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4- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
5 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
6 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
7 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
8 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
9 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
10 WinHTTP API.
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12- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
13 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
14 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
15 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
16 for more control and better reliability.
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18- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
19 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
20 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
21 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 22 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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24- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
25 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
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27- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
28 Ubuntu, etc.) or rpm (Fedora, RedHat, etc) package managers, respectively,
29 using the swidGenerator (https://github.com/tnc-ba/swidGenerator) which
30 generates SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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32- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
33 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
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35- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
36 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
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38- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
39
03b5def0 40- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
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43- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
44 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
45 6Wind.
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48strongswan-5.1.3
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51- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
52 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
53 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
54 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
55 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
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57- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
58 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
59 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
60 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
61
62- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
63 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
64 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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66- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
67 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
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73- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
74 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
75 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
76 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
77 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
78 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
79 the current defaults.
80
81- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
82 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
83 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
84 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
85 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
86 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
87
88- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
89 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
90 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
91 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
92 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
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94- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
95 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
96 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
97 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
98 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
99 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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101- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
102 Attestation IMV.
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104- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
105 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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107- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
108 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
109 Andrea Bonomi.
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111- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
112 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
113 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
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119- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
120 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
121 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
122 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
123
124- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
125 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
126 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
127
2b32884d 128- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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129 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
130 plugin.
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132- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
133 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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135- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
136 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
137 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
138 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
139 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
140
141- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
142 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
143 as pluto used it.
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145- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
146 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
147 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
148 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
149
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150- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
151 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
152 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
153
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154- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
155 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
156 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
157 from a internal network.
158
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159- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
160 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
161 more trustworthy alternative.
162
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163- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
164 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
165
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166- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
167 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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169- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
170 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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172- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
173 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
174
175- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
176 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
177
178- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
179 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
180
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181- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
182 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
183 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
184 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
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190- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
191 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
192 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
193 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
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195- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
196 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
197 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
198 few simple command line options.
199
200- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 201 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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202 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
203
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204- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
205 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
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207- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
208 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
209 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
210 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
211 backend for IKEv1.
212
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214 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
215 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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217- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
218 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
219 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
220 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
221 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
222 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
223
224- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
225 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
226 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
227
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228- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
229
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231 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
232 between peers.
233
226f34e0 234- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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235 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
236 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
237 and/or device.
238
239- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
240 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
241 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
242 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
243 production releases).
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245- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
246 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
247 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
248
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249- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
250 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
251 hashtables.
252
253- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
254 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
255 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
256 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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258- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
259 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
260 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
261 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
262
263- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
264 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
265 TCP connections from a different host.
266
78e6f69e 267- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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273- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
274 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
275 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
276 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
277 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
278 legitimate one.
279
280- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
281 was fixed as well.
282
283- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
284 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
285
286- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
287 requests.
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289- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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295- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
296 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
297 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
298 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
299 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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301- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
302 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
303 device ID in the attest database.
304
305- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
306 if the hardware supports it.
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308- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
309 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
310 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
311 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
312 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
313 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
314 to Accounting-Stops.
315
316- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
317 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
318 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
319
320- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
321 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
322
323- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
324 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
325 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
326 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
327
328- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
329 IKE packets.
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331- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
332 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
333 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
334 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
335 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
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337- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
338 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
339 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
340 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
341 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
342 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
343 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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348- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
349 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
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351- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
352 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
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354- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
355 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
356 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
357 or receive notifications.
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359- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
360 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
361
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362- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
363 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
364 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
365 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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367- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
368 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
369 section.
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371- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
372 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
373 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
374 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
375 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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377- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
378 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
379 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
380 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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382- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
383 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
384 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
385
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386- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
387 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
388 Volker Rümelin.
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390- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
391 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
392
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393- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
394 guest images based on Debian.
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400- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
401 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
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403- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
404 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 405 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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407- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
408 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
409 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 410 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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411 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
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413- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
414 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
415 against a RADIUS server.
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417- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
418 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
419 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
420 including xauth-pam.
421
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422- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
423 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
424 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
425 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
426 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
427 aware clients.
428
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429- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
430 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
431 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
432
433- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
434 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
435 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
436 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
437
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438- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
439 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
440 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
441 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
442 IP addresses to return.
443
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444- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
445 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
446 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
447 specified or referenced named pools.
