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1strongswan-4.0.5
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4- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
5 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
6
7- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
8 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
9
10- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
11 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
12 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
13 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
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0cd645d2 15 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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17 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
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19 config setup
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03bf883d 22 or changed at runtime via stroke as
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27strongswan-4.0.4
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29
30- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
31
32- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
33 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
34 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
35 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
36 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
37
38- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
39 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
40 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
41
42- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
43
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44- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
45 or 3DES are supported.
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47- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
48 encrypt IKE traffic.
49
50- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
51 signed with such a hash algorithm.
52
53- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
54 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
55 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
56 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
57
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59strongswan-4.0.3
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61
62- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
63 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
64 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
65 kernel.
66
67- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
68 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
69 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
70 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
71
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72- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
73 algorithm configuration statements.
74
75
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76strongswan-4.0.2
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78
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79- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
80 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
81 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
82 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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84- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
85 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
86 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
87 ipsec.conf rules for now.
88
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89- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
90 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
91 dpddelay=60s).
92
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93- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
94 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
95 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
96 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
97
98- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
99 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
100 and a more extensible code base.
101
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102- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
103 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
104 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
105 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
106 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
107 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
108 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
109
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111strongswan-4.0.1
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113
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114- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
115 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
116 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
117 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
118 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
119 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
120 algorithms for IKE:
121 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
122 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
123 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
124 and for ESP:
125 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
126 blowfish192, blowfish256
127 Integrity: md5, sha1
128 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
129 libstrongswan.
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131- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
132 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 133 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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134 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
135 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
136 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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138- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
139 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
140 configuration examples).
141
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142- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
143 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
144 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
145 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
146
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147- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
148 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
149 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
150 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
151 via ipsec starter.
152
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154strongswan-4.0.0
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156
157- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
158 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
159 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
160 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
161 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
162 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
163 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
164 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
165 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
166 status command).
167
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169strongswan-2.7.0
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171
172- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
173 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
174 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
175 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
176 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
177 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
178 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
179 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
180 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
181 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
182 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
183 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
184
185- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
186 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
187 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
188 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
189 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
190 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
191 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
192 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
193 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
194 be inserted.
195
196- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
197 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
198 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
199 be found.
200
201
202strongswan-2.6.4
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204
205- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
206 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
207 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
208 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
209 are required any more.
210
211- added support of DPD restart mode
212
213- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
214 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
215 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
216
217- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
218 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
219
220
221strongswan-2.6.3
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223
224- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
225 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
226
227- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
228 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
229 via the auth=ah parameter.
230
231- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
232 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
233
234- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
235 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
236 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
237 the ipsec status command.
238
239
240strongswan-2.6.2
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242
243- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
244 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
245 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
246
247- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
248 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
249 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
250
251- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
252 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
253
254 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
255 rightid="UN=John Doe"
256
257- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
258 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
259 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
260
261 conn rw
262 right=%any
263 rightid=@foo.bar
264 authby=secret
265
266- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
267
268- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
269
270- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
271 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
272 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
273
274- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
275 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
276 servers.
277
278- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
279 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
280
281
282strongswan-2.6.1
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284
285- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
286 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
287 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
288
289
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292
293- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
294 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
295 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
296 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
297 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
298 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
299 accelerated tremedously.
300
301- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
302 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
303 reload pluto's connections.
304
305- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
306 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
307 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
308
309- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
310
311- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
312
313- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
314 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
315 documented yet.
316
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320
321- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
322 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
323 listing.
324
325
326strongswan-2.5.6
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328
329- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
330 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
331 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
332 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
333
334- The scepclient function now allows to define the
335 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
336 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
337 has been changed from one year to five years.
338
339
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342
343- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
344 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
345 via the whack interface. Notation:
346
347 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
348 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
349 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
350 [--keyid <keyid>]
351
352 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
353 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
354 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
355 [--keyid <keyid>]
356
357 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
358
359 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
360 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
361 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
362 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
363 permanently.
364
365- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
366 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
367 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
368 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
369 is automatically generated by calling the function
370
371 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
372
373 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
374 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
375
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377strongswan-2.5.4
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379
380- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
381 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
382 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
383 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
384
385- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
386 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
387
388
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391
392- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
393 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
394 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
395 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
396 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
397
398- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
399
400 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
401 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
402 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
403 self-signed certs)
404
405- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
406 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
407 attribute for AES encryption.
408
409- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
410
411- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
412
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416
417- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
418 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
419 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
420 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
421 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
422
423- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
424 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
425 multiple connections between two security gateways.
