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4- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
5 referenced via the NV index.
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11- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
12 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
13 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
14 custom proposals.
15
16- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
17 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
18 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
19 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
20 authentication constraints.
21
22- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
23 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
24
25- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 26 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
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27 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
28 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
29 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
30 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
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32- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
33 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
34 versions having an empty package name.
35
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36- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
37 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
38 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
39
40- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
41 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
42 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
43
44- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
45 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
46
47- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
48 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
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51strongswan-5.6.0
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54- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
55 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
56 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
57 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
58 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
59 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
60 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
61 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
62
693705c7 63- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 64 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
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f237bfcb 66- The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
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67 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
68
69- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
70 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
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71 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
72 package versions.
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74- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
75 via the --keyid parameter.
76
77- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
78 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
79
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80- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
81 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
82 binary EAP secret.
83
84- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
85 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
86 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
87 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
88
89- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
90 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
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96- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
97 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
98 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
99 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
100 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
101 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
102
103- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
104 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
105 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
106 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
107
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108- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
109 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
110 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
111 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
112 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
113 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
114
115- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
116 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
117 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
118 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
119 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
120 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
121 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
122
123- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
124 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
125 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
126
127- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
128 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
129 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
130
131- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
132 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
133 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
134
135- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
136 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
137 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
138 certificate cache).
139
140- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
141 for hardware that supports this.
142
143- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
144 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
145 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
146 referenced.
147
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148- The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
149
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154- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
155 by RFC 8031.
156
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157- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
158 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
159 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
160
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161- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
162 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
163 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
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164 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
165 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
166 the TPM private key.
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168- The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
169 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
170 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
171 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
172 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
173
e16d1005 174- In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
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175 of stale copies in cache memory.
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177- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
178 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
179 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
180 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
181 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
182 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
183 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
184 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
185
186 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
187 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
188 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
189 section.
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195- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
196 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
197 Peter Schwabe.
198
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199- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
200 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
201 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
202 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
203 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
204
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205- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
206 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
207 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
208 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
209 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
210
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211- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
212 sha3 and gmp plugins.
213
e31ed9ab 214- The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
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215 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
216 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
217
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218- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
219 base and delta CRLs to disk.
220
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221- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
222 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
223
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224- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
225 tss2_tcti_finalize().
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231- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
232 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
233 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
234
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235- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
236 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
237 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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239- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
240 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
241
242- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
243 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
244
245- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
246 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
247 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
248 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
249 and prefer those with a reqid.
250
251- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
252
253- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
254 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
255 identities and EAP types.
256
257- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
258 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
259 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
260
261- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
262 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
263 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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268
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269- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
270 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
271 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
272 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
273 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
274
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275- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
276 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
277 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
278
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279- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
280 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
281 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
282 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
283 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
284 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
285 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
286 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
287
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288- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
289 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
290 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
291
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292- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
293 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
294 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
295 support arbitrary ranges.
296
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297- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
298 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
299 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
300 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
301
302- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
303 used as owners of shared secrets.
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309- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
310 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
311
312- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
313
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318- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
319 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
320 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
321 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
322
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323- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
324 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
325 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
326 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
327
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332- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
333 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
334 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
335 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
336 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
337 cipher for ESP SAs.
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63d37038 339- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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340 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
341
342- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
343 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
344 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
345 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
346
347- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
348 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
349
350- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
351 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
352 daemon when it installs its policies.
353
354- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
355 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
356 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
357 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
358
359- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
360 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
361 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
362 same config as responder).
363
364- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
365 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
366
a215008c 367- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 368 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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369 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
370
371- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
372 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
373
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377
378- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
379 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
380 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
381 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
382 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
383
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388- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
389 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
390 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
391 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
392 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
393 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
394
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395- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
396 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
397 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
398 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
399
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404- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
405 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
406 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
407 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
408 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
409 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
410 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
411
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412- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
413 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
414 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
415 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
416
417- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
418 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
419 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
420 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
421 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
422 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
423 enough.
424
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425- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
426 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
427 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
428 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
429 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
430
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431- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
432 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
433 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
434 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
435 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
436 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
437
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438- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
439 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
440 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
441
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442- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
443 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
444 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
445 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
446
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447- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
448 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
449 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
450
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451- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
452 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
453 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
454
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455- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
456 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
457 PT-TLS transport medium.
458
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463- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
464 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
465 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
466 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
467 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
468 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
469 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
470
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471- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
472 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
473 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
474 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
475
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477 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
478 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
479
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480- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
481 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
482
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487- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
488 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
489 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
490 supports native systemd journal logging.