448
449- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
450 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
451
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452- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
453 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
454
455- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
456 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
457 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
458 is preserved.
459
460- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
461 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
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463- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
464 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
465 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
466
467- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
468 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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474- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
475 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
476 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
477 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
478 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
479 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
480 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
481 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
482
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483- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
484 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
485 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
486 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
487 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
488 the thread calling the listener.
489 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
490 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
491 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
492 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
493
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494- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
495 reappear.
496
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497- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
498 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
499 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
500 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
501 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
502 feature).
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504- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
505 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
506 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
507 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
508 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
509 using SHA-256 or better.
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515- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
516 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
517 a legitimate one.
518
519- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
520
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524
525- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
526 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
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528- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
529 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
530 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
531 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
532
533- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
534 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
535 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
536 console.
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538- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
539 RFC 4595.
540
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542 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
543
4e2e77d5 544- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 545 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
c224f765 546
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548 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
549
550
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552----------------
553
554- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
555 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
556 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
557 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
558
559- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
560 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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561 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
562 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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564- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
565 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
566 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 567
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568- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
569 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
570 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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572- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
573
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577
578- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
579 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
580 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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582 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
583 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
584 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
585 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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587- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
588 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
589 post-installation phase.
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595- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
596 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
597 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
598
599- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
600 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
601 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
602 for the initial patch.
603
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605 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
606
607- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
608
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610 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
611 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
612 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
613 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
614 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
615
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617 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
618 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
619 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
620 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
621 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
622
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624 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
625 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
626
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630
a7edbd21 631- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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633 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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635
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636- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
637 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
638
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640 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
641 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
642
643- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
644 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
645
f8799170 646- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 647 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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649 interfaces.
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652 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
653
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655 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
656 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
657 the client is admitted to the network.
658 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
659
660- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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662
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663- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
664 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
665 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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671- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
672 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
673 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
674 whitelist administration.
675
92ebb7c5 676- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 677 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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678 application about detected duplicates.
679
680- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
681 authentication to previously used certificates.
682
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684 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
685 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
686 only starts|routes the specific child config.
687
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689
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691 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
692
693- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 694 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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696- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
697 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
698 support configuration reloading.
699
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700- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
701 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
702 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
703 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
704 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
705 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
706
707- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
708 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
709 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
710
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714
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715- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
716 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 717 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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718 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
719 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 720 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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722- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
723 in place of the external libtnc library.
724
725- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
726 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
727 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
728 the corresponding protocol stack.
729
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731 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
732 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
733 in an SQL database.
734
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735- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
736 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
737 points in an SQL database.
738
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740 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
741 replaced, respectively.
742
743- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
744 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
745 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
746 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
747 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
748 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
749 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
750
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752 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
753
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755 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
756 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
757
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758- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
759 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
760 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
761 xcbc algorithms.
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764 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
765 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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768 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
769 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
770 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
771 ./configure switch.
772
77eee25f 773- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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776 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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777 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
778 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
779
780- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
781 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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784 support for delta CRLs.
785
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789
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790- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
791 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 792 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 793 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 794 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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797 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
798 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
799 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
800
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801- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
802 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 803 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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805
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806- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
807 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
808 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
809 client authentication.
810
811- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
812 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 813 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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816 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
817 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
818 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
819 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 820 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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822 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
823
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825 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
826 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
827
828- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
829 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
830
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832 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
833 availability.
834
835- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
836 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
837 implement a simple event listener.
838
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840 initial responder moves to a different address.
841
842- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
843
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845 identity was different from the IKE identity.
846
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847- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
848 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
849 UNITY_BANNER).
850
851- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
852 charon plugins.
853
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854- Added man page for strongswan.conf
855
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859
ec40c02a 860- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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861 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
862 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 863
b22bb9f2 864- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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865 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
866 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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868- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
869
e9448cfc 870- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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873- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
874 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
875 in strongswan.conf, if required.
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877- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
878
879- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
880 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
881
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882- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
883 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
884
e87b78c6 885- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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886 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
887 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 888
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890 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
891
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892- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
893 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
894
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896 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
897 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
898 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
899 plugin.
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901- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
902 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
903 unauthenticated users.
904
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908
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910 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
911 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
912 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 913 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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915
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917 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
918 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
919 kernel interface.
920
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921- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
922 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
923 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
924 from IBM for his contribution.
