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1strongswan-5.9.4
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4- Initialize libtpmtss in all programs and library that use it.
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10- Added AES_ECB, SHA-3 and SHAKE-256 support to wolfssl plugin.
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12- Added AES_CCM and SHA-3 signature support to openssl plugin.
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14- The x509 and openssl plugins now consider the authorityKeyIdentifier, if
15 available, before verifying signatures, which avoids unnecessary signature
16 verifications after a CA key rollover if both certificates are loaded.
17
18- The pkcs11 plugin better handles optional attributes like CKA_TRUSTED, which
19 previously depended on a version check.
20
21- charon-nm now supports using SANs as client identities, not only full DNs.
22
23- charon-tkm now handles IKE encryption.
24
25- A MOBIKE update is sent again if a a change in the NAT mappings is detected
26 but the endpoints stay the same.
27
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28- Converted most of the test case scenarios to the vici interface
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31strongswan-5.9.2
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33
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34- Together with a Linux 5.8 kernel supporting the IMA measurement of the GRUB
35 bootloader and the Linux kernel, the strongSwan Attestation IMC allows to do
36 remote attestation of the complete boot phase. A recent TPM 2.0 device with a
37 SHA-256 PCR bank is required, so that both BIOS and IMA file measurements are
38 based on SHA-256 hashes.
39
40- Our own TLS library (libtls) that we use for TLS-based EAP methods and PT-TLS
41 gained experimental support for TLS 1.3. Thanks to Méline Sieber (client) and
42 Pascal Knecht (client and server) for their work on this.
43 Because the use of TLS 1.3 with these EAP methods is not yet standardized (two
44 Internet-Drafts are being worked on), the default maximum version is currently
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45 set to TLS 1.2, which is now also the default minimum version. However the TNC
46 test scenarios using PT-TLS transport already use TLS 1.3.
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48- Other improvements for libtls also affect older TLS versions. For instance, we
49 added support for ECDH with Curve25519/448 (DH groups may also be configured
50 now), for EdDSA keys and certificates and for RSA-PSS signatures. Support for
51 old and weak cipher suites has been removed (e.g. with 3DES and MD5) as well
52 as signature schemes with SHA-1.
53
54- The listener_t::ike_update event is now also called for MOBIKE updates. Its
55 signature has changed so we only have to call it once if both addresses/ports
56 have changed (e.g. for an address family switch). The event is now also
57 exposed via vici.
58
59- The farp plugin has been ported to macOS and FreeBSD. Thanks to Dan James for
60 working on this.
61
62- To fix DNS server installation with systemd-resolved, charon-nm now creates a
63 dummy TUN device again (was removed with 5.5.1).
64
65- The botan plugin can use rng_t implementations provided by other plugins when
66 generating keys etc. if the Botan library supports it.
67
68- charon-tkm now supports multiple CAs and is configured via vici/swanctl.
69
70- Simple glob patterns (e.g. include conf.d/*.conf) now also work on Windows.
71 Handling of forward slashes in paths on Windows has also been improved.
72
73- The abbreviations for the 'surname' and 'serial number' RDNs in ASN.1 DNs have
74 been changed to align with RFC 4519: The abbreviation for 'surname' is now
75 "SN" (was "S" before), which was previously used for 'serial number' that can
76 now be specified as "serialNumber" only.
77
78- An issue with Windows clients requesting previous IPv6 but not IPv4 virtual
79 IP addresses has been fixed.
80
81- ike_sa_manager_t: Checking out IKE_SAs by config is now atomic (e.g. when
82 acquires for different children of the same connection arrive concurrently).
83 The checkout_new() method has been renamed to create_new(). A new
84 checkout_new() method allows registering a new IKE_SA with the manager before
85 checking it in, so jobs can be queued without losing them as they can block
86 on checking out the new SA.
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89strongswan-5.9.1
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92- Remote attestation via TNC supports the SHA-256 based TPM 2.0 BIOS/EFI
93 measurements introduced with the Linux 5.4 kernel.
94
95- Nonces in OCSP responses are not enforced anymore and only validated if a
96 nonce is actually contained.
97
98- Fixed an issue when only some fragments of a retransmitted IKEv2 message were
99 received, which prevented processing a following fragmented message.
100
101- All queued vici messages are now sent to subscribed clients during shutdown,
102 which includes ike/child-updown events triggered when all SAs are deleted.
103
104- CHILD_SA IP addresses are updated before installation to allow MOBIKE updates
105 while retransmitting a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
106
107- When looking for a route to the peer, the kernel-netlink plugin ignores the
108 current source address if it's deprecated.
109
110- The file and syslog loggers support logging the log level of each message
111 after the subsystem (e.g. [IKE2]).
112
113- charon-nm is now properly terminated during system shutdown.
114
115- Improved support for EdDSA keys in vici/swanctl, in particular, encrypted
116 keys are now supported.
117
118- A new global strongswan.conf option allows sending the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID
119 to prevent Cisco devices from narrowing a 0.0.0.0/0 traffic selector.
120
121- The openssl plugin accepts CRLs issued by non-CA certificates if they contain
122 the cRLSign keyUsage flag (the x509 plugin already does this since 4.5.1).
123
124- Attributes in PKCS#7 containers, as used in SCEP, are now properly
125 DER-encoded, i.e. sorted.
126
127- The load-tester plugin now supports virtual IPv6 addresses and IPv6 source
128 address pools.
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134- We prefer AEAD algorithms for ESP and therefore put AES-GCM in a default AEAD
135 proposal in front of the previous default proposal.
136
137- The NM backend now clears cached credentials when disconnecting, has DPD and
138 and close action set to restart, and supports custom remote TS via 'remote-ts'
139 option (no GUI support).
140
141- The pkcs11 plugin falls back to software hashing for PKCS#1v1.5 RSA signatures
142 if mechanisms with hashing (e.g. CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS) are not supported.
143
144- The owner/group of log files is now set so the daemon can reopen them if the
145 config is reloaded and it doesn't run as root.
146
147- The wolfssl plugin (with wolfSSL 4.4.0+) supports x448 DH and Ed448 keys.
148
149- The vici plugin stores all CA certificates in one location, which avoids
150 issues with unloading authority sections or clearing all credentials.
151
152- When unloading a vici connection with start_action=start, any related IKE_SAs
153 without children are now terminated (including those in CONNECTING state).
154
155- The hashtable implementation has been changed so it maintains insertion order.
156 This was mainly done so the vici plugin can store its connections in a
157 hashtable, which makes managing high numbers of connections faster.
158
159- The default maximum size for vici messages (512 KiB) can now be changed via
160 VICI_MESSAGE_SIZE_MAX compile option.
161
162- The charon.check_current_path option allows forcing a DPD exchange to check if
163 the current path still works whenever interface/address-changes are detected.
164
165- It's possible to use clocks other than CLOCK_MONOTONIC (e.g. CLOCK_BOOTTIME)
166 via TIME_CLOCK_ID compile option if clock_gettime() is available and
167 pthread_condattr_setclock() supports that clock.
168
169- Test cases and functions can now be filtered when running the unit tests.
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172strongswan-5.8.4
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174
175- In IKEv1 Quick Mode make sure that a proposal exists before determining
176 lifetimes (fixes crash due to null pointer exception).
177
178- OpenSSL currently doesn't support squeezing bytes out of a SHAKE128/256
179 XOF (eXtended Output Function) multiple times. Unfortunately,
180 EVP_DigestFinalXOF() completely resets the context and later calls not
181 simply fail, they cause a null-pointer dereference in libcrypto. This
182 fixes the crash at the cost of repeating initializing the whole state
183 and allocating too much data for subsequent calls.
184
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186strongswan-5.8.3
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188
189- Updates for the NM backend (and plugin), among others: EAP-TLS authentication,
190 configurable local and remote IKE identities, custom server port, redirection
191 and reauthentication support.
192
193- Previously used reqids are now reallocated to workaround an issue on FreeBSD
194 where the daemon can't use reqids > 16383.
195
196- On Linux, throw type routes are installed for passthrough policies. They act
197 as fallbacks on routes in other tables and require less information, so they
198 can be installed earlier and are not affected by updates.
199
200- For IKEv1, the lifetimes of the selected transform are returned to the
201 initiator, which is an issue with peers that propose different lifetimes in
202 different transforms. We also return the correct transform and proposal IDs.
203
204- IKE_SAs are not re-established anymore if a deletion has been queued.
205
206- Added support for Ed448 keys and certificates via openssl plugin and pki tool.
