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4- Together with a Linux 5.8 kernel supporting the IMA measurement of the GRUB
5 bootloader and the Linux kernel, the strongSwan Attestation IMC allows to do
6 remote attestation of the complete boot phase. A recent TPM 2.0 device with a
7 SHA-256 PCR bank is required, so that both BIOS and IMA file measurements are
8 based on SHA-256 hashes.
9
10- Our own TLS library (libtls) that we use for TLS-based EAP methods and PT-TLS
11 gained experimental support for TLS 1.3. Thanks to Méline Sieber (client) and
12 Pascal Knecht (client and server) for their work on this.
13 Because the use of TLS 1.3 with these EAP methods is not yet standardized (two
14 Internet-Drafts are being worked on), the default maximum version is currently
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15 set to TLS 1.2, which is now also the default minimum version. However the TNC
16 test scenarios using PT-TLS transport already use TLS 1.3.
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18- Other improvements for libtls also affect older TLS versions. For instance, we
19 added support for ECDH with Curve25519/448 (DH groups may also be configured
20 now), for EdDSA keys and certificates and for RSA-PSS signatures. Support for
21 old and weak cipher suites has been removed (e.g. with 3DES and MD5) as well
22 as signature schemes with SHA-1.
23
24- The listener_t::ike_update event is now also called for MOBIKE updates. Its
25 signature has changed so we only have to call it once if both addresses/ports
26 have changed (e.g. for an address family switch). The event is now also
27 exposed via vici.
28
29- The farp plugin has been ported to macOS and FreeBSD. Thanks to Dan James for
30 working on this.
31
32- To fix DNS server installation with systemd-resolved, charon-nm now creates a
33 dummy TUN device again (was removed with 5.5.1).
34
35- The botan plugin can use rng_t implementations provided by other plugins when
36 generating keys etc. if the Botan library supports it.
37
38- charon-tkm now supports multiple CAs and is configured via vici/swanctl.
39
40- Simple glob patterns (e.g. include conf.d/*.conf) now also work on Windows.
41 Handling of forward slashes in paths on Windows has also been improved.
42
43- The abbreviations for the 'surname' and 'serial number' RDNs in ASN.1 DNs have
44 been changed to align with RFC 4519: The abbreviation for 'surname' is now
45 "SN" (was "S" before), which was previously used for 'serial number' that can
46 now be specified as "serialNumber" only.
47
48- An issue with Windows clients requesting previous IPv6 but not IPv4 virtual
49 IP addresses has been fixed.
50
51- ike_sa_manager_t: Checking out IKE_SAs by config is now atomic (e.g. when
52 acquires for different children of the same connection arrive concurrently).
53 The checkout_new() method has been renamed to create_new(). A new
54 checkout_new() method allows registering a new IKE_SA with the manager before
55 checking it in, so jobs can be queued without losing them as they can block
56 on checking out the new SA.
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62- Remote attestation via TNC supports the SHA-256 based TPM 2.0 BIOS/EFI
63 measurements introduced with the Linux 5.4 kernel.
64
65- Nonces in OCSP responses are not enforced anymore and only validated if a
66 nonce is actually contained.
67
68- Fixed an issue when only some fragments of a retransmitted IKEv2 message were
69 received, which prevented processing a following fragmented message.
70
71- All queued vici messages are now sent to subscribed clients during shutdown,
72 which includes ike/child-updown events triggered when all SAs are deleted.
73
74- CHILD_SA IP addresses are updated before installation to allow MOBIKE updates
75 while retransmitting a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
76
77- When looking for a route to the peer, the kernel-netlink plugin ignores the
78 current source address if it's deprecated.
79
80- The file and syslog loggers support logging the log level of each message
81 after the subsystem (e.g. [IKE2]).
82
83- charon-nm is now properly terminated during system shutdown.
84
85- Improved support for EdDSA keys in vici/swanctl, in particular, encrypted
86 keys are now supported.
87
88- A new global strongswan.conf option allows sending the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID
89 to prevent Cisco devices from narrowing a 0.0.0.0/0 traffic selector.
90
91- The openssl plugin accepts CRLs issued by non-CA certificates if they contain
92 the cRLSign keyUsage flag (the x509 plugin already does this since 4.5.1).
93
94- Attributes in PKCS#7 containers, as used in SCEP, are now properly
95 DER-encoded, i.e. sorted.
96
97- The load-tester plugin now supports virtual IPv6 addresses and IPv6 source
98 address pools.
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104- We prefer AEAD algorithms for ESP and therefore put AES-GCM in a default AEAD
105 proposal in front of the previous default proposal.
106
107- The NM backend now clears cached credentials when disconnecting, has DPD and
108 and close action set to restart, and supports custom remote TS via 'remote-ts'
109 option (no GUI support).
110
111- The pkcs11 plugin falls back to software hashing for PKCS#1v1.5 RSA signatures
112 if mechanisms with hashing (e.g. CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS) are not supported.
113
114- The owner/group of log files is now set so the daemon can reopen them if the
115 config is reloaded and it doesn't run as root.
116
117- The wolfssl plugin (with wolfSSL 4.4.0+) supports x448 DH and Ed448 keys.
118
119- The vici plugin stores all CA certificates in one location, which avoids
120 issues with unloading authority sections or clearing all credentials.
121
122- When unloading a vici connection with start_action=start, any related IKE_SAs
123 without children are now terminated (including those in CONNECTING state).
124
125- The hashtable implementation has been changed so it maintains insertion order.
126 This was mainly done so the vici plugin can store its connections in a
127 hashtable, which makes managing high numbers of connections faster.
128
129- The default maximum size for vici messages (512 KiB) can now be changed via
130 VICI_MESSAGE_SIZE_MAX compile option.
131
132- The charon.check_current_path option allows forcing a DPD exchange to check if
133 the current path still works whenever interface/address-changes are detected.
134
135- It's possible to use clocks other than CLOCK_MONOTONIC (e.g. CLOCK_BOOTTIME)
136 via TIME_CLOCK_ID compile option if clock_gettime() is available and
137 pthread_condattr_setclock() supports that clock.
138
139- Test cases and functions can now be filtered when running the unit tests.
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145- In IKEv1 Quick Mode make sure that a proposal exists before determining
146 lifetimes (fixes crash due to null pointer exception).
147
148- OpenSSL currently doesn't support squeezing bytes out of a SHAKE128/256
149 XOF (eXtended Output Function) multiple times. Unfortunately,
150 EVP_DigestFinalXOF() completely resets the context and later calls not
151 simply fail, they cause a null-pointer dereference in libcrypto. This
152 fixes the crash at the cost of repeating initializing the whole state
153 and allocating too much data for subsequent calls.
154
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159- Updates for the NM backend (and plugin), among others: EAP-TLS authentication,
160 configurable local and remote IKE identities, custom server port, redirection
161 and reauthentication support.
162
163- Previously used reqids are now reallocated to workaround an issue on FreeBSD
164 where the daemon can't use reqids > 16383.
165
166- On Linux, throw type routes are installed for passthrough policies. They act
167 as fallbacks on routes in other tables and require less information, so they
168 can be installed earlier and are not affected by updates.
169
170- For IKEv1, the lifetimes of the selected transform are returned to the
171 initiator, which is an issue with peers that propose different lifetimes in
172 different transforms. We also return the correct transform and proposal IDs.
173
174- IKE_SAs are not re-established anymore if a deletion has been queued.
175
176- Added support for Ed448 keys and certificates via openssl plugin and pki tool.
177 The openssl plugin also supports SHA-3 and SHAKE128/256.
178
179- The use of algorithm IDs from the private use ranges can now be enabled
180 globally, to use them even if no strongSwan vendor ID was exchanged.
181
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186- Identity-based CA constraints are supported via vici/swanctl.conf. They
187 enforce that the remote's certificate chain contains a CA certificate with a
188 specific identity. While similar to the existing CA constraints, they don't
189 require that the CA certificate is locally installed such as intermediate CA
190 certificates received from peers. Compared to wildcard identity matching (e.g.
191 "..., OU=Research, CN=*") this requires less trust in the intermediate CAs (to
192 only issue certificates with legitimate subject DNs) as long as path length
193 basic constraints prevent them from issuing further intermediate CAs.