925
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927 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
928 are allocated.
929
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931 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
932 command line option.
933
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935 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
936 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
937 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
938 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
939 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
940
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942 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 943 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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945
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946- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
947 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
948 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
949 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
950
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951- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
952 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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956----------------
957
cdad91de 958- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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959 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
960
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961- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
962 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
963 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
964
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965- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
966
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967- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
968
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969- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
970 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
971 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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972 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
973
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975
2b2c69e9 976- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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978- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
979 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
980 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
981 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
982 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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984- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
985 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
986 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
987
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988- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
989 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
990
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992 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
993 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
994 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
995 this is the case.
996
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997- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
998 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
999 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1000 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1001 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1002
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1003- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1004 allowing interoperability.
1005
1006
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1007strongswan-4.3.5
1008----------------
1009
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1010- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1011 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1012 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1013 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1014 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1015
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1016- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1017 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1018 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1019 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1020 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1021
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1022- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1023 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1024 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1026- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1027 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1028 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1029
d245f5cf 1030- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1031 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1032
1033- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1034 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1035 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1036
1037- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1038 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1039
1040- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1041 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1042 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1043 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1044 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1045 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1046
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1047- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1048 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1049 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1050 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1051
b80fa9ca 1052- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1053 statements.
b80fa9ca 1054
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1055- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1056
1057- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1058 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1059
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1060- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1061 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1062
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1063- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1064 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1065 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1066
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1068strongswan-4.3.4
1069----------------
1070
1071- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1072 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1073
1074- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1075 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1076
1077- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1078
1079
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1080strongswan-4.3.3
1081----------------
1082
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1083- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1084 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1085 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1086 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1087 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1088
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1089- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1090 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1091
1092- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1093 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1094
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1095- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1096
1097- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1098 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1099 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1100
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1102strongswan-4.3.2
1103----------------
1104
1105- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1106 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1107
1108- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1109 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1110 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1111
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1112- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1113 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1114 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1115 with IKEv1.
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1116
1117- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1118 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1119 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1120 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1121
b32af120 1122
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1123strongswan-4.3.1
1124----------------
1125
1126- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1127 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1128 dynamically.
1129
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1130- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1131 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1132 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1133 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1134 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1135
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1136- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1137 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1138 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1139 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1140 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1141 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1142
09dbca9f 1143- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1144 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1145 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1146
1147- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1148 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1149 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1150
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1151- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1152
1153- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1154 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1155 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1156 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1157 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1158 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1159 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1160 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1161
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1162- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1163 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1164
d44fd821 1165- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1166 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1167 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1168 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1169 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1170
1171
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1172strongswan-4.3.0
1173----------------
1174
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1175- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1176 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1177 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1178 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1179 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1180
1181- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1182 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1183
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1184- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1185 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1186
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1187- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1188 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1189 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1190
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1191- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1192 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1193
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1195strongswan-4.2.14
1196-----------------
1197
22180558 1198- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1199 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1200 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1201
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1202- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1203 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1204 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1205 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1206 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1207 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1208 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1209 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1210 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1211
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1212- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1213 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1214 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1215 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1216
1217- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1218 IDr payload anymore.
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1219
1220
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1221strongswan-4.2.13
1222-----------------
1223
1224- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1225 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1226
f3bb1bd0 1227- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1228 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1229
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1230- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1231 parameters field is optional.
1232
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1233- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1234
076e7853 1235
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076e7853 1237-----------------
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1238
1239- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1240 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1241 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1242
1243- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1244 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1245 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1246
1247- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1248 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1249
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1251strongswan-4.2.11
1252-----------------
1253
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1254- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1255 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1256
1257- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1258 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1259
1260
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1261strongswan-4.2.10
1262-----------------
1263
1264- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1265 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1266 counterparts with better lookup times.
1267
1268- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1269 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1270 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1271
1272- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1273 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1274 on the fly.
1275
1276- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1277 command queries assigned leases.
1278
1279- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1280 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1281
1282- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1283 reliable source of randomness.
1284
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1286----------------
1287
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1288- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1289 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1290
1291- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1292 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1293 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1294
1295- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1296 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1297 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1298 parallelization to multiple cores.
1299
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1300- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1301 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1302
509e07c5 1303- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1304 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1305 memory or hardware.