207 The openssl plugin also supports SHA-3 and SHAKE128/256.
208
209- The use of algorithm IDs from the private use ranges can now be enabled
210 globally, to use them even if no strongSwan vendor ID was exchanged.
211
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215
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216- Identity-based CA constraints are supported via vici/swanctl.conf. They
217 enforce that the remote's certificate chain contains a CA certificate with a
218 specific identity. While similar to the existing CA constraints, they don't
219 require that the CA certificate is locally installed such as intermediate CA
220 certificates received from peers. Compared to wildcard identity matching (e.g.
221 "..., OU=Research, CN=*") this requires less trust in the intermediate CAs (to
222 only issue certificates with legitimate subject DNs) as long as path length
223 basic constraints prevent them from issuing further intermediate CAs.
224
225- Intermediate CA certificates may now be sent in hash-and-URL encoding by
226 configuring a base URL for the parent CA.
227
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228- Implemented NIST SP-800-90A Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG)
229 based on AES-CTR and SHA2-HMAC modes. Currently used by gmp and ntru plugins.
230
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231- Random nonces sent in an OCSP requests are now expected in the corresponding
232 OCSP responses.
233
234- The kernel-netlink plugin ignores deprecated IPv6 addresses for MOBIKE.
235 Whether temporary or permanent IPv6 addresses are included depends on the
236 charon.prefer_temporary_addrs setting.
237
238- Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN) are configured via PF_KEY if supported by the
239 kernel.
240
241- Unique section names are used for CHILD_SAs in vici child-updown events and
242 more information (e.g. statistics) are included for individually deleted
243 CHILD_SAs (in particular for IKEv1).
244
245- So fallbacks to other plugins work properly, creating HMACs via openssl plugin
246 now fails instantly if the underlying hash algorithm isn't supported (e.g.
247 MD5 in FIPS-mode).
248
249- Exponents of RSA keys read from TPM 2.0 via SAPI are now correctly converted.
250
251- Routing table IDs > 255 are supported for custom routes on Linux.
252
253- The D-Bus config file for charon-nm is now installed in
254 $(datadir)/dbus-1/system.d instead of $(sysconfdir)/dbus-1/system.d.
255
256- INVALID_MAJOR_VERSION notifies are now correctly sent in messages of the same
257 exchange type and using the same message ID as the request.
258
259- IKEv2 SAs are immediately destroyed when sending or receiving INVALID_SYNTAX
260 notifies in authenticated messages.
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266- RDNs in Distinguished Names can now optionally be matched less strict. The
267 global option charon.rdn_matching takes two alternative values that cause the
268 matching algorithm to either ignore the order of matched RDNs or additionally
269 accept DNs that contain more RDNs than configured (unmatched RDNs are treated
270 like wildcard matches).
271
272- The updown plugin now passes the same interface to the script that is also
273 used for the automatically installed routes, i.e. the interface over which the
274 peer is reached instead of the interface on which the local address is found.
275
276- TPM 2.0 contexts are now protected by a mutex to prevent issues if multiple
277 IKE_SAs use the same private key concurrently.
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282
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283- The systemd service units have been renamed. The modern unit, which was called
284 strongswan-swanctl, is now called strongswan (the previous name is configured
285 as alias). The legacy unit is now called strongswan-starter.
286
287- Support for XFRM interfaces (available since Linux 4.19) has been added.
288 Configuration is possible via swanctl.conf. Interfaces may be created
289 dynamically via updown/vici scripts, or statically before or after
290 establishing the SAs. Routes must be added manually as needed (the daemon will
291 not install any routes for outbound policies with an interface ID).
292
293- Initiation of childless IKE_SAs is supported (RFC 6023). If enabled and
294 supported by the responder, no CHILD_SA is established during IKE_AUTH. This
295 allows using a separate DH exchange even for the first CHILD_SA, which is
296 otherwise created with keys derived from the IKE_SA's key material.
297
298- The NetworkManager backend and plugin support IPv6.
299
300- The new wolfssl plugin is a wrapper around the wolfSSL crypto library. Thanks
301 to Sean Parkinson of wolfSSL Inc. for the initial patch.
302
303- IKE SPIs may optionally be labeled via the charon.spi_mask|label options. This
304 feature was extracted from charon-tkm, however, now applies the mask/label in
305 network order.
306
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307- The openssl plugin supports ChaCha20-Poly1305 when built with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
308
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309- The PB-TNC finite state machine according to section 3.2 of RFC 5793 was not
310 correctly implemented when sending either a CRETRY or SRETRY batch. These
311 batches can only be sent in the "Decided" state and a CRETRY batch can
312 immediately carry all messages usually transported by a CDATA batch. It is
313 currently not possible to send a SRETRY batch since full-duplex mode for
314 PT-TLS transport is not supported.
315
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316- Instead of marking virtual IPv6 addresses as deprecated, the kernel-netlink
317 plugin uses address labels to avoid their use for non-VPN traffic.
318
319- The agent plugin creates sockets to the ssh/gpg-agent dynamically and does not
320 keep them open, which otherwise can prevent the agent from getting terminated.
321
322- To avoid broadcast loops the forecast plugin now only reinjects packets that
323 are marked or received from the configured interface.
324
325- UTF-8 encoded passwords are supported via EAP-MSCHAPv2, which internally uses
326 an UTF-16LE encoding to calculate the NT hash.
327
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328- Adds the build-certs script to generate the keys and certificates used for
329 regression tests dynamically. They are built with the pki version installed
330 in the KVM root image so it's not necessary to have an up-to-date version with
331 all required plugins installed on the host system.
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337- Private key implementations may optionally provide a list of supported
338 signature schemes, which is used by the tpm plugin because for each key on a
339 TPM 2.0 the hash algorithm and for RSA also the padding scheme is predefined.
340
341- For RSA with PSS padding, the TPM 2.0 specification mandates the maximum salt
342 length (as defined by the length of the key and hash). However, if the TPM is
343 FIPS-168-4 compliant, the salt length equals the hash length. This is assumed
344 for FIPS-140-2 compliant TPMs, but if that's not the case, it might be
345 necessary to manually enable charon.plugins.tpm.fips_186_4 if the TPM doesn't
346 use the maximum salt length.
347
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348- swanctl now accesses directories for credentials relative to swanctl.conf, in
349 particular, when it's loaded from a custom location via --file argument. The
350 base directory that's used if --file is not given is configurable at runtime
351 via SWANCTL_DIR environment variable.
352
353- With RADIUS Accounting enabled, the eap-radius plugin adds the session ID to
354 Access-Request messages, simplifying associating database entries for IP
355 leases and accounting with sessions.
356
357- IPs assigned by RADIUS servers are included in Accounting-Stop even if clients
358 don't claim them, allowing releasing them early on connection errors.
359
360- Selectors installed on transport mode SAs by the kernel-netlink plugin are
361 updated on IP address changes (e.g. via MOBIKE).
362
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363- Added support for RSA signatures with SHA-256 and SHA-512 to the agent plugin.
364 For older versions of ssh/gpg-agent that only support SHA-1, IKEv2 signature
365 authentication has to be disabled via charon.signature_authentication.
366
367- The sshkey and agent plugins support Ed25519/Ed448 SSH keys and signatures.
368
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369- The openssl plugin supports X25519/X448 Diffie-Hellman and Ed25519/Ed448 keys
370 and signatures when built against OpenSSL 1.1.1.
371
0e80eb23 372- Ed25519, ChaCha20/Poly1305, SHA-3 and AES-CCM were added to the botan plugin.
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374- The mysql plugin now properly handles database connections with transactions
375 under heavy load.
376
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377- IP addresses in HA pools are now distributed evenly among all segments.
378
379- On newer FreeBSD kernels, the kernel-pfkey plugin reads the reqid directly
380 from SADB_ACQUIRE messages, i.e. not requiring previous policy installation by
381 the plugin, e.g. for compatibility with if_ipsec(4) VTIs.
382
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386
387- Fixes a vulnerability in the gmp plugin triggered by crafted certificates with
388 RSA keys with very small moduli. When verifying signatures with such keys,
389 the code patched with the fix for CVE-2018-16151/2 caused an integer underflow
390 and subsequent heap buffer overflow that results in a crash of the daemon.
391 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-17540.
