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1 strongswan-5.6.1
2 ----------------
3
4 - The sec-updater tool checks for security updates dpkg-based repositories
5 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
6 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
7 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
8 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
9 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
10
11 - The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
12 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
13 versions having an empty package name.
14
15
16 strongswan-5.6.0
17 ----------------
18
19 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
20 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
21 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
22 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
23 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
24 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
25 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
26 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
27
28 - New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
29 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
30
31 - The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
32 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
33
34 - The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
35 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
36 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
37 package versions.
38
39 - The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
40 via the --keyid parameter.
41
42 - libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
43 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
44
45 - The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
46 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
47 binary EAP secret.
48
49 - CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
50 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
51 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
52 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
53
54 - The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
55 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
56
57
58 strongswan-5.5.3
59 ----------------
60
61 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
62 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
63 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
64 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
65 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
66 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
67
68 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
69 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
70 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
71 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
72
73 - The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
74 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
75 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
76 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
77 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
78 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
79
80 - The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
81 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
82 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
83 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
84 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
85 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
86 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
87
88 - Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
89 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
90 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
91
92 - Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
93 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
94 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
95
96 - A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
97 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
98 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
99
100 - The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
101 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
102 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
103 certificate cache).
104
105 - Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
106 for hardware that supports this.
107
108 - When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
109 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
110 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
111 referenced.
112
113 - The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
114
115
116 strongswan-5.5.2
117 ----------------
118
119 - Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
120 by RFC 8031.
121
122 - Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
123 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
124 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
125
126 - The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
127 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
128 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
129 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
130 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
131 the TPM private key.
132
133 - The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
134 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
135 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
136 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
137 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
138
139 - In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
140 of stale copies in cache memory.
141
142 - Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
143 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
144 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
145 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
146 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
147 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
148 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
149 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
150
151 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
152 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
153 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
154 section.
155
156
157 strongswan-5.5.1
158 ----------------
159
160 - The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
161 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
162 Peter Schwabe.
163
164 - The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
165 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
166 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
167 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
168 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
169
170 - The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
171 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
172 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
173 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
174 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
175
176 - The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
177 sha3 and gmp plugins.
178
179 - The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
180 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
181 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
182
183 - Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
184 base and delta CRLs to disk.
185
186 - IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
187 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
188
189 - libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
190 tss2_tcti_finalize().
191
192
193 strongswan-5.5.0
194 ----------------
195
196 - The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
197 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
198 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
199
200 - The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
201 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
202 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
203
204 - IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
205 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
206
207 - The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
208 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
209
210 - FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
211 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
212 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
213 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
214 and prefer those with a reqid.
215
216 - For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
217
218 - Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
219 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
220 identities and EAP types.
221
222 - DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
223 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
224 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
225
226 - The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
227 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
228 child_cfg_t now take structs.
229
230
231 strongswan-5.4.0
232 ----------------
233
234 - Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
235 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
236 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
237 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
238 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
239
240 - The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
241 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
242 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
243
244 - The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
245 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
246 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
247 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
248 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
249 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
250 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
251 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
252
253 - For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
254 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
255 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
256
257 - Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
258 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
259 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
260 support arbitrary ranges.
261
262 - The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
263 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
264 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
265 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
266
267 - Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
268 used as owners of shared secrets.
269
270
271 strongswan-5.3.5
272 ----------------
273
274 - Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
275 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
276
277 - RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
278
279
280 strongswan-5.3.4
281 ----------------
282
283 - Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
284 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
285 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
286 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
287
288 - The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
289 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
290 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
291 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
292
293
294 strongswan-5.3.3
295 ----------------
296
297 - Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
298 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
299 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
300 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
301 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
302 cipher for ESP SAs.
303
304 - The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
305 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
306
307 - In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
308 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
309 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
310 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
311
312 - Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
313 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
314
315 - The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
316 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
317 daemon when it installs its policies.
318
319 - Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
320 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
321 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
322 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
323
324 - Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
325 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
326 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
327 same config as responder).
328
329 - The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
330 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
331
332 - Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
333 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
334 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
335
336 - Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
337 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
338
339
340 strongswan-5.3.2
341 ----------------
342
343 - Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
344 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
345 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
346 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
347 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
348
349
350 strongswan-5.3.1
351 ----------------
352
353 - Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
354 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
355 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
356 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
357 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
358 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
359
360 - The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
361 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
362 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
363 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
364
365
366 strongswan-5.3.0
367 ----------------
368
369 - Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
370 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
371 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
372 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
373 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
374 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
375 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
376
377 - Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
378 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
379 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
380 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
381
382 - Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
383 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
384 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
385 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
386 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
387 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
388 enough.
389
390 - The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
391 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
392 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
393 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
394 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
395
396 - The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
397 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
398 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
399 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
400 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
401 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
402
403 - For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
404 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
405 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
406
407 - EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
408 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
409 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
410 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
411
412 - Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
413 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
414 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
415
416 - The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
417 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
418 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
419
420 - The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
421 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
422 PT-TLS transport medium.
423
424
425 strongswan-5.2.2
426 ----------------
427
428 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
429 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
430 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
431 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
432 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
433 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
434 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
435
436 - The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
437 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
438 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
439 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
440
441 - The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
442 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
443 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
444
445 - Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
446 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
447
448
449 strongswan-5.2.1
450 ----------------
451
452 - The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
453 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
454 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
455 supports native systemd journal logging.