1306
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1307- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1308 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1309 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1310 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1311
1312- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1313 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1314 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1315 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1316 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1317 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1318
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1319- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1320 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1321 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1322
73937bd8 1323
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1324strongswan-4.2.8
1325----------------
1326
5dadb16e 1327- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1328 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1329 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1330
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1331- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1332 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1333 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1334 long as possible and other fixes.
1335
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1336- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1337 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1338 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1339
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1341strongswan-4.2.7
1342----------------
1343
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1344- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1345 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1346 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1347 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1348 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1349
b6b90b68 1350- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1351 ssh-agent.
1352
1353- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1354 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1355
1356- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1357 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1358 newer libcap2 library.
1359
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1360- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1361 charon keying daemon.
1362
1363
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1364strongswan-4.2.6
1365----------------
1366
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1367- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1368 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1369 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1370 in the Gnome Keyring.
1371
1372- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1373 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1374 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1375 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1376
1377- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1378 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1379 authentication.
1380
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1381- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1382 authentication types and EAP identities.
1383
1384- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1385 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1386
1387- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1388 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1389
1390
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1391strongswan-4.2.5
1392----------------
1393
b6b90b68 1394- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1395
1396- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1397 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1398 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1399 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1400 strongswan.conf.
1401
eb0cc338 1402- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1403 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1404
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1405- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1406 network interfaces have become possible.
1407
b6b90b68 1408- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1409 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1410
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1411- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1412
b6b90b68 1413
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1414strongswan-4.2.4
1415----------------
1416
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1417- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1418 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1419
73a8eed3 1420- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1421 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1422
1423- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1424 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1425
1426- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1427 X.509 certificates.
1428
1429- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1430 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1431
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1432- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1433 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1434
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1436strongswan-4.2.3
1437----------------
1438
b6b90b68 1439- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1440 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1441
1442- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1443 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1444
1445
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1446strongswan-4.2.2
1447----------------
1448
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1449- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1450 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1451 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1452 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1453 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1454
1455- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1456 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1457 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1458 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1459
1460- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1461 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1462 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1463
7f491111 1464
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1465strongswan-4.2.1
1466----------------
1467
c306dfb1 1468- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1469 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1470 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1471 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1472 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1473 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1474
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1475- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1476 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1477 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1478 connections.
b6b90b68 1479
f3bb1bd0 1480- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1481 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1482 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1483
b6b90b68 1484- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1485 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1486 re-implemented.
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1487
1488- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1489 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1490
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1491- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1492 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1493 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1494
466abb49 1495- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1496 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1497 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1498 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1499 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1500
c306dfb1 1501- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1502
c306dfb1 1503- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1504
1505- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1506 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1507 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1508
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1511----------------
1512
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1513- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1514 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1515 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1516 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1517 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1518 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1519 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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1521- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1522 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1523
1524- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1525 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1526 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1527 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1528 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1529 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1530 The following new plugins are available:
1531 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1532 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1533 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1534
1535- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1536 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1537 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1538
b6b90b68 1539- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1540 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1541 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1542
a11ea97d 1543
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1544strongswan-4.1.11
1545-----------------
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1547- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1548 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1549 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1550
1551- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1552 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1553
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1554- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1555 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1556 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1557
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1559strongswan-4.1.10
1560-----------------
1561
1562- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1563 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1564
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1565- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1566 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1567 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1568 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1569
1570- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1571 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1572 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1573 before using it.
1574
1575- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1576 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1577 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1578
fb6d76cd 1579
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1581----------------
1582
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1583- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1584 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1585 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1586 added.
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1588- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1589 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1590
1591- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1592 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1593
1594- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1595
8b678ad4 1596- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1597 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1598 loaded twice.
5076770c 1599
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1601strongswan-4.1.8
1602----------------
1603
5076770c 1604- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1606
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1608----------------
1609
1610- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1611 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1612 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1613
6e193274 1614- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1615 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1616 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1617
1618- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1619 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1620 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1621
1622- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1623 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1624
1625- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1626
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1629----------------
1630
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1631- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1632 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1633 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1634 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1635 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1636 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1637 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1638 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1639
1640- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1641 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1642 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1643 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1644
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1645- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1646 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1647 startup.