392
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396
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397- Fixes a potential authorization bypass vulnerability in the gmp plugin that
398 was caused by a too lenient verification of PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures. Several
399 flaws could be exploited by a Bleichenbacher-style attack to forge signatures
400 for low-exponent keys (i.e. with e=3). CVE-2018-16151 has been assigned to
401 the problem of accepting random bytes after the OID of the hash function in
402 such signatures, and CVE-2018-16152 has been assigned to the issue of not
b3ab7a48 403 verifying that the parameters in the ASN.1 algorithmIdentifier structure is
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404 empty. Other flaws that don't lead to a vulnerability directly (e.g. not
405 checking for at least 8 bytes of padding) have no separate CVE assigned.
406
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407- Dots are not allowed anymore in section names in swanctl.conf and
408 strongswan.conf. This mainly affects the configuration of file loggers. If the
409 path for such a log file contains dots it now has to be configured in the new
410 `path` setting within the arbitrarily renamed subsection in the `filelog`
411 section.
412
413- Sections in swanctl.conf and strongswan.conf may now reference other sections.
414 All settings and subsections from such a section are inherited. This allows
415 to simplify configs as redundant information has only to be specified once
416 and may then be included in other sections (refer to the example in the man
417 page for strongswan.conf).
418
419- The originally selected IKE config (based on the IPs and IKE version) can now
420 change if no matching algorithm proposal is found. This way the order
421 of the configs doesn't matter that much anymore and it's easily possible to
422 specify separate configs for clients that require weak algorithms (instead
423 of having to also add them in other configs that might be selected).
424
425- Support for Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2 (draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2)
426 has been added.
427
428- The new botan plugin is a wrapper around the Botan C++ crypto library. It
429 requires a fairly recent build from Botan's master branch (or the upcoming
430 2.8.0 release). Thanks to René Korthaus and his team from Rohde & Schwarz
431 Cybersecurity for the initial patch.
432
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433- The pki tool accepts a xmppAddr otherName as a subjectAlternativeName using
434 the syntax --san xmppaddr:<jid>.
435
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437 for PA-TNC". SWIMA subscription option sets CLOSE_WRITE trigger on apt
438 history.log file resulting in a ClientRetry PB-TNC batch to initialize
439 a new measurement cycle.
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441- Added support for fuzzing the PA-TNC (RFC 5792) and PB-TNC (RFC 5793) NEA
442 protocols on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure.
443
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444- Support for version 2 of Intel's TPM2-TSS TGC Software Stack. The presence of
445 the in-kernel /dev/tpmrm0 resource manager is automatically detected.
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447- Marks the in- and/or outbound SA should apply to packets after processing may
448 be configured in swanctl.conf on Linux. For outbound SAs this requires at
449 least a 4.14 kernel. Setting a mask and configuring a mark/mask for inbound
450 SAs will be added with the upcoming 4.19 kernel.
451
452- New options in swanctl.conf allow configuring how/whether DF, ECN and DS
453 fields in the IP headers are copied during IPsec processing. Controlling this
454 is currently only possible on Linux.
455
456- To avoid conflicts, the dhcp plugin now only uses the DHCP server port if
457 explicitly configured.
458
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462
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463- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is
464 used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF.
465 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811.
466
467- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received
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468 length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured,
469 root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default
470 configuration this shouldn't be an issue.
471 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-5388.
472
473⁻ CRLs that are not yet valid are now ignored to avoid problems in scenarios
474 where expired certificates are removed from CRLs and the clock on the host
475 doing the revocation check is trailing behind that of the host issuing CRLs.
476
477- The issuer of fetched CRLs is now compared to the issuer of the checked
478 certificate.
479
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480- CRL validation results other than revocation (e.g. a skipped check because
481 the CRL couldn't be fetched) are now stored also for intermediate CA
482 certificates and not only for end-entity certificates, so a strict CRL policy
483 can be enforced in such cases.
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485- In compliance with RFC 4945, section 5.1.3.2, certificates used for IKE must
486 now either not contain a keyUsage extension (like the ones generated by pki)
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489- New options for vici/swanctl allow forcing the local termination of an IKE_SA.
490 This might be useful in situations where it's known the other end is not
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491 reachable anymore, or that it already removed the IKE_SA, so retransmitting a
492 DELETE and waiting for a response would be pointless. Waiting only a certain
493 amount of time for a response before destroying the IKE_SA is also possible
494 by additionally specifying a timeout.
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496- When removing routes, the kernel-netlink plugin now checks if it tracks other
497 routes for the same destination and replaces the installed route instead of
498 just removing it. Same during installation, where existing routes previously
499 weren't replaced. This should allow using traps with virtual IPs on Linux.
500
501- The dhcp plugin only sends the client identifier option if identity_lease is
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502 enabled. It can also send identities of up to 255 bytes length, instead of
503 the previous 64 bytes. If a server address is configured, DHCP requests are
504 now sent from port 67 instead of 68 to avoid ICMP port unreachables.
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506- Roam events are now completely ignored for IKEv1 SAs.
507
508- ChaCha20/Poly1305 is now correctly proposed without key length. For
509 compatibility with older releases the chacha20poly1305compat keyword may be
510 included in proposals to also propose the algorithm with a key length.
511
512- Configuration of hardware offload of IPsec SAs is now more flexible and allows
0d0c8f7d 513 a new mode, which automatically uses it if the kernel and device support it.
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515- SHA-2 based PRFs are supported in PKCS#8 files as generated by OpenSSL 1.1.
516
517- The pki --verify tool may load CA certificates and CRLs from directories.
518
519- Fixed an issue with DNS servers passed to NetworkManager in charon-nm.
520
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525- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the parser for PKCS#1 RSASSA-PSS signatures that
526 was caused by insufficient input validation. One of the configurable
527 parameters in algorithm identifier structures for RSASSA-PSS signatures is the
528 mask generation function (MGF). Only MGF1 is currently specified for this
529 purpose. However, this in turn takes itself a parameter that specifies the
530 underlying hash function. strongSwan's parser did not correctly handle the
531 case of this parameter being absent, causing an undefined data read.
532 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-6459.
533
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534- The previously negotiated DH group is reused when rekeying an SA, instead of
535 using the first group in the configured proposals, which avoids an additional
536 exchange if the peer selected a different group via INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD when
537 the SA was created initially.
538 The selected DH group is also moved to the front of all sent proposals that
539 contain it and all proposals that don't are moved to the back in order to
540 convey the preference for this group to the peer.
541
542- Handling of MOBIKE task queuing has been improved. In particular, the response
543 to an address update is not ignored anymore if only an address list update or
544 DPD is queued.
545
546- The fallback drop policies installed to avoid traffic leaks when replacing
547 addresses in installed policies are now replaced by temporary drop policies,
548 which also prevent acquires because we currently delete and reinstall IPsec
549 SAs to update their addresses.
550
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551- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
552 referenced via the NV index.
553
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554- Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
555 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
556
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557- Fixed proposal selection if a peer incorrectly sends DH groups in the ESP
558 proposals during IKE_AUTH and also if a DH group is configured in the local
559 ESP proposal and charon.prefer_configured_proposals is disabled.
560
561- MSKs received via RADIUS are now padded to 64 bytes to avoid compatibility
562 issues with EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PRFs that have a block size < 64 bytes (e.g.
563 AES-XCBC-PRF-128).
564
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565- The tpm_extendpcr command line tool extends a digest into a TPM PCR.
566
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567- Ported the NetworkManager backend from the deprecated libnm-glib to libnm.
568
569- The save-keys debugging/development plugin saves IKE and/or ESP keys to files
570 compatible with Wireshark.
571
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574----------------
575
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576- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
577 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
578 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
579 custom proposals.
580
581- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
582 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
583 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
584 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
585 authentication constraints.
586
587- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
588 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
589
590- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 591 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
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592 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
593 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
594 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
595 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
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597- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
598 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
599 versions having an empty package name.
600
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601- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
602 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
603 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
604
605- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
606 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
607 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
608
609- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
610 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
611
612- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
613 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
614
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617----------------
618
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619- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
620 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
621 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
622 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
623 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
624 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
625 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
626 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
627
693705c7 628- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 629 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
693705c7 630
f237bfcb 631- The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
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632 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
633
634- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
635 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
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636 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
637 package versions.
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638
639- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
640 via the --keyid parameter.
641
642- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
643 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
644
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645- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
646 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
647 binary EAP secret.