491
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492- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
493 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
494
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495- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
496 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
497 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
498 per segment basis.
499
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500- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
501 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
502
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503- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
504 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
505 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
506 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
507
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512- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
513 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
514 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
515 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
516 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
517 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
518 WinHTTP API.
519
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520- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
521 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
522 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
523 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
524 for more control and better reliability.
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526- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
527 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
528 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
529 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 530 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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533 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
534
37cb91d7 535- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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536 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
537 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
538 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
539 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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541- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
542 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
543
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544- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
545 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
546
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547- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
548
03b5def0 549- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 550 Connect.
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552- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
553 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
554 6Wind.
555
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559
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560- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
561 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
562 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
563 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
564 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
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566- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
567 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
568 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
569 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
570
571- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
572 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
573 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
574
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575- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
576 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
577
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582- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
583 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
584 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
585 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
586 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
587 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
588 the current defaults.
589
590- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
591 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
592 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
593 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
594 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
595 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
596
597- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
598 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
599 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
600 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
601 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
602
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604 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
605 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
606 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
607 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
608 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
609
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610- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
611 Attestation IMV.
612
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613- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
614 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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616- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
617 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
618 Andrea Bonomi.
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620- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
621 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
622 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
623
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627
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628- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
629 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
630 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
631 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
632
633- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
634 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
635 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
636
2b32884d 637- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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638 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
639 plugin.
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641- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
642 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
643
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644- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
645 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
646 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
647 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
648 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
649
650- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
651 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
652 as pluto used it.
653
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654- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
655 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
656 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
657 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
658
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659- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
660 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
661 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
662
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663- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
664 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
665 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
666 from a internal network.
667
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668- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
669 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
670 more trustworthy alternative.
671
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672- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
673 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
674
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675- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
676 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
677
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678- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
679 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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681- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
682 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
683
684- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
685 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
686
687- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
688 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
689
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690- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
691 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
692 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
693 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
694
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698
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699- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
700 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
701 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
702 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
703
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704- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
705 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
706 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
707 few simple command line options.
708
709- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 710 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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712
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713- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
714 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
715
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716- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
717 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
718 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
719 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
720 backend for IKEv1.
721
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723 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
724 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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726- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
727 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
728 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
729 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
730 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
731 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
732
733- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
734 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
735 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
736
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737- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
738
3a938a6f 739- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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740 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
741 between peers.
742
226f34e0 743- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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745 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
746 and/or device.
747
748- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
749 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
750 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
751 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
752 production releases).
753
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754- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
755 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
756 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
757
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758- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
759 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
760 hashtables.
761
762- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
763 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
764 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
765 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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767- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
768 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
769 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
770 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
771
772- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
773 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
774 TCP connections from a different host.
775
78e6f69e 776- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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781
782- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
783 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
784 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
785 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
786 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
787 legitimate one.
788
789- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
790 was fixed as well.
791
792- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
793 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
794
795- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
796 requests.
797
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798- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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803
804- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
805 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
806 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
807 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
808 created by Reto Guadagnini.
809
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810- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
811 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
812 device ID in the attest database.
813
814- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
815 if the hardware supports it.
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817- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
818 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
819 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
820 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
821 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
822 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
823 to Accounting-Stops.
824
825- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
826 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
827 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
828
829- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
830 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
831
832- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
833 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
834 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
835 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
836
837- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
838 IKE packets.
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840- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
841 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
842 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
843 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
844 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
845
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846- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
847 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
848 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
849 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
850 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
851 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
852 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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856
857- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
858 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
859
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860- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
861 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
862
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863- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
864 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
865 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
866 or receive notifications.
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868- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
869 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
870
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871- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
872 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
873 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
874 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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876- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
877 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
878 section.
879
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880- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
881 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
882 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
883 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
884 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
885
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886- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
887 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
888 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
889 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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891- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
892 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
893 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
894
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895- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
896 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
897 Volker Rümelin.
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899- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
900 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
901
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902- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
903 guest images based on Debian.
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908
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909- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
910 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
911
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912- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
913 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 914 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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916- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
917 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
918 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 919 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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922- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
923 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
924 against a RADIUS server.
925
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926- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
927 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
928 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
929 including xauth-pam.
930
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932 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
933 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
934 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
935 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
936 aware clients.
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938- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
939 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
940 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
941
942- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
943 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
944 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
945 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
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947- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
948 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
949 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
950 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
951 IP addresses to return.
952
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953- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
954 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
955 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
956 specified or referenced named pools.
957
958- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
959 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
960
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961- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
962 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
963
964- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
965 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
966 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
967 is preserved.