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1649- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1650 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1651 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1652 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1653 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1654
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1655- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1656 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1658
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1660----------------
1661
1662- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1663 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1664 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1665 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1666 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1667 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1668
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1669- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1670 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1671 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1672 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1673
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1675strongswan-4.1.4
1676----------------
1677
1678- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1679 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1680 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1681 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1682 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1683 parameter is not required any more.
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1684
1685- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1686 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1687 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1688
1689 right=peer.foo.bar
1690 rightallowany=yes
1691
1692 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1693 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1694 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1695 as
1696
1697 right=%any
1698
1699 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1700 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1701
1702 right=%peer.foo.bar
1703
1704 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1705
1706- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1707 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1708 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1709 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1710 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1712- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1713 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1714 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1715 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1716 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1717
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1718- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1719 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1720 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1721 by Robert Varga.
1722
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1723- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1724 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1725
06651827 1726
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1727strongswan-4.1.3
1728----------------
1729
b6b90b68 1730- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1731 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1732
1733- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1734 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1735 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1736
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1737- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1738 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1739 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1740 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1741
1742- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1743 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1744 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1745 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1746
b6b90b68 1747- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1748 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1749 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1750 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1751 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1752 to implement.
a3354a69 1753
f3bb1bd0 1754 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1755 headers > 2.6.17.
1756
1757
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1758strongswan-4.1.2
1759----------------
1760
e23d98a7 1761- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1762 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1763 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1764 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1765
1766- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1767 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1768
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1769- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1770
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1771- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1772
dfbe2a0f 1773- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1774 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1775
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1776- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1777
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1778- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1779 connection name.
1780
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1782strongswan-4.1.1
1783----------------
1784
1785- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1786 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1787 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1788 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1789 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1790 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1791
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1792- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1793 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1794 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1795
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1796- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1797 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1798 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1799 vendor ID.
1800
1801- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1802 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1803 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1804 message.
1805
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1806- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1807 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1808
3b4f7d92 1809
34bbd0c3 1810strongswan-4.1.0
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1812
1813- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1814 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1815
1816- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1817 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1818 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1819 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1820
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1821- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1822
c5d0fbb6 1823- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1824 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1825 accessLocations.
1826
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1827- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1828 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1829 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1830 option.
1831
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1832- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1833 code reuse and separation.
1834
1835- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1836 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1837 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1838
1839- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1840 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1841 specify it.
1842
1843- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1844 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1845 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1846 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1847 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1848 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1849
1850- Added client side support for cookies.
1851
1852- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1853 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1854 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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1858----------------
1859
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1860- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1861 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1862 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1863
1864- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1865 to a default string.
1866
1867
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1869----------------
1870
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1871- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1872 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1873 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1874 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1875 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1876
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1877- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1878
5903179b 1879- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1880
5903179b 1881- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1882
5903179b 1883- various other bugfixes
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1884
1885
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1886strongswan-4.0.5
1887----------------
1888
1889- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1890 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1891
1892- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1893 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1894
1895- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1896 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1897 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1898 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1899
0cd645d2 1900 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1901
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1902 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1903
1904 config setup
03bf883d 1905 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1906
03bf883d 1907 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1908
03bf883d 1909 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1911
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1913----------------
1914
1915- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1916
1917- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1918 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1919 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1920 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1921 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1922
1923- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1924 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1925 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1926
1927- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1928
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1929- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1930 or 3DES are supported.
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1932- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1933 encrypt IKE traffic.
1934
1935- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1936 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1937
1938- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1939 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1940 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1941 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1942
1943
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1944strongswan-4.0.3
1945----------------
1946
1947- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1948 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1949 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1950 kernel.
1951
1952- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1953 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1954 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1955 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1956
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1957- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1958 algorithm configuration statements.
1959
1960
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1961strongswan-4.0.2
1962----------------
1963
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1964- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1965 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1966 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1967 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1968
b6b90b68 1969- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1970 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1971 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1972 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1973
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1974- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1975 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1976 dpddelay=60s).
1977
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1978- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1979 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1980 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1981 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1982
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1983- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1984 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1985 and a more extensible code base.
1986
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1987- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1988 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1989 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1990 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1991 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1992 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1993 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1994
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1997----------------
1998
b6b90b68 1999- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2000 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2001 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2002 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2003 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2004 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2005 algorithms for IKE:
2006 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2007 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2008 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2009 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2010 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2011 blowfish192, blowfish256
2012 Integrity: md5, sha1
2013 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2014 libstrongswan.
