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1 strongswan-5.1.2
2 ----------------
3
4 - The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
5 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
6 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
7 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
8 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
9 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
10
11 - Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
12 Attestation IMV.
13
14 - When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
15 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
16 Andrea Bonomi.
17
18 - The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
19 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
20 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
21
22
23 strongswan-5.1.1
24 ----------------
25
26 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
27 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
28 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
29 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
30
31 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
32 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
33 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
34
35 - The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
36 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
37 plugin.
38
39 - The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
40 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
41
42 - The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
43 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
44 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
45 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
46 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
47
48 - charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
49 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
50 as pluto used it.
51
52 - Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
53 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
54 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
55 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
56
57 - The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
58 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
59 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
60
61 - The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
62 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
63 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
64 from a internal network.
65
66 - For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
67 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
68 more trustworthy alternative.
69
70 - The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
71 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
72
73 - With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
74 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
75
76 - load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
77 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
78
79 - The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
80 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
81
82 - The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
83 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
84
85 - Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
86 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
87
88 - libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
89 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
90 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
91 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
92
93
94 strongswan-5.1.0
95 ----------------
96
97 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
98 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
99 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
100 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
101
102 - The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
103 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
104 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
105 few simple command line options.
106
107 - The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
108 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
109 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
110
111 - The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
112 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
113
114 - The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
115 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
116 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
117 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
118 backend for IKEv1.
119
120 - The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
121 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
122 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
123
124 - The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
125 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
126 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
127 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
128 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
129 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
130
131 - Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
132 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
133 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
134
135 - IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
136
137 - IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
138 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
139 between peers.
140
141 - Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
142 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
143 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
144 and/or device.
145
146 - Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
147 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
148 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
149 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
150 production releases).
151
152 - The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
153 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
154 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
155
156 - chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
157 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
158 hashtables.
159
160 - All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
161 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
162 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
163 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
164
165 - A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
166 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
167 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
168 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
169
170 - Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
171 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
172 TCP connections from a different host.
173
174 - libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
175
176
177 strongswan-5.0.4
178 ----------------
179
180 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
181 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
182 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
183 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
184 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
185 legitimate one.
186
187 - The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
188 was fixed as well.
189
190 - The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
191 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
192
193 - The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
194 requests.
195
196 - The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
197
198
199 strongswan-5.0.3
200 ----------------
201
202 - The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
203 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
204 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
205 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
206 created by Reto Guadagnini.
207
208 - Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
209 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
210 device ID in the attest database.
211
212 - The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
213 if the hardware supports it.
214
215 - The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
216 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
217 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
218 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
219 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
220 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
221 to Accounting-Stops.
222
223 - The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
224 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
225 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
226
227 - The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
228 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
229
230 - The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
231 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
232 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
233 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
234
235 - The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
236 IKE packets.
237
238 - The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
239 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
240 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
241 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
242 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
243
244 - The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
245 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
246 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
247 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
248 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
249 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
250 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
251
252 strongswan-5.0.2
253 ----------------
254
255 - Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
256 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
257
258 - The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
259 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
260
261 - A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
262 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
263 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
264 or receive notifications.
265
266 - The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
267 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
268
269 - IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
270 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
271 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
272 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
273
274 - The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
275 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
276 section.
277
278 - The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
279 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
280 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
281 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
282 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
283
284 - PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
285 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
286 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
287 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
288
289 - Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
290 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
291 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
292
293 - IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
294 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
295 Volker Rümelin.
296
297 - The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
298 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
299
300 - The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
301 guest images based on Debian.
302
303
304 strongswan-5.0.1
305 ----------------
306
307 - Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
308 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
309
310 - Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
311 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
312 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
313
314 - The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
315 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
316 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
317 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
318 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
319
320 - The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
321 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
322 against a RADIUS server.
323
324 - The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
325 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
326 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
327 including xauth-pam.
328
329 - The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
330 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
331 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
332 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
333 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
334 aware clients.
335
336 - An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
337 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
338 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
339
340 - The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
341 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
342 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
343 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
344
345 - The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
346 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
347 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
348 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
349 IP addresses to return.
350
351 - The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
352 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
353 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
354 specified or referenced named pools.
355
356 - Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
357 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
358
359 - The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
360 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
361
362 - The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
363 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
364 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
365 is preserved.