648
649- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
650 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
651 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
652 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
653
654- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
655 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
656
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658strongswan-5.5.3
659----------------
660
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661- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
662 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
663 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
664 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
665 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
666 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
667
668- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
669 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
670 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
671 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
672
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673- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
674 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
675 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
676 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
677 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
678 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
679
680- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
681 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
682 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
683 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
684 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
685 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
686 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
687
688- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
689 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
690 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
691
692- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
693 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
694 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
695
696- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
697 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
698 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
699
700- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
701 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
702 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
703 certificate cache).
704
705- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
706 for hardware that supports this.
707
708- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
709 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
710 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
711 referenced.
712
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713- The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
714
715
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718
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719- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
720 by RFC 8031.
721
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722- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
723 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
724 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
725
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726- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
727 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
728 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
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729 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
730 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
731 the TPM private key.
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733- The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
734 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
735 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
736 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
737 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
738
e16d1005 739- In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
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740 of stale copies in cache memory.
741
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742- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
743 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
744 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
745 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
746 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
747 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
748 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
749 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
750
751 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
752 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
753 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
754 section.
755
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758----------------
759
760- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
761 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
762 Peter Schwabe.
763
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764- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
765 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
766 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
767 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
768 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
769
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770- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
771 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
772 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
773 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
774 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
775
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776- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
777 sha3 and gmp plugins.
778
e31ed9ab 779- The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
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780 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
781 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
782
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783- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
784 base and delta CRLs to disk.
785
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786- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
787 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
788
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789- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
790 tss2_tcti_finalize().
791
792
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794----------------
795
796- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
797 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
798 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
799
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800- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
801 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
802 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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804- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
805 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
806
807- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
808 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
809
810- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
811 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
812 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
813 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
814 and prefer those with a reqid.
815
816- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
817
818- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
819 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
820 identities and EAP types.
821
822- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
823 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
824 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
825
826- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
827 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
828 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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831strongswan-5.4.0
832----------------
833
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834- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
835 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
836 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
837 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
838 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
839
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840- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
841 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
842 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
843
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844- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
845 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
846 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
847 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
848 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
849 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
850 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
851 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
852
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853- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
854 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
855 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
856
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857- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
858 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
859 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
860 support arbitrary ranges.
861
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862- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
863 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
864 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
865 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
866
867- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
868 used as owners of shared secrets.
869
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872----------------
873
874- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
875 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
876
877- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
878
879
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880strongswan-5.3.4
881----------------
882
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883- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
884 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
885 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
886 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
887
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888- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
889 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
890 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
891 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
892
893
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894strongswan-5.3.3
895----------------
896
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897- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
898 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
899 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
900 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
901 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
902 cipher for ESP SAs.
39660798 903
63d37038 904- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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905 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
906
907- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
908 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
b3ab7a48 909 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures using the
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910 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
911
912- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
913 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
914
915- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
916 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
917 daemon when it installs its policies.
918
919- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
920 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
921 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
922 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
923
924- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
925 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
926 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
927 same config as responder).
928
929- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
930 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
931
a215008c 932- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 933 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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934 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
935
936- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
937 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
938
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940strongswan-5.3.2
941----------------
942
943- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
944 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
945 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
946 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
947 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
948
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950strongswan-5.3.1
951----------------
952
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953- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
954 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
955 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
956 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
957 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
958 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
959
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960- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
961 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
962 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
963 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
964
965
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968
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969- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
970 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
971 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
972 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
973 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
974 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
975 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
976
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977- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
978 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
979 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
980 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
981
982- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
983 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
984 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
985 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
986 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
987 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
988 enough.
989
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990- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
991 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
992 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
993 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
994 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
995
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996- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
997 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
998 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
999 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
1000 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
1001 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
1002
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1003- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
1004 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
1005 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
1006
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1007- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
1008 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
1009 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
1010 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
1011
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1012- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
1013 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
1014 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
1015
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1016- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
1017 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
1018 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
1019
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1020- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
1021 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
1022 PT-TLS transport medium.
1023
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1027
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1028- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
1029 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
1030 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
1031 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
1032 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
1033 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
1034 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
1035
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1036- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
1037 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
1038 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
1039 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
1040
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1042 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
1043 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
1044
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1045- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
1046 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
1047
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1050----------------
1051
1052- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
1053 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
1054 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
1055 supports native systemd journal logging.
1056
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1057- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
1058 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
1059
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1060- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
1061 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
1062 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
1063 per segment basis.
1064
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1065- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
1066 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
1067
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1068- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
1069 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
1070 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
1071 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
1072
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1075----------------
1076
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1077- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
1078 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
1079 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
1080 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
1081 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
1082 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
1083 WinHTTP API.
1084
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1085- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
1086 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
1087 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
1088 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
1089 for more control and better reliability.
1090
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1091- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
1092 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
1093 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
1094 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 1095 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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1097- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
1098 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
1099
37cb91d7 1100- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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1101 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
1102 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
1103 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
1104 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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1105
1106- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
1107 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
1108
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1109- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
1110 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
1111
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1112- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
1113
03b5def0 1114- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 1115 Connect.
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1117- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
1118 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
1119 6Wind.
1120
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1122strongswan-5.1.3
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1124
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1125- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
1126 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
1127 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
1128 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
1129 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
1130
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1131- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
1132 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
1133 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
1134 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
1135
1136- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
1137 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
1138 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
1139
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1140- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
1141 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
1142
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1146
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1147- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
1148 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
1149 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
1150 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
1151 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
1152 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
1153 the current defaults.
1154
1155- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
1156 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
1157 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
1158 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
1159 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
1160 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
1161
1162- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
1163 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
1164 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
1165 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
1166 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
1167
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1168- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
1169 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
1170 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
1171 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
1172 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
1173 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
1174
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1175- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
1176 Attestation IMV.
1177
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1178- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
1179 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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1181- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
1182 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
1183 Andrea Bonomi.
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1185- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
1186 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
1187 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
1188
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1191----------------
1192
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1193- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
1194 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
1195 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
1196 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
1197
1198- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
1199 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
1200 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
1201
2b32884d 1202- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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1203 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
1204 plugin.
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1206- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
1207 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
1208
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1209- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
1210 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
1211 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
1212 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
1213 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
1214
1215- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
1216 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
1217 as pluto used it.
1218
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1219- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
1220 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
1221 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
1222 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
1223
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1224- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
1225 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
1226 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
1227
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1228- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
1229 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
1230 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
1231 from a internal network.
1232
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1233- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
1234 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
1235 more trustworthy alternative.
1236
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1237- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
1238 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
1239
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1240- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
1241 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
1242
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1243- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
1244 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
2b32884d 1245
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1246- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
1247 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
1248
1249- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
1250 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
1251
1252- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
1253 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
1254
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1255- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
1256 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
1257 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
1258 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
1259
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1261strongswan-5.1.0
1262----------------
1263
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1264- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
1265 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
1266 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
1267 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
1268
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1269- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
1270 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
1271 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
1272 few simple command line options.
1273
1274- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 1275 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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1276 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
1277
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1278- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
1279 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
1280
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1281- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
1282 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
1283 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
1284 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
1285 backend for IKEv1.
1286
78e6f69e 1287- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
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1288 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
1289 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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1290
1291- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
1292 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
1293 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
1294 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
1295 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
1296 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
1297
1298- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
1299 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
1300 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
1301
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1302- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
1303
3a938a6f 1304- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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1305 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
1306 between peers.
1307
226f34e0 1308- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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1309 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
1310 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
1311 and/or device.
1312
1313- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
1314 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
1315 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
1316 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
1317 production releases).
1318
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1319- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
1320 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
1321 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
1322
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1323- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
1324 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
1325 hashtables.
1326
1327- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
1328 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
1329 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
1330 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
1331
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1332- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
1333 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
1334 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
1335 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
1336
1337- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
1338 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
1339 TCP connections from a different host.
1340
78e6f69e 1341- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
226f34e0 1342
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1345----------------
1346
1347- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
1348 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
1349 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
1350 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
1351 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
1352 legitimate one.
1353
1354- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
1355 was fixed as well.
1356
1357- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
1358 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
1359
1360- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
1361 requests.
1362
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1363- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
1364
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1367----------------
1368
1369- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
1370 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
1371 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
1372 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
1373 created by Reto Guadagnini.
1374
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1375- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
1376 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
1377 device ID in the attest database.
1378
1379- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
1380 if the hardware supports it.
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1382- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
1383 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
1384 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
1385 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
1386 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
1387 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
1388 to Accounting-Stops.