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2016- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2017 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2018 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2019 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2020 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2021 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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2023- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2024 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2025 configuration examples).
2026
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2027- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2028 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2029 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2030 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2031
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2032- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2033 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2034 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2035 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2036 via ipsec starter.
2037
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2039strongswan-4.0.0
2040----------------
2041
2042- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2043 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2044 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2045 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2046 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2047 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2048 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2049 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2050 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2051 status command).
2052
2053
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2054strongswan-2.7.0
2055----------------
2056
2057- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2058 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2059 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2060 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2061 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2062 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2063 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2064 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2065 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2066 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2067 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2068 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2069
2070- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2071 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2072 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2073 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2074 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2075 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2076 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2077 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2078 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2079 be inserted.
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2080
2081- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2082 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2083 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2084 be found.
2085
2086
2087strongswan-2.6.4
2088----------------
2089
2090- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2091 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2092 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2093 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2094 are required any more.
2095
2096- added support of DPD restart mode
2097
2098- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2099 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2100 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2101
2102- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2103 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2104
2105
2106strongswan-2.6.3
2107----------------
2108
b6b90b68 2109- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2110 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2111
2112- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2113 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2114 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2115
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2116- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2117 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2118
2119- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2120 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2121 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2122 the ipsec status command.
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2125strongswan-2.6.2
2126----------------
2127
2128- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2129 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2130 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2131
2132- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2133 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2134 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2135
2136- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2137 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2138
2139 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2140 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2141
2142- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2143 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2144 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2145
2146 conn rw
2147 right=%any
2148 rightid=@foo.bar
2149 authby=secret
2150
2151- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2152
2153- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2154
2155- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2156 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2157 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2158
2159- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2160 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2161 servers.
2162
2163- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2164 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2165
2166
2167strongswan-2.6.1
2168----------------
2169
2170- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2171 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2172 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2173
2174
2175strongswan-2.6.0
2176----------------
2177
2178- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2179 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2180 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2181 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2182 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2183 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2184 accelerated tremedously.
2185
2186- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2187 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2188 reload pluto's connections.
2189
2190- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2191 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2192 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2193
2194- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2195
2196- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2197
2198- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2199 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2200 documented yet.
2201
2202
2203strongswan-2.5.7
2204----------------
2205
2206- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2207 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2208 listing.
2209
2210
2211strongswan-2.5.6
2212----------------
2213
2214- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2215 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2216 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2217 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2218
b6b90b68 2219- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2220 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2221 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2222 has been changed from one year to five years.
2223
2224
2225strongswan-2.5.5
2226----------------
2227
2228- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2229 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2230 via the whack interface. Notation:
2231
2232 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2233 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2234 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2235 [--keyid <keyid>]
2236
2237 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2238 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2239 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2240 [--keyid <keyid>]
2241
b6b90b68 2242 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2243
2244 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2245 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2246 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2247 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2248 permanently.
2249
2250- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2251 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2252 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2253 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2254 is automatically generated by calling the function
2255
2256 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2257
2258 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2259 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2260
2261
2262strongswan-2.5.4
2263----------------
2264
2265- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2266 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2267 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2268 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2269
2270- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2271 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2272
2273
2274strongswan-2.5.3
2275----------------
2276
2277- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2278 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2279 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2280 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2281 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2282
2283- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2284
2285 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2286 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2287 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2288 self-signed certs)
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2289
2290- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2291 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2292 attribute for AES encryption.
2293
2294- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2295
2296- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2297
2298
2299strongswan-2.5.2
2300----------------
2301
2302- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2303 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2304 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2305 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2306 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2307
2308- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2309 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2310 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2311
2312
2313strongswan-2.5.1
2314----------------
2315
2316- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2317 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2318 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2319 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2320 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2321 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2322 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2323 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2324
2325- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2326 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2327 the command
2328
2329 ipsec auto --listcards
2330
2331 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2332 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2333 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2334 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2335
2336 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2337 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2338 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2339
2340 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2341
2342 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2343 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2344 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2345
2346- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2347 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2348 to generate a signature.
