1646
b6b90b68 1647- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1648 ssh-agent.
1649
1650- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1651 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1652
1653- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1654 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1655 newer libcap2 library.
1656
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1657- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1658 charon keying daemon.
1659
1660
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1661strongswan-4.2.6
1662----------------
1663
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1664- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1665 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1666 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1667 in the Gnome Keyring.
1668
1669- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1670 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1671 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1672 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1673
1674- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1675 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1676 authentication.
1677
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1678- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1679 authentication types and EAP identities.
1680
1681- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1682 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1683
1684- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1685 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1686
1687
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1689----------------
1690
b6b90b68 1691- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1692
1693- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1694 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1695 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1696 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1697 strongswan.conf.
1698
eb0cc338 1699- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1700 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1701
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1702- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1703 network interfaces have become possible.
1704
b6b90b68 1705- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1706 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1707
8124e491
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1708- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1709
b6b90b68 1710
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1711strongswan-4.2.4
1712----------------
1713
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1714- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1715 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1716
73a8eed3 1717- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1718 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1719
1720- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1721 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1722
1723- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1724 X.509 certificates.
1725
1726- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1727 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1728
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1729- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1730 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1731
179dd12c 1732
83d9e870
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1733strongswan-4.2.3
1734----------------
1735
b6b90b68 1736- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1737 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1738
1739- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1740 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1741
1742
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1743strongswan-4.2.2
1744----------------
1745
a57cd446
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1746- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1747 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1748 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1749 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1750 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1751
1752- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1753 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1754 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1755 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1756
1757- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1758 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1759 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1760
7f491111 1761
5c5d67d6
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1762strongswan-4.2.1
1763----------------
1764
c306dfb1 1765- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1766 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1767 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1768 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1769 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1770 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1771
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1772- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1773 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1774 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1775 connections.
b6b90b68 1776
f3bb1bd0 1777- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1778 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1779 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1780
b6b90b68 1781- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1782 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1783 re-implemented.
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1784
1785- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1786 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1787
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1788- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1789 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1790 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1791
466abb49 1792- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1793 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1794 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1795 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1796 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1797
c306dfb1 1798- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1799
c306dfb1 1800- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1801
1802- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1803 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1804 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1805
5c5d67d6 1806
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1807strongswan-4.2.0
1808----------------
1809
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1810- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1811 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1812 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1813 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1814 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1815 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1816 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1817
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1818- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1819 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1820
1821- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1822 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1823 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1824 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1825 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1826 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1827 The following new plugins are available:
1828 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1829 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1830 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1831
1832- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1833 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1834 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1835
b6b90b68 1836- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1837 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1838 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1839
a11ea97d 1840
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1841strongswan-4.1.11
1842-----------------
fb6d76cd 1843
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1844- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1845 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1846 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1847
1848- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1849 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1850
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1851- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1852 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1853 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1854
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1856strongswan-4.1.10
1857-----------------
1858
1859- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1860 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1861
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1862- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1863 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1864 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1865 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1866
1867- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1868 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1869 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1870 before using it.
1871
1872- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1873 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1874 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1875
fb6d76cd 1876
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1877strongswan-4.1.9
1878----------------
1879
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1880- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1881 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1882 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1883 added.
5076770c 1884
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1885- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1886 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1887
1888- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1889 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1890
1891- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1892
8b678ad4 1893- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1894 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1895 loaded twice.
5076770c 1896
83e0d841 1897
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1898strongswan-4.1.8
1899----------------
1900
5076770c 1901- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1902
1903
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1905----------------
1906
1907- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1908 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1909 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1910
6e193274 1911- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1912 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1913 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1914
1915- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1916 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1917 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1918
1919- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1920 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1921
1922- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1923
a4a3632c 1924
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1925strongswan-4.1.6
1926----------------
1927
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1928- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1929 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1930 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1931 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1932 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1933 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1934 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1935 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1936
1937- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1938 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1939 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1940 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1941
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1942- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1943 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1944 startup.
b6b90b68 1945
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1946- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1947 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1948 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1949 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1950 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1951
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1952- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1953 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1954
1955
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1957----------------
1958
1959- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1960 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1961 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1962 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1963 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1964 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1965
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1966- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1967 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1968 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1969 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1970
7ad634a2 1971
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1973----------------
1974
1975- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1976 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1977 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1978 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1979 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1980 parameter is not required any more.