456
457 - Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
458 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
459
460 - Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
461 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
462 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
463 per segment basis.
464
465 - The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
466 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
467
468 - For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
469 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
470 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
471 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
472
473
474 strongswan-5.2.0
475 ----------------
476
477 - strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
478 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
479 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
480 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
481 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
482 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
483 WinHTTP API.
484
485 - The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
486 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
487 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
488 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
489 for more control and better reliability.
490
491 - Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
492 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
493 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
494 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
495 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
496
497 - The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
498 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
499
500 - The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
501 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
502 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
503 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
504 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
505
506 - All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
507 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
508
509 - The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
510 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
511
512 - The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
513
514 - Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
515 Connect.
516
517 - The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
518 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
519 6Wind.
520
521
522 strongswan-5.1.3
523 ----------------
524
525 - Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
526 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
527 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
528 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
529 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
530
531 - The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
532 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
533 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
534 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
535
536 - The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
537 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
538 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
539
540 - The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
541 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
542
543
544 strongswan-5.1.2
545 ----------------
546
547 - A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
548 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
549 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
550 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
551 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
552 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
553 the current defaults.
554
555 - As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
556 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
557 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
558 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
559 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
560 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
561
562 - All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
563 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
564 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
565 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
566 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
567
568 - The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
569 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
570 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
571 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
572 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
573 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
574
575 - Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
576 Attestation IMV.
577
578 - Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
579 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
580
581 - When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
582 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
583 Andrea Bonomi.
584
585 - The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
586 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
587 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
588
589
590 strongswan-5.1.1
591 ----------------
592
593 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
594 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
595 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
596 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
597
598 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
599 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
600 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
601
602 - The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
603 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
604 plugin.
605
606 - The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
607 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
608
609 - The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
610 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
611 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
612 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
613 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
614
615 - charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
616 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
617 as pluto used it.
618
619 - Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
620 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
621 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
622 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
623
624 - The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
625 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
626 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
627
628 - The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
629 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
630 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
631 from a internal network.
632
633 - For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
634 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
635 more trustworthy alternative.
636
637 - The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
638 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
639
640 - With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
641 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
642
643 - load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
644 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
645
646 - The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
647 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
648
649 - The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
650 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
651
652 - Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
653 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
654
655 - libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
656 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
657 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
658 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
659
660
661 strongswan-5.1.0
662 ----------------
663
664 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
665 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
666 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
667 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
668
669 - The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
670 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
671 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
672 few simple command line options.
673
674 - The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
675 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
676 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
677
678 - The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
679 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
680
681 - The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
682 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
683 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
684 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
685 backend for IKEv1.
686
687 - The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
688 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
689 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
690
691 - The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
692 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
693 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
694 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
695 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
696 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
697
698 - Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
699 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
700 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
701
702 - IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
703
704 - IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
705 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
706 between peers.
707
708 - Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
709 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
710 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
711 and/or device.
712
713 - Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
714 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
715 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
716 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
717 production releases).
718
719 - The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
720 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
721 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
722
723 - chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
724 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
725 hashtables.
726
727 - All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
728 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
729 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
730 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
731
732 - A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
733 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
734 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
735 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
736
737 - Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
738 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
739 TCP connections from a different host.
740
741 - libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
742
743
744 strongswan-5.0.4
745 ----------------
746
747 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
748 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
749 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
750 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
751 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
752 legitimate one.
753
754 - The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
755 was fixed as well.
756
757 - The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
758 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
759
760 - The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
761 requests.
762
763 - The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
764
765
766 strongswan-5.0.3
767 ----------------
768
769 - The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
770 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
771 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
772 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
773 created by Reto Guadagnini.
774
775 - Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
776 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
777 device ID in the attest database.
778
779 - The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
780 if the hardware supports it.
781
782 - The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
783 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
784 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
785 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
786 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
787 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
788 to Accounting-Stops.
789
790 - The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
791 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
792 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
793
794 - The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
795 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
796
797 - The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
798 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
799 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
800 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
801
802 - The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
803 IKE packets.
804
805 - The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
806 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
807 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
808 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
809 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
810
811 - The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
812 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
813 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
814 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
815 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
816 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
817 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
818
819 strongswan-5.0.2
820 ----------------
821
822 - Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
823 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
824
825 - The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
826 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
827
828 - A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
829 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
830 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
831 or receive notifications.
832
833 - The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
834 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
835
836 - IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
837 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
838 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
839 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
840
841 - The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
842 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
843 section.
844
845 - The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
846 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
847 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
848 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
849 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
850
851 - PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
852 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
853 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
854 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
855
856 - Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
857 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
858 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
859
860 - IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
861 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
862 Volker Rümelin.
863
864 - The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
865 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
866
867 - The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
868 guest images based on Debian.