1389
1390- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
1391 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
1392 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
1393
1394- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
1395 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
1396
1397- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
1398 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
1399 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
1400 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
1401
1402- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
1403 IKE packets.
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1405- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
1406 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
1407 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
1408 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
1409 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
1410
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1411- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
1412 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
1413 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
1414 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
1415 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
1416 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
e4a3ef2e 1417 can be found at https://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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1420----------------
1421
1422- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
1423 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
1424
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1425- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
1426 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
1427
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1428- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
1429 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
1430 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
1431 or receive notifications.
1432
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1433- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
1434 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
1435
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1436- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
1437 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
1438 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
1439 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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1441- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
1442 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
1443 section.
1444
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1445- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
1446 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
1447 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
1448 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
1449 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
1450
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1451- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
1452 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
1453 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
1454 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
1455
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1456- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
1457 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
1458 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
1459
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1460- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
1461 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
1462 Volker Rümelin.
1463
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1464- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
1465 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
1466
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1467- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
1468 guest images based on Debian.
1469
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1472----------------
1473
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1474- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
1475 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
1476
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1477- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
1478 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 1479 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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1480
1481- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
1482 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
1483 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
b3ab7a48 1484 consolidated recommendation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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1485 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
1486
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1487- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
1488 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
1489 against a RADIUS server.
1490
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1491- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
1492 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
1493 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
1494 including xauth-pam.
1495
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1496- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
1497 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
1498 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
1499 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
1500 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
1501 aware clients.
1502
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1503- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
1504 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
1505 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
1506
1507- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
1508 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
1509 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
1510 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
1511
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1512- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
1513 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
1514 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
1515 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
1516 IP addresses to return.
1517
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1518- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
1519 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
1520 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
1521 specified or referenced named pools.
1522
1523- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
1524 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
1525
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1526- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
1527 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
1528
1529- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
1530 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
1531 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
1532 is preserved.
1533
1534- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
1535 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
1536
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1537- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
1538 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
1539 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
1540
1541- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
1542 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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1547
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1548- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
1549 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
1550 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
1551 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
1552 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
1553 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
ca280574 1554 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
e4a3ef2e 1555 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
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1557- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
1558 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
1559 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
1560 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
1561 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1562 the thread calling the listener.
1563 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1564 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1565 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1566 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1567
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1568- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1569 reappear.
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1571- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1572 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1573 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1574 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1575 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1576 feature).
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1578- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1579 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1580 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1581 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1582 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1583 using SHA-256 or better.
1584
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1587----------------
1588
1589- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1590 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1591 a legitimate one.
1592
1593- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1594
1595
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1597----------------
1598
1599- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1600 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1601
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1602- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1603 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1604 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1605 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1606
1607- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1608 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1609 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1610 console.
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1612- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1613 RFC 4595.
1614
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1615- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1616 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1617
4e2e77d5 1618- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1619 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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1621- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1622 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1623
1624
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1626----------------
1627
1628- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1629 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1630 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1631 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1632
1633- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1634 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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1635 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1636 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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1638- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1639 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1640 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 1641
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1642- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1643 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1644 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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1646- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1647
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1650----------------
1651
1652- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1653 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1654 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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1656 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1657 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1658 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1659 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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1662 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1663 post-installation phase.
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1669- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1670 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1671 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1672
1673- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1674 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1675 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1676 for the initial patch.
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1678- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1679 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1680
1681- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1682
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1683- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1684 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1685 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1686 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1687 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1688 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
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1690- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1691 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1692 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1693 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1694 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1695 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1696
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1697- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1698 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1699 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1700
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1703----------------
1704
a7edbd21 1705- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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1706 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1707 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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1709
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1710- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1711 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1712
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1714 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1715 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1716
1717- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1718 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1719
f8799170 1720- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1721 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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1723 interfaces.
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1726 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1727
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1728- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1729 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1730 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1731 the client is admitted to the network.
1732 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1733
1734- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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1735 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
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1737- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1738 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1739 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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1744
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1745- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1746 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1747 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1748 whitelist administration.
1749
92ebb7c5 1750- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1751 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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1752 application about detected duplicates.
1753
1754- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1755 authentication to previously used certificates.
1756
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1757- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1758 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1759 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1760 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1761
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1763
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1764- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1765 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1766
1767- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1768 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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1770- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1771 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1772 support configuration reloading.
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1774- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1775 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1776 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1777 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1778 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1779 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1780
1781- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1782 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1783 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1784
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1788
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1789- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1790 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1791 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1792 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1793 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1794 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1795
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1796- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1797 in place of the external libtnc library.
1798
1799- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1800 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1801 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1802 the corresponding protocol stack.
1803
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1804- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1805 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1806 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1807 in an SQL database.
1808
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1809- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1810 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1811 points in an SQL database.
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1814 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1815 replaced, respectively.
1816
1817- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1818 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1819 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1820 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1821 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1822 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1823 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1824
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1825- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1826 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
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1828- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1829 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1830 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1831
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1832- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1833 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1834 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1835 xcbc algorithms.
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1838 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1839 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1840
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1842 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1843 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1844 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1845 ./configure switch.
1846
77eee25f 1847- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1848 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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1849 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1850 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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1851 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1852 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1853
1854- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1855 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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1857- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1858 support for delta CRLs.
1859
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1863
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1864- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1865 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1866 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1867 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1868 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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1870- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1871 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1872 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1873 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1874
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1875- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1876 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1877 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1879
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1880- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1881 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1882 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1883 client authentication.
1884
1885- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1886 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1887 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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1890 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1891 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1892 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1893 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1894 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1895 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1896 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1897
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1898- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1899 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1900 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1901
1902- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1903 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1904
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1905- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1906 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1907 availability.
1908
1909- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1910 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1911 implement a simple event listener.
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1914 initial responder moves to a different address.
1915
1916- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1917
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1918- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1919 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1920
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1921- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1922 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1923 UNITY_BANNER).
1924
1925- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1926 charon plugins.
1927
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1928- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1929
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1933
ec40c02a 1934- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1935 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1936 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1937
b22bb9f2 1938- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1939 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1940 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1941
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1942- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1943
e9448cfc 1944- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
2db6d5b8 1945 by default. Please update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1947- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1948 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1949 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1950
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1951- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1952
1953- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1954 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1955
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1956- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1957 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1958
e87b78c6 1959- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1960 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1961 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1962
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1963- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1964 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1965
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1966- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1967 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1968
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1969- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1970 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1971 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1972 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1973 plugin.
1c1f132a 1974
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1975- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1976 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1977 unauthenticated users.
1978
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1982
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1984 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1985 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
e4a3ef2e 1986 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1987 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1988 secunet Security Networks AG.
1989
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1990- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1991 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1992 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1993 kernel interface.
1994
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1995- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1996 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1997 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1998 from IBM for his contribution.
1999
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2000- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
2001 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
2002 are allocated.
2003
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2005 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
2006 command line option.
2007
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2008- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
2009 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
2010 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
2011 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
2012 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
2013 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
2014
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2016 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 2017 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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2018 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
2019
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2020- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
2021 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
2022 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
2023 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
2024
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2025- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
2026 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 2027
d6457833 2028
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2029strongswan-4.3.6
2030----------------
2031
cdad91de 2032- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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2033 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
2034
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2035- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
2036 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
2037 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
2038
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2039- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
2040
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2041- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
2042
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2043- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
2044 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
2045 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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2046 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
2047
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2048- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
2049
2b2c69e9 2050- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 2051
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2052- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
2053 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
2054 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
2055 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
2056 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 2057
2b2c69e9
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2058- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
2059 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
2060 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
2061
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2062- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
2063 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
2064
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2065- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
2066 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
2067 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
2068 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
2069 this is the case.
2070
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2071- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
2072 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
2073 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
2074 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
2075 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
2076
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2077- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
2078 allowing interoperability.
2079
2080
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2081strongswan-4.3.5
2082----------------
2083
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2084- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
2085 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
2086 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 2087 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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2088 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
2089
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2090- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
2091 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
2092 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
2093 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
2094 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
2095
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2096- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
2097 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
2098 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
b6b90b68 2099
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2100- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
2101 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
2102 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
2103
d245f5cf 2104- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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2105 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
2106
2107- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
2108 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
2109 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
2110
2111- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
2112 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
2113
2114- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 2115 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
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2116 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
2117 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
2118 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
2119 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
2120
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2121- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
2122 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
2123 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
2124 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
2125
b80fa9ca 2126- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 2127 statements.
b80fa9ca 2128
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2129- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
2130
2131- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
2132 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
2133
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2134- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
2135 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
2136
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2137- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
2138 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
2139 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 2140
85af7a89 2141
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2142strongswan-4.3.4
2143----------------
2144
2145- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
2146 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
2147
2148- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
2149 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
2150
2151- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
2152
2153
1c7f456a
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2154strongswan-4.3.3
2155----------------
2156
aa74d705
AS
2157- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
2158 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
2159 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
2160 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
2161 manipulations can be reliably detected.