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1982- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1983 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1984 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1985
1986 right=peer.foo.bar
1987 rightallowany=yes
1988
1989 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1990 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1991 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1992 as
1993
1994 right=%any
1995
1996 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1997 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1998
1999 right=%peer.foo.bar
2000
2001 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2002
2003- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2004 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2005 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2006 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2007 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2008
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2010 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2011 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2012 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2013 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
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2015- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2016 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2017 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2018 by Robert Varga.
2019
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2020- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2021 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
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2024strongswan-4.1.3
2025----------------
2026
b6b90b68 2027- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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2028 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2029
2030- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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2031 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2032 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
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2034- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2035 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2036 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2037 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2038
2039- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2040 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2041 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2042 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2043
b6b90b68 2044- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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2045 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2046 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2047 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2048 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2049 to implement.
a3354a69 2050
f3bb1bd0 2051 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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2052 headers > 2.6.17.
2053
2054
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2055strongswan-4.1.2
2056----------------
2057
e23d98a7 2058- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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2059 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2060 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2061 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2062
2063- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2064 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2065
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2066- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2067
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2068- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2069
dfbe2a0f 2070- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2071 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
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2073- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2074
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2075- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2076 connection name.
2077
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2080----------------
2081
2082- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2083 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2084 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2085 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2086 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2087 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2088
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2089- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2090 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2091 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2092
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2093- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2094 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2095 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2096 vendor ID.
2097
2098- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2099 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2100 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2101 message.
2102
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2103- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2104 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2105
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2109
2110- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2111 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2112
2113- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2114 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2115 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2116 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2117
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2118- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2119
c5d0fbb6 2120- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2121 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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2122 accessLocations.
2123
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2124- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2125 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2126 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2127 option.
2128
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2129- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2130 code reuse and separation.
2131
2132- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2133 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2134 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2135
2136- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2137 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2138 specify it.
2139
2140- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2141 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2142 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2143 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2144 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2145 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2146
2147- Added client side support for cookies.
2148
2149- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2150 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2151 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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2155----------------
2156
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2157- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2158 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2159 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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2160
2161- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2162 to a default string.
2163
2164
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2167
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2168- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2169 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2170 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2171 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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2172 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2173
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2174- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2175
5903179b 2176- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2177
5903179b 2178- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2179
5903179b 2180- various other bugfixes
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2181
2182
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2183strongswan-4.0.5
2184----------------
2185
2186- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2187 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2188
2189- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2190 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2191
2192- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2193 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2194 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2195 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2196
0cd645d2 2197 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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2199 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2200
2201 config setup
03bf883d 2202 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2203
03bf883d 2204 or changed at runtime via stroke as
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03bf883d 2206 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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2208
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2210----------------
2211
2212- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2213
2214- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2215 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2216 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2217 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2218 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2219
2220- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2221 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2222 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2223
2224- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2225
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2226- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2227 or 3DES are supported.
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2228
2229- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2230 encrypt IKE traffic.
2231
2232- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2233 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2234
2235- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2236 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2237 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2238 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2239
2240
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2242----------------
2243
2244- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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2245 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2246 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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2247 kernel.
2248
2249- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2250 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2251 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2252 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2253
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2254- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2255 algorithm configuration statements.
2256
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2260
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2261- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2262 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2263 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2264 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2265
b6b90b68 2266- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2267 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2268 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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2269 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2270
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2271- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2272 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2273 dpddelay=60s).
2274
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2275- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2276 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2277 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2278 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2279
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2280- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2281 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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2282 and a more extensible code base.
2283
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2284- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2285 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2286 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2287 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2288 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2289 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2290 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2291
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2294----------------
2295
b6b90b68 2296- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2297 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2298 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2299 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2300 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2301 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2302 algorithms for IKE:
2303 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2304 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2305 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2306 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2307 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2308 blowfish192, blowfish256
2309 Integrity: md5, sha1
2310 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2311 libstrongswan.
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2313- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2314 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2315 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2316 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2317 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2318 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2319
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2320- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2321 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2322 configuration examples).
2323
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2324- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2325 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2326 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2327 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2328
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2329- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2330 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2331 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2332 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2333 via ipsec starter.