869
870
871 strongswan-5.0.1
872 ----------------
873
874 - Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
875 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
876
877 - Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
878 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
879 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
880
881 - The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
882 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
883 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
884 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
885 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
886
887 - The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
888 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
889 against a RADIUS server.
890
891 - The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
892 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
893 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
894 including xauth-pam.
895
896 - The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
897 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
898 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
899 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
900 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
901 aware clients.
902
903 - An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
904 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
905 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
906
907 - The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
908 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
909 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
910 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
911
912 - The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
913 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
914 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
915 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
916 IP addresses to return.
917
918 - The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
919 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
920 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
921 specified or referenced named pools.
922
923 - Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
924 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
925
926 - The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
927 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
928
929 - The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
930 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
931 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
932 is preserved.
933
934 - The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
935 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
936
937 - The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
938 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
939 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
940
941 - All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
942 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
943
944
945 strongswan-5.0.0
946 ----------------
947
948 - The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
949 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
950 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
951 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
952 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
953 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
954 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
955 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
956
957 - Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
958 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
959 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
960 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
961 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
962 the thread calling the listener.
963 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
964 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
965 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
966 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
967
968 - Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
969 reappear.
970
971 - The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
972 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
973 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
974 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
975 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
976 feature).
977
978 - In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
979 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
980 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
981 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
982 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
983 using SHA-256 or better.
984
985
986 strongswan-4.6.4
987 ----------------
988
989 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
990 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
991 a legitimate one.
992
993 - Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
994
995
996 strongswan-4.6.3
997 ----------------
998
999 - The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1000 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1001
1002 - The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1003 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1004 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1005 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1006
1007 - The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1008 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1009 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1010 console.
1011
1012 - Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1013 RFC 4595.
1014
1015 - The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1016 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1017
1018 - The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
1019 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
1020
1021 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1022 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1023
1024
1025 strongswan-4.6.2
1026 ----------------
1027
1028 - Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1029 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1030 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1031 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1032
1033 - Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1034 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
1035 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1036 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
1037
1038 - The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1039 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1040 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
1041
1042 - Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1043 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1044 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
1045
1046 - Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1047
1048
1049 strongswan-4.6.1
1050 ----------------
1051
1052 - Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1053 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1054 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
1055 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1056 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1057 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1058 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1059 libraries for resolving external symbols.
1060
1061 - Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
1062 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1063 post-installation phase.
1064
1065
1066 strongswan-4.6.0
1067 ----------------
1068
1069 - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1070 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1071 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1072
1073 - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1074 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1075 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1076 for the initial patch.
1077
1078 - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1079 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1080
1081 - Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1082
1083 - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1084 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1085 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1086 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1087 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1088 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1089
1090 - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1091 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1092 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1093 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1094 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1095 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1096
1097 - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1098 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1099 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1100
1101
1102 strongswan-4.5.3
1103 ----------------
1104
1105 - Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
1106 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1107 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
1108 directory.
1109
1110 - The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1111 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1112
1113 - Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1114 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1115 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1116
1117 - Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1118 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1119
1120 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
1121 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
1122 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1123 interfaces.
1124
1125 - The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1126 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1127
1128 - IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1129 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1130 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1131 the client is admitted to the network.
1132 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1133
1134 - IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1135 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1136
1137 - The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1138 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1139 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
1140
1141
1142 strongswan-4.5.2
1143 ----------------
1144
1145 - The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1146 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1147 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1148 whitelist administration.
1149
1150 - The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
1151 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
1152 application about detected duplicates.
1153
1154 - The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1155 authentication to previously used certificates.
1156
1157 - In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1158 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1159 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1160 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1161
1162 - fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
1163
1164 - Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1165 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1166
1167 - The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
1168 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
1169
1170 - The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1171 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1172 support configuration reloading.
1173
1174 - Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1175 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1176 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1177 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1178 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1179 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1180
1181 - In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1182 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1183 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1184
1185
1186 strongswan-4.5.1
1187 ----------------
1188
1189 - Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1190 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
1191 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
1192 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1193 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
1194 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1195
1196 - Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1197 in place of the external libtnc library.
1198
1199 - The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1200 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1201 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1202 the corresponding protocol stack.
1203
1204 - IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1205 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1206 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1207 in an SQL database.
1208
1209 - The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1210 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1211 points in an SQL database.
1212
1213 - The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1214 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1215 replaced, respectively.
1216
1217 - Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1218 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1219 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1220 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1221 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1222 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1223 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1224
1225 - ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1226 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1227
1228 - Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1229 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1230 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1231
1232 - The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1233 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1234 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1235 xcbc algorithms.
1236
1237 - The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
1238 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1239 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
1240
1241 - The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1242 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1243 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1244 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1245 ./configure switch.
1246
1247 - The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
1248 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
1249 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1250 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
1251 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1252 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1253
1254 - The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1255 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
1256
1257 - The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1258 support for delta CRLs.
1259
1260
1261 strongswan-4.5.0
1262 ----------------
1263
1264 - IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1265 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
1266 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
1267 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
1268 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
1269
1270 - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1271 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1272 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1273 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1274
1275 - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1276 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
1277 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
1278 tokens.