2349
2350- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2351 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2352 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2353 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2354 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2355
2356- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2357 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2358
2359- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2360 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2361 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2362
2363
2364strongswan-2.5.0
2365----------------
2366
2367- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2368 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2369 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2370 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2371 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2372 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2373
2374- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2375 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2376 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2377 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2378 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2379 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2381- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2382 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2383 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2384
2385
2386strongswan-2.4.4
2387----------------
2388
2389- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2390
2391- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2392
2393
2394strongswan-2.4.3
2395----------------
2396
2397- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2398 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2399
2400- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2401
2402- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2403 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2404 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2405
2406- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2407 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2408 included.
2409
2410
2411strongswan-2.4.2
2412----------------
2413
2414- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2415 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2416 value of 50.
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2418- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2419 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2420 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2421 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2422 pad has to be done only once.
2423
2424- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2425 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2426 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2427
997358a6 2428 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 2429
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2430- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2431
2432- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2433 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2434
2435- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2436 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2437 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2439- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2440 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2441 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2442
2443
2444strongswan-2.4.1
2445----------------
2446
2447- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2448 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2449 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2450 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2451 "left" be"local".
2452
2453
2454strongswan-2.4.0a
2455-----------------
2456
2457- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2458
2459- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2460 Michael Meier
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2461
2462
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2463strongswan-2.4.0
2464----------------
2465
2466- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2467 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2468 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2469 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2470 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2471 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2472 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2473
2474- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2475 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2476 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2477 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2478 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2479
2480- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2481 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2482 in a particular test.
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2484
2485strongswan-2.3.2
2486----------------
2487
2488- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2489 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2490
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2491- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2492
2493- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2494 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2495 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 2496
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2497- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2498 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2499 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2500 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2501
2502
2503strongswan-2.3.1
2504----------------
2505
2506- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2507
2508- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2509 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2510
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2511- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2512 module.
b6b90b68 2513
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2514- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2515 maximum udp size patches.
2516
2517- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2520strongswan-2.3.0
2521----------------
2522
2523- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2524 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2525 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2526 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2527 subdirectory.
2528
2529- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2530 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2531 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2532
997358a6 2533 man ipsec_openac.
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2535 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2536 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2537 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2539 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2540
2541 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2542 Research or Sales, only.
2543
2544- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2545 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2546 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2547 Secure Entry Clients.
2548
2549- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2550 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2551 now both set to 24 h.
2552
2553- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2554 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2555
2556- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2557 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2558 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2559
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2560 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2561
2562
2563strongswan-2.2.2
2564----------------
2565
2566- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2567 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2568 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2569 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2570
f3bb1bd0 2571- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2572 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2573 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2574
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2575- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2576
2577- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2578 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2579
2580
2581strongswan-2.2.1
2582----------------
2583
2584- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2585 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2586
f3bb1bd0 2587- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2588 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2589
997358a6 2590- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2591 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2592
2593- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2594
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2595- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2596
2597- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2598
2599
2600strongswan-2.2.0
2601----------------
2602
2603- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2604
2605 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2608
2609- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2610 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2611 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2612
997358a6 2613 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2615 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2616
2617- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2618 using the compile option VENDORID
2619
2620- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2621
2622- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2623
2624- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2625
2626- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2627 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2629- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2630
2631- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2632 connection.
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2635strongswan-2.1.5
2636----------------
2637
2638- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2639 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2640 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2641 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2642 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2643
2644- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2645 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2646
2647
2648strongswan-2.1.4
2649----------------
2650
2651- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2652 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2653 an optional connection selector:
2654
2655 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2656
2657- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2658 man page.
2659
2660- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2661 of malformed distinguished names.
2662
2663- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2664
2665 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2666
2667- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2668
2669
2670strongswan-2.1.3
2671----------------
2672
2673- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2674 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2677strongswan-2.1.2
2678----------------
2679
2680- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2681 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2682 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2685strongswan-2.1.1
2686----------------
2687
2688- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2689
2690
2691strongswan-2.1.0
2692----------------
2693
2694- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2695
2696 ca kool
2697 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2698 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2699 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2700 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2701 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2702 auto=add # add, ignore
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2706 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2707
2708- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2709 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2710
2711
2712strongswan-2.0.2
2713----------------
2714
2715- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2716 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2718- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
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2721- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2722 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2723
2724- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2725 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2726 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2727
2728
2729strongswan-2.0.1
2730----------------
2731
2732- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2733 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2734 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2735 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2736
2737- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2738 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2740
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2742----------------
2743
2744- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12