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2strongswan-4.5.0
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4
5- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
6 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
7 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
8 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
9
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10- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
11 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 12 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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13 tokens.
14
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15- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
16 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
17 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
18 client authentication.
19
20- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
21 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 22 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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24- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
25 identity was different from the IKE identity.
26
27- Added man page for strongswan.conf
28
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30strongswan-4.4.1
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32
ec40c02a 33- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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34 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
35 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 36
b22bb9f2 37- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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38 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
39 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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41- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
42
e9448cfc 43- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 44 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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46- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
47 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
48 in strongswan.conf, if required.
49
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50- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
51
52- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
53 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
54
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55- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
56 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
57
e87b78c6 58- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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59 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
60 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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62- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
63 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
64
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65- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
66 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
67
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68- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
69 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
70 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
71 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
72 plugin.
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74- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
75 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
76 unauthenticated users.
77
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79strongswan-4.4.0
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81
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82- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
83 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
84 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
85 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 86 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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87 secunet Security Networks AG.
88
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89- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
90 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
91 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
92 kernel interface.
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94- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
95 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
96 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
97 from IBM for his contribution.
98
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99- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
100 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
101 are allocated.
102
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103- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
104 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
105 command line option.
106
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107- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
108 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
109 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
110 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
111 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
112 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
113
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114- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
115 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 116 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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117 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
118
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119- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
120 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
121 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
122 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
123
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124- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
125 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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128strongswan-4.3.6
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130
cdad91de 131- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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132 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
133
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134- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
135 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
136 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
137
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138- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
139
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140- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
141
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142- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
143 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
144 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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145 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
146
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147- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
148
2b2c69e9 149- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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151- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
152 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
153 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
154 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
155 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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157- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
158 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
159 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
160
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161- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
162 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
163
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164- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
165 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
166 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
167 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
168 this is the case.
169
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170- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
171 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
172 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
173 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
174 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
175
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176- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
177 allowing interoperability.
178
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180strongswan-4.3.5
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182
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183- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
184 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
185 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 186 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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187 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
188
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189- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
190 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
191 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
192 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
193 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
194
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195- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
196 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
197 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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199- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
200 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
201 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
202
d245f5cf 203- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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204 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
205
206- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
207 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
208 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
209
210- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
211 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
212
213- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
214 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
215 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
216 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
217 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
218 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
219
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220- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
221 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
222 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
223 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
224
b80fa9ca 225- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 226 statements.
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228- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
229
230- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
231 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
232
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233- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
234 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
235
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236- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
237 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
238 and the libstrongswan library.
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243
244- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
245 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
246
247- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
248 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
249
250- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
251
252
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253strongswan-4.3.3
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255
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256- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
257 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
258 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
259 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
260 manipulations can be reliably detected.
261
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262- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
263 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
264
265- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
266 authenticated encryption algorithms.
267
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268- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
269
270- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
271 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
272 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
273
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277
278- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
279 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
280
281- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
282 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
283 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
284
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285- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
286 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
287 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
288 with IKEv1.
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290- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
291 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
292 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
293 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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298
299- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 300 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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301 dynamically.
302
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303- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
304 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
305 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
306 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
307 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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309- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
310 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
311 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
312 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
313 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
314 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
315
09dbca9f 316- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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317 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
318 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
319
320- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
321 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
322 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
323
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324- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
325
326- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
327 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
328 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
329 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
330 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 331 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
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332 developped by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
333 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
334
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335- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
336 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
337
d44fd821 338- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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339 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
340 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 341 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 342 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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344
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347
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348- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
349 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
350 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
351 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
352 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
353
354- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
355 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
356
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357- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
358 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
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360- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
361 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
362 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
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364- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
365 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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370
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371- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
372 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Succesfully
373 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
374
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375- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
376 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
377 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
378 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
379 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
380 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
381 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
382 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
383 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
384
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385- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
386 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
387 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
388 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
389
390- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 391 IDr payload anymore.
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393
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396
397- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
398 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
399
400- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occuring with
b6b90b68 401 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
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403- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
404 parameters field is optional.