1279
1280 - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1281 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1282 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1283 client authentication.
1284
1285 - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1286 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
1287 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
1288
1289 - Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
1290 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1291 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1292 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1293 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
1294 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
1295 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1296 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1297
1298 - The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1299 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1300 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1301
1302 - Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1303 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1304
1305 - The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1306 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1307 availability.
1308
1309 - The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1310 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1311 implement a simple event listener.
1312
1313 - Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1314 initial responder moves to a different address.
1315
1316 - Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1317
1318 - Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1319 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1320
1321 - Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1322 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1323 UNITY_BANNER).
1324
1325 - Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1326 charon plugins.
1327
1328 - Added man page for strongswan.conf
1329
1330
1331 strongswan-4.4.1
1332 ----------------
1333
1334 - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
1335 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1336 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
1337
1338 - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
1339 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1340 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
1341
1342 - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1343
1344 - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
1345 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
1346
1347 - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1348 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1349 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1350
1351 - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1352
1353 - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1354 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1355
1356 - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1357 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1358
1359 - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
1360 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1361 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
1362
1363 - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1364 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1365
1366 - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1367 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1368
1369 - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1370 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1371 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1372 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1373 plugin.
1374
1375 - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1376 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1377 unauthenticated users.
1378
1379
1380 strongswan-4.4.0
1381 ----------------
1382
1383 - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1384 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1385 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1386 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
1387 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
1388 secunet Security Networks AG.
1389
1390 - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1391 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1392 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1393 kernel interface.
1394
1395 - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1396 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1397 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1398 from IBM for his contribution.
1399
1400 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1401 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1402 are allocated.
1403
1404 - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1405 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1406 command line option.
1407
1408 - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1409 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1410 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1411 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1412 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1413 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1414
1415 - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1416 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
1417 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
1418 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1419
1420 - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1421 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1422 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1423 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1424
1425 - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1426 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
1427
1428
1429 strongswan-4.3.6
1430 ----------------
1431
1432 - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
1433 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1434
1435 - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1436 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1437 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1438
1439 - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1440
1441 - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1442
1443 - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1444 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1445 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
1446 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1447
1448 - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1449
1450 - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
1451
1452 - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1453 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1454 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1455 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1456 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
1457
1458 - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1459 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1460 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1461
1462 - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1463 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1464
1465 - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1466 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1467 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1468 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1469 this is the case.
1470
1471 - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1472 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1473 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1474 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1475 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1476
1477 - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1478 allowing interoperability.
1479
1480
1481 strongswan-4.3.5
1482 ----------------
1483
1484 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1485 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1486 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
1487 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
1488 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1489
1490 - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1491 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1492 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1493 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1494 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1495
1496 - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1497 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1498 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
1499
1500 - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1501 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1502 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1503
1504 - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
1505 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1506
1507 - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1508 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1509 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1510
1511 - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1512 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1513
1514 - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1515 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
1516 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1517 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1518 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1519 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1520
1521 - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1522 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1523 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1524 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1525
1526 - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
1527 statements.
1528
1529 - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1530
1531 - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1532 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1533
1534 - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1535 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1536
1537 - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1538 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1539 and the libstrongswan library.
1540
1541
1542 strongswan-4.3.4
1543 ----------------
1544
1545 - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1546 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1547
1548 - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1549 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1550
1551 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1552
1553
1554 strongswan-4.3.3
1555 ----------------
1556
1557 - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1558 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1559 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1560 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1561 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1562
1563 - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1564 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1565
1566 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1567 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1568
1569 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1570
1571 - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1572 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1573 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1574
1575
1576 strongswan-4.3.2
1577 ----------------
1578
1579 - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1580 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1581
1582 - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1583 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1584 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1585
1586 - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1587 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1588 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1589 with IKEv1.
1590
1591 - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1592 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1593 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1594 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
1595
1596
1597 strongswan-4.3.1
1598 ----------------
1599
1600 - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
1601 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
1602 dynamically.
1603
1604 - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1605 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1606 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1607 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1608 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
1609
1610 - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1611 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1612 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1613 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1614 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1615 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1616
1617 - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
1618 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1619 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1620
1621 - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1622 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1623 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1624
1625 - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1626
1627 - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1628 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1629 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1630 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1631 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
1632 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
1633 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
1634 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1635
1636 - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1637 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1638
1639 - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
1640 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1641 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
1642 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
1643 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
1644
1645
1646 strongswan-4.3.0
1647 ----------------
1648
1649 - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1650 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1651 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1652 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1653 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1654
1655 - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1656 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1657
1658 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1659 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
1660
1661 - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1662 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1663 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
1664
1665 - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1666 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
1667
1668
1669 strongswan-4.2.14
1670 -----------------
1671
1672 - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
1673 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
1674 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1675
1676 - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1677 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1678 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1679 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1680 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1681 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1682 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1683 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1684 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1685
1686 - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1687 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1688 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1689 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1690
1691 - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
1692 IDr payload anymore.
1693
1694
1695 strongswan-4.2.13
1696 -----------------
1697
1698 - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1699 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1700
1701 - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
1702 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
1703
1704 - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1705 parameters field is optional.