194
195- Intermediate CA certificates may now be sent in hash-and-URL encoding by
196 configuring a base URL for the parent CA.
197
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198- Implemented NIST SP-800-90A Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG)
199 based on AES-CTR and SHA2-HMAC modes. Currently used by gmp and ntru plugins.
200
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201- Random nonces sent in an OCSP requests are now expected in the corresponding
202 OCSP responses.
203
204- The kernel-netlink plugin ignores deprecated IPv6 addresses for MOBIKE.
205 Whether temporary or permanent IPv6 addresses are included depends on the
206 charon.prefer_temporary_addrs setting.
207
208- Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN) are configured via PF_KEY if supported by the
209 kernel.
210
211- Unique section names are used for CHILD_SAs in vici child-updown events and
212 more information (e.g. statistics) are included for individually deleted
213 CHILD_SAs (in particular for IKEv1).
214
215- So fallbacks to other plugins work properly, creating HMACs via openssl plugin
216 now fails instantly if the underlying hash algorithm isn't supported (e.g.
217 MD5 in FIPS-mode).
218
219- Exponents of RSA keys read from TPM 2.0 via SAPI are now correctly converted.
220
221- Routing table IDs > 255 are supported for custom routes on Linux.
222
223- The D-Bus config file for charon-nm is now installed in
224 $(datadir)/dbus-1/system.d instead of $(sysconfdir)/dbus-1/system.d.
225
226- INVALID_MAJOR_VERSION notifies are now correctly sent in messages of the same
227 exchange type and using the same message ID as the request.
228
229- IKEv2 SAs are immediately destroyed when sending or receiving INVALID_SYNTAX
230 notifies in authenticated messages.
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236- RDNs in Distinguished Names can now optionally be matched less strict. The
237 global option charon.rdn_matching takes two alternative values that cause the
238 matching algorithm to either ignore the order of matched RDNs or additionally
239 accept DNs that contain more RDNs than configured (unmatched RDNs are treated
240 like wildcard matches).
241
242- The updown plugin now passes the same interface to the script that is also
243 used for the automatically installed routes, i.e. the interface over which the
244 peer is reached instead of the interface on which the local address is found.
245
246- TPM 2.0 contexts are now protected by a mutex to prevent issues if multiple
247 IKE_SAs use the same private key concurrently.
248
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253- The systemd service units have been renamed. The modern unit, which was called
254 strongswan-swanctl, is now called strongswan (the previous name is configured
255 as alias). The legacy unit is now called strongswan-starter.
256
257- Support for XFRM interfaces (available since Linux 4.19) has been added.
258 Configuration is possible via swanctl.conf. Interfaces may be created
259 dynamically via updown/vici scripts, or statically before or after
260 establishing the SAs. Routes must be added manually as needed (the daemon will
261 not install any routes for outbound policies with an interface ID).
262
263- Initiation of childless IKE_SAs is supported (RFC 6023). If enabled and
264 supported by the responder, no CHILD_SA is established during IKE_AUTH. This
265 allows using a separate DH exchange even for the first CHILD_SA, which is
266 otherwise created with keys derived from the IKE_SA's key material.
267
268- The NetworkManager backend and plugin support IPv6.
269
270- The new wolfssl plugin is a wrapper around the wolfSSL crypto library. Thanks
271 to Sean Parkinson of wolfSSL Inc. for the initial patch.
272
273- IKE SPIs may optionally be labeled via the charon.spi_mask|label options. This
274 feature was extracted from charon-tkm, however, now applies the mask/label in
275 network order.
276
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277- The openssl plugin supports ChaCha20-Poly1305 when built with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
278
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279- The PB-TNC finite state machine according to section 3.2 of RFC 5793 was not
280 correctly implemented when sending either a CRETRY or SRETRY batch. These
281 batches can only be sent in the "Decided" state and a CRETRY batch can
282 immediately carry all messages usually transported by a CDATA batch. It is
283 currently not possible to send a SRETRY batch since full-duplex mode for
284 PT-TLS transport is not supported.
285
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286- Instead of marking virtual IPv6 addresses as deprecated, the kernel-netlink
287 plugin uses address labels to avoid their use for non-VPN traffic.
288
289- The agent plugin creates sockets to the ssh/gpg-agent dynamically and does not
290 keep them open, which otherwise can prevent the agent from getting terminated.
291
292- To avoid broadcast loops the forecast plugin now only reinjects packets that
293 are marked or received from the configured interface.
294
295- UTF-8 encoded passwords are supported via EAP-MSCHAPv2, which internally uses
296 an UTF-16LE encoding to calculate the NT hash.
297
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298- Adds the build-certs script to generate the keys and certificates used for
299 regression tests dynamically. They are built with the pki version installed
300 in the KVM root image so it's not necessary to have an up-to-date version with
301 all required plugins installed on the host system.
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307- Private key implementations may optionally provide a list of supported
308 signature schemes, which is used by the tpm plugin because for each key on a
309 TPM 2.0 the hash algorithm and for RSA also the padding scheme is predefined.
310
311- For RSA with PSS padding, the TPM 2.0 specification mandates the maximum salt
312 length (as defined by the length of the key and hash). However, if the TPM is
313 FIPS-168-4 compliant, the salt length equals the hash length. This is assumed
314 for FIPS-140-2 compliant TPMs, but if that's not the case, it might be
315 necessary to manually enable charon.plugins.tpm.fips_186_4 if the TPM doesn't
316 use the maximum salt length.
317
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318- swanctl now accesses directories for credentials relative to swanctl.conf, in
319 particular, when it's loaded from a custom location via --file argument. The
320 base directory that's used if --file is not given is configurable at runtime
321 via SWANCTL_DIR environment variable.
322
323- With RADIUS Accounting enabled, the eap-radius plugin adds the session ID to
324 Access-Request messages, simplifying associating database entries for IP
325 leases and accounting with sessions.
326
327- IPs assigned by RADIUS servers are included in Accounting-Stop even if clients
328 don't claim them, allowing releasing them early on connection errors.
329
330- Selectors installed on transport mode SAs by the kernel-netlink plugin are
331 updated on IP address changes (e.g. via MOBIKE).
332
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333- Added support for RSA signatures with SHA-256 and SHA-512 to the agent plugin.
334 For older versions of ssh/gpg-agent that only support SHA-1, IKEv2 signature
335 authentication has to be disabled via charon.signature_authentication.
336
337- The sshkey and agent plugins support Ed25519/Ed448 SSH keys and signatures.
338
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339- The openssl plugin supports X25519/X448 Diffie-Hellman and Ed25519/Ed448 keys
340 and signatures when built against OpenSSL 1.1.1.
341
0e80eb23 342- Ed25519, ChaCha20/Poly1305, SHA-3 and AES-CCM were added to the botan plugin.
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343
344- The mysql plugin now properly handles database connections with transactions
345 under heavy load.
346
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347- IP addresses in HA pools are now distributed evenly among all segments.
348
349- On newer FreeBSD kernels, the kernel-pfkey plugin reads the reqid directly
350 from SADB_ACQUIRE messages, i.e. not requiring previous policy installation by
351 the plugin, e.g. for compatibility with if_ipsec(4) VTIs.
352
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357- Fixes a vulnerability in the gmp plugin triggered by crafted certificates with
358 RSA keys with very small moduli. When verifying signatures with such keys,
359 the code patched with the fix for CVE-2018-16151/2 caused an integer underflow
360 and subsequent heap buffer overflow that results in a crash of the daemon.
361 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-17540.
362
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367- Fixes a potential authorization bypass vulnerability in the gmp plugin that
368 was caused by a too lenient verification of PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures. Several
369 flaws could be exploited by a Bleichenbacher-style attack to forge signatures
370 for low-exponent keys (i.e. with e=3). CVE-2018-16151 has been assigned to
371 the problem of accepting random bytes after the OID of the hash function in
372 such signatures, and CVE-2018-16152 has been assigned to the issue of not
b3ab7a48 373 verifying that the parameters in the ASN.1 algorithmIdentifier structure is
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374 empty. Other flaws that don't lead to a vulnerability directly (e.g. not
375 checking for at least 8 bytes of padding) have no separate CVE assigned.