405
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406- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
407
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412- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
413 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
414 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
415
416- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 417 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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418 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
419
420- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
421 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
422
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426
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427- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
428 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
429
430- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
431 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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436
437- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
438 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
439 counterparts with better lookup times.
440
441- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
442 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
443 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
444
445- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
446 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
447 on the fly.
448
449- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
450 command queries assigned leases.
451
452- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
453 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
454
455- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
456 reliable source of randomness.
457
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458strongswan-4.2.9
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460
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461- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
462 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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464- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
465 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
466 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
467
468- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 469 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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470 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
471 parallelization to multiple cores.
472
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473- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
474 further slim down the daemon core.
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509e07c5 476- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 477 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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478 memory or hardware.
479
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480- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
481 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
482 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
483 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
484
485- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
486 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
487 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
488 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
489 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
490 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Adress.
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492- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
493 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
494 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
495
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499
5dadb16e 500- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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501 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
502 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
503
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504- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
505 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
506 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
507 long as possible and other fixes.
508
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510 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
511 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
512
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515----------------
516
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517- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
518 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
519 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
520 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 521 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 522
b6b90b68 523- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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524 ssh-agent.
525
526- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 527 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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529- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
530 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
531 newer libcap2 library.
532
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533- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
534 charon keying daemon.
535
536
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538----------------
539
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540- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
541 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
542 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
543 in the Gnome Keyring.
544
545- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
546 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 547 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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548 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
549
550- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
551 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
552 authentication.
553
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554- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
555 authentication types and EAP identities.
556
557- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
558 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
559
560- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
561 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
562
563
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565----------------
566
b6b90b68 567- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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569- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
570 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
571 storing only history information has become optional and can be
572 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
573 strongswan.conf.
574
eb0cc338 575- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 576 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 577
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578- management of different virtual IP pools for different
579 network interfaces have become possible.
580
b6b90b68 581- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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582 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
583
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585
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588----------------
589
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590- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
591 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 592
73a8eed3 593- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 594 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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596- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
597 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
598
599- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
600 X.509 certificates.
601
602- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
603 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 604
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605- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
606 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
607
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610----------------
611
b6b90b68 612- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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613 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
614
615- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
616 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
617
618
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620----------------
621
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622- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
623 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 624 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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626 to software-based crypto plugins.
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628- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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629 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
630 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
631 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
632
633- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 634 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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636
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639----------------
640
c306dfb1 641- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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642 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
643 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
644 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
645 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
646 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 647
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649 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
650 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
651 connections.
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653- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionaly supports random number
58caabf7 654 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 655 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 656
b6b90b68 657- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 658 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 659 re-implemented.
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661- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
662 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
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664- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
665 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
666 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 667
466abb49 668- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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669 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
670 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
671 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 672 separate plugin.
58caabf7 673
c306dfb1 674- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 675
c306dfb1 676- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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678- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 679 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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680 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
681
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684----------------
685
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686- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
687 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
688 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
689 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
690 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
691 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
692 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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694- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
695 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
696
697- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
698 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
699 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
700 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
701 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
702 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
703 The following new plugins are available:
704 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
705 top of either MySQL or SQLite
706 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
707
708- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
709 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
710 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
711
b6b90b68 712- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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713 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
714 by other applications.
b6b90b68 715
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717strongswan-4.1.11
718-----------------
fb6d76cd 719
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720- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
721 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
722 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
723
724- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 725 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 726
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727- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
728 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
729 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
730
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733-----------------
734
735- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 736 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
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739 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
740 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
741 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
742
743- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
744 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
745 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
746 before using it.
747
748- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 749 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 750 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 751
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754----------------
755
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756- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
757 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
758 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
759 added.
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761- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
762 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
763
764- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
765 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
766
767- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
768
8b678ad4 769- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 770 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 771 loaded twice.
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775----------------
776
5076770c 777- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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779
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781----------------
782
783- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
784 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
785 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
786
6e193274 787- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 788 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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789 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
790
791- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
792 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 793 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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795- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
796 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
797
798- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
799
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803
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804- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
805 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
806 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
807 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
808 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
809 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
810 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
811 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
812
813- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
814 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
815 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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816 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
817
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818- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
819 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
820 startup.
b6b90b68 821
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822- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
823 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
824 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
825 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
826 AUTHentication having been configured.
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828- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
829 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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833----------------
834
835- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
836 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
837 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
838 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
839 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
840 corresponding connection definition is updated.