1706
1707 - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1708
1709
1710 strongswan-4.2.12
1711 -----------------
1712
1713 - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1714 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1715 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1716
1717 - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
1718 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
1719 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1720
1721 - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1722 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1723
1724
1725 strongswan-4.2.11
1726 -----------------
1727
1728 - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1729 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1730
1731 - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1732 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
1733
1734
1735 strongswan-4.2.10
1736 -----------------
1737
1738 - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1739 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1740 counterparts with better lookup times.
1741
1742 - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1743 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1744 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1745
1746 - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1747 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1748 on the fly.
1749
1750 - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1751 command queries assigned leases.
1752
1753 - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1754 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1755
1756 - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1757 reliable source of randomness.
1758
1759 strongswan-4.2.9
1760 ----------------
1761
1762 - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1763 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
1764
1765 - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1766 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1767 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1768
1769 - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
1770 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
1771 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1772 parallelization to multiple cores.
1773
1774 - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1775 further slim down the daemon core.
1776
1777 - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
1778 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
1779 memory or hardware.
1780
1781 - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1782 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1783 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1784 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1785
1786 - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1787 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1788 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1789 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1790 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
1791 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
1792
1793 - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1794 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1795 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1796
1797
1798 strongswan-4.2.8
1799 ----------------
1800
1801 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
1802 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1803 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1804
1805 - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1806 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1807 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1808 long as possible and other fixes.
1809
1810 - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1811 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1812 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1813
1814
1815 strongswan-4.2.7
1816 ----------------
1817
1818 - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1819 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1820 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1821 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
1822 for making us aware of this problem.
1823
1824 - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
1825 ssh-agent.
1826
1827 - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
1828 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
1829
1830 - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1831 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1832 newer libcap2 library.
1833
1834 - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1835 charon keying daemon.
1836
1837
1838 strongswan-4.2.6
1839 ----------------
1840
1841 - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1842 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1843 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1844 in the Gnome Keyring.
1845
1846 - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1847 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
1848 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
1849 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1850
1851 - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1852 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1853 authentication.
1854
1855 - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1856 authentication types and EAP identities.
1857
1858 - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1859 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1860
1861 - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1862 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1863
1864
1865 strongswan-4.2.5
1866 ----------------
1867
1868 - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
1869
1870 - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1871 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1872 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1873 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1874 strongswan.conf.
1875
1876 - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
1877 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
1878
1879 - management of different virtual IP pools for different
1880 network interfaces have become possible.
1881
1882 - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
1883 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1884
1885 - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1886
1887
1888 strongswan-4.2.4
1889 ----------------
1890
1891 - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1892 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
1893
1894 - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
1895 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
1896
1897 - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1898 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1899
1900 - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1901 X.509 certificates.
1902
1903 - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1904 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
1905
1906 - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1907 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1908
1909
1910 strongswan-4.2.3
1911 ----------------
1912
1913 - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
1914 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1915
1916 - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1917 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1918
1919
1920 strongswan-4.2.2
1921 ----------------
1922
1923 - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1924 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
1925 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
1926 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1927 to software-based crypto plugins.
1928
1929 - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
1930 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1931 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1932 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1933
1934 - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
1935 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
1936 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1937
1938
1939 strongswan-4.2.1
1940 ----------------
1941
1942 - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
1943 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1944 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1945 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1946 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1947 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
1948
1949 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1950 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1951 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1952 connections.
1953
1954 - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
1955 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
1956 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
1957
1958 - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
1959 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
1960 re-implemented.
1961
1962 - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1963 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
1964
1965 - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1966 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1967 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
1968
1969 - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
1970 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1971 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1972 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
1973 separate plugin.
1974
1975 - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
1976
1977 - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
1978
1979 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
1980 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
1981 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1982
1983
1984 strongswan-4.2.0
1985 ----------------
1986
1987 - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1988 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1989 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1990 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1991 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1992 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1993 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
1994
1995 - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1996 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1997
1998 - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1999 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2000 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2001 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2002 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2003 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2004 The following new plugins are available:
2005 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2006 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2007 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2008
2009 - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2010 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2011 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2012
2013 - The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
2014 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2015 by other applications.
2016
2017
2018 strongswan-4.1.11
2019 -----------------
2020
2021 - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2022 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2023 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2024
2025 - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
2026 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
2027
2028 - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2029 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2030 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2031
2032
2033 strongswan-4.1.10
2034 -----------------
2035
2036 - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
2037 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
2038
2039 - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2040 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2041 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2042 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2043
2044 - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2045 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2046 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2047 before using it.
2048
2049 - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
2050 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
2051 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
2052
2053
2054 strongswan-4.1.9
2055 ----------------
2056
2057 - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2058 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2059 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2060 added.
2061
2062 - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2063 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2064
2065 - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2066 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2067
2068 - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2069
2070 - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
2071 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
2072 loaded twice.