968
969- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
970 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
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972- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
973 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
974 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
975
976- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
977 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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983- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
984 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
985 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
986 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
987 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
988 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
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990 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
991
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992- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
993 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
994 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
995 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
996 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
997 the thread calling the listener.
998 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
999 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1000 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1001 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1002
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1003- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1004 reappear.
1005
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1006- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1007 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1008 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1009 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1010 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1011 feature).
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1013- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1014 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1015 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1016 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1017 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1018 using SHA-256 or better.
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1023
1024- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1025 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1026 a legitimate one.
1027
1028- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1029
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1033
1034- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1035 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1036
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1037- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1038 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1039 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1040 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1041
1042- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1043 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1044 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1045 console.
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1047- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1048 RFC 4595.
1049
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1050- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1051 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1052
4e2e77d5 1053- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1054 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
c224f765 1055
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1056- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1057 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1058
1059
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1061----------------
1062
1063- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1064 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1065 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1066 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1067
1068- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1069 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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1070 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1071 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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1073- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1074 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1075 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 1076
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1077- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1078 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1079 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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1081- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1082
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1085----------------
1086
1087- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1088 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1089 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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1090 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1091 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1092 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1093 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1094 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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1096- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
1097 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1098 post-installation phase.
5ed3e3a7 1099
acb92cb4 1100
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1103
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1104- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1105 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1106 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1107
1108- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1109 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1110 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1111 for the initial patch.
1112
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1113- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1114 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1115
1116- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1117
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1118- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1119 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1120 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1121 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1122 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1123 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1124
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1125- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1126 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1127 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1128 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1129 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1130 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1131
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1133 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1134 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1135
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1138----------------
1139
a7edbd21 1140- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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1141 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1142 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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1143 directory.
1144
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1145- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1146 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1147
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1148- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1149 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1150 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1151
1152- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1153 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1154
f8799170 1155- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1156 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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1157 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1158 interfaces.
f8799170 1159
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1160- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1161 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1162
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1163- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1164 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1165 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1166 the client is admitted to the network.
1167 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1168
1169- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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1170 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1171
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1172- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1173 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1174 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
5d179d19 1175
5a2e2e0b 1176
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1178----------------
1179
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1180- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1181 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1182 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1183 whitelist administration.
1184
92ebb7c5 1185- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1186 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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1187 application about detected duplicates.
1188
1189- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1190 authentication to previously used certificates.
1191
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1192- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1193 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1194 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1195 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1196
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1197- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
1198
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1199- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1200 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1201
1202- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1203 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
1ee7440b 1204
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1205- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1206 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1207 support configuration reloading.
1208
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1209- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1210 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1211 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1212 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1213 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1214 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1215
1216- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1217 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1218 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1219
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1222----------------
1223
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1224- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1225 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1226 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1227 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1228 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1229 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1230
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1231- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1232 in place of the external libtnc library.
1233
1234- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1235 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1236 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1237 the corresponding protocol stack.
1238
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1239- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1240 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1241 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1242 in an SQL database.
1243
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1244- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1245 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1246 points in an SQL database.
1247
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1248- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1249 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1250 replaced, respectively.
1251
1252- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1253 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1254 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1255 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1256 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1257 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1258 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1259
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1260- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1261 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1262
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1263- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1264 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1265 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1266
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1267- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1268 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1269 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1270 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 1271
41ed0294 1272- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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1273 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1274 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1275
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1276- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1277 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1278 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1279 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1280 ./configure switch.
1281
77eee25f 1282- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1283 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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1284 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1285 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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1286 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1287 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1288
1289- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1290 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
77eee25f 1291
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1292- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1293 support for delta CRLs.
1294
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1297----------------
1298
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1299- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1300 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1301 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1302 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1303 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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1305- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1306 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1307 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1308 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1309
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1310- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1311 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1312 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1313 tokens.
1314
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1315- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1316 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1317 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1318 client authentication.
1319
1320- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1321 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1322 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 1323
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1325 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1326 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1327 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1328 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1329 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1330 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1331 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1332
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1333- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1334 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1335 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1336
1337- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1338 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1339
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1340- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1341 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1342 availability.
1343
1344- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1345 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1346 implement a simple event listener.
1347
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1348- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1349 initial responder moves to a different address.
1350
1351- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1352
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1353- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1354 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1355
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1356- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1357 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1358 UNITY_BANNER).
1359
1360- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1361 charon plugins.