841
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843 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
844 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
845 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
846
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849----------------
850
851- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
852 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
853 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
854 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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855 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
856 parameter is not required any more.
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858- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
859 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
860 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
861
862 right=peer.foo.bar
863 rightallowany=yes
864
865 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
866 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
867 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
868 as
869
870 right=%any
871
872 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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874
875 right=%peer.foo.bar
876
877 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
878
879- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
880 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
881 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
882 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
883 connections as a responder are still possible.
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885- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
886 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
887 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
888 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
889 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 890
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891- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
892 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
893 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
894 by Robert Varga.
895
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896- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
897 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 898
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900strongswan-4.1.3
901----------------
902
b6b90b68 903- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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904 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
905
906- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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907 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
908 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
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910- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
911 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
912 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
913 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
914
915- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
916 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
917 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
918 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
919
b6b90b68 920- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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921 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
922 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
923 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 924 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 925 to implement.
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927 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occuring with Linux kernel
928 headers > 2.6.17.
929
930
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932----------------
933
e23d98a7 934- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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935 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
936 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
937 is implemented properly for rekeying.
938
939- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
940 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
941
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942- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
943
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944- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
945
dfbe2a0f 946- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 947 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
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950
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952 connection name.
953
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956----------------
957
958- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
959 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
960 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
961 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
962 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
963 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
964
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966 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
967 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
968
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969- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
970 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
971 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
972 vendor ID.
973
974- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
975 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
976 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
977 message.
978
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979- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
980 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
981
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985
986- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
987 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
988
989- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
990 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
991 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
992 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
993
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995
c5d0fbb6 996- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 997 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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999
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1000- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1001 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1002 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1003 option.
1004
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1006 code reuse and separation.
1007
1008- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1009 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1010 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1011
1012- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1013 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1014 specify it.
1015
1016- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1017 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1018 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1019 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1020 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1021 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1022
1023- Added client side support for cookies.
1024
1025- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1026 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1027 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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1032
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1034 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1035 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1037- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1038 to a default string.
1039
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1043
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1044- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1045 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1046 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1047 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1048 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1049
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1051
5903179b 1052- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1053
5903179b 1054- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1055
5903179b 1056- various other bugfixes
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1058
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1060----------------
1061
1062- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1063 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1064
1065- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1066 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1067
1068- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1069 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1070 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1071 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1072
0cd645d2 1073 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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1075 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1076
1077 config setup
03bf883d 1078 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
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03bf883d 1080 or changed at runtime via stroke as
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03bf883d 1082 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1084
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1086----------------
1087
1088- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1089
1090- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1091 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1092 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1093 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1094 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1095
1096- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1097 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1098 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1099
1100- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1101
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1103 or 3DES are supported.
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1105- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1106 encrypt IKE traffic.
1107
1108- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1109 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1110
1111- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1112 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1113 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1114 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1115
1116
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1118----------------
1119
1120- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1121 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1122 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1123 kernel.
1124
1125- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1126 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1127 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1128 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1129
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1130- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1131 algorithm configuration statements.
1132
1133
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1135----------------
1136
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1137- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1138 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1139 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1140 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1141
b6b90b68 1142- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1143 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1144 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1145 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1146
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1147- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1148 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1149 dpddelay=60s).
1150
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1151- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1152 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1153 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1154 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1155
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1156- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1157 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1158 and a more extensible code base.
1159
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1160- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1161 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1162 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1163 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1164 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1165 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1166 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1167
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1170----------------
1171
b6b90b68 1172- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1173 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1174 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1175 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1176 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1177 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1178 algorithms for IKE:
1179 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1180 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1181 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1182 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1183 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1184 blowfish192, blowfish256
1185 Integrity: md5, sha1
1186 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1187 libstrongswan.
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1189- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1190 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1191 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1192 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1193 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1194 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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1196- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1197 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1198 configuration examples).
1199
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1200- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1201 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1202 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1203 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1204
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1205- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1206 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1207 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1208 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1209 via ipsec starter.