2073
2074
2075 strongswan-4.1.8
2076 ----------------
2077
2078 - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
2079
2080
2081 strongswan-4.1.7
2082 ----------------
2083
2084 - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2085 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2086 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
2087
2088 - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
2089 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
2090 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2091
2092 - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2093 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
2094 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
2095
2096 - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2097 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2098
2099 - Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2100
2101
2102 strongswan-4.1.6
2103 ----------------
2104
2105 - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2106 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2107 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2108 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2109 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2110 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2111 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2112 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2113
2114 - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2115 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2116 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
2117 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2118
2119 - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2120 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2121 startup.
2122
2123 - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2124 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2125 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2126 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2127 AUTHentication having been configured.
2128
2129 - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2130 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
2131
2132
2133 strongswan-4.1.5
2134 ----------------
2135
2136 - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2137 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2138 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2139 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2140 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2141 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2142
2143 - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2144 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2145 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2146 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2147
2148
2149 strongswan-4.1.4
2150 ----------------
2151
2152 - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2153 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2154 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2155 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
2156 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2157 parameter is not required any more.
2158
2159 - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2160 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2161 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2162
2163 right=peer.foo.bar
2164 rightallowany=yes
2165
2166 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2167 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2168 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2169 as
2170
2171 right=%any
2172
2173 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
2174 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2175
2176 right=%peer.foo.bar
2177
2178 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2179
2180 - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2181 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2182 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2183 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2184 connections as a responder are still possible.
2185
2186 - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2187 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2188 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2189 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2190 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
2191
2192 - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2193 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2194 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2195 by Robert Varga.
2196
2197 - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2198 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
2199
2200
2201 strongswan-4.1.3
2202 ----------------
2203
2204 - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
2205 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2206
2207 - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
2208 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2209 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
2210
2211 - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2212 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2213 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2214 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2215
2216 - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2217 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2218 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2219 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2220
2221 - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
2222 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2223 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2224 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
2225 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
2226 to implement.
2227
2228 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2229 headers > 2.6.17.
2230
2231
2232 strongswan-4.1.2
2233 ----------------
2234
2235 - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
2236 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2237 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2238 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2239
2240 - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2241 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2242
2243 - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2244
2245 - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2246
2247 - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
2248 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
2249
2250 - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2251
2252 - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2253 connection name.
2254
2255
2256 strongswan-4.1.1
2257 ----------------
2258
2259 - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2260 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2261 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2262 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2263 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2264 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2265
2266 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2267 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2268 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2269
2270 - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2271 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2272 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2273 vendor ID.
2274
2275 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2276 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2277 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2278 message.
2279
2280 - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2281 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2282
2283
2284 strongswan-4.1.0
2285 ----------------
2286
2287 - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2288 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2289
2290 - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2291 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2292 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2293 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2294
2295 - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2296
2297 - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
2298 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
2299 accessLocations.
2300
2301 - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2302 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2303 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2304 option.
2305
2306 - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2307 code reuse and separation.
2308
2309 - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2310 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2311 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2312
2313 - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2314 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2315 specify it.
2316
2317 - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2318 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2319 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2320 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2321 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2322 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2323
2324 - Added client side support for cookies.
2325
2326 - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2327 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2328 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
2329
2330
2331 strongswan-4.0.7
2332 ----------------
2333
2334 - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2335 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2336 XAUTH and Mode Config.
2337
2338 - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2339 to a default string.
2340
2341
2342 strongswan-4.0.6
2343 ----------------
2344
2345 - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2346 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2347 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2348 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
2349 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2350
2351 - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2352
2353 - IKEv2: Support for transport mode
2354
2355 - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2356
2357 - various other bugfixes
2358
2359
2360 strongswan-4.0.5
2361 ----------------
2362
2363 - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2364 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2365
2366 - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2367 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2368
2369 - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2370 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2371 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2372 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
2373
2374 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
2375
2376 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2377
2378 config setup
2379 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
2380
2381 or changed at runtime via stroke as
2382
2383 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
2384
2385
2386 strongswan-4.0.4
2387 ----------------
2388
2389 - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2390
2391 - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2392 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2393 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2394 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2395 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2396
2397 - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2398 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2399 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2400
2401 - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2402
2403 - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2404 or 3DES are supported.
2405
2406 - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2407 encrypt IKE traffic.
2408
2409 - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2410 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2411
2412 - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2413 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2414 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2415 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2416
2417
2418 strongswan-4.0.3
2419 ----------------
2420
2421 - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
2422 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2423 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
2424 kernel.
2425
2426 - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2427 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2428 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2429 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2430
2431 - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2432 algorithm configuration statements.
2433
2434
2435 strongswan-4.0.2
2436 ----------------
2437
2438 - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2439 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2440 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2441 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
2442
2443 - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
2444 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
2445 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
2446 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2447
2448 - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2449 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2450 dpddelay=60s).
2451
2452 - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2453 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2454 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2455 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2456
2457 - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2458 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
2459 and a more extensible code base.