366
367 - The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
368 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
369
370 - The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
371 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
372 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
373
374 - All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
375 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
376
377
378 strongswan-5.0.0
379 ----------------
380
381 - The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
382 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
383 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
384 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
385 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
386 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
387 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
388 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
389
390 - Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
391 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
392 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
393 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
394 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
395 the thread calling the listener.
396 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
397 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
398 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
399 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
400
401 - Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
402 reappear.
403
404 - The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
405 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
406 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
407 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
408 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
409 feature).
410
411 - In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
412 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
413 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
414 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
415 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
416 using SHA-256 or better.
417
418
419 strongswan-4.6.4
420 ----------------
421
422 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
423 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
424 a legitimate one.
425
426 - Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
427
428
429 strongswan-4.6.3
430 ----------------
431
432 - The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
433 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
434
435 - The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
436 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
437 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
438 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
439
440 - The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
441 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
442 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
443 console.
444
445 - Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
446 RFC 4595.
447
448 - The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
449 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
450
451 - The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
452 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
453
454 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
455 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
456
457
458 strongswan-4.6.2
459 ----------------
460
461 - Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
462 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
463 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
464 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
465
466 - Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
467 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
468 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
469 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
470
471 - The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
472 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
473 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
474
475 - Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
476 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
477 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
478
479 - Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
480
481
482 strongswan-4.6.1
483 ----------------
484
485 - Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
486 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
487 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
488 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
489 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
490 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
491 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
492 libraries for resolving external symbols.
493
494 - Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
495 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
496 post-installation phase.
497
498
499 strongswan-4.6.0
500 ----------------
501
502 - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
503 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
504 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
505
506 - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
507 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
508 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
509 for the initial patch.
510
511 - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
512 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
513
514 - Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
515
516 - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
517 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
518 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
519 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
520 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
521 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
522
523 - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
524 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
525 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
526 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
527 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
528 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
529
530 - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
531 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
532 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
533
534
535 strongswan-4.5.3
536 ----------------
537
538 - Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
539 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
540 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
541 directory.
542
543 - The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
544 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
545
546 - Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
547 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
548 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
549
550 - Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
551 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
552
553 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
554 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
555 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
556 interfaces.
557
558 - The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
559 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
560
561 - IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
562 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
563 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
564 the client is admitted to the network.
565 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
566
567 - IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
568 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
569
570 - The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
571 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
572 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
573
574
575 strongswan-4.5.2
576 ----------------
577
578 - The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
579 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
580 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
581 whitelist administration.
582
583 - The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
584 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
585 application about detected duplicates.
586
587 - The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
588 authentication to previously used certificates.
589
590 - In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
591 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
592 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
593 only starts|routes the specific child config.
594
595 - fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
596
597 - Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
598 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
599
600 - The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
601 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
602
603 - The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
604 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
605 support configuration reloading.
606
607 - Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
608 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
609 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
610 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
611 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
612 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
613
614 - In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
615 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
616 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
617
618
619 strongswan-4.5.1
620 ----------------
621
622 - Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
623 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
624 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
625 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
626 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
627 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
628
629 - Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
630 in place of the external libtnc library.
631
632 - The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
633 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
634 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
635 the corresponding protocol stack.
636
637 - IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
638 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
639 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
640 in an SQL database.
641
642 - The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
643 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
644 points in an SQL database.
645
646 - The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
647 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
648 replaced, respectively.
649
650 - Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
651 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
652 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
653 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
654 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
655 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
656 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
657
658 - ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
659 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
660
661 - Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
662 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
663 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
664
665 - The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
666 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
667 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
668 xcbc algorithms.
669
670 - The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
671 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
672 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
673
674 - The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
675 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
676 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
677 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
678 ./configure switch.
679
680 - The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
681 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
682 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
683 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
684 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
685 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
686
687 - The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
688 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
689
690 - The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
691 support for delta CRLs.
692
693
694 strongswan-4.5.0
695 ----------------
696
697 - IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
698 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
699 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
700 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
701 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
702
703 - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
704 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
705 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
706 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
707
708 - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
709 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
710 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
711 tokens.
712
713 - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
714 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
715 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
716 client authentication.
717
718 - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
719 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
720 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
721
722 - Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
723 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
724 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
725 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
726 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
727 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
728 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
729 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
730
731 - The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
732 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
733 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
734
735 - Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
736 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
737
738 - The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
739 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
740 availability.