1210
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1213----------------
1214
1215- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1216 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1217 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1218 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1219 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1220 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1221 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1222 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1223 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1224 status command).
1225
1226
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1227strongswan-2.7.0
1228----------------
1229
1230- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1231 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1232 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1233 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1234 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1235 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1236 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1237 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1238 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1239 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1240 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1241 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1242
1243- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1244 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1245 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1246 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1247 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1248 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1249 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1250 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1251 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 1252 be inserted.
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1254- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1255 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1256 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1257 be found.
1258
1259
1260strongswan-2.6.4
1261----------------
1262
1263- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1264 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1265 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1266 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1267 are required any more.
1268
1269- added support of DPD restart mode
1270
1271- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1272 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1273 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1274
1275- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1276 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1277
1278
1279strongswan-2.6.3
1280----------------
1281
b6b90b68 1282- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1283 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
1284
1285- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1286 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1287 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1289- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
1290 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1291
1292- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1293 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1294 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1295 the ipsec status command.
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1298strongswan-2.6.2
1299----------------
1300
1301- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1302 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1303 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1304
1305- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1306 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1307 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1308
1309- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1310 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1311
1312 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1313 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1314
1315- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1316 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1317 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1318
1319 conn rw
1320 right=%any
1321 rightid=@foo.bar
1322 authby=secret
1323
1324- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1325
1326- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1327
1328- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1329 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1330 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1331
1332- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1333 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1334 servers.
1335
1336- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1337 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1338
1339
1340strongswan-2.6.1
1341----------------
1342
1343- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1344 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1345 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1346
1347
1348strongswan-2.6.0
1349----------------
1350
1351- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1352 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1353 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1354 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1355 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1356 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1357 accelerated tremedously.
1358
1359- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1360 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1361 reload pluto's connections.
1362
1363- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1364 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1365 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1366
1367- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1368
1369- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1370
1371- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1372 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1373 documented yet.
1374
1375
1376strongswan-2.5.7
1377----------------
1378
1379- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1380 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1381 listing.
1382
1383
1384strongswan-2.5.6
1385----------------
1386
1387- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1388 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1389 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1390 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1391
b6b90b68 1392- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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1393 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1394 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1395 has been changed from one year to five years.
1396
1397
1398strongswan-2.5.5
1399----------------
1400
1401- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1402 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1403 via the whack interface. Notation:
1404
1405 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1406 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1407 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1408 [--keyid <keyid>]
1409
1410 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1411 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1412 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1413 [--keyid <keyid>]
1414
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1417 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1418 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1419 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1420 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1421 permanently.
1422
1423- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1424 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1425 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1426 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1427 is automatically generated by calling the function
1428
1429 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1430
1431 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1432 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1433
1434
1435strongswan-2.5.4
1436----------------
1437
1438- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1439 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1440 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1441 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1442
1443- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1444 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1445
1446
1447strongswan-2.5.3
1448----------------
1449
1450- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1451 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1452 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1453 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1454 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1455
1456- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1457
1458 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1459 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1460 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 1461 self-signed certs)
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1463- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1464 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1465 attribute for AES encryption.
1466
1467- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1468
1469- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1470
1471
1472strongswan-2.5.2
1473----------------
1474
1475- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1476 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1477 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1478 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1479 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1480
1481- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1482 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1483 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1484
1485
1486strongswan-2.5.1
1487----------------
1488
1489- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1490 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1491 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1492 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1493 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1494 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1495 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1496 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1497
1498- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1499 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1500 the command
1501
1502 ipsec auto --listcards
1503
1504 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1505 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1506 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1507 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1508
1509 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1510 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1511 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1512
1513 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1514
1515 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1516 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1517 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1518
1519- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1520 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1521 to generate a signature.
1522
1523- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1524 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1525 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1526 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1527 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1528
1529- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1530 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1531
1532- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1533 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1534 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1535
1536
1537strongswan-2.5.0
1538----------------
1539
1540- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1541 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1542 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1543 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1544 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1545 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1546
1547- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1548 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1549 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1550 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1551 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1552 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1555 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1556 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1557
1558
1559strongswan-2.4.4
1560----------------
1561
1562- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1563
1564- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1565
1566
1567strongswan-2.4.3
1568----------------
1569
1570- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1571 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1572
1573- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1574
1575- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1576 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1577 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1578
1579- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1580 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1581 included.