2460
2461 - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2462 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2463 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2464 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2465 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2466 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2467 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2468
2469
2470 strongswan-4.0.1
2471 ----------------
2472
2473 - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
2474 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2475 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2476 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
2477 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
2478 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2479 algorithms for IKE:
2480 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2481 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2482 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2483 and for ESP:
2484 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
2485 blowfish192, blowfish256
2486 Integrity: md5, sha1
2487 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
2488 libstrongswan.
2489
2490 - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2491 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
2492 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
2493 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2494 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2495 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
2496
2497 - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2498 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2499 configuration examples).
2500
2501 - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2502 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
2503 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
2504 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2505
2506 - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2507 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2508 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2509 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2510 via ipsec starter.
2511
2512
2513 strongswan-4.0.0
2514 ----------------
2515
2516 - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
2517 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
2518 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2519 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2520 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2521 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2522 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2523 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2524 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2525 status command).
2526
2527
2528 strongswan-2.7.0
2529 ----------------
2530
2531 - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2532 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2533 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2534 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2535 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2536 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2537 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2538 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
2539 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
2540 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2541 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2542 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2543
2544 - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2545 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2546 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2547 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2548 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2549 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2550 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2551 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2552 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
2553 be inserted.
2554
2555 - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2556 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2557 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2558 be found.
2559
2560
2561 strongswan-2.6.4
2562 ----------------
2563
2564 - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2565 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2566 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
2567 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
2568 are required any more.
2569
2570 - added support of DPD restart mode
2571
2572 - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2573 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2574 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2575
2576 - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2577 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2578
2579
2580 strongswan-2.6.3
2581 ----------------
2582
2583 - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
2584 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2585
2586 - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2587 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2588 via the auth=ah parameter.
2589
2590 - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2591 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2592
2593 - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2594 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2595 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2596 the ipsec status command.
2597
2598
2599 strongswan-2.6.2
2600 ----------------
2601
2602 - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2603 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2604 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2605
2606 - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2607 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2608 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2609
2610 - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2611 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2612
2613 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2614 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2615
2616 - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2617 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2618 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2619
2620 conn rw
2621 right=%any
2622 rightid=@foo.bar
2623 authby=secret
2624
2625 - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2626
2627 - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2628
2629 - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2630 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2631 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2632
2633 - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2634 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2635 servers.
2636
2637 - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2638 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2639
2640
2641 strongswan-2.6.1
2642 ----------------
2643
2644 - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2645 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2646 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2647
2648
2649 strongswan-2.6.0
2650 ----------------
2651
2652 - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2653 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2654 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2655 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2656 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2657 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2658 accelerated tremedously.
2659
2660 - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
2661 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
2662 reload pluto's connections.
2663
2664 - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2665 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2666 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2667
2668 - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2669
2670 - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2671
2672 - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2673 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2674 documented yet.
2675
2676
2677 strongswan-2.5.7
2678 ----------------
2679
2680 - CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2681 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2682 listing.
2683
2684
2685 strongswan-2.5.6
2686 ----------------
2687
2688 - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2689 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2690 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2691 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2692
2693 - The scepclient function now allows to define the
2694 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2695 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2696 has been changed from one year to five years.
2697
2698
2699 strongswan-2.5.5
2700 ----------------
2701
2702 - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2703 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2704 via the whack interface. Notation:
2705
2706 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2707 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2708 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2709 [--keyid <keyid>]
2710
2711 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2712 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2713 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2714 [--keyid <keyid>]
2715
2716 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
2717
2718 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2719 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2720 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2721 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2722 permanently.
2723
2724 - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2725 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2726 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2727 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2728 is automatically generated by calling the function
2729
2730 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2731
2732 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2733 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2734
2735
2736 strongswan-2.5.4
2737 ----------------
2738
2739 - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2740 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2741 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2742 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2743
2744 - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2745 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2746
2747
2748 strongswan-2.5.3
2749 ----------------
2750
2751 - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2752 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2753 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2754 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2755 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2756
2757 - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2758
2759 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2760 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2761 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
2762 self-signed certs)
2763
2764 - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2765 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2766 attribute for AES encryption.
2767
2768 - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2769
2770 - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2771
2772
2773 strongswan-2.5.2
2774 ----------------
2775
2776 - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2777 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2778 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2779 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2780 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2781
2782 - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2783 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2784 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2785
2786
2787 strongswan-2.5.1
2788 ----------------
2789
2790 - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2791 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2792 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2793 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2794 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2795 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2796 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2797 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2798
2799 - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2800 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2801 the command
2802
2803 ipsec auto --listcards
2804
2805 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2806 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2807 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2808 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2809
2810 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2811 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2812 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2813
2814 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2815
2816 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2817 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2818 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2819
2820 - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2821 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2822 to generate a signature.