376
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377- Dots are not allowed anymore in section names in swanctl.conf and
378 strongswan.conf. This mainly affects the configuration of file loggers. If the
379 path for such a log file contains dots it now has to be configured in the new
380 `path` setting within the arbitrarily renamed subsection in the `filelog`
381 section.
382
383- Sections in swanctl.conf and strongswan.conf may now reference other sections.
384 All settings and subsections from such a section are inherited. This allows
385 to simplify configs as redundant information has only to be specified once
386 and may then be included in other sections (refer to the example in the man
387 page for strongswan.conf).
388
389- The originally selected IKE config (based on the IPs and IKE version) can now
390 change if no matching algorithm proposal is found. This way the order
391 of the configs doesn't matter that much anymore and it's easily possible to
392 specify separate configs for clients that require weak algorithms (instead
393 of having to also add them in other configs that might be selected).
394
395- Support for Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2 (draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2)
396 has been added.
397
398- The new botan plugin is a wrapper around the Botan C++ crypto library. It
399 requires a fairly recent build from Botan's master branch (or the upcoming
400 2.8.0 release). Thanks to René Korthaus and his team from Rohde & Schwarz
401 Cybersecurity for the initial patch.
402
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403- The pki tool accepts a xmppAddr otherName as a subjectAlternativeName using
404 the syntax --san xmppaddr:<jid>.
405
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407 for PA-TNC". SWIMA subscription option sets CLOSE_WRITE trigger on apt
408 history.log file resulting in a ClientRetry PB-TNC batch to initialize
409 a new measurement cycle.
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411- Added support for fuzzing the PA-TNC (RFC 5792) and PB-TNC (RFC 5793) NEA
412 protocols on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure.
413
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414- Support for version 2 of Intel's TPM2-TSS TGC Software Stack. The presence of
415 the in-kernel /dev/tpmrm0 resource manager is automatically detected.
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417- Marks the in- and/or outbound SA should apply to packets after processing may
418 be configured in swanctl.conf on Linux. For outbound SAs this requires at
419 least a 4.14 kernel. Setting a mask and configuring a mark/mask for inbound
420 SAs will be added with the upcoming 4.19 kernel.
421
422- New options in swanctl.conf allow configuring how/whether DF, ECN and DS
423 fields in the IP headers are copied during IPsec processing. Controlling this
424 is currently only possible on Linux.
425
426- To avoid conflicts, the dhcp plugin now only uses the DHCP server port if
427 explicitly configured.
428
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432
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433- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is
434 used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF.
435 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811.
436
437- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received
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438 length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured,
439 root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default
440 configuration this shouldn't be an issue.
441 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-5388.
442
443⁻ CRLs that are not yet valid are now ignored to avoid problems in scenarios
444 where expired certificates are removed from CRLs and the clock on the host
445 doing the revocation check is trailing behind that of the host issuing CRLs.
446
447- The issuer of fetched CRLs is now compared to the issuer of the checked
448 certificate.
449
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450- CRL validation results other than revocation (e.g. a skipped check because
451 the CRL couldn't be fetched) are now stored also for intermediate CA
452 certificates and not only for end-entity certificates, so a strict CRL policy
453 can be enforced in such cases.
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455- In compliance with RFC 4945, section 5.1.3.2, certificates used for IKE must
456 now either not contain a keyUsage extension (like the ones generated by pki)
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459- New options for vici/swanctl allow forcing the local termination of an IKE_SA.
460 This might be useful in situations where it's known the other end is not
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461 reachable anymore, or that it already removed the IKE_SA, so retransmitting a
462 DELETE and waiting for a response would be pointless. Waiting only a certain
463 amount of time for a response before destroying the IKE_SA is also possible
464 by additionally specifying a timeout.
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466- When removing routes, the kernel-netlink plugin now checks if it tracks other
467 routes for the same destination and replaces the installed route instead of
468 just removing it. Same during installation, where existing routes previously
469 weren't replaced. This should allow using traps with virtual IPs on Linux.
470
471- The dhcp plugin only sends the client identifier option if identity_lease is
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472 enabled. It can also send identities of up to 255 bytes length, instead of
473 the previous 64 bytes. If a server address is configured, DHCP requests are
474 now sent from port 67 instead of 68 to avoid ICMP port unreachables.
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476- Roam events are now completely ignored for IKEv1 SAs.
477
478- ChaCha20/Poly1305 is now correctly proposed without key length. For
479 compatibility with older releases the chacha20poly1305compat keyword may be
480 included in proposals to also propose the algorithm with a key length.
481
482- Configuration of hardware offload of IPsec SAs is now more flexible and allows
0d0c8f7d 483 a new mode, which automatically uses it if the kernel and device support it.
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485- SHA-2 based PRFs are supported in PKCS#8 files as generated by OpenSSL 1.1.
486
487- The pki --verify tool may load CA certificates and CRLs from directories.
488
489- Fixed an issue with DNS servers passed to NetworkManager in charon-nm.
490
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495- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the parser for PKCS#1 RSASSA-PSS signatures that
496 was caused by insufficient input validation. One of the configurable
497 parameters in algorithm identifier structures for RSASSA-PSS signatures is the
498 mask generation function (MGF). Only MGF1 is currently specified for this
499 purpose. However, this in turn takes itself a parameter that specifies the
500 underlying hash function. strongSwan's parser did not correctly handle the
501 case of this parameter being absent, causing an undefined data read.
502 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-6459.
503
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504- The previously negotiated DH group is reused when rekeying an SA, instead of
505 using the first group in the configured proposals, which avoids an additional
506 exchange if the peer selected a different group via INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD when
507 the SA was created initially.
508 The selected DH group is also moved to the front of all sent proposals that
509 contain it and all proposals that don't are moved to the back in order to
510 convey the preference for this group to the peer.
511
512- Handling of MOBIKE task queuing has been improved. In particular, the response
513 to an address update is not ignored anymore if only an address list update or
514 DPD is queued.
515
516- The fallback drop policies installed to avoid traffic leaks when replacing
517 addresses in installed policies are now replaced by temporary drop policies,
518 which also prevent acquires because we currently delete and reinstall IPsec
519 SAs to update their addresses.
520
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521- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
522 referenced via the NV index.
523
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524- Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
525 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
526
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527- Fixed proposal selection if a peer incorrectly sends DH groups in the ESP
528 proposals during IKE_AUTH and also if a DH group is configured in the local
529 ESP proposal and charon.prefer_configured_proposals is disabled.
530
531- MSKs received via RADIUS are now padded to 64 bytes to avoid compatibility
532 issues with EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PRFs that have a block size < 64 bytes (e.g.
533 AES-XCBC-PRF-128).
534
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535- The tpm_extendpcr command line tool extends a digest into a TPM PCR.
536
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537- Ported the NetworkManager backend from the deprecated libnm-glib to libnm.
538
539- The save-keys debugging/development plugin saves IKE and/or ESP keys to files
540 compatible with Wireshark.
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545
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546- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
547 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
548 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
549 custom proposals.
550
551- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
552 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
553 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
554 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
555 authentication constraints.
556
557- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
558 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
559
560- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 561 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
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562 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
563 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
564 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
565 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
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567- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
568 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
569 versions having an empty package name.
570
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571- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
572 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
573 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
574
575- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
576 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
577 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
578
579- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
580 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
581
582- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
583 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
584
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588
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589- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
590 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
591 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
592 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
593 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
594 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
595 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
596 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
597
693705c7 598- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 599 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
693705c7 600
f237bfcb 601- The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
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602 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
603
604- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
605 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
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606 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
607 package versions.
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609- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
610 via the --keyid parameter.
611
612- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
613 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
614
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615- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
616 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
617 binary EAP secret.
618
619- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
620 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
621 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
622 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
623
624- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
625 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
626
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631- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
632 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
633 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
634 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
635 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
636 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
637
638- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
639 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
640 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
641 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
642
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643- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
644 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
645 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
646 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
647 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
648 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
649
650- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
651 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
652 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
653 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
654 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
655 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
656 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
657
658- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
659 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
660 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
661
662- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
663 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
664 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
665
666- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
667 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
668 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
669
670- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
671 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
672 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
673 certificate cache).
674
675- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
676 for hardware that supports this.
677
678- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
679 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
680 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
681 referenced.
