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4- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
5 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
6 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
7 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
8 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
9 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
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11- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
12 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
13 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
14 vendor ID.
15
16- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
17 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
18 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
19 message.
20
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21- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http-based CRL fetching.
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26
27- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
28 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
29
30- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
31 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
32 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
33 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
34
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35- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
36
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37- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
38 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
39 accessLocations.
40
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41- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
42 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
43 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
44 option.
45
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46- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
47 code reuse and separation.
48
49- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
50 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
51 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
52
53- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
54 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
55 specify it.
56
57- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
58 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
59 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
60 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
61 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
62 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
63
64- Added client side support for cookies.
65
66- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
67 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
68 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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72
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73- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
74 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
75 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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77- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
78 to a default string.
79
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83
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84- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
85 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
86 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
87 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
88 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
89
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90- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
91
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5903179b 94- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
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5903179b 96- various other bugfixes
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99strongswan-4.0.5
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101
102- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
103 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
104
105- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
106 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
107
108- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
109 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
110 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
111 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
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0cd645d2 113 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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115 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
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117 config setup
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127
128- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
129
130- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
131 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
132 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
133 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
134 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
135
136- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
137 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
138 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
139
140- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
141
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142- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
143 or 3DES are supported.
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145- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
146 encrypt IKE traffic.
147
148- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
149 signed with such a hash algorithm.
150
151- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
152 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
153 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
154 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
155
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159
160- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
161 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
162 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
163 kernel.
164
165- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
166 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
167 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
168 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
169
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170- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
171 algorithm configuration statements.
172
173
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174strongswan-4.0.2
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176
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177- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
178 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
179 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
180 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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181
182- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
183 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
184 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
185 ipsec.conf rules for now.
186
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187- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
188 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
189 dpddelay=60s).
190
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191- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
192 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
193 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
194 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
195
196- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
197 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
198 and a more extensible code base.
199
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200- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
201 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
202 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
203 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
204 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
205 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
206 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
207
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211
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212- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
213 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
214 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
215 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
216 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
217 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
218 algorithms for IKE:
219 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
220 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
221 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
222 and for ESP:
223 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
224 blowfish192, blowfish256
225 Integrity: md5, sha1
226 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
227 libstrongswan.
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229- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
230 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 231 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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232 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
233 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
234 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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236- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
237 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
238 configuration examples).
239
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240- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
241 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
242 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
243 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
244
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245- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
246 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
247 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
248 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
249 via ipsec starter.
250
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254
255- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
256 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
257 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
258 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
259 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
260 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
261 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
262 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
263 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
264 status command).
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269
270- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
271 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
272 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
273 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
274 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
275 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
276 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
277 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
278 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
279 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
280 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
281 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
282
283- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
284 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
285 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
286 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
287 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
288 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
289 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
290 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
291 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
292 be inserted.
293
294- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
295 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
296 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
297 be found.
298
299
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302
303- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
304 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
305 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
306 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
307 are required any more.
308
309- added support of DPD restart mode
310
311- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
312 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
313 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
314
315- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
316 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
317
318
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321
322- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
323 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
324
325- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
326 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
327 via the auth=ah parameter.
328
329- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
330 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
331
332- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
333 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
334 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
335 the ipsec status command.
336
337
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340
341- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
342 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
343 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
344
345- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
346 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
347 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
348
349- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
350 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
351
352 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
353 rightid="UN=John Doe"
354
355- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
356 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
357 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
358
359 conn rw
360 right=%any
361 rightid=@foo.bar
362 authby=secret
363
364- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
365
366- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
367
368- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
369 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
370 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
371
372- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
373 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
374 servers.
375
376- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
377 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
378
379
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382
383- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
384 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
385 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
386
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391- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
392 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
393 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
394 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
395 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
396 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
397 accelerated tremedously.
398
399- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
400 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
401 reload pluto's connections.
402
403- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
404 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
405 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
406
407- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
408
409- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
410
411- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
412 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
413 documented yet.
414
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418
419- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
420 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
421 listing.
422
423
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426
427- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
428 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
429 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
430 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
431
432- The scepclient function now allows to define the
433 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
434 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
435 has been changed from one year to five years.
436
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440
441- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
442 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
443 via the whack interface. Notation:
444
445 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
446 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
447 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
448 [--keyid <keyid>]
449
450 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
451 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
452 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
453 [--keyid <keyid>]
454
455 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
456
457 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
458 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
459 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
460 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
461 permanently.
462
463- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
464 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
465 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
466 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
467 is automatically generated by calling the function
468
469 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
470
471 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
472 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
473
474
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477
478- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
479 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
480 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
481 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
482
483- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
484 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
485
486
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489
490- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
491 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
492 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
493 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
494 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
495
496- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
497
498 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
499 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
500 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
501 self-signed certs)
502
503- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
504 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
505 attribute for AES encryption.