2823
2824 - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2825 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2826 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2827 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2828 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2829
2830 - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2831 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2832
2833 - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2834 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2835 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2836
2837
2838 strongswan-2.5.0
2839 ----------------
2840
2841 - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2842 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2843 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2844 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2845 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2846 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2847
2848 - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2849 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2850 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2851 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2852 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2853 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
2854
2855 - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2856 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2857 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2858
2859
2860 strongswan-2.4.4
2861 ----------------
2862
2863 - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2864
2865 - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2866
2867
2868 strongswan-2.4.3
2869 ----------------
2870
2871 - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2872 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2873
2874 - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2875
2876 - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2877 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2878 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2879
2880 - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2881 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2882 included.
2883
2884
2885 strongswan-2.4.2
2886 ----------------
2887
2888 - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2889 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2890 value of 50.
2891
2892 - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2893 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
2894 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
2895 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2896 pad has to be done only once.
2897
2898 - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2899 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2900 to be used with smart cards. Example:
2901
2902 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
2903
2904 - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2905
2906 - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2907 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2908
2909 - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2910 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2911 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
2912
2913 - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2914 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2915 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2916
2917
2918 strongswan-2.4.1
2919 ----------------
2920
2921 - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2922 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2923 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2924 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2925 "left" be"local".
2926
2927
2928 strongswan-2.4.0a
2929 -----------------
2930
2931 - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2932
2933 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2934 Michael Meier
2935
2936
2937 strongswan-2.4.0
2938 ----------------
2939
2940 - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2941 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2942 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2943 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2944 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2945 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2946 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2947
2948 - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2949 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2950 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2951 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2952 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
2953
2954 - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
2955 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
2956 in a particular test.
2957
2958
2959 strongswan-2.3.2
2960 ----------------
2961
2962 - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2963 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
2964
2965 - fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2966
2967 - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2968 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2969 Delete SA messages.
2970
2971 - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2972 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2973 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2974 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2975
2976
2977 strongswan-2.3.1
2978 ----------------
2979
2980 - Added basic Mode Config functionality
2981
2982 - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2983 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
2984
2985 - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2986 module.
2987
2988 - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2989 maximum udp size patches.
2990
2991 - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
2992
2993
2994 strongswan-2.3.0
2995 ----------------
2996
2997 - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2998 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2999 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3000 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3001 subdirectory.
3002
3003 - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
3004 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
3005 using the openac facility. For more details see
3006
3007 man ipsec_openac.
3008
3009 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3010 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3011 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
3012
3013 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3014
3015 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3016 Research or Sales, only.
3017
3018 - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
3019 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
3020 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3021 Secure Entry Clients.
3022
3023 - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3024 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3025 now both set to 24 h.
3026
3027 - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3028 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3029
3030 - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3031 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3032 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
3033
3034 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3035
3036
3037 strongswan-2.2.2
3038 ----------------
3039
3040 - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3041 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3042 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3043 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3044
3045 - Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
3046 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3047 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
3048
3049 - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3050
3051 - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3052 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3053
3054
3055 strongswan-2.2.1
3056 ----------------
3057
3058 - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3059 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3060
3061 - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
3062 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
3063
3064 - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
3065 occurring when a smartcard is present.
3066
3067 - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
3068
3069 - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3070
3071 - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3072
3073
3074 strongswan-2.2.0
3075 ----------------
3076
3077 - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3078
3079 dpdaction=clear|hold
3080
3081 activates DPD for the given connection.
3082
3083 - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3084 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3085 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
3086
3087 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
3088
3089 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3090
3091 - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3092 using the compile option VENDORID
3093
3094 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3095
3096 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3097
3098 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3099
3100 - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3101 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
3102
3103 - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3104
3105 - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3106 connection.
3107
3108
3109 strongswan-2.1.5
3110 ----------------
3111
3112 - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3113 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3114 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3115 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3116 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3117
3118 - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3119 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3120
3121
3122 strongswan-2.1.4
3123 ----------------
3124
3125 - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3126 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3127 an optional connection selector:
3128
3129 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3130
3131 - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3132 man page.
3133
3134 - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3135 of malformed distinguished names.
3136
3137 - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3138
3139 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3140
3141 - Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3142
3143
3144 strongswan-2.1.3
3145 ----------------
3146
3147 - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3148 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
3149
3150
3151 strongswan-2.1.2
3152 ----------------
3153
3154 - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3155 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3156 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
3157
3158
3159 strongswan-2.1.1
3160 ----------------
3161
3162 - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3163
3164
3165 strongswan-2.1.0
3166 ----------------
3167
3168 - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3169
3170 ca kool
3171 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3172 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3173 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3174 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3175 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3176 auto=add # add, ignore
3177
3178 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
3179
3180 ipsec auto --listcainfos
3181
3182 - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3183 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3184
3185
3186 strongswan-2.0.2
3187 ----------------
3188
3189 - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3190 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
3191
3192 - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
3193 during kernel compilation
3194
3195 - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3196 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3197
3198 - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3199 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3200 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3201
3202
3203 strongswan-2.0.1
3204 ----------------
3205
3206 - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3207 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3208 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3209 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3210
3211 - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3212 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
3213
3214
3215 strongswan-2.0.0
3216 ----------------
3217
3218 - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12