426
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430
431- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
432 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
433 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
434 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
435 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
436 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
437 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
438 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
439
440- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
441 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
442 the command
443
444 ipsec auto --listcards
445
446 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
447 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
448 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
449 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
450
451 %smartcard (selects object #1)
452 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
453 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
454
455 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
456
457 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
458 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
459 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
460
461- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
462 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
463 to generate a signature.
464
465- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
466 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
467 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
468 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
469 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
470
471- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
472 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
473
474- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
475 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
476 towards the release of the SCEP client.
477
478
479strongswan-2.5.0
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481
482- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
483 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
484 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
485 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
486 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
487 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
488
489- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
490 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
491 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
492 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
493 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
494 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
495
496- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
497 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
498 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
499
500
501strongswan-2.4.4
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503
504- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
505
506- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
507
508
509strongswan-2.4.3
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511
512- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
513 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
514
515- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
516
517- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
518 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
519 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
520
521- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
522 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
523 included.
524
525
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528
529- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
530 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
531 value of 50.
532
533- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
534 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
535 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
536 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
537 pad has to be done only once.
538
539- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
540 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
541 to be used with smart cards. Example:
542
543 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
544
545- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
546
547- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
548 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
549
550- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
551 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
552 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
553
554- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
555 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
556 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
557
558
559strongswan-2.4.1
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561
562- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
563 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
564 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
565 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
566 "left" be"local".
567
568
569strongswan-2.4.0a
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571
572- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
573
574- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
575 Michael Meier
576
577
578strongswan-2.4.0
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580
581- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
582 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
583 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
584 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
585 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
586 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
587 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
588
589- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
590 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
591 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
592 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
593 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
594
595- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
596 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
597 in a particular test.
598
599
600strongswan-2.3.2
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602
603- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
604 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
605
606- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
607
608- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
609 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
610 Delete SA messages.
611
612- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
613 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
614 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
615 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
616
617
618strongswan-2.3.1
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620
621- Added basic Mode Config functionality
622
623- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
624 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
625
626- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
627 module.
628
629- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
630 maximum udp size patches.
631
632- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
633
634
635strongswan-2.3.0
636----------------
637
638- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
639 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
640 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
641 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
642 subdirectory.
643
644- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
645 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
646 using the openac facility. For more details see
647
648 man ipsec_openac.
649
650 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
651 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
652 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
653
654 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
655
656 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
657 Research or Sales, only.
658
659- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
660 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
661 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
662 Secure Entry Clients.
663
664- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
665 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
666 now both set to 24 h.
667
668- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
669 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
670
671- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
672 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
673 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
674
675 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
676
677
678strongswan-2.2.2
679----------------
680
681- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
682 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
683 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
684 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
685
686- Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
687 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
688 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
689
690- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
691
692- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
693 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
694
695
696strongswan-2.2.1
697----------------
698
699- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
700 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
701
702- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag
703 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
704
705- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
706 occuring when a smartcard is present.
707
708- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
709
710- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
711
712- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
713
714
715strongswan-2.2.0
716----------------
717
718- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
719
720 dpdaction=clear|hold
721
722 activates DPD for the given connection.
723
724- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
725 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
726 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
727
728 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
729
730 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
731
732- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
733 using the compile option VENDORID
734
735- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
736
737- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
738
739- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
740
741- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
742 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
743
744- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
745
746- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
747 connection.
748
749
750strongswan-2.1.5
751----------------
752
753- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
754 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
755 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
756 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
757 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
758
759- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
760 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
761
762
763strongswan-2.1.4
764----------------
765
766- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
767 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
768 an optional connection selector:
769
770 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
771
772- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
773 man page.
774
775- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
776 of malformed distinguished names.
777
778- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
779
780 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
781
782- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
783
784
785strongswan-2.1.3
786----------------
787
788- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
789 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
790
791
792strongswan-2.1.2
793----------------
794
795- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
796 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
797 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
798
799
800strongswan-2.1.1
801----------------
802
803- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
804
805
806strongswan-2.1.0
807----------------
808
809- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
810
811 ca kool
812 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
813 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
814 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
815 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
816 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
817 auto=add # add, ignore
818
819 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
820
821 ipsec auto --listcainfos
822
823- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
824 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
825
826
827strongswan-2.0.2
828----------------
829
830- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
831 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
832
833- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
834 during kernel compilation
835
836- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
837 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
838
839- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
840 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
841 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
842
843
844strongswan-2.0.1
845----------------
846
847- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
848 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
849 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
850 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
851
852- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
853 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
854
855
856strongswan-2.0.0
857----------------
858
859- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12