741
742 - The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
743 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
744 implement a simple event listener.
745
746 - Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
747 initial responder moves to a different address.
748
749 - Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
750
751 - Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
752 identity was different from the IKE identity.
753
754 - Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
755 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
756 UNITY_BANNER).
757
758 - Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
759 charon plugins.
760
761 - Added man page for strongswan.conf
762
763
764 strongswan-4.4.1
765 ----------------
766
767 - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
768 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
769 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
770
771 - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
772 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
773 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
774
775 - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
776
777 - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
778 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
779
780 - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
781 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
782 in strongswan.conf, if required.
783
784 - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
785
786 - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
787 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
788
789 - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
790 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
791
792 - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
793 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
794 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
795
796 - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
797 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
798
799 - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
800 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
801
802 - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
803 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
804 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
805 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
806 plugin.
807
808 - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
809 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
810 unauthenticated users.
811
812
813 strongswan-4.4.0
814 ----------------
815
816 - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
817 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
818 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
819 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
820 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
821 secunet Security Networks AG.
822
823 - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
824 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
825 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
826 kernel interface.
827
828 - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
829 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
830 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
831 from IBM for his contribution.
832
833 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
834 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
835 are allocated.
836
837 - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
838 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
839 command line option.
840
841 - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
842 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
843 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
844 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
845 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
846 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
847
848 - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
849 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
850 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
851 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
852
853 - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
854 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
855 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
856 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
857
858 - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
859 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
860
861
862 strongswan-4.3.6
863 ----------------
864
865 - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
866 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
867
868 - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
869 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
870 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
871
872 - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
873
874 - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
875
876 - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
877 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
878 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
879 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
880
881 - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
882
883 - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
884
885 - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
886 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
887 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
888 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
889 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
890
891 - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
892 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
893 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
894
895 - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
896 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
897
898 - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
899 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
900 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
901 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
902 this is the case.
903
904 - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
905 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
906 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
907 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
908 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
909
910 - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
911 allowing interoperability.
912
913
914 strongswan-4.3.5
915 ----------------
916
917 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
918 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
919 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
920 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
921 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
922
923 - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
924 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
925 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
926 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
927 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
928
929 - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
930 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
931 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
932
933 - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
934 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
935 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
936
937 - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
938 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
939
940 - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
941 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
942 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
943
944 - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
945 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
946
947 - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
948 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
949 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
950 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
951 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
952 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
953
954 - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
955 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
956 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
957 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
958
959 - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
960 statements.
961
962 - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
963
964 - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
965 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
966
967 - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
968 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
969
970 - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
971 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
972 and the libstrongswan library.
973
974
975 strongswan-4.3.4
976 ----------------
977
978 - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
979 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
980
981 - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
982 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
983
984 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
985
986
987 strongswan-4.3.3
988 ----------------
989
990 - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
991 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
992 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
993 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
994 manipulations can be reliably detected.
995
996 - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
997 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
998
999 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1000 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1001
1002 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1003
1004 - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1005 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1006 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1007
1008
1009 strongswan-4.3.2
1010 ----------------
1011
1012 - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1013 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1014
1015 - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1016 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1017 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1018
1019 - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1020 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1021 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1022 with IKEv1.
1023
1024 - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1025 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1026 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1027 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
1028
1029
1030 strongswan-4.3.1
1031 ----------------
1032
1033 - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
1034 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
1035 dynamically.
1036
1037 - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1038 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1039 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1040 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1041 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
1042
1043 - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1044 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1045 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1046 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1047 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1048 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1049
1050 - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
1051 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1052 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1053
1054 - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1055 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1056 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1057
1058 - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1059
1060 - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1061 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1062 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1063 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1064 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
1065 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
1066 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
1067 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1068
1069 - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1070 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1071
1072 - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
1073 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1074 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
1075 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
1076 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
1077
1078
1079 strongswan-4.3.0
1080 ----------------
1081
1082 - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1083 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1084 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1085 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1086 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1087
1088 - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1089 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1090
1091 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1092 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
1093
1094 - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1095 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1096 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
1097
1098 - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1099 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
1100
1101
1102 strongswan-4.2.14
1103 -----------------
1104
1105 - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
1106 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
1107 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1108
1109 - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1110 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1111 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1112 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1113 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1114 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1115 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1116 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1117 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1118
1119 - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1120 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1121 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1122 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1123
1124 - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
1125 IDr payload anymore.
1126
1127
1128 strongswan-4.2.13
1129 -----------------
1130
1131 - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1132 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1133
1134 - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
1135 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
1136
1137 - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1138 parameters field is optional.