2162
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2163- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
2164 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
2165
2166- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
2167 authenticated encryption algorithms.
2168
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2169- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
2170
2171- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
2172 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
2173 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
2174
1c7f456a 2175
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2176strongswan-4.3.2
2177----------------
2178
2179- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
2180 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
2181
2182- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
2183 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
2184 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
2185
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2186- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
2187 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
2188 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
2189 with IKEv1.
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2190
2191- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
2192 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
2193 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
2194 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 2195
b32af120 2196
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2197strongswan-4.3.1
2198----------------
2199
2200- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 2201 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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2202 dynamically.
2203
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2204- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
2205 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
b3ab7a48 2206 as its identity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
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2207 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
2208 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 2209
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2210- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
2211 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
2212 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
2213 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
2214 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
2215 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
2216
09dbca9f 2217- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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2218 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
2219 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
2220
2221- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
2222 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
2223 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
2224
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2225- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
2226
2227- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
2228 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
2229 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
2230 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
17c99722 2231 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer dereference because the
b6b90b68 2232 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 2233 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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2234 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
2235
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2236- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
2237 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
2238
d44fd821 2239- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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AS
2240 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
2241 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 2242 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 2243 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
d44fd821
AS
2244
2245
247e665a
AS
2246strongswan-4.3.0
2247----------------
2248
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2249- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
2250 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
2251 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
2252 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
b3ab7a48 2253 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more details.
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2254
2255- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
2256 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
2257
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AS
2258- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
2259 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 2260
558c89e7
AS
2261- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
2262 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
2263 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 2264
558c89e7
AS
2265- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
2266 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 2267
247e665a 2268
623bca40
AS
2269strongswan-4.2.14
2270-----------------
2271
22180558 2272- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 2273 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
22180558
AS
2274 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
2275
79b27294
AS
2276- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
2277 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
2278 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
2279 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
2280 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
2281 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
2282 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
2283 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
2284 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
2285
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AS
2286- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
2287 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
2288 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
2289 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
2290
2291- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 2292 IDr payload anymore.
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AS
2293
2294
076e7853
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2295strongswan-4.2.13
2296-----------------
2297
2298- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
2299 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
2300
f3bb1bd0 2301- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 2302 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 2303
f15483ef
AS
2304- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
2305 parameters field is optional.
2306
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2307- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
2308
076e7853 2309
bfde75ee 2310strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 2311-----------------
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AS
2312
2313- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
2314 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
2315 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
2316
2317- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 2318 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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AS
2319 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
2320
2321- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
2322 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
2323
b6b90b68 2324
0519ca90
AS
2325strongswan-4.2.11
2326-----------------
2327
ae1ae574
AS
2328- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
2329 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
2330
2331- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
2332 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
0519ca90
AS
2333
2334
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2335strongswan-4.2.10
2336-----------------
2337
2338- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
2339 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
2340 counterparts with better lookup times.
2341
2342- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 2343 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
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2344 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
2345
2346- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
2347 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
2348 on the fly.
2349
2350- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
2351 command queries assigned leases.
2352
2353- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
2354 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
2355
2356- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
2357 reliable source of randomness.
2358
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2359strongswan-4.2.9
2360----------------
2361
509e07c5
AS
2362- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
2363 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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2364
2365- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
2366 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
2367 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
2368
2369- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 2370 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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2371 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
2372 parallelization to multiple cores.
2373
509e07c5
AS
2374- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
2375 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 2376
509e07c5 2377- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 2378 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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2379 memory or hardware.
2380
509e07c5
AS
2381- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
2382 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
2383 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
2384 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
2385
2386- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
2387 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
2388 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
2389 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
2390 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 2391 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 2392
4dc0dce8
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2393- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
2394 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
2395 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
2396
73937bd8 2397
e39b271b
AS
2398strongswan-4.2.8
2399----------------
2400
5dadb16e 2401- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
e39b271b
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2402 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
2403 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
2404
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2405- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
2406 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
2db6d5b8 2407 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addresses in MOBIKE updates as
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2408 long as possible and other fixes.
2409
5dadb16e
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2410- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
2411 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
2412 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
2413
e39b271b 2414
e376d75f
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2415strongswan-4.2.7
2416----------------
2417
b37cda82
AS
2418- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
2419 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
2420 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
2421 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 2422 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 2423
b6b90b68 2424- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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2425 ssh-agent.
2426
2427- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 2428 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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2429
2430- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
2431 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
2432 newer libcap2 library.
2433
b37cda82
AS
2434- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
2435 charon keying daemon.
2436
2437
9f9d6ece
AS
2438strongswan-4.2.6
2439----------------
2440
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2441- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
2442 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
2443 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
2444 in the Gnome Keyring.
2445
2446- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
2447 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 2448 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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2449 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
2450
2451- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
2452 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
2453 authentication.
2454
9f9d6ece
AS
2455- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
2456 authentication types and EAP identities.
2457
2458- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
2459 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
2460
2461- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
2462 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
2463
2464
174216c7
AS
2465strongswan-4.2.5
2466----------------
2467
b6b90b68 2468- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
AS
2469
2470- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
2471 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
2472 storing only history information has become optional and can be
2473 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
2474 strongswan.conf.
2475
eb0cc338 2476- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 2477 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 2478
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2479- management of different virtual IP pools for different
2480 network interfaces have become possible.
2481
b6b90b68 2482- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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AS
2483 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
2484
8124e491
AS
2485- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
2486
b6b90b68 2487
179dd12c
AS
2488strongswan-4.2.4
2489----------------
2490
9de95037
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2491- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
2492 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 2493
73a8eed3 2494- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 2495 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
73a8eed3
AS
2496
2497- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
2498 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
2499
2500- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
2501 X.509 certificates.
2502
2503- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
2504 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 2505
e0bb4dbb
AS
2506- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
2507 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
2508
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83d9e870
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2510strongswan-4.2.3
2511----------------
2512
b6b90b68 2513- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
83d9e870
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2514 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
2515
2516- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
2517 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
2518
2519
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2520strongswan-4.2.2
2521----------------
2522
a57cd446
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2523- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
2524 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 2525 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
a57cd446
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2526 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
2527 to software-based crypto plugins.
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2528
2529- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
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2530 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
2531 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
2532 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
2533
2534- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 2535 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
a57cd446
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2536 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
2537
7f491111 2538
5c5d67d6
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2539strongswan-4.2.1
2540----------------
2541
c306dfb1 2542- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
b1f8fc0c
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2543 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
2544 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
2545 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
2546 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
2547 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 2548
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2549- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
2550 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
2551 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
2552 connections.
b6b90b68 2553
f3bb1bd0 2554- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 2555 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 2556 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 2557
b6b90b68 2558- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 2559 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 2560 re-implemented.
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2561
2562- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2563 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 2564
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2565- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2566 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2567 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2568
466abb49 2569- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
58caabf7
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2570 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2571 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2572 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2573 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2574
c306dfb1 2575- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2576
c306dfb1 2577- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
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2578
2579- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2580 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
466abb49
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2581 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2582
5c5d67d6 2583
a11ea97d
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2584strongswan-4.2.0
2585----------------
2586
16f5dacd
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2587- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2588 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2589 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2590 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2591 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2592 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2593 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2594
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2595- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2596 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2597
2598- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2599 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2600 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2601 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2602 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2603 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2604 The following new plugins are available:
2605 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2606 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2607 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2608
2609- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2610 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2611 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2612
89bd016e 2613- The framework of strongSwan Manager has evolved to the web application
16f5dacd
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2614 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2615 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2616
a11ea97d 2617
6859f760
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2618strongswan-4.1.11
2619-----------------
fb6d76cd 2620
a561f74d
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2621- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2622 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2623 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2624
2625- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2626 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2627
e6b50b3f
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2628- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2629 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2630 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2631
fb6d76cd 2632
83e0d841
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2633strongswan-4.1.10
2634-----------------
2635
2636- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2637 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2638
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2639- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2640 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2641 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2642 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2643
2644- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2645 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2646 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2647 before using it.
2648
2649- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2650 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2651 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2652
fb6d76cd 2653
5076770c
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2654strongswan-4.1.9
2655----------------
2656
800b3356
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2657- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2658 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2659 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2660 added.