1582
1583
1584strongswan-2.4.2
1585----------------
1586
1587- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1588 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1589 value of 50.
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1592 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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1595 pad has to be done only once.
1596
1597- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1598 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1599 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 1600
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1604
1605- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1606 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1607
1608- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1609 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1610 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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1612- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
1613 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1614 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1615
1616
1617strongswan-2.4.1
1618----------------
1619
1620- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1621 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1622 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1623 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1624 "left" be"local".
1625
1626
1627strongswan-2.4.0a
1628-----------------
1629
1630- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1631
1632- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1633 Michael Meier
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1635
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1637----------------
1638
1639- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1640 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1641 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1642 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1643 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1644 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1645 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1646
1647- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1648 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1649 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
1650 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
1651 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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1653- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
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1657
1658strongswan-2.3.2
1659----------------
1660
1661- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
1662 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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1664- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
1665
1666- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
1667 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
1668 Delete SA messages.
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1670- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
1671 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
1672 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
1673 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
1674
1675
1676strongswan-2.3.1
1677----------------
1678
1679- Added basic Mode Config functionality
1680
1681- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
1682 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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1684- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
1685 module.
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1687- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
1688 maximum udp size patches.
1689
1690- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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1693strongswan-2.3.0
1694----------------
1695
1696- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
1697 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
1698 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
1699 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
1700 subdirectory.
1701
1702- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
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997358a6 1706 man ipsec_openac.
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1708 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
1709 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
1710 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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1713
1714 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
1715 Research or Sales, only.
1716
1717- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
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1719 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
1720 Secure Entry Clients.
1721
1722- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
1723 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
1724 now both set to 24 h.
1725
1726- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
1727 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
1728
1729- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
1730 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
1731 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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1733 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
1734
1735
1736strongswan-2.2.2
1737----------------
1738
1739- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
1740 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
1741 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
1742 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
1743
1744- Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
1745 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
1746 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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1748- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
1749
1750- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
1751 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
1752
1753
1754strongswan-2.2.1
1755----------------
1756
1757- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
1758 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
1759
1760- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag
1761 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
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1763- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
1764 occuring when a smartcard is present.
1765
1766- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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1768- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
1769
1770- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
1771
1772
1773strongswan-2.2.0
1774----------------
1775
1776- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
1777
1778 dpdaction=clear|hold
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1781
1782- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
1783 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
1784 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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1789
1790- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
1791 using the compile option VENDORID
1792
1793- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
1794
1795- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
1796
1797- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
1798
1799- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
1800 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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1802- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
1803
1804- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
1805 connection.
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1808strongswan-2.1.5
1809----------------
1810
1811- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
1812 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
1813 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
1814 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
1815 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
1816
1817- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
1818 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
1819
1820
1821strongswan-2.1.4
1822----------------
1823
1824- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
1825 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
1826 an optional connection selector:
1827
1828 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
1829
1830- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
1831 man page.
1832
1833- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
1834 of malformed distinguished names.
1835
1836- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
1837
1838 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
1839
1840- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
1841
1842
1843strongswan-2.1.3
1844----------------
1845
1846- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
1847 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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1850strongswan-2.1.2
1851----------------
1852
1853- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
1854 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
1855 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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1858strongswan-2.1.1
1859----------------
1860
1861- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
1862
1863
1864strongswan-2.1.0
1865----------------
1866
1867- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
1868
1869 ca kool
1870 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
1871 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
1872 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
1873 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
1874 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
1875 auto=add # add, ignore
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1880
1881- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
1882 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
1883
1884
1885strongswan-2.0.2
1886----------------
1887
1888- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
1889 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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1891- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 1892 during kernel compilation
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1895 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
1896
1897- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
1898 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
1899 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
1900
1901
1902strongswan-2.0.1
1903----------------
1904
1905- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
1906 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
1907 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
1908 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
1909
1910- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
1911 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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1915----------------
1916
1917- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12