1139
1140 - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1141
1142
1143 strongswan-4.2.12
1144 -----------------
1145
1146 - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1147 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1148 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1149
1150 - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
1151 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
1152 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1153
1154 - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1155 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1156
1157
1158 strongswan-4.2.11
1159 -----------------
1160
1161 - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1162 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1163
1164 - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1165 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
1166
1167
1168 strongswan-4.2.10
1169 -----------------
1170
1171 - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1172 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1173 counterparts with better lookup times.
1174
1175 - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1176 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1177 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1178
1179 - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1180 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1181 on the fly.
1182
1183 - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1184 command queries assigned leases.
1185
1186 - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1187 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1188
1189 - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1190 reliable source of randomness.
1191
1192 strongswan-4.2.9
1193 ----------------
1194
1195 - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1196 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
1197
1198 - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1199 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1200 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1201
1202 - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
1203 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
1204 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1205 parallelization to multiple cores.
1206
1207 - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1208 further slim down the daemon core.
1209
1210 - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
1211 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
1212 memory or hardware.
1213
1214 - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1215 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1216 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1217 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1218
1219 - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1220 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1221 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1222 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1223 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
1224 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
1225
1226 - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1227 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1228 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1229
1230
1231 strongswan-4.2.8
1232 ----------------
1233
1234 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
1235 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1236 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1237
1238 - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1239 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1240 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1241 long as possible and other fixes.
1242
1243 - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1244 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1245 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1246
1247
1248 strongswan-4.2.7
1249 ----------------
1250
1251 - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1252 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1253 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1254 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
1255 for making us aware of this problem.
1256
1257 - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
1258 ssh-agent.
1259
1260 - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
1261 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
1262
1263 - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1264 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1265 newer libcap2 library.
1266
1267 - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1268 charon keying daemon.
1269
1270
1271 strongswan-4.2.6
1272 ----------------
1273
1274 - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1275 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1276 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1277 in the Gnome Keyring.
1278
1279 - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1280 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
1281 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
1282 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1283
1284 - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1285 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1286 authentication.
1287
1288 - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1289 authentication types and EAP identities.
1290
1291 - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1292 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1293
1294 - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1295 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1296
1297
1298 strongswan-4.2.5
1299 ----------------
1300
1301 - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
1302
1303 - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1304 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1305 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1306 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1307 strongswan.conf.
1308
1309 - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
1310 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
1311
1312 - management of different virtual IP pools for different
1313 network interfaces have become possible.
1314
1315 - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
1316 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1317
1318 - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1319
1320
1321 strongswan-4.2.4
1322 ----------------
1323
1324 - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1325 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
1326
1327 - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
1328 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
1329
1330 - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1331 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1332
1333 - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1334 X.509 certificates.
1335
1336 - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1337 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
1338
1339 - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1340 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1341
1342
1343 strongswan-4.2.3
1344 ----------------
1345
1346 - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
1347 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1348
1349 - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1350 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1351
1352
1353 strongswan-4.2.2
1354 ----------------
1355
1356 - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1357 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
1358 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
1359 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1360 to software-based crypto plugins.
1361
1362 - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
1363 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1364 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1365 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1366
1367 - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
1368 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
1369 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1370
1371
1372 strongswan-4.2.1
1373 ----------------
1374
1375 - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
1376 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1377 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1378 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1379 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1380 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
1381
1382 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1383 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1384 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1385 connections.
1386
1387 - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
1388 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
1389 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
1390
1391 - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
1392 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
1393 re-implemented.
1394
1395 - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1396 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
1397
1398 - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1399 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1400 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
1401
1402 - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
1403 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1404 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1405 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
1406 separate plugin.
1407
1408 - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
1409
1410 - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
1411
1412 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
1413 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
1414 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1415
1416
1417 strongswan-4.2.0
1418 ----------------
1419
1420 - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1421 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1422 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1423 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1424 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1425 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1426 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
1427
1428 - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1429 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1430
1431 - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1432 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1433 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1434 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1435 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1436 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1437 The following new plugins are available:
1438 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1439 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1440 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1441
1442 - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1443 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1444 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1445
1446 - The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
1447 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1448 by other applications.