682
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684
685
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687----------------
688
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689- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
690 by RFC 8031.
691
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692- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
693 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
694 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
695
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696- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
697 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
698 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
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699 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
700 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
701 the TPM private key.
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704 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
705 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
706 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
707 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
708
e16d1005 709- In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
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710 of stale copies in cache memory.
711
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712- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
713 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
714 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
715 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
716 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
717 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
718 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
719 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
720
721 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
722 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
723 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
724 section.
725
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728----------------
729
730- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
731 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
732 Peter Schwabe.
733
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734- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
735 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
736 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
737 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
738 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
739
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740- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
741 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
742 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
743 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
744 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
745
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746- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
747 sha3 and gmp plugins.
748
e31ed9ab 749- The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
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750 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
751 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
752
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753- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
754 base and delta CRLs to disk.
755
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756- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
757 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
758
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759- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
760 tss2_tcti_finalize().
761
762
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765
766- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
767 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
768 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
769
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770- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
771 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
772 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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774- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
775 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
776
777- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
778 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
779
780- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
781 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
782 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
783 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
784 and prefer those with a reqid.
785
786- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
787
788- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
789 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
790 identities and EAP types.
791
792- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
793 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
794 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
795
796- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
797 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
798 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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803
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804- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
805 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
806 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
807 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
808 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
809
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810- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
811 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
812 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
813
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814- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
815 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
816 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
817 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
818 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
819 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
820 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
821 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
822
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823- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
824 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
825 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
826
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827- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
828 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
829 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
830 support arbitrary ranges.
831
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832- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
833 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
834 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
835 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
836
837- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
838 used as owners of shared secrets.
839
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841strongswan-5.3.5
842----------------
843
844- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
845 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
846
847- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
848
849
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850strongswan-5.3.4
851----------------
852
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853- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
854 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
855 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
856 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
857
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858- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
859 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
860 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
861 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
862
863
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864strongswan-5.3.3
865----------------
866
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867- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
868 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
869 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
870 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
871 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
872 cipher for ESP SAs.
39660798 873
63d37038 874- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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875 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
876
877- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
878 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
b3ab7a48 879 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures using the
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880 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
881
882- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
883 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
884
885- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
886 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
887 daemon when it installs its policies.
888
889- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
890 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
891 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
892 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
893
894- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
895 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
896 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
897 same config as responder).
898
899- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
900 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
901
a215008c 902- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
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904 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
905
906- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
907 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
908
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911----------------
912
913- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
914 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
915 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
916 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
917 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
918
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920strongswan-5.3.1
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922
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923- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
924 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
925 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
926 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
927 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
928 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
929
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930- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
931 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
932 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
933 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
934
935
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938
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939- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
940 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
941 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
942 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
943 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
944 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
945 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
946
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947- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
948 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
949 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
950 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
951
952- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
953 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
954 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
955 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
956 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
957 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
958 enough.
959
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960- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
961 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
962 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
963 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
964 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
965
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966- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
967 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
968 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
969 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
970 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
971 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
972
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973- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
974 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
975 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
976
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977- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
978 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
979 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
980 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
981
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982- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
983 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
984 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
985
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986- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
987 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
988 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
989
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990- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
991 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
992 PT-TLS transport medium.
993
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997
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998- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
999 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
1000 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
1001 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
1002 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
1003 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
1004 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
1005
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1006- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
1007 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
1008 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
1009 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
1010
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1012 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
1013 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
1014
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1015- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
1016 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
1017
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1021
1022- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
1023 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
1024 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
1025 supports native systemd journal logging.
1026
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1027- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
1028 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
1029
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1031 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
1032 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
1033 per segment basis.
1034
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1035- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
1036 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
1037
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1038- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
1039 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
1040 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
1041 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
1042
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1047- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
1048 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
1049 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
1050 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
1051 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
1052 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
1053 WinHTTP API.
1054
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1055- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
1056 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
1057 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
1058 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
1059 for more control and better reliability.
1060
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1061- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
1062 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
1063 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
1064 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 1065 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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1067- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
1068 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
1069
37cb91d7 1070- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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1071 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
1072 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
1073 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
1074 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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1075
1076- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
1077 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
1078
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1079- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
1080 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
1081
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1082- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
1083
03b5def0 1084- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 1085 Connect.
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1087- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
1088 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
1089 6Wind.
1090
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1092strongswan-5.1.3
1093----------------
1094
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1095- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
1096 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
1097 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
1098 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
1099 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
1100
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1101- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
1102 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
1103 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
1104 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
1105
1106- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
1107 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
1108 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
1109
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1110- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
1111 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
1112
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1116
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1117- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
1118 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
1119 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
1120 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
1121 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
1122 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
1123 the current defaults.
1124
1125- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
1126 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
1127 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
1128 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
1129 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
1130 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
1131
1132- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
1133 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
1134 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
1135 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
1136 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
1137
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1139 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
1140 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
1141 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
1142 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
1143 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
1144
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1145- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
1146 Attestation IMV.
1147
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1148- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
1149 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
1150
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1151- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
1152 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
1153 Andrea Bonomi.
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1155- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
1156 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
1157 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
1158
1159
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1161----------------
1162
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1163- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
1164 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
1165 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
1166 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
1167
1168- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
1169 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
1170 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
1171
2b32884d 1172- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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1173 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
1174 plugin.
2b32884d 1175
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1176- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
1177 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
1178
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1179- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
1180 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
1181 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
1182 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
1183 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
1184
1185- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
1186 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
1187 as pluto used it.
1188
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1189- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
1190 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
1191 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
1192 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
1193
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1194- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
1195 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
1196 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
1197
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1198- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
1199 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
1200 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
1201 from a internal network.
1202
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1203- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
1204 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
1205 more trustworthy alternative.
1206
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1207- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
1208 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
1209
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1210- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
1211 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
1212
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1213- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
1214 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
2b32884d 1215
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1216- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
1217 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
1218
1219- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
1220 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
1221
1222- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
1223 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
1224
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1225- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
1226 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
1227 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
1228 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
1229
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1231strongswan-5.1.0
1232----------------
1233
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1234- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
1235 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
1236 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
1237 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
1238
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1239- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
1240 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
1241 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
1242 few simple command line options.
1243
1244- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 1245 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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1246 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
1247
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1248- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
1249 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
1250
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1251- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
1252 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
1253 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
1254 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
1255 backend for IKEv1.
1256
78e6f69e 1257- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
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1258 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
1259 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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1260
1261- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
1262 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
1263 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
1264 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
1265 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
1266 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
1267
1268- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
1269 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
1270 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
1271
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1272- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
1273
3a938a6f 1274- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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1275 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
1276 between peers.
1277
226f34e0 1278- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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1279 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
1280 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
1281 and/or device.
1282
1283- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
1284 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
1285 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
1286 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
1287 production releases).
1288
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1289- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
1290 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
1291 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
1292
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1293- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
1294 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
1295 hashtables.
1296
1297- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
1298 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
1299 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
1300 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
1301
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1302- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
1303 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
1304 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
1305 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
1306
1307- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
1308 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
1309 TCP connections from a different host.
1310
78e6f69e 1311- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
226f34e0 1312
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1314strongswan-5.0.4
1315----------------
1316
1317- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
1318 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
1319 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
1320 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
1321 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
1322 legitimate one.
1323
1324- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
1325 was fixed as well.
1326
1327- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
1328 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
1329
1330- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
1331 requests.
1332
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1333- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
1334
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1337----------------
1338
1339- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
1340 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
1341 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
1342 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
1343 created by Reto Guadagnini.
1344
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1345- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
1346 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
1347 device ID in the attest database.
1348
1349- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
1350 if the hardware supports it.
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1352- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
1353 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
1354 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
1355 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
1356 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
1357 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
1358 to Accounting-Stops.
1359
1360- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
1361 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
1362 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
1363
1364- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
1365 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
1366
1367- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
1368 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
1369 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
1370 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
1371
1372- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
1373 IKE packets.
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1375- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
1376 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
1377 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
1378 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
1379 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
1380
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1381- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
1382 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
1383 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
1384 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
1385 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
1386 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
e4a3ef2e 1387 can be found at https://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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1390----------------
1391
1392- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
1393 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
1394
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1395- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
1396 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
1397
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1398- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
1399 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
1400 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
1401 or receive notifications.