5076770c 2661
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2662- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2663 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2664
2665- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2666 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2667
2668- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2669
8b678ad4 2670- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2671 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2672 loaded twice.
5076770c 2673
83e0d841 2674
b82e8231
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2675strongswan-4.1.8
2676----------------
2677
5076770c 2678- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
b82e8231
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2679
2680
a4a3632c
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2681strongswan-4.1.7
2682----------------
2683
2684- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2685 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2db6d5b8 2686 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erroneously deleted.
a4a3632c 2687
6e193274 2688- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2689 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
6e193274
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2690 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2691
2692- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2693 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
e4a3ef2e 2694 (see https://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
6e193274
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2695
2696- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2697 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2698
2699- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2700
a4a3632c 2701
3dcf9dbd
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2702strongswan-4.1.6
2703----------------
2704
3eac4dfd
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2705- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2706 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2707 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2708 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2709 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2710 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2711 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2712 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2713
2714- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2715 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2716 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
b6b90b68
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2717 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2718
bdc0b55b
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2719- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2720 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2721 startup.
b6b90b68 2722
3eac4dfd
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2723- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2724 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2725 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2726 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2727 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2728
f872f9d1
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2729- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2730 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
3dcf9dbd
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2731
2732
7ad634a2
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2733strongswan-4.1.5
2734----------------
2735
2736- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2737 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2738 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2739 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2740 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2741 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2742
8f5b363c
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2743- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2744 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2745 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2746 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2747
7ad634a2 2748
e93c68ba
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2749strongswan-4.1.4
2750----------------
2751
f6aafb30 2752- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behavior as its
e93c68ba
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2753 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2754 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2755 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
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2756 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2757 parameter is not required any more.
078ce348
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2758
2759- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2760 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2761 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2762
2763 right=peer.foo.bar
2764 rightallowany=yes
2765
2766 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2767 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2768 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2769 as
2770
53f8ac3d 2771 right=%any
078ce348
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2772
2773 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1fbdab85
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2774 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2775
2776 right=%peer.foo.bar
2777
2778 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2779
2780- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2781 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2782 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2783 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2784 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2785
a0a0bdd7
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2786- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2787 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2788 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2789 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2790 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2791
a0a0bdd7
AS
2792- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2793 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2794 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2795 by Robert Varga.
2796
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2797- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2798 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2799
06651827 2800
a3354a69
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2801strongswan-4.1.3
2802----------------
2803
b6b90b68 2804- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
35d4809c
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2805 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2806
2807- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
41e16cf4
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2808 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2809 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2810
998ca0ea
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2811- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2812 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2813 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2814 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2815
2816- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2817 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2818 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2819 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2820
b6b90b68 2821- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
998ca0ea
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2822 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2823 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2824 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2825 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2826 to implement.
a3354a69 2827
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2828- Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2829 headers > 2.6.17.
41e16cf4
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2830
2831
8ea7b96f
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2832strongswan-4.1.2
2833----------------
2834
e23d98a7 2835- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
37fb0355
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2836 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2837 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2838 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2839
2840- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2841 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2842
d931f465
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2843- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2844
37fb0355
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2845- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2846
dfbe2a0f 2847- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2848 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 2849
9f78f957
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2850- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2851
8ea7b96f
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2852- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2853 connection name.
2854
e23d98a7 2855
ed284399
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2856strongswan-4.1.1
2857----------------
2858
2859- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2860 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2861 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2862 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2863 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2864 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2865
db88e37d
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2866- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2867 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2868 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2869
3b4f7d92
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2870- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2871 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2872 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2873 vendor ID.
2874
2875- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2876 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2877 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2878 message.
2879
46b9ff68
AS
2880- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2881 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2882
3b4f7d92 2883
34bbd0c3 2884strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
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2885----------------
2886
2887- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2888 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2889
2890- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2891 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2892 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2893 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2894
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2895- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2896
c5d0fbb6 2897- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2898 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
AS
2899 accessLocations.
2900
69ed04bf
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2901- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2902 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2903 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2904 option.
2905
9b45443d
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2906- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2907 code reuse and separation.
2908
2909- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2910 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2911 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2912
2913- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2914 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2915 specify it.
2916
2917- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2918 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2919 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2920 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2921 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2922 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2923
2924- Added client side support for cookies.
2925
2926- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2927 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2928 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 2929
e23d98a7 2930
1c266d7d
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2931strongswan-4.0.7
2932----------------
2933
6fdf5f44
AS
2934- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2935 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2936 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1c266d7d
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2937
2938- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2939 to a default string.
2940
2941
2b4405a3
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2942strongswan-4.0.6
2943----------------
2944
e38a15d4
AS
2945- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2946 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2947 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2948 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
b6b90b68
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2949 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2950
2b4405a3
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2951- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2952
5903179b 2953- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2954
5903179b 2955- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2956
5903179b 2957- various other bugfixes
2b4405a3
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2958
2959
0cd645d2
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2960strongswan-4.0.5
2961----------------
2962
2963- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2964 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2965
2966- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2967 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2968
2969- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2970 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2971 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2972 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2973
0cd645d2 2974 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 2975
0cd645d2
AS
2976 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2977
2978 config setup
53f8ac3d 2979 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2980
03bf883d 2981 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2982
03bf883d 2983 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
0cd645d2
AS
2984
2985
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2986strongswan-4.0.4
2987----------------
2988
2989- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2990
2991- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2992 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2993 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2994 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2995 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2996
2997- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2998 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
b3ab7a48 2999 method to authenticate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
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3000
3001- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
3002
112ad7c3
AS
3003- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
3004 or 3DES are supported.
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3005
3006- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
3007 encrypt IKE traffic.
3008
3009- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
3010 signed with such a hash algorithm.
3011
3012- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
3013 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
3014 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
3015 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
3016
3017
a1310b6b
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3018strongswan-4.0.3
3019----------------
3020
3021- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
b6b90b68
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3022 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
3023 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
a1310b6b
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3024 kernel.
3025
3026- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
3027 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
3028 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
3029 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
3030
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3031- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
3032 algorithm configuration statements.
3033
3034
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3035strongswan-4.0.2
3036----------------
3037
623d3dcf
AS
3038- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
3039 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
3040 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
3041 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 3042
b6b90b68 3043- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 3044 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 3045 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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3046 ipsec.conf rules for now.
3047
623d3dcf
AS
3048- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
3049 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
3050 dpddelay=60s).
3051
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3052- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
3053 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
3054 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
3055 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
3056
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3057- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
3058 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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3059 and a more extensible code base.
3060
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3061- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
3062 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
3063 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
3064 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
3065 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
3066 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
3067 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
3068
bf4df11f 3069
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3070strongswan-4.0.1
3071----------------
3072
b6b90b68 3073- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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3074 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
3075 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
3076 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 3077 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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3078 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
3079 algorithms for IKE:
3080 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
3081 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
3082 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
3083 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 3084 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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3085 blowfish192, blowfish256
3086 Integrity: md5, sha1
3087 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 3088 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 3089
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3090- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
3091 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 3092 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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3093 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
3094 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
3095 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 3096
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3097- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
3098 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
3099 configuration examples).
3100
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3101- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
3102 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 3103 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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3104 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
3105
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3106- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
3107 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
3108 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
3109 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
3110 via ipsec starter.
3111
b425d998 3112
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3113strongswan-4.0.0
3114----------------
3115
3116- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 3117 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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3118 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
3119 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
3120 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
3121 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
3122 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
3123 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
3124 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
3125 status command).
3126
3127
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3128strongswan-2.7.0
3129----------------
3130
3131- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
3132 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
3133 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
3134 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
3135 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
3136 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
b3ab7a48 3137 left|rightfirewall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
997358a6 3138 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 3139 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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3140 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
3141 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
3142 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
3143
3144- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
3145 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
3146 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
3147 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
3148 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
3149 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
3150 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
3151 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
3152 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 3153 be inserted.
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3154
3155- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
3156 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
3157 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
3158 be found.
3159
3160
3161strongswan-2.6.4
3162----------------
3163
3164- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
3165 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
3166 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 3167 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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3168 are required any more.