1362
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1363- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1364
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1367----------------
1368
ec40c02a 1369- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1370 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1371 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1372
b22bb9f2 1373- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1374 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1375 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1376
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1377- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1378
e9448cfc 1379- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 1380 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1382- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1383 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1384 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1385
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1386- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1387
1388- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1389 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1390
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1391- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1392 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1393
e87b78c6 1394- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1395 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1396 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1397
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1398- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1399 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1400
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1401- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1402 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1403
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1404- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1405 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1406 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1407 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1408 plugin.
1c1f132a 1409
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1410- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1411 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1412 unauthenticated users.
1413
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1416----------------
1417
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1418- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1419 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1420 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1421 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1422 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1423 secunet Security Networks AG.
1424
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1425- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1426 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1427 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1428 kernel interface.
1429
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1430- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1431 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1432 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1433 from IBM for his contribution.
1434
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1435- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1436 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1437 are allocated.
1438
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1439- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1440 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1441 command line option.
1442
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1443- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1444 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1445 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1446 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1447 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1448 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1449
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1450- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1451 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1452 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1453 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1454
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1455- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1456 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1457 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1458 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1459
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1460- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1461 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1462
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1465----------------
1466
cdad91de 1467- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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1468 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1469
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1470- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1471 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1472 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1473
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1474- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1475
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1476- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1477
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1478- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1479 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1480 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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1481 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1482
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1483- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1484
2b2c69e9 1485- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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1487- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1488 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1489 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1490 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1491 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1492
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1493- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1494 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1495 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1496
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1497- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1498 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1499
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1500- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1501 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1502 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1503 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1504 this is the case.
1505
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1506- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1507 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1508 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1509 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1510 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1511
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1512- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1513 allowing interoperability.
1514
1515
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1516strongswan-4.3.5
1517----------------
1518
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1519- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1520 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1521 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1522 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1523 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1524
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1525- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1526 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1527 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1528 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1529 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1530
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1531- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1532 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1533 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1535- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1536 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1537 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1538
d245f5cf 1539- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1540 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1541
1542- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1543 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1544 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1545
1546- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1547 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1548
1549- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 1550 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
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1551 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1552 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1553 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1554 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1555
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1556- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1557 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1558 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1559 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1560
b80fa9ca 1561- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1562 statements.
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1564- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1565
1566- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1567 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1568
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1569- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1570 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1571
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1572- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1573 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1574 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1575
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1577strongswan-4.3.4
1578----------------
1579
1580- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1581 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1582
1583- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1584 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1585
1586- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1587
1588
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1589strongswan-4.3.3
1590----------------
1591
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1592- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1593 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1594 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1595 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1596 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1597
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1598- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1599 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1600
1601- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1602 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1603
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1604- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1605
1606- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1607 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1608 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1609
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1611strongswan-4.3.2
1612----------------
1613
1614- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1615 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1616
1617- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1618 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1619 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1620
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1621- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1622 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1623 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1624 with IKEv1.
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1626- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1627 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1628 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1629 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1630
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1633----------------
1634
1635- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1636 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1637 dynamically.
1638
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1639- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1640 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1641 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1642 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1643 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1644
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1645- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1646 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1647 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1648 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1649 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1650 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1651
09dbca9f 1652- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1653 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1654 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1655
1656- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1657 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1658 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1659
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1660- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1661
1662- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1663 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1664 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1665 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1666 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1667 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1668 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1669 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1670
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1671- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1672 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1673
d44fd821 1674- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1675 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1676 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1677 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1678 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1679
1680
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1681strongswan-4.3.0
1682----------------
1683
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1684- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1685 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1686 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1687 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1688 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1689
1690- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1691 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1692
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1693- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1694 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1695
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1696- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1697 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1698 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1699
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1700- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1701 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1702
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1704strongswan-4.2.14
1705-----------------
1706
22180558 1707- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1708 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1709 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1710
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1711- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1712 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1713 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1714 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1715 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1716 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1717 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1718 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1719 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1720
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1721- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1722 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1723 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1724 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1725
1726- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1727 IDr payload anymore.
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1728
1729
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1730strongswan-4.2.13
1731-----------------
1732
1733- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1734 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1735
f3bb1bd0 1736- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1737 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1738
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1739- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1740 parameters field is optional.
1741
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1742- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1743
076e7853 1744
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1747
1748- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1749 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1750 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1751
1752- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1753 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1754 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1755
1756- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1757 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1758
b6b90b68 1759
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1760strongswan-4.2.11
1761-----------------
1762
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1763- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1764 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1765
1766- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1767 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1768
1769
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1770strongswan-4.2.10
1771-----------------
1772
1773- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1774 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1775 counterparts with better lookup times.
1776
1777- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 1778 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
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1779 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1780
1781- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1782 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1783 on the fly.
1784
1785- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1786 command queries assigned leases.