1402
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1403- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
1404 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
1405
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1406- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
1407 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
1408 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
1409 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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1411- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
1412 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
1413 section.
1414
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1415- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
1416 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
1417 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
1418 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
1419 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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1421- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
1422 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
1423 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
1424 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
1425
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1426- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
1427 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
1428 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
1429
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1430- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
1431 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
1432 Volker Rümelin.
1433
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1434- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
1435 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
1436
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1437- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
1438 guest images based on Debian.
1439
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1442----------------
1443
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1444- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
1445 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
1446
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1447- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
1448 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 1449 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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1450
1451- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
1452 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
1453 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
b3ab7a48 1454 consolidated recommendation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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1455 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
1456
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1457- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
1458 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
1459 against a RADIUS server.
1460
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1461- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
1462 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
1463 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
1464 including xauth-pam.
1465
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1466- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
1467 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
1468 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
1469 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
1470 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
1471 aware clients.
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1473- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
1474 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
1475 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
1476
1477- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
1478 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
1479 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
1480 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
1481
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1482- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
1483 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
1484 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
1485 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
1486 IP addresses to return.
1487
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1488- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
1489 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
1490 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
1491 specified or referenced named pools.
1492
1493- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
1494 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
1495
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1496- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
1497 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
1498
1499- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
1500 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
1501 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
1502 is preserved.
1503
1504- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
1505 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
1506
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1507- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
1508 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
1509 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
1510
1511- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
1512 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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1516----------------
1517
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1518- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
1519 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
1520 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
1521 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
1522 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
1523 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
ca280574 1524 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
e4a3ef2e 1525 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
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1527- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
1528 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
1529 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
1530 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
1531 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1532 the thread calling the listener.
1533 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1534 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1535 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1536 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1537
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1538- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1539 reappear.
1540
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1541- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1542 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1543 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1544 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1545 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1546 feature).
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1548- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1549 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1550 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1551 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1552 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1553 using SHA-256 or better.
1554
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1557----------------
1558
1559- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1560 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1561 a legitimate one.
1562
1563- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1564
1565
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1567----------------
1568
1569- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1570 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1571
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1572- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1573 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1574 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1575 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1576
1577- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1578 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1579 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1580 console.
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1582- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1583 RFC 4595.
1584
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1585- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1586 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1587
4e2e77d5 1588- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1589 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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1591- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1592 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1593
1594
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1596----------------
1597
1598- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1599 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1600 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1601 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1602
1603- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1604 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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1605 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1606 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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1608- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1609 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1610 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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1612- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1613 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1614 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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1616- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1617
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1620----------------
1621
1622- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1623 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1624 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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1625 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1626 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1627 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1628 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1629 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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1632 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1633 post-installation phase.
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1638
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1639- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1640 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1641 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1642
1643- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1644 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1645 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1646 for the initial patch.
1647
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1648- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1649 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1650
1651- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1652
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1653- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1654 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1655 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1656 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1657 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1658 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1659
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1660- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1661 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1662 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1663 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1664 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1665 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1666
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1667- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1668 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1669 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1670
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1673----------------
1674
a7edbd21 1675- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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1676 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1677 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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1679
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1680- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1681 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1682
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1683- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1684 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1685 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1686
1687- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1688 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1689
f8799170 1690- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1691 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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1692 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1693 interfaces.
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1695- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1696 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1697
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1698- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1699 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1700 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1701 the client is admitted to the network.
1702 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1703
1704- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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1705 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1706
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1707- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1708 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1709 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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1714
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1715- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1716 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1717 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1718 whitelist administration.
1719
92ebb7c5 1720- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1721 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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1722 application about detected duplicates.
1723
1724- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1725 authentication to previously used certificates.
1726
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1727- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1728 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1729 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1730 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1731
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1733
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1734- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1735 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1736
1737- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1738 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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1740- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1741 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1742 support configuration reloading.
1743
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1744- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1745 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1746 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1747 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1748 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1749 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1750
1751- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1752 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1753 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1754
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1757----------------
1758
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1759- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1760 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1761 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1762 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1763 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1764 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1765
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1766- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1767 in place of the external libtnc library.
1768
1769- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1770 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1771 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1772 the corresponding protocol stack.
1773
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1774- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1775 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1776 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1777 in an SQL database.
1778
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1779- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1780 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1781 points in an SQL database.
1782
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1783- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1784 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1785 replaced, respectively.
1786
1787- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1788 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1789 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1790 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1791 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1792 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1793 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1794
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1795- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1796 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1797
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1798- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1799 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1800 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1801
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1802- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1803 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1804 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1805 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 1807- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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1808 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1809 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1810
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1811- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1812 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1813 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1814 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1815 ./configure switch.
1816
77eee25f 1817- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1818 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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1819 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1820 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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1821 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1822 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1823
1824- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1825 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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1827- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1828 support for delta CRLs.
1829
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1832----------------
1833
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1834- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1835 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1836 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1837 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1838 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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1840- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1841 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1842 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1843 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1844
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1845- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1846 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1847 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1848 tokens.
1849
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1850- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1851 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1852 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1853 client authentication.
1854
1855- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1856 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1857 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 1858
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1860 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1861 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1862 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1863 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1864 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1865 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1866 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1867
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1868- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1869 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1870 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1871
1872- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1873 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1874
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1875- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1876 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1877 availability.
1878
1879- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1880 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1881 implement a simple event listener.
1882
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1884 initial responder moves to a different address.
1885
1886- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1887
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1888- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1889 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1890
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1891- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1892 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1893 UNITY_BANNER).
1894
1895- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1896 charon plugins.
1897
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1898- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1899
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1901strongswan-4.4.1
1902----------------
1903
ec40c02a 1904- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1905 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1906 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1907
b22bb9f2 1908- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1909 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1910 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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1913
e9448cfc 1914- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
2db6d5b8 1915 by default. Please update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1917- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1918 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1919 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1920
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1921- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1922
1923- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1924 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1925
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1926- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1927 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1928
e87b78c6 1929- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1930 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1931 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1932
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1933- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1934 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1935
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1936- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1937 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1938
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1939- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1940 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1941 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1942 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1943 plugin.
1c1f132a 1944
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1945- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1946 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1947 unauthenticated users.
1948
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1952
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1953- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1954 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1955 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
e4a3ef2e 1956 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1957 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1958 secunet Security Networks AG.
1959
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1960- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1961 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1962 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1963 kernel interface.
1964
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1965- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1966 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1967 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1968 from IBM for his contribution.
1969
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1970- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1971 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1972 are allocated.
1973
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1975 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1976 command line option.
1977
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1978- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1979 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1980 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1981 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1982 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1983 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1984
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1985- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1986 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1987 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1988 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1989
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1990- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1991 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1992 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1993 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1994
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1995- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1996 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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2001
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2003 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
2004
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2005- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
2006 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
2007 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
2008
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2009- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
2010
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2011- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
2012
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2013- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
2014 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
2015 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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2016 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
2017
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2018- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
2019
2b2c69e9 2020- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 2021
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2022- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
2023 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
2024 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
2025 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
2026 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 2027
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2028- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
2029 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
2030 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
2031
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2032- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
2033 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
2034
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2035- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
2036 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
2037 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
2038 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
2039 this is the case.
2040
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2041- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
2042 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
2043 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
2044 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
2045 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
2046
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2047- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
2048 allowing interoperability.
2049
2050
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2051strongswan-4.3.5
2052----------------
2053
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2054- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
2055 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
2056 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 2057 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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2058 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
2059
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2060- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
2061 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
2062 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
2063 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
2064 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
2065
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2066- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
2067 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
2068 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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2070- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
2071 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
2072 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
2073
d245f5cf 2074- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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2075 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
2076
2077- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
2078 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
2079 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
2080
2081- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
2082 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
2083
2084- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 2085 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
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2086 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
2087 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
2088 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
2089 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
2090
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2091- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
2092 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
2093 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
2094 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
2095
b80fa9ca 2096- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 2097 statements.
b80fa9ca 2098
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2099- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
2100
2101- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
2102 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
2103
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2104- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
2105 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
2106
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2107- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
2108 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
2109 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 2110
85af7a89 2111
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2112strongswan-4.3.4
2113----------------
2114
2115- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
2116 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
2117
2118- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
2119 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
2120
2121- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
2122
2123
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2124strongswan-4.3.3
2125----------------
2126
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2127- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
2128 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
2129 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
2130 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
2131 manipulations can be reliably detected.