1449
1450
1451 strongswan-4.1.11
1452 -----------------
1453
1454 - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1455 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1456 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1457
1458 - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
1459 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
1460
1461 - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1462 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1463 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1464
1465
1466 strongswan-4.1.10
1467 -----------------
1468
1469 - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
1470 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
1471
1472 - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1473 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1474 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1475 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1476
1477 - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1478 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1479 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1480 before using it.
1481
1482 - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
1483 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
1484 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
1485
1486
1487 strongswan-4.1.9
1488 ----------------
1489
1490 - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1491 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1492 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1493 added.
1494
1495 - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1496 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1497
1498 - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1499 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1500
1501 - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1502
1503 - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
1504 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
1505 loaded twice.
1506
1507
1508 strongswan-4.1.8
1509 ----------------
1510
1511 - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
1512
1513
1514 strongswan-4.1.7
1515 ----------------
1516
1517 - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1518 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1519 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1520
1521 - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
1522 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
1523 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1524
1525 - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1526 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
1527 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
1528
1529 - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1530 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1531
1532 - Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1533
1534
1535 strongswan-4.1.6
1536 ----------------
1537
1538 - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1539 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1540 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1541 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1542 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1543 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1544 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1545 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1546
1547 - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1548 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1549 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
1550 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1551
1552 - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1553 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1554 startup.
1555
1556 - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1557 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1558 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1559 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1560 AUTHentication having been configured.
1561
1562 - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1563 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
1564
1565
1566 strongswan-4.1.5
1567 ----------------
1568
1569 - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1570 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1571 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1572 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1573 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1574 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1575
1576 - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1577 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1578 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1579 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1580
1581
1582 strongswan-4.1.4
1583 ----------------
1584
1585 - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1586 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1587 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1588 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
1589 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1590 parameter is not required any more.
1591
1592 - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1593 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1594 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1595
1596 right=peer.foo.bar
1597 rightallowany=yes
1598
1599 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1600 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1601 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1602 as
1603
1604 right=%any
1605
1606 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1607 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1608
1609 right=%peer.foo.bar
1610
1611 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1612
1613 - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1614 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1615 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1616 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1617 connections as a responder are still possible.
1618
1619 - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1620 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1621 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1622 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1623 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
1624
1625 - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1626 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1627 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1628 by Robert Varga.
1629
1630 - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1631 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
1632
1633
1634 strongswan-4.1.3
1635 ----------------
1636
1637 - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
1638 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1639
1640 - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
1641 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1642 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
1643
1644 - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1645 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1646 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1647 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1648
1649 - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1650 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1651 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1652 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1653
1654 - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
1655 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1656 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1657 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
1658 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
1659 to implement.
1660
1661 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
1662 headers > 2.6.17.
1663
1664
1665 strongswan-4.1.2
1666 ----------------
1667
1668 - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
1669 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1670 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1671 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1672
1673 - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1674 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1675
1676 - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1677
1678 - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1679
1680 - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
1681 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
1682
1683 - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1684
1685 - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1686 connection name.
1687
1688
1689 strongswan-4.1.1
1690 ----------------
1691
1692 - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1693 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1694 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1695 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1696 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1697 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1698
1699 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1700 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1701 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1702
1703 - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1704 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1705 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1706 vendor ID.
1707
1708 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1709 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1710 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1711 message.
1712
1713 - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1714 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1715
1716
1717 strongswan-4.1.0
1718 ----------------
1719
1720 - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1721 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1722
1723 - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1724 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1725 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1726 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1727
1728 - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1729
1730 - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
1731 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
1732 accessLocations.
1733
1734 - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1735 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1736 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1737 option.
1738
1739 - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1740 code reuse and separation.
1741
1742 - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1743 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1744 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1745
1746 - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1747 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1748 specify it.
1749
1750 - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1751 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1752 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1753 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1754 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1755 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1756
1757 - Added client side support for cookies.
1758
1759 - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1760 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1761 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
1762
1763
1764 strongswan-4.0.7
1765 ----------------
1766
1767 - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1768 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1769 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1770
1771 - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1772 to a default string.