3169
3170- added support of DPD restart mode
3171
3172- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
3173 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
3174 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
3175
3176- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
3177 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
3178
3179
3180strongswan-2.6.3
3181----------------
3182
b6b90b68 3183- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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3184 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
3185
3186- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
3187 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
3188 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 3189
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3190- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
3191 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
3192
3193- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
3194 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
3195 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
3196 the ipsec status command.
b6b90b68 3197
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3198
3199strongswan-2.6.2
3200----------------
3201
3202- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
3203 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
3204 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
3205
3206- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
3207 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
3208 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
3209
3210- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
3211 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
3212
3213 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
3214 rightid="UN=John Doe"
3215
3216- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
3217 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
3218 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
3219
3220 conn rw
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3221 right=%any
3222 rightid=@foo.bar
3223 authby=secret
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3224
3225- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
3226
3227- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
3228
3229- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
3230 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
3231 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
3232
3233- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
3234 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
3235 servers.
3236
3237- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
3238 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
3239
3240
3241strongswan-2.6.1
3242----------------
3243
3244- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
3245 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
3246 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
3247
3248
3249strongswan-2.6.0
3250----------------
3251
3252- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
3253 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
3254 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
3255 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
3256 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
3257 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
b3ab7a48 3258 accelerated tremendously.
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3259
3260- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 3261 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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3262 reload pluto's connections.
3263
3264- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
3265 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
3266 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
3267
3268- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
3269
3270- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
3271
3272- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
3273 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
3274 documented yet.
3275
3276
3277strongswan-2.5.7
3278----------------
3279
2db6d5b8 3280- CA certificates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
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3281 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
3282 listing.
3283
3284
3285strongswan-2.5.6
3286----------------
3287
3288- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
3289 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
3290 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
3291 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
3292
b6b90b68 3293- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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3294 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
3295 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
3296 has been changed from one year to five years.
3297
3298
3299strongswan-2.5.5
3300----------------
3301
3302- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
3303 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
3304 via the whack interface. Notation:
3305
3306 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
3307 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3308 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3309 [--keyid <keyid>]
3310
3311 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
3312 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3313 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3314 [--keyid <keyid>]
3315
b6b90b68 3316 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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3317
3318 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
3319 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
3320 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
3321 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
3322 permanently.
3323
3324- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
3325 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
3326 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
3327 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
3328 is automatically generated by calling the function
3329
3330 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
3331
3332 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
3333 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
3334
3335
3336strongswan-2.5.4
3337----------------
3338
3339- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
3340 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
3341 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
3342 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
3343
3344- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
3345 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
3346
3347
3348strongswan-2.5.3
3349----------------
3350
3351- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
3352 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
3353 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
3354 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
3355 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
3356
3357- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
3358
3359 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
3360 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
3361 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 3362 self-signed certs)
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3363
3364- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
3365 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
53f8ac3d 3366 attribute for AES encryption.
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3367
3368- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
3369
3370- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
3371
3372
3373strongswan-2.5.2
3374----------------
3375
3376- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
3377 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
3378 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
3379 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
3380 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
3381
3382- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
3383 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
3384 multiple connections between two security gateways.
3385
3386
3387strongswan-2.5.1
3388----------------
3389
3390- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
3391 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
b3ab7a48 3392 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_ACQUIRE event
2db6d5b8 3393 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet existing
b3ab7a48 3394 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_ACQUIRE event led to an entry in
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3395 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
3396 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
3397 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
3398
3399- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
3400 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
3401 the command
3402
3403 ipsec auto --listcards
3404
3405 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
3406 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
3407 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
3408 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
3409
3410 %smartcard (selects object #1)
3411 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
3412 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
3413
3414 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
3415
3416 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
3417 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
3418 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
3419
3420- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
3421 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
3422 to generate a signature.
3423
3424- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
3425 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
3426 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
3427 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
3428 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
3429
3430- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
3431 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
3432
3433- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
3434 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
3435 towards the release of the SCEP client.
3436
3437
3438strongswan-2.5.0
3439----------------
3440
3441- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
3442 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
3443 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
3444 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
3445 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
3446 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
3447
3448- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
3449 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
3450 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
3451 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
3452 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
3453 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
b6b90b68 3454
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3455- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
3456 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
3457 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
3458
3459
3460strongswan-2.4.4
3461----------------
3462
3463- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
3464
3465- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
3466
3467
3468strongswan-2.4.3
3469----------------
3470
3471- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
3472 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
3473
3474- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
3475
3476- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
3477 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
3478 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
3479
3480- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
3481 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
3482 included.
3483
3484
3485strongswan-2.4.2
3486----------------
3487
3488- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
3489 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
3490 value of 50.
b6b90b68 3491
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3492- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
3493 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 3494 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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3495 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
3496 pad has to be done only once.
3497
3498- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
3499 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
3500 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 3501
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b6b90b68 3503
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3504- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
3505
3506- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
3507 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
3508
3509- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
3510 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
3511 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 3512
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3513- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
3514 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
3515 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
3516
3517
3518strongswan-2.4.1
3519----------------
3520
3521- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
3522 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
3523 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
3524 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
3525 "left" be"local".
3526
3527
3528strongswan-2.4.0a
3529-----------------
3530
3531- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
3532
3533- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
3534 Michael Meier
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3535
3536
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3537strongswan-2.4.0
3538----------------
3539
3540- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
3541 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
3542 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
3543 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
3544 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
3545 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
3546 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
3547
3548- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
3549 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
3550 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
3551 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
3552 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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3553
3554- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 3555 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 3556 in a particular test.
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3557
3558
3559strongswan-2.3.2
3560----------------
3561
3562- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3563 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 3564
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3565- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3566
3567- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3568 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3569 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3570
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3571- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3572 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3573 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3574 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3575
3576
3577strongswan-2.3.1
3578----------------
3579
3580- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3581
3582- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3583 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3584
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3585- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3586 module.
b6b90b68 3587
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3588- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3589 maximum udp size patches.
3590
3591- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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3593
3594strongswan-2.3.0
3595----------------
3596
3597- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3598 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3599 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3600 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3601 subdirectory.
3602
3603- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3604 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 3605 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 3606
997358a6 3607 man ipsec_openac.
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3609 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3610 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3611 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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3613 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3614
3615 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3616 Research or Sales, only.
3617
3618- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3619 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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3620 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3621 Secure Entry Clients.
3622
3623- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3624 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3625 now both set to 24 h.
3626
3627- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3628 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3629
3630- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3631 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3632 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 3633
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3634 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3635
3636
3637strongswan-2.2.2
3638----------------
3639
3640- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3641 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3642 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3643 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3644
f3bb1bd0 3645- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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3646 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3647 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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3649- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3650
3651- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3652 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3653
3654
3655strongswan-2.2.1
3656----------------
3657
3658- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3659 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3660
f3bb1bd0 3661- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3662 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 3663
997358a6 3664- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3665 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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3666
3667- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 3668
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3669- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3670
3671- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3672
3673
3674strongswan-2.2.0
3675----------------
3676
3677- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3678
3679 dpdaction=clear|hold
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3681 activates DPD for the given connection.
3682
3683- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3684 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3685 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 3686
997358a6 3687 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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3689 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3690
3691- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3692 using the compile option VENDORID
3693
3694- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3695
3696- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3697
3698- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3699
3700- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3701 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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3703- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3704
3705- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3706 connection.
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3708
3709strongswan-2.1.5
3710----------------
3711
3712- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3713 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3714 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3715 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3716 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3717
3718- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3719 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3720
3721
3722strongswan-2.1.4
3723----------------
3724
3725- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3726 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3727 an optional connection selector:
3728
3729 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3730
3731- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3732 man page.
3733
3734- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3735 of malformed distinguished names.
3736
3737- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3738
3739 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3740
3741- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3742
3743
3744strongswan-2.1.3
3745----------------
3746
3747- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3748 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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3750
3751strongswan-2.1.2
3752----------------
3753
3754- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3755 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3756 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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3758
3759strongswan-2.1.1
3760----------------
3761
3762- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3763
3764
3765strongswan-2.1.0
3766----------------
3767
3768- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3769
3770 ca kool
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3771 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3772 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3773 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3774 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3775 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3776 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 3777
997358a6 3778 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
b6b90b68 3779
53f8ac3d 3780 ipsec auto --listcainfos
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3781
3782- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3783 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3784
3785
3786strongswan-2.0.2
3787----------------
3788
3789- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3790 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3791
3792- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3793 during kernel compilation
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3795- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3796 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3797
3798- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3799 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3800 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3801
3802
3803strongswan-2.0.1
3804----------------
3805
3806- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3807 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3808 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3809 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3810
3811- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3812 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3813
3814
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3815strongswan-2.0.0
3816----------------
3817
3818- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12