2132
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2133- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
2134 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
2135
2136- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
2137 authenticated encryption algorithms.
2138
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2139- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
2140
2141- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
2142 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
2143 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
2144
1c7f456a 2145
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2146strongswan-4.3.2
2147----------------
2148
2149- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
2150 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
2151
2152- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
2153 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
2154 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
2155
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2156- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
2157 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
2158 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
2159 with IKEv1.
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2160
2161- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
2162 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
2163 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
2164 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 2165
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2167strongswan-4.3.1
2168----------------
2169
2170- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 2171 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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2172 dynamically.
2173
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2174- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
2175 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
b3ab7a48 2176 as its identity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
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2177 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
2178 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 2179
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2180- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
2181 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
2182 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
2183 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
2184 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
2185 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
2186
09dbca9f 2187- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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2188 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
2189 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
2190
2191- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
2192 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
2193 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
2194
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2195- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
2196
2197- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
2198 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
2199 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
2200 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
17c99722 2201 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer dereference because the
b6b90b68 2202 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 2203 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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2204 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
2205
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2206- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
2207 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
2208
d44fd821 2209- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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2210 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
2211 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 2212 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 2213 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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2214
2215
247e665a
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2216strongswan-4.3.0
2217----------------
2218
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2219- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
2220 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
2221 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
2222 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
b3ab7a48 2223 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more details.
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2224
2225- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
2226 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
2227
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2228- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
2229 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 2230
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2231- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
2232 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
2233 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 2234
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2235- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
2236 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 2237
247e665a 2238
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2239strongswan-4.2.14
2240-----------------
2241
22180558 2242- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 2243 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
22180558
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2244 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
2245
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2246- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
2247 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
2248 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
2249 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
2250 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
2251 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
2252 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
2253 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
2254 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
2255
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2256- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
2257 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
2258 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
2259 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
2260
2261- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 2262 IDr payload anymore.
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2263
2264
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2265strongswan-4.2.13
2266-----------------
2267
2268- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
2269 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
2270
f3bb1bd0 2271- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 2272 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 2273
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2274- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
2275 parameters field is optional.
2276
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2277- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
2278
076e7853 2279
bfde75ee 2280strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 2281-----------------
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2282
2283- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
2284 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
2285 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
2286
2287- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 2288 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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2289 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
2290
2291- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
2292 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
2293
b6b90b68 2294
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2295strongswan-4.2.11
2296-----------------
2297
ae1ae574
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2298- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
2299 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
2300
2301- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
2302 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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2303
2304
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2305strongswan-4.2.10
2306-----------------
2307
2308- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
2309 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
2310 counterparts with better lookup times.
2311
2312- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 2313 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
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2314 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
2315
2316- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
2317 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
2318 on the fly.
2319
2320- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
2321 command queries assigned leases.
2322
2323- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
2324 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
2325
2326- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
2327 reliable source of randomness.
2328
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2329strongswan-4.2.9
2330----------------
2331
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2332- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
2333 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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2334
2335- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
2336 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
2337 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
2338
2339- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 2340 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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2341 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
2342 parallelization to multiple cores.
2343
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2344- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
2345 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 2346
509e07c5 2347- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 2348 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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2349 memory or hardware.
2350
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2351- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
2352 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
2353 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
2354 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
2355
2356- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
2357 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
2358 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
2359 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
2360 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 2361 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 2362
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2363- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
2364 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
2365 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
2366
73937bd8 2367
e39b271b
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2368strongswan-4.2.8
2369----------------
2370
5dadb16e 2371- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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2372 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
2373 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
2374
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2375- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
2376 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
2db6d5b8 2377 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addresses in MOBIKE updates as
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2378 long as possible and other fixes.
2379
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2380- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
2381 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
2382 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
2383
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2385strongswan-4.2.7
2386----------------
2387
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2388- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
2389 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
2390 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
2391 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 2392 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 2393
b6b90b68 2394- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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2395 ssh-agent.
2396
2397- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 2398 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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2399
2400- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
2401 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
2402 newer libcap2 library.
2403
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2404- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
2405 charon keying daemon.
2406
2407
9f9d6ece
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2408strongswan-4.2.6
2409----------------
2410
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2411- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
2412 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
2413 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
2414 in the Gnome Keyring.
2415
2416- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
2417 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 2418 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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2419 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
2420
2421- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
2422 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
2423 authentication.
2424
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2425- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
2426 authentication types and EAP identities.
2427
2428- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
2429 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
2430
2431- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
2432 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
2433
2434
174216c7
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2435strongswan-4.2.5
2436----------------
2437
b6b90b68 2438- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
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2439
2440- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
2441 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
2442 storing only history information has become optional and can be
2443 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
2444 strongswan.conf.
2445
eb0cc338 2446- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 2447 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 2448
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2449- management of different virtual IP pools for different
2450 network interfaces have become possible.
2451
b6b90b68 2452- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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2453 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
2454
8124e491
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2455- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
2456
b6b90b68 2457
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2458strongswan-4.2.4
2459----------------
2460
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2461- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
2462 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 2463
73a8eed3 2464- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 2465 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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2466
2467- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
2468 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
2469
2470- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
2471 X.509 certificates.
2472
2473- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
2474 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 2475
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AS
2476- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
2477 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
2478
179dd12c 2479
83d9e870
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2480strongswan-4.2.3
2481----------------
2482
b6b90b68 2483- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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2484 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
2485
2486- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
2487 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
2488
2489
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2490strongswan-4.2.2
2491----------------
2492
a57cd446
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2493- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
2494 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 2495 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
a57cd446
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2496 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
2497 to software-based crypto plugins.
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2498
2499- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
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2500 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
2501 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
2502 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
2503
2504- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 2505 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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2506 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
2507
7f491111 2508
5c5d67d6
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2509strongswan-4.2.1
2510----------------
2511
c306dfb1 2512- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
b1f8fc0c
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2513 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
2514 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
2515 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
2516 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
2517 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 2518
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2519- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
2520 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
2521 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
2522 connections.
b6b90b68 2523
f3bb1bd0 2524- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 2525 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 2526 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 2527
b6b90b68 2528- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 2529 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 2530 re-implemented.
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2531
2532- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2533 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 2534
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2535- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2536 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2537 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2538
466abb49 2539- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
58caabf7
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2540 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2541 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2542 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2543 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2544
c306dfb1 2545- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2546
c306dfb1 2547- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
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2548
2549- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2550 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
466abb49
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2551 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2552
5c5d67d6 2553
a11ea97d
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2554strongswan-4.2.0
2555----------------
2556
16f5dacd
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2557- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2558 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2559 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2560 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2561 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2562 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2563 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2564
16f5dacd
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2565- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2566 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2567
2568- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2569 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2570 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2571 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2572 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2573 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2574 The following new plugins are available:
2575 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2576 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2577 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2578
2579- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2580 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2581 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2582
89bd016e 2583- The framework of strongSwan Manager has evolved to the web application
16f5dacd
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2584 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2585 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2586
a11ea97d 2587
6859f760
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2588strongswan-4.1.11
2589-----------------
fb6d76cd 2590
a561f74d
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2591- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2592 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2593 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2594
2595- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2596 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2597
e6b50b3f
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2598- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2599 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2600 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2601
fb6d76cd 2602
83e0d841
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2603strongswan-4.1.10
2604-----------------
2605
2606- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2607 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2608
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2609- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2610 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2611 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2612 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2613
2614- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2615 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2616 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2617 before using it.
2618
2619- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2620 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2621 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2622
fb6d76cd 2623
5076770c
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2624strongswan-4.1.9
2625----------------
2626
800b3356
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2627- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2628 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2629 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2630 added.
5076770c 2631
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2632- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2633 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2634
2635- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2636 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2637
2638- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2639
8b678ad4 2640- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2641 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2642 loaded twice.