2334
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2336strongswan-4.0.0
2337----------------
2338
2339- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2340 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2341 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2342 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2343 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2344 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2345 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2346 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2347 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2348 status command).
2349
2350
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2351strongswan-2.7.0
2352----------------
2353
2354- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2355 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2356 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2357 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2358 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2359 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2360 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2361 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2362 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2364 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2365 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2366
2367- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2368 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2369 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2370 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2371 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2372 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2373 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2374 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2375 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2376 be inserted.
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2378- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2379 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2380 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2381 be found.
2382
2383
2384strongswan-2.6.4
2385----------------
2386
2387- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2388 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2389 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2390 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2391 are required any more.
2392
2393- added support of DPD restart mode
2394
2395- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2396 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2397 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2398
2399- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2400 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2401
2402
2403strongswan-2.6.3
2404----------------
2405
b6b90b68 2406- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2407 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2408
2409- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2410 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2411 via the auth=ah parameter.
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2413- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2414 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2415
2416- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2417 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2418 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2419 the ipsec status command.
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2422strongswan-2.6.2
2423----------------
2424
2425- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2426 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2427 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2428
2429- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2430 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2431 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2432
2433- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2434 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2435
2436 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2437 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2438
2439- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2440 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2441 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2442
2443 conn rw
2444 right=%any
2445 rightid=@foo.bar
2446 authby=secret
2447
2448- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2449
2450- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2451
2452- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2453 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2454 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2455
2456- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2457 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2458 servers.
2459
2460- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2461 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2462
2463
2464strongswan-2.6.1
2465----------------
2466
2467- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2468 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2469 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2470
2471
2472strongswan-2.6.0
2473----------------
2474
2475- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2476 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2477 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2478 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2479 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2480 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2481 accelerated tremedously.
2482
2483- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2484 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2485 reload pluto's connections.
2486
2487- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2488 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2489 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2490
2491- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2492
2493- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2494
2495- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2496 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2497 documented yet.
2498
2499
2500strongswan-2.5.7
2501----------------
2502
2503- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2504 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2505 listing.
2506
2507
2508strongswan-2.5.6
2509----------------
2510
2511- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2512 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2513 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2514 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2515
b6b90b68 2516- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2517 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2518 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2519 has been changed from one year to five years.
2520
2521
2522strongswan-2.5.5
2523----------------
2524
2525- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2526 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2527 via the whack interface. Notation:
2528
2529 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2530 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2531 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2532 [--keyid <keyid>]
2533
2534 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2535 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2536 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2537 [--keyid <keyid>]
2538
b6b90b68 2539 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2541 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2542 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2543 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2544 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2545 permanently.
2546
2547- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2548 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2549 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2550 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2551 is automatically generated by calling the function
2552
2553 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2554
2555 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2556 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2557
2558
2559strongswan-2.5.4
2560----------------
2561
2562- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2563 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2564 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2565 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2566
2567- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2568 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2569
2570
2571strongswan-2.5.3
2572----------------
2573
2574- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2575 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2576 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2577 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2578 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2579
2580- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2581
2582 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2583 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2584 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2585 self-signed certs)
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2586
2587- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2588 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2589 attribute for AES encryption.
2590
2591- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2592
2593- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2594
2595
2596strongswan-2.5.2
2597----------------
2598
2599- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2600 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2601 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2602 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2603 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2604
2605- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2606 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2607 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2608
2609
2610strongswan-2.5.1
2611----------------
2612
2613- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2614 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2615 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2616 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2617 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2618 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2619 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2620 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2621
2622- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2623 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2624 the command
2625
2626 ipsec auto --listcards
2627
2628 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2629 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2630 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2631 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2632
2633 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2634 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2635 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2636
2637 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2638
2639 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2640 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2641 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2642
2643- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2644 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2645 to generate a signature.
2646
2647- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2648 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2649 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2650 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2651 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2652
2653- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2654 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2655
2656- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2657 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2658 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2659
2660
2661strongswan-2.5.0
2662----------------
2663
2664- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2665 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2666 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2667 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2668 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2669 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2670
2671- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2672 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2673 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2674 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2675 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2676 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2678- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2679 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2680 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2681
2682
2683strongswan-2.4.4
2684----------------
2685
2686- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2687
2688- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2689
2690
2691strongswan-2.4.3
2692----------------
2693
2694- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2695 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2696
2697- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2698
2699- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2700 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2701 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2702
2703- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2704 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2705 included.