1787
1788- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1789 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1790
1791- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1792 reliable source of randomness.
1793
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1794strongswan-4.2.9
1795----------------
1796
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1797- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1798 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1799
1800- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1801 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1802 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1803
1804- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1805 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1806 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1807 parallelization to multiple cores.
1808
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1809- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1810 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1811
509e07c5 1812- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1813 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1814 memory or hardware.
1815
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1816- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1817 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1818 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1819 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1820
1821- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1822 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1823 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1824 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1825 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1826 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1827
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1828- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1829 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1830 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1831
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1833strongswan-4.2.8
1834----------------
1835
5dadb16e 1836- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1837 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1838 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1839
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1840- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1841 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1842 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1843 long as possible and other fixes.
1844
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1845- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1846 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1847 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1848
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1850strongswan-4.2.7
1851----------------
1852
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1853- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1854 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1855 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1856 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1857 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1858
b6b90b68 1859- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1860 ssh-agent.
1861
1862- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1863 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1864
1865- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1866 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1867 newer libcap2 library.
1868
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1869- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1870 charon keying daemon.
1871
1872
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1873strongswan-4.2.6
1874----------------
1875
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1876- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1877 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1878 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1879 in the Gnome Keyring.
1880
1881- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1882 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1883 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1884 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1885
1886- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1887 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1888 authentication.
1889
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1890- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1891 authentication types and EAP identities.
1892
1893- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1894 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1895
1896- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1897 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1898
1899
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1900strongswan-4.2.5
1901----------------
1902
b6b90b68 1903- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1904
1905- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1906 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1907 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1908 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1909 strongswan.conf.
1910
eb0cc338 1911- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1912 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1913
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1914- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1915 network interfaces have become possible.
1916
b6b90b68 1917- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1918 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1919
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1920- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1921
b6b90b68 1922
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1923strongswan-4.2.4
1924----------------
1925
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1926- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1927 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1928
73a8eed3 1929- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1930 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1931
1932- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1933 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1934
1935- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1936 X.509 certificates.
1937
1938- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1939 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1940
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1941- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1942 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1943
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1945strongswan-4.2.3
1946----------------
1947
b6b90b68 1948- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1949 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1950
1951- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1952 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1953
1954
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1956----------------
1957
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1958- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1959 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1960 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1961 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1962 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1963
1964- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1965 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1966 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1967 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1968
1969- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1970 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1971 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1972
7f491111 1973
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1974strongswan-4.2.1
1975----------------
1976
c306dfb1 1977- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1978 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1979 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1980 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1981 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1982 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1983
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1984- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1985 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1986 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1987 connections.
b6b90b68 1988
f3bb1bd0 1989- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1990 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1991 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1992
b6b90b68 1993- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1994 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1995 re-implemented.
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1996
1997- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1998 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1999
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2000- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2001 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2002 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2003
466abb49 2004- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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2005 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2006 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2007 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2008 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2009
c306dfb1 2010- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2011
c306dfb1 2012- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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2013
2014- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2015 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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2016 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2017
5c5d67d6 2018
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2019strongswan-4.2.0
2020----------------
2021
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2022- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2023 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2024 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2025 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2026 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2027 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2028 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2029
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2030- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2031 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2032
2033- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2034 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2035 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2036 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2037 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2038 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2039 The following new plugins are available:
2040 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2041 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2042 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2043
2044- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2045 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2046 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2047
b6b90b68 2048- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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2049 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2050 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2051
a11ea97d 2052
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2053strongswan-4.1.11
2054-----------------
fb6d76cd 2055
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2056- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2057 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2058 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2059
2060- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2061 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2062
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2063- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2064 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2065 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2066
fb6d76cd 2067
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2068strongswan-4.1.10
2069-----------------
2070
2071- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2072 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2073
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2074- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2075 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2076 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2077 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2078
2079- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2080 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2081 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2082 before using it.
2083
2084- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2085 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2086 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2087
fb6d76cd 2088
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2089strongswan-4.1.9
2090----------------
2091
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2092- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2093 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2094 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2095 added.
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2097- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2098 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2099
2100- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2101 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2102
2103- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2104
8b678ad4 2105- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2106 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2107 loaded twice.