5076770c 2643
83e0d841 2644
b82e8231
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2645strongswan-4.1.8
2646----------------
2647
5076770c 2648- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
b82e8231
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2649
2650
a4a3632c
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2651strongswan-4.1.7
2652----------------
2653
2654- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2655 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2db6d5b8 2656 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erroneously deleted.
a4a3632c 2657
6e193274 2658- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2659 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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2660 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2661
2662- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2663 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
e4a3ef2e 2664 (see https://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
6e193274
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2665
2666- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2667 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2668
2669- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2670
a4a3632c 2671
3dcf9dbd
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2672strongswan-4.1.6
2673----------------
2674
3eac4dfd
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2675- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2676 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2677 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2678 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2679 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2680 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2681 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2682 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2683
2684- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2685 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2686 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
b6b90b68
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2687 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2688
bdc0b55b
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2689- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2690 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2691 startup.
b6b90b68 2692
3eac4dfd
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2693- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2694 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2695 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2696 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2697 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2698
f872f9d1
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2699- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2700 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
3dcf9dbd
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2701
2702
7ad634a2
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2703strongswan-4.1.5
2704----------------
2705
2706- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2707 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2708 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2709 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2710 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2711 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2712
8f5b363c
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2713- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2714 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2715 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2716 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2717
7ad634a2 2718
e93c68ba
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2719strongswan-4.1.4
2720----------------
2721
2722- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2723 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2724 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2725 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
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2726 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2727 parameter is not required any more.
078ce348
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2728
2729- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2730 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2731 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2732
2733 right=peer.foo.bar
2734 rightallowany=yes
2735
2736 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2737 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2738 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2739 as
2740
53f8ac3d 2741 right=%any
078ce348
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2742
2743 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1fbdab85
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2744 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2745
2746 right=%peer.foo.bar
2747
2748 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2749
2750- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2751 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2752 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2753 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2754 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2755
a0a0bdd7
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2756- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2757 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2758 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2759 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2760 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2761
a0a0bdd7
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2762- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2763 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2764 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2765 by Robert Varga.
2766
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2767- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2768 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2769
06651827 2770
a3354a69
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2771strongswan-4.1.3
2772----------------
2773
b6b90b68 2774- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
35d4809c
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2775 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2776
2777- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
41e16cf4
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2778 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2779 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2780
998ca0ea
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2781- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2782 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2783 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2784 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2785
2786- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2787 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2788 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2789 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2790
b6b90b68 2791- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
998ca0ea
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2792 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2793 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2794 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2795 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2796 to implement.
a3354a69 2797
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2798- Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2799 headers > 2.6.17.
41e16cf4
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2800
2801
8ea7b96f
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2802strongswan-4.1.2
2803----------------
2804
e23d98a7 2805- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
37fb0355
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2806 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2807 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2808 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2809
2810- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2811 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2812
d931f465
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2813- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2814
37fb0355
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2815- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2816
dfbe2a0f 2817- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2818 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 2819
9f78f957
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2820- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2821
8ea7b96f
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2822- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2823 connection name.
2824
e23d98a7 2825
ed284399
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2826strongswan-4.1.1
2827----------------
2828
2829- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2830 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2831 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2832 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2833 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2834 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2835
db88e37d
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2836- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2837 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2838 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2839
3b4f7d92
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2840- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2841 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2842 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2843 vendor ID.
2844
2845- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2846 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2847 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2848 message.
2849
46b9ff68
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2850- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2851 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2852
3b4f7d92 2853
34bbd0c3 2854strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
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2855----------------
2856
2857- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2858 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2859
2860- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2861 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2862 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2863 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2864
9b45443d
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2865- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2866
c5d0fbb6 2867- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2868 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
AS
2869 accessLocations.
2870
69ed04bf
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2871- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2872 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2873 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2874 option.
2875
9b45443d
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2876- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2877 code reuse and separation.
2878
2879- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2880 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2881 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2882
2883- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2884 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2885 specify it.
2886
2887- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2888 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2889 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2890 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2891 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2892 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2893
2894- Added client side support for cookies.
2895
2896- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2897 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2898 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 2899
e23d98a7 2900
1c266d7d
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2901strongswan-4.0.7
2902----------------
2903
6fdf5f44
AS
2904- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2905 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2906 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1c266d7d
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2907
2908- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2909 to a default string.
2910
2911
2b4405a3
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2912strongswan-4.0.6
2913----------------
2914
e38a15d4
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2915- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2916 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2917 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2918 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
b6b90b68
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2919 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2920
2b4405a3
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2921- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2922
5903179b 2923- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2924
5903179b 2925- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2926
5903179b 2927- various other bugfixes
2b4405a3
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2928
2929
0cd645d2
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2930strongswan-4.0.5
2931----------------
2932
2933- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2934 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2935
2936- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2937 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2938
2939- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2940 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2941 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2942 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2943
0cd645d2 2944 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 2945
0cd645d2
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2946 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2947
2948 config setup
53f8ac3d 2949 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2950
03bf883d 2951 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2952
03bf883d 2953 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
0cd645d2
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2954
2955
48dc3934
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2956strongswan-4.0.4
2957----------------
2958
2959- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2960
2961- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2962 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2963 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2964 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2965 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2966
2967- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2968 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
b3ab7a48 2969 method to authenticate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
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2970
2971- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2972
112ad7c3
AS
2973- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2974 or 3DES are supported.
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2975
2976- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2977 encrypt IKE traffic.
2978
2979- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2980 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2981
2982- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2983 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2984 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2985 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2986
2987
a1310b6b
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2988strongswan-4.0.3
2989----------------
2990
2991- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
b6b90b68
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2992 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2993 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
a1310b6b
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2994 kernel.
2995
2996- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2997 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2998 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2999 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
3000
b425d998
AS
3001- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
3002 algorithm configuration statements.
3003
3004
bf4df11f
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3005strongswan-4.0.2
3006----------------
3007
623d3dcf
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3008- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
3009 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
3010 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
3011 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 3012
b6b90b68 3013- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 3014 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 3015 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
efa40c11
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3016 ipsec.conf rules for now.
3017
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3018- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
3019 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
3020 dpddelay=60s).
3021
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3022- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
3023 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
3024 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
3025 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
3026
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3027- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
3028 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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3029 and a more extensible code base.
3030
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3031- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
3032 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
3033 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
3034 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
3035 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
3036 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
3037 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
3038
bf4df11f 3039
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3040strongswan-4.0.1
3041----------------
3042
b6b90b68 3043- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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3044 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
3045 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
3046 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 3047 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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3048 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
3049 algorithms for IKE:
3050 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
3051 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
3052 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
3053 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 3054 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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3055 blowfish192, blowfish256
3056 Integrity: md5, sha1
3057 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 3058 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 3059
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3060- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
3061 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 3062 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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3063 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
3064 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
3065 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 3066
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3067- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
3068 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
3069 configuration examples).
3070
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3071- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
3072 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 3073 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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3074 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
3075
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3076- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
3077 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
3078 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
3079 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
3080 via ipsec starter.
3081
b425d998 3082
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3083strongswan-4.0.0
3084----------------
3085
3086- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 3087 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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3088 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
3089 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
3090 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
3091 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
3092 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
3093 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
3094 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
3095 status command).
3096
3097
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3098strongswan-2.7.0
3099----------------
3100
3101- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
3102 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
3103 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
3104 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
3105 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
3106 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
b3ab7a48 3107 left|rightfirewall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
997358a6 3108 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 3109 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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3110 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
3111 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
3112 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
3113
3114- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
3115 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
3116 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
3117 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
3118 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
3119 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
3120 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
3121 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
3122 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 3123 be inserted.
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3124
3125- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
3126 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
3127 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
3128 be found.
3129
3130
3131strongswan-2.6.4
3132----------------
3133
3134- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
3135 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
3136 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 3137 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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3138 are required any more.
3139
3140- added support of DPD restart mode
3141
3142- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
3143 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
3144 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
3145
3146- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
3147 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
3148
3149
3150strongswan-2.6.3
3151----------------
3152
b6b90b68 3153- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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3154 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
3155
3156- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
3157 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
3158 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 3159
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3160- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
3161 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
3162
3163- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
3164 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
3165 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
3166 the ipsec status command.
b6b90b68 3167
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3168
3169strongswan-2.6.2
3170----------------
3171
3172- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
3173 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
3174 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
3175
3176- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
3177 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
3178 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
3179
3180- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
3181 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
3182
3183 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
3184 rightid="UN=John Doe"
3185
3186- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
3187 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
3188 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
3189
3190 conn rw
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3191 right=%any
3192 rightid=@foo.bar
3193 authby=secret
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3194
3195- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
3196
3197- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
3198
3199- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
3200 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
3201 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
3202
3203- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
3204 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
3205 servers.