506
507- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
508
509- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
510
511
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514
515- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
516 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
517 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
518 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
519 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
520
521- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
522 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
523 multiple connections between two security gateways.
524
525
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528
529- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
530 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
531 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
532 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
533 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
534 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
535 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
536 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
537
538- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
539 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
540 the command
541
542 ipsec auto --listcards
543
544 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
545 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
546 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
547 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
548
549 %smartcard (selects object #1)
550 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
551 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
552
553 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
554
555 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
556 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
557 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
558
559- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
560 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
561 to generate a signature.
562
563- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
564 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
565 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
566 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
567 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
568
569- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
570 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
571
572- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
573 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
574 towards the release of the SCEP client.
575
576
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579
580- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
581 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
582 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
583 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
584 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
585 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
586
587- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
588 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
589 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
590 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
591 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
592 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
593
594- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
595 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
596 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
597
598
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601
602- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
603
604- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
605
606
607strongswan-2.4.3
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609
610- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
611 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
612
613- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
614
615- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
616 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
617 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
618
619- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
620 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
621 included.
622
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626
627- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
628 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
629 value of 50.
630
631- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
632 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
633 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
634 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
635 pad has to be done only once.
636
637- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
638 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
639 to be used with smart cards. Example:
640
641 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
642
643- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
644
645- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
646 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
647
648- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
649 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
650 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
651
652- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
653 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
654 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
655
656
657strongswan-2.4.1
658----------------
659
660- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
661 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
662 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
663 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
664 "left" be"local".
665
666
667strongswan-2.4.0a
668-----------------
669
670- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
671
672- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
673 Michael Meier
674
675
676strongswan-2.4.0
677----------------
678
679- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
680 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
681 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
682 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
683 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
684 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
685 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
686
687- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
688 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
689 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
690 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
691 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
692
693- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
694 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
695 in a particular test.
696
697
698strongswan-2.3.2
699----------------
700
701- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
702 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
703
704- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
705
706- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
707 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
708 Delete SA messages.
709
710- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
711 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
712 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
713 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
714
715
716strongswan-2.3.1
717----------------
718
719- Added basic Mode Config functionality
720
721- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
722 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
723
724- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
725 module.
726
727- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
728 maximum udp size patches.
729
730- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
731
732
733strongswan-2.3.0
734----------------
735
736- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
737 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
738 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
739 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
740 subdirectory.
741
742- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
743 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
744 using the openac facility. For more details see
745
746 man ipsec_openac.
747
748 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
749 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
750 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
751
752 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
753
754 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
755 Research or Sales, only.
756
757- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
758 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
759 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
760 Secure Entry Clients.
761
762- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
763 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
764 now both set to 24 h.
765
766- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
767 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
768
769- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
770 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
771 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
772
773 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
774
775
776strongswan-2.2.2
777----------------
778
779- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
780 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
781 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
782 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
783
784- Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
785 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
786 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
787
788- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
789
790- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
791 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
792
793
794strongswan-2.2.1
795----------------
796
797- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
798 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
799
800- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag
801 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
802
803- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
804 occuring when a smartcard is present.
805
806- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
807
808- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
809
810- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
811
812
813strongswan-2.2.0
814----------------
815
816- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
817
818 dpdaction=clear|hold
819
820 activates DPD for the given connection.
821
822- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
823 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
824 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
825
826 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
827
828 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
829
830- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
831 using the compile option VENDORID
832
833- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
834
835- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
836
837- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
838
839- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
840 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
841
842- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
843
844- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
845 connection.
846
847
848strongswan-2.1.5
849----------------
850
851- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
852 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
853 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
854 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
855 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
856
857- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
858 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
859
860
861strongswan-2.1.4
862----------------
863
864- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
865 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
866 an optional connection selector:
867
868 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
869
870- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
871 man page.
872
873- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
874 of malformed distinguished names.
875
876- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
877
878 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
879
880- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
881
882
883strongswan-2.1.3
884----------------
885
886- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
887 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
888
889
890strongswan-2.1.2
891----------------
892
893- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
894 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
895 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
896
897
898strongswan-2.1.1
899----------------
900
901- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
902
903
904strongswan-2.1.0
905----------------
906
907- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
908
909 ca kool
910 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
911 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
912 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
913 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
914 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
915 auto=add # add, ignore
916
917 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
918
919 ipsec auto --listcainfos
920
921- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
922 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
923
924
925strongswan-2.0.2
926----------------
927
928- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
929 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
930
931- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
932 during kernel compilation
933
934- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
935 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
936
937- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
938 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
939 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
940
941
942strongswan-2.0.1
943----------------
944
945- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
946 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
947 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
948 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
949
950- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
951 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
952
953
954strongswan-2.0.0
955----------------
956
957- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12