5076770c 2108
83e0d841 2109
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2110strongswan-4.1.8
2111----------------
2112
5076770c 2113- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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2114
2115
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2116strongswan-4.1.7
2117----------------
2118
2119- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2120 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2121 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
2122
6e193274 2123- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2124 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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2125 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2126
2127- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2128 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 2129 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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2130
2131- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2132 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2133
2134- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2135
a4a3632c 2136
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2137strongswan-4.1.6
2138----------------
2139
3eac4dfd
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2140- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2141 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2142 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2143 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2144 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2145 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2146 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2147 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2148
2149- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2150 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2151 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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2152 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2153
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2154- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2155 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2156 startup.
b6b90b68 2157
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2158- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2159 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2160 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2161 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2162 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2163
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2164- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2165 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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2166
2167
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2168strongswan-4.1.5
2169----------------
2170
2171- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2172 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2173 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2174 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2175 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2176 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2177
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2178- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2179 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2180 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2181 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2182
7ad634a2 2183
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2184strongswan-4.1.4
2185----------------
2186
2187- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2188 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2189 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2190 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
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2191 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2192 parameter is not required any more.
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2193
2194- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2195 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2196 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2197
2198 right=peer.foo.bar
2199 rightallowany=yes
2200
2201 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2202 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2203 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2204 as
2205
2206 right=%any
2207
2208 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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2209 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2210
2211 right=%peer.foo.bar
2212
2213 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2214
2215- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2216 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2217 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2218 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2219 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2220
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2221- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2222 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2223 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2224 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2225 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2226
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2227- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2228 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2229 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2230 by Robert Varga.
2231
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2232- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2233 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2234
06651827 2235
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2236strongswan-4.1.3
2237----------------
2238
b6b90b68 2239- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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2240 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2241
2242- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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2243 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2244 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2245
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2246- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2247 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2248 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2249 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2250
2251- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2252 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2253 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2254 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2255
b6b90b68 2256- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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2257 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2258 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2259 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2260 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2261 to implement.
a3354a69 2262
f3bb1bd0 2263 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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2264 headers > 2.6.17.
2265
2266
8ea7b96f
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2267strongswan-4.1.2
2268----------------
2269
e23d98a7 2270- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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2271 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2272 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2273 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2274
2275- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2276 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2277
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2278- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2279
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2280- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2281
dfbe2a0f 2282- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2283 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 2284
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2285- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2286
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2287- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2288 connection name.
2289
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2291strongswan-4.1.1
2292----------------
2293
2294- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2295 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2296 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2297 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2298 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2299 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2300
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2301- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2302 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2303 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2304
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2305- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2306 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2307 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2308 vendor ID.
2309
2310- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2311 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2312 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2313 message.
2314
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2315- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2316 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2317
3b4f7d92 2318
34bbd0c3 2319strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
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2320----------------
2321
2322- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2323 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2324
2325- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2326 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2327 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2328 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2329
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2330- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2331
c5d0fbb6 2332- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2333 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
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2334 accessLocations.
2335
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2336- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2337 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2338 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2339 option.
2340
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2341- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2342 code reuse and separation.
2343
2344- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2345 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2346 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2347
2348- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2349 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2350 specify it.
2351
2352- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2353 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2354 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2355 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2356 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2357 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2358
2359- Added client side support for cookies.
2360
2361- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2362 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2363 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 2364
e23d98a7 2365
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2366strongswan-4.0.7
2367----------------
2368
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2369- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2370 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2371 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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2372
2373- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2374 to a default string.
2375
2376
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2377strongswan-4.0.6
2378----------------
2379
e38a15d4
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2380- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2381 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2382 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2383 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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2384 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2385
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2386- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2387
5903179b 2388- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2389
5903179b 2390- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2391
5903179b 2392- various other bugfixes
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2393
2394
0cd645d2
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2395strongswan-4.0.5
2396----------------
2397
2398- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2399 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2400
2401- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2402 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2403
2404- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2405 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2406 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2407 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2408
0cd645d2 2409 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 2410
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2411 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2412
2413 config setup
03bf883d 2414 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2415
03bf883d 2416 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2417
03bf883d 2418 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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2419
2420
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2421strongswan-4.0.4
2422----------------
2423
2424- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2425
2426- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2427 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2428 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2429 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2430 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2431
2432- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2433 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2434 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2435
2436- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2437
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2438- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2439 or 3DES are supported.
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2440
2441- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2442 encrypt IKE traffic.
2443
2444- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2445 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2446
2447- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2448 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2449 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2450 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2451
2452
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2453strongswan-4.0.3
2454----------------
2455
2456- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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2457 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2458 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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2459 kernel.
2460
2461- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2462 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2463 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2464 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2465
b425d998
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2466- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2467 algorithm configuration statements.
2468
2469
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2471----------------
2472
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2473- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2474 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2475 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2476 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2477
b6b90b68 2478- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2479 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2480 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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2481 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2482
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2483- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2484 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2485 dpddelay=60s).