1773
1774
1775 strongswan-4.0.6
1776 ----------------
1777
1778 - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1779 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1780 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1781 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
1782 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1783
1784 - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1785
1786 - IKEv2: Support for transport mode
1787
1788 - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
1789
1790 - various other bugfixes
1791
1792
1793 strongswan-4.0.5
1794 ----------------
1795
1796 - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1797 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1798
1799 - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1800 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1801
1802 - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1803 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1804 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1805 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
1806
1807 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
1808
1809 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1810
1811 config setup
1812 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
1813
1814 or changed at runtime via stroke as
1815
1816 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
1817
1818
1819 strongswan-4.0.4
1820 ----------------
1821
1822 - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1823
1824 - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1825 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1826 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1827 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1828 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1829
1830 - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1831 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1832 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1833
1834 - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1835
1836 - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1837 or 3DES are supported.
1838
1839 - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1840 encrypt IKE traffic.
1841
1842 - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1843 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1844
1845 - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1846 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1847 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1848 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1849
1850
1851 strongswan-4.0.3
1852 ----------------
1853
1854 - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
1855 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1856 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
1857 kernel.
1858
1859 - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1860 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1861 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1862 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1863
1864 - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1865 algorithm configuration statements.
1866
1867
1868 strongswan-4.0.2
1869 ----------------
1870
1871 - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1872 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1873 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1874 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
1875
1876 - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
1877 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
1878 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
1879 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1880
1881 - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1882 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1883 dpddelay=60s).
1884
1885 - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1886 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1887 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1888 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1889
1890 - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1891 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
1892 and a more extensible code base.
1893
1894 - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1895 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1896 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1897 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1898 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1899 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1900 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1901
1902
1903 strongswan-4.0.1
1904 ----------------
1905
1906 - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
1907 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1908 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1909 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
1910 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
1911 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1912 algorithms for IKE:
1913 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1914 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1915 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1916 and for ESP:
1917 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
1918 blowfish192, blowfish256
1919 Integrity: md5, sha1
1920 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
1921 libstrongswan.
1922
1923 - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1924 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
1925 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
1926 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1927 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1928 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
1929
1930 - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1931 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1932 configuration examples).
1933
1934 - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1935 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
1936 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
1937 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1938
1939 - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1940 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1941 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1942 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1943 via ipsec starter.
1944
1945
1946 strongswan-4.0.0
1947 ----------------
1948
1949 - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
1950 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
1951 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1952 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1953 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1954 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1955 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1956 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1957 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1958 status command).
1959
1960
1961 strongswan-2.7.0
1962 ----------------
1963
1964 - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1965 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1966 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1967 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1968 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1969 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1970 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1971 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1972 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1973 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1974 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1975 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1976
1977 - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1978 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1979 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1980 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1981 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1982 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1983 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1984 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1985 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
1986 be inserted.
1987
1988 - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1989 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1990 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1991 be found.
1992
1993
1994 strongswan-2.6.4
1995 ----------------
1996
1997 - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1998 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1999 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
2000 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
2001 are required any more.
2002
2003 - added support of DPD restart mode
2004
2005 - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2006 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2007 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2008
2009 - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2010 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2011
2012
2013 strongswan-2.6.3
2014 ----------------
2015
2016 - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
2017 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2018
2019 - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2020 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2021 via the auth=ah parameter.
2022
2023 - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2024 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2025
2026 - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2027 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2028 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2029 the ipsec status command.
2030
2031
2032 strongswan-2.6.2
2033 ----------------
2034
2035 - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2036 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2037 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2038
2039 - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2040 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2041 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2042
2043 - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2044 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2045
2046 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2047 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2048
2049 - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2050 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2051 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2052
2053 conn rw
2054 right=%any
2055 rightid=@foo.bar
2056 authby=secret
2057
2058 - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2059
2060 - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2061
2062 - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2063 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2064 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2065
2066 - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2067 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2068 servers.
2069
2070 - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2071 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2072
2073
2074 strongswan-2.6.1
2075 ----------------
2076
2077 - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2078 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2079 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2080
2081
2082 strongswan-2.6.0
2083 ----------------
2084
2085 - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2086 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2087 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2088 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2089 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2090 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2091 accelerated tremedously.
2092
2093 - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
2094 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
2095 reload pluto's connections.
2096
2097 - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2098 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2099 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2100
2101 - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2102
2103 - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2104
2105 - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2106 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2107 documented yet.