3206
3207- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
3208 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
3209
3210
3211strongswan-2.6.1
3212----------------
3213
3214- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
3215 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
3216 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
3217
3218
3219strongswan-2.6.0
3220----------------
3221
3222- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
3223 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
3224 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
3225 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
3226 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
3227 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
b3ab7a48 3228 accelerated tremendously.
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3229
3230- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 3231 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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3232 reload pluto's connections.
3233
3234- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
3235 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
3236 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
3237
3238- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
3239
3240- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
3241
3242- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
3243 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
3244 documented yet.
3245
3246
3247strongswan-2.5.7
3248----------------
3249
2db6d5b8 3250- CA certificates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
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3251 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
3252 listing.
3253
3254
3255strongswan-2.5.6
3256----------------
3257
3258- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
3259 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
3260 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
3261 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
3262
b6b90b68 3263- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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3264 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
3265 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
3266 has been changed from one year to five years.
3267
3268
3269strongswan-2.5.5
3270----------------
3271
3272- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
3273 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
3274 via the whack interface. Notation:
3275
3276 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
3277 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3278 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3279 [--keyid <keyid>]
3280
3281 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
3282 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3283 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3284 [--keyid <keyid>]
3285
b6b90b68 3286 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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3287
3288 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
3289 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
3290 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
3291 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
3292 permanently.
3293
3294- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
3295 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
3296 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
3297 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
3298 is automatically generated by calling the function
3299
3300 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
3301
3302 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
3303 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
3304
3305
3306strongswan-2.5.4
3307----------------
3308
3309- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
3310 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
3311 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
3312 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
3313
3314- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
3315 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
3316
3317
3318strongswan-2.5.3
3319----------------
3320
3321- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
3322 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
3323 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
3324 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
3325 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
3326
3327- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
3328
3329 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
3330 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
3331 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 3332 self-signed certs)
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3333
3334- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
3335 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
53f8ac3d 3336 attribute for AES encryption.
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3337
3338- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
3339
3340- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
3341
3342
3343strongswan-2.5.2
3344----------------
3345
3346- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
3347 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
3348 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
3349 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
3350 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
3351
3352- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
3353 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
3354 multiple connections between two security gateways.
3355
3356
3357strongswan-2.5.1
3358----------------
3359
3360- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
3361 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
b3ab7a48 3362 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_ACQUIRE event
2db6d5b8 3363 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet existing
b3ab7a48 3364 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_ACQUIRE event led to an entry in
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3365 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
3366 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
3367 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
3368
3369- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
3370 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
3371 the command
3372
3373 ipsec auto --listcards
3374
3375 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
3376 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
3377 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
3378 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
3379
3380 %smartcard (selects object #1)
3381 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
3382 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
3383
3384 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
3385
3386 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
3387 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
3388 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
3389
3390- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
3391 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
3392 to generate a signature.
3393
3394- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
3395 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
3396 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
3397 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
3398 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
3399
3400- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
3401 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
3402
3403- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
3404 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
3405 towards the release of the SCEP client.
3406
3407
3408strongswan-2.5.0
3409----------------
3410
3411- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
3412 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
3413 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
3414 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
3415 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
3416 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
3417
3418- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
3419 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
3420 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
3421 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
3422 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
3423 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
b6b90b68 3424
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3425- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
3426 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
3427 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
3428
3429
3430strongswan-2.4.4
3431----------------
3432
3433- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
3434
3435- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
3436
3437
3438strongswan-2.4.3
3439----------------
3440
3441- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
3442 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
3443
3444- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
3445
3446- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
3447 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
3448 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
3449
3450- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
3451 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
3452 included.
3453
3454
3455strongswan-2.4.2
3456----------------
3457
3458- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
3459 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
3460 value of 50.
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3462- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
3463 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 3464 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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3465 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
3466 pad has to be done only once.
3467
3468- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
3469 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
3470 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 3471
997358a6 3472 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 3473
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3474- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
3475
3476- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
3477 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
3478
3479- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
3480 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
3481 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 3482
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3483- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
3484 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
3485 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
3486
3487
3488strongswan-2.4.1
3489----------------
3490
3491- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
3492 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
3493 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
3494 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
3495 "left" be"local".
3496
3497
3498strongswan-2.4.0a
3499-----------------
3500
3501- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
3502
3503- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
3504 Michael Meier
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3505
3506
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3507strongswan-2.4.0
3508----------------
3509
3510- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
3511 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
3512 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
3513 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
3514 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
3515 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
3516 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
3517
3518- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
3519 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
3520 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
3521 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
3522 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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3523
3524- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 3525 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 3526 in a particular test.
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3527
3528
3529strongswan-2.3.2
3530----------------
3531
3532- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3533 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 3534
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3535- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3536
3537- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3538 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3539 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3540
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3541- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3542 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3543 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3544 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3545
3546
3547strongswan-2.3.1
3548----------------
3549
3550- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3551
3552- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3553 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3554
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3555- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3556 module.
b6b90b68 3557
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3558- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3559 maximum udp size patches.
3560
3561- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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3563
3564strongswan-2.3.0
3565----------------
3566
3567- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3568 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3569 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3570 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3571 subdirectory.
3572
3573- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3574 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 3575 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 3576
997358a6 3577 man ipsec_openac.
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3579 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3580 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3581 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 3582
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3583 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3584
3585 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3586 Research or Sales, only.
3587
3588- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3589 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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3590 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3591 Secure Entry Clients.
3592
3593- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3594 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3595 now both set to 24 h.
3596
3597- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3598 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3599
3600- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3601 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3602 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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3604 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3605
3606
3607strongswan-2.2.2
3608----------------
3609
3610- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3611 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3612 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3613 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3614
f3bb1bd0 3615- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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3616 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3617 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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3619- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3620
3621- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3622 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3623
3624
3625strongswan-2.2.1
3626----------------
3627
3628- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3629 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3630
f3bb1bd0 3631- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3632 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
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997358a6 3634- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3635 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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3636
3637- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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3639- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3640
3641- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3642
3643
3644strongswan-2.2.0
3645----------------
3646
3647- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3648
3649 dpdaction=clear|hold
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3651 activates DPD for the given connection.
3652
3653- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3654 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3655 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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997358a6 3657 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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3659 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3660
3661- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3662 using the compile option VENDORID
3663
3664- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3665
3666- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3667
3668- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3669
3670- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3671 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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3673- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3674
3675- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3676 connection.
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3678
3679strongswan-2.1.5
3680----------------
3681
3682- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3683 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3684 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3685 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3686 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3687
3688- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3689 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3690
3691
3692strongswan-2.1.4
3693----------------
3694
3695- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3696 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3697 an optional connection selector:
3698
3699 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3700
3701- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3702 man page.
3703
3704- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3705 of malformed distinguished names.
3706
3707- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3708
3709 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3710
3711- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3712
3713
3714strongswan-2.1.3
3715----------------
3716
3717- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3718 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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3720
3721strongswan-2.1.2
3722----------------
3723
3724- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3725 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3726 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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3728
3729strongswan-2.1.1
3730----------------
3731
3732- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3733
3734
3735strongswan-2.1.0
3736----------------
3737
3738- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3739
3740 ca kool
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3741 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3742 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3743 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3744 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3745 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3746 auto=add # add, ignore
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997358a6 3748 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
b6b90b68 3749
53f8ac3d 3750 ipsec auto --listcainfos
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3751
3752- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3753 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3754
3755
3756strongswan-2.0.2
3757----------------
3758
3759- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3760 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3761
3762- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3763 during kernel compilation
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3765- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3766 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3767
3768- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3769 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3770 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3771
3772
3773strongswan-2.0.1
3774----------------
3775
3776- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3777 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3778 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3779 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3780
3781- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3782 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3783
3784
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3786----------------
3787
3788- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12