2486
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2487- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2488 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2489 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2490 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2491
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2492- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2493 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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2494 and a more extensible code base.
2495
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2496- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2497 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2498 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2499 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2500 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2501 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2502 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2503
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2505strongswan-4.0.1
2506----------------
2507
b6b90b68 2508- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2509 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2510 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2511 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2512 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2513 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2514 algorithms for IKE:
2515 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2516 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2517 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2518 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2519 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2520 blowfish192, blowfish256
2521 Integrity: md5, sha1
2522 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2523 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 2524
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2525- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2526 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2527 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2528 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2529 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2530 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2531
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2532- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2533 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2534 configuration examples).
2535
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2536- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2537 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2538 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2539 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2540
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2541- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2542 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2543 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2544 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2545 via ipsec starter.
2546
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2548strongswan-4.0.0
2549----------------
2550
2551- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2552 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2553 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2554 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2555 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2556 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2557 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2558 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2559 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2560 status command).
2561
2562
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2563strongswan-2.7.0
2564----------------
2565
2566- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2567 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2568 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2569 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2570 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2571 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2572 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2573 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2574 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2575 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2576 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2577 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2578
2579- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2580 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2581 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2582 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2583 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2584 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2585 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2586 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2587 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2588 be inserted.
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2589
2590- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2591 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2592 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2593 be found.
2594
2595
2596strongswan-2.6.4
2597----------------
2598
2599- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2600 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2601 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2602 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2603 are required any more.
2604
2605- added support of DPD restart mode
2606
2607- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2608 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2609 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2610
2611- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2612 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2613
2614
2615strongswan-2.6.3
2616----------------
2617
b6b90b68 2618- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2619 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2620
2621- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2622 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2623 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2624
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2625- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2626 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2627
2628- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2629 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2630 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2631 the ipsec status command.
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2633
2634strongswan-2.6.2
2635----------------
2636
2637- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2638 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2639 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2640
2641- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2642 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2643 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2644
2645- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2646 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2647
2648 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2649 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2650
2651- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2652 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2653 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2654
2655 conn rw
2656 right=%any
2657 rightid=@foo.bar
2658 authby=secret
2659
2660- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2661
2662- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2663
2664- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2665 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2666 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2667
2668- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2669 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2670 servers.
2671
2672- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2673 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2674
2675
2676strongswan-2.6.1
2677----------------
2678
2679- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2680 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2681 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2682
2683
2684strongswan-2.6.0
2685----------------
2686
2687- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2688 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2689 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2690 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2691 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2692 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2693 accelerated tremedously.
2694
2695- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2696 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2697 reload pluto's connections.
2698
2699- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2700 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2701 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2702
2703- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2704
2705- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2706
2707- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2708 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2709 documented yet.
2710
2711
2712strongswan-2.5.7
2713----------------
2714
2715- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2716 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2717 listing.
2718
2719
2720strongswan-2.5.6
2721----------------
2722
2723- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2724 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2725 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2726 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2727
b6b90b68 2728- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2729 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2730 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2731 has been changed from one year to five years.
2732
2733
2734strongswan-2.5.5
2735----------------
2736
2737- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2738 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2739 via the whack interface. Notation:
2740
2741 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2742 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2743 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2744 [--keyid <keyid>]
2745
2746 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2747 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2748 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2749 [--keyid <keyid>]
2750
b6b90b68 2751 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2752
2753 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2754 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2755 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2756 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2757 permanently.
2758
2759- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2760 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2761 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2762 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2763 is automatically generated by calling the function
2764
2765 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2766
2767 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2768 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2769
2770
2771strongswan-2.5.4
2772----------------
2773
2774- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2775 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2776 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2777 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2778
2779- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2780 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2781
2782
2783strongswan-2.5.3
2784----------------
2785
2786- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2787 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2788 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2789 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2790 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2791
2792- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2793
2794 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2795 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2796 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2797 self-signed certs)
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2798
2799- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2800 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2801 attribute for AES encryption.
2802
2803- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2804
2805- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2806
2807
2808strongswan-2.5.2
2809----------------
2810
2811- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2812 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2813 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2814 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2815 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2816
2817- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2818 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2819 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2820
2821
2822strongswan-2.5.1
2823----------------
2824
2825- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2826 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2827 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2828 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2829 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2830 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2831 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2832 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2833
2834- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2835 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2836 the command
2837
2838 ipsec auto --listcards
2839
2840 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2841 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2842 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2843 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2844
2845 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2846 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2847 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2848
2849 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2850
2851 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2852 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2853 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2854
2855- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2856 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2857 to generate a signature.