2706
2707
2708strongswan-2.4.2
2709----------------
2710
2711- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2712 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2713 value of 50.
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2715- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2716 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2717 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2718 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2719 pad has to be done only once.
2720
2721- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2722 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2723 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2724
997358a6 2725 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 2726
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2727- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2728
2729- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2730 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2731
2732- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2733 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2734 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 2735
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2736- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2737 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2738 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2739
2740
2741strongswan-2.4.1
2742----------------
2743
2744- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2745 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2746 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2747 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2748 "left" be"local".
2749
2750
2751strongswan-2.4.0a
2752-----------------
2753
2754- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2755
2756- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2757 Michael Meier
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2758
2759
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2760strongswan-2.4.0
2761----------------
2762
2763- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2764 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2765 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2766 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2767 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2768 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2769 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2770
2771- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2772 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2773 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2774 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2775 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2776
2777- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2778 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2779 in a particular test.
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2780
2781
2782strongswan-2.3.2
2783----------------
2784
2785- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2786 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2787
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2788- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2789
2790- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2791 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2792 Delete SA messages.
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2794- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2795 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2796 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2797 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2798
2799
2800strongswan-2.3.1
2801----------------
2802
2803- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2804
2805- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2806 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2807
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2808- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2809 module.
b6b90b68 2810
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2811- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2812 maximum udp size patches.
2813
2814- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2817strongswan-2.3.0
2818----------------
2819
2820- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2821 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2822 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2823 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2824 subdirectory.
2825
2826- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2827 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2828 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2829
997358a6 2830 man ipsec_openac.
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2832 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2833 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2834 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 2835
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2836 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2837
2838 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2839 Research or Sales, only.
2840
2841- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2842 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2843 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2844 Secure Entry Clients.
2845
2846- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2847 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2848 now both set to 24 h.
2849
2850- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2851 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2852
2853- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2854 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2855 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2856
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2857 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2858
2859
2860strongswan-2.2.2
2861----------------
2862
2863- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2864 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2865 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2866 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2867
f3bb1bd0 2868- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2869 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2870 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2871
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2872- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2873
2874- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2875 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2876
2877
2878strongswan-2.2.1
2879----------------
2880
2881- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2882 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2883
f3bb1bd0 2884- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2885 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2886
997358a6 2887- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2888 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2889
2890- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2891
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2892- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2893
2894- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2895
2896
2897strongswan-2.2.0
2898----------------
2899
2900- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2901
2902 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2905
2906- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2907 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2908 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2909
997358a6 2910 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2912 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2913
2914- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2915 using the compile option VENDORID
2916
2917- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2918
2919- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2920
2921- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2922
2923- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2924 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2926- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2927
2928- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2929 connection.
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2932strongswan-2.1.5
2933----------------
2934
2935- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2936 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2937 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2938 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2939 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2940
2941- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2942 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2943
2944
2945strongswan-2.1.4
2946----------------
2947
2948- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2949 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2950 an optional connection selector:
2951
2952 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2953
2954- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2955 man page.
2956
2957- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2958 of malformed distinguished names.
2959
2960- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2961
2962 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2963
2964- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2965
2966
2967strongswan-2.1.3
2968----------------
2969
2970- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2971 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2974strongswan-2.1.2
2975----------------
2976
2977- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2978 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2979 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2982strongswan-2.1.1
2983----------------
2984
2985- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2986
2987
2988strongswan-2.1.0
2989----------------
2990
2991- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2992
2993 ca kool
2994 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2995 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2996 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2997 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2998 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2999 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 3000
997358a6 3001 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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3003 ipsec auto --listcainfos
3004
3005- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3006 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3007
3008
3009strongswan-2.0.2
3010----------------
3011
3012- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3013 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3015- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3016 during kernel compilation
b6b90b68 3017
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3019 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3020
3021- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3022 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3023 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3024
3025
3026strongswan-2.0.1
3027----------------
3028
3029- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3030 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3031 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3032 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3033
3034- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3035 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3037
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3039----------------
3040
3041- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12