2858
2859- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2860 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2861 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2862 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2863 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2864
2865- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2866 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2867
2868- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2869 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2870 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2871
2872
2873strongswan-2.5.0
2874----------------
2875
2876- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2877 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2878 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2879 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2880 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2881 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2882
2883- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2884 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2885 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2886 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2887 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2888 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2890- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2891 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2892 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2893
2894
2895strongswan-2.4.4
2896----------------
2897
2898- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2899
2900- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2901
2902
2903strongswan-2.4.3
2904----------------
2905
2906- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2907 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2908
2909- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2910
2911- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2912 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2913 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2914
2915- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2916 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2917 included.
2918
2919
2920strongswan-2.4.2
2921----------------
2922
2923- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2924 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2925 value of 50.
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2927- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2928 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2929 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2930 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2931 pad has to be done only once.
2932
2933- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2934 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2935 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2936
997358a6 2937 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 2938
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2939- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2940
2941- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2942 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2943
2944- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2945 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2946 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 2947
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2948- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2949 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2950 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2951
2952
2953strongswan-2.4.1
2954----------------
2955
2956- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2957 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2958 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2959 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2960 "left" be"local".
2961
2962
2963strongswan-2.4.0a
2964-----------------
2965
2966- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2967
2968- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2969 Michael Meier
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2970
2971
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2972strongswan-2.4.0
2973----------------
2974
2975- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2976 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2977 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2978 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2979 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2980 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2981 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2982
2983- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2984 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2985 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2986 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2987 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2988
2989- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2990 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2991 in a particular test.
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2992
2993
2994strongswan-2.3.2
2995----------------
2996
2997- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2998 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2999
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3000- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3001
3002- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3003 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3004 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3005
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3006- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3007 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3008 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3009 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3010
3011
3012strongswan-2.3.1
3013----------------
3014
3015- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3016
3017- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3018 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3019
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3020- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3021 module.
b6b90b68 3022
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3023- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3024 maximum udp size patches.
3025
3026- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
b6b90b68 3027
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3028
3029strongswan-2.3.0
3030----------------
3031
3032- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3033 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3034 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3035 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3036 subdirectory.
3037
3038- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3039 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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b6b90b68 3041
997358a6 3042 man ipsec_openac.
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3044 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3045 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3046 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 3047
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3048 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3049
3050 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3051 Research or Sales, only.
3052
3053- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3054 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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3055 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3056 Secure Entry Clients.
3057
3058- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3059 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3060 now both set to 24 h.
3061
3062- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3063 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3064
3065- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3066 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3067 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 3068
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3069 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3070
3071
3072strongswan-2.2.2
3073----------------
3074
3075- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3076 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3077 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3078 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3079
f3bb1bd0 3080- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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3081 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3082 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 3083
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3084- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3085
3086- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3087 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3088
3089
3090strongswan-2.2.1
3091----------------
3092
3093- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3094 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3095
f3bb1bd0 3096- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3097 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 3098
997358a6 3099- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3100 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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3101
3102- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 3103
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3104- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3105
3106- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3107
3108
3109strongswan-2.2.0
3110----------------
3111
3112- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3113
3114 dpdaction=clear|hold
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3117
3118- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3119 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3120 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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3124 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3125
3126- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3127 using the compile option VENDORID
3128
3129- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3130
3131- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3132
3133- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3134
3135- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3136 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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3138- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3139
3140- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3141 connection.
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3144strongswan-2.1.5
3145----------------
3146
3147- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3148 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3149 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3150 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3151 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3152
3153- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3154 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3155
3156
3157strongswan-2.1.4
3158----------------
3159
3160- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3161 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3162 an optional connection selector:
3163
3164 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3165
3166- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3167 man page.
3168
3169- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3170 of malformed distinguished names.
3171
3172- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3173
3174 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3175
3176- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3177
3178
3179strongswan-2.1.3
3180----------------
3181
3182- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3183 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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3186strongswan-2.1.2
3187----------------
3188
3189- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3190 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3191 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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3194strongswan-2.1.1
3195----------------
3196
3197- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3198
3199
3200strongswan-2.1.0
3201----------------
3202
3203- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3204
3205 ca kool
3206 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3207 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3208 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3209 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3210 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3211 auto=add # add, ignore
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3215 ipsec auto --listcainfos
3216
3217- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3218 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3219
3220
3221strongswan-2.0.2
3222----------------
3223
3224- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3225 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3227- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
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3231 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3232
3233- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3234 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3235 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3236
3237
3238strongswan-2.0.1
3239----------------
3240
3241- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3242 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3243 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3244 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3245
3246- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3247 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3249
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3251----------------
3252
3253- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12