2108
2109
2110 strongswan-2.5.7
2111 ----------------
2112
2113 - CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2114 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2115 listing.
2116
2117
2118 strongswan-2.5.6
2119 ----------------
2120
2121 - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2122 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2123 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2124 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2125
2126 - The scepclient function now allows to define the
2127 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2128 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2129 has been changed from one year to five years.
2130
2131
2132 strongswan-2.5.5
2133 ----------------
2134
2135 - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2136 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2137 via the whack interface. Notation:
2138
2139 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2140 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2141 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2142 [--keyid <keyid>]
2143
2144 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2145 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2146 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2147 [--keyid <keyid>]
2148
2149 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
2150
2151 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2152 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2153 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2154 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2155 permanently.
2156
2157 - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2158 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2159 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2160 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2161 is automatically generated by calling the function
2162
2163 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2164
2165 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2166 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2167
2168
2169 strongswan-2.5.4
2170 ----------------
2171
2172 - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2173 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2174 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2175 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2176
2177 - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2178 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2179
2180
2181 strongswan-2.5.3
2182 ----------------
2183
2184 - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2185 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2186 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2187 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2188 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2189
2190 - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2191
2192 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2193 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2194 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
2195 self-signed certs)
2196
2197 - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2198 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2199 attribute for AES encryption.
2200
2201 - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2202
2203 - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2204
2205
2206 strongswan-2.5.2
2207 ----------------
2208
2209 - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2210 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2211 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2212 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2213 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2214
2215 - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2216 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2217 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2218
2219
2220 strongswan-2.5.1
2221 ----------------
2222
2223 - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2224 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2225 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2226 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2227 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2228 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2229 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2230 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2231
2232 - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2233 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2234 the command
2235
2236 ipsec auto --listcards
2237
2238 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2239 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2240 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2241 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2242
2243 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2244 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2245 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2246
2247 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2248
2249 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2250 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2251 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2252
2253 - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2254 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2255 to generate a signature.
2256
2257 - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2258 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2259 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2260 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2261 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2262
2263 - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2264 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2265
2266 - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2267 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2268 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2269
2270
2271 strongswan-2.5.0
2272 ----------------
2273
2274 - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2275 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2276 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2277 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2278 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2279 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2280
2281 - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2282 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2283 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2284 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2285 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2286 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
2287
2288 - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2289 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2290 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2291
2292
2293 strongswan-2.4.4
2294 ----------------
2295
2296 - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2297
2298 - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2299
2300
2301 strongswan-2.4.3
2302 ----------------
2303
2304 - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2305 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2306
2307 - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2308
2309 - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2310 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2311 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2312
2313 - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2314 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2315 included.
2316
2317
2318 strongswan-2.4.2
2319 ----------------
2320
2321 - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2322 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2323 value of 50.
2324
2325 - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2326 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
2327 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
2328 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2329 pad has to be done only once.
2330
2331 - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2332 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2333 to be used with smart cards. Example:
2334
2335 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
2336
2337 - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2338
2339 - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2340 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2341
2342 - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2343 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2344 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
2345
2346 - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2347 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2348 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2349
2350
2351 strongswan-2.4.1
2352 ----------------
2353
2354 - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2355 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2356 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2357 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2358 "left" be"local".
2359
2360
2361 strongswan-2.4.0a
2362 -----------------
2363
2364 - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2365
2366 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2367 Michael Meier
2368
2369
2370 strongswan-2.4.0
2371 ----------------
2372
2373 - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2374 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2375 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2376 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2377 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2378 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2379 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2380
2381 - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2382 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2383 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2384 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2385 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
2386
2387 - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
2388 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
2389 in a particular test.
2390
2391
2392 strongswan-2.3.2
2393 ----------------
2394
2395 - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2396 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
2397
2398 - fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2399
2400 - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2401 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2402 Delete SA messages.
2403
2404 - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2405 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2406 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2407 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2408
2409
2410 strongswan-2.3.1
2411 ----------------
2412
2413 - Added basic Mode Config functionality
2414
2415 - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2416 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
2417
2418 - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2419 module.
2420
2421 - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2422 maximum udp size patches.
2423
2424 - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
2425
2426
2427 strongswan-2.3.0
2428 ----------------
2429
2430 - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2431 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2432 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2433 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2434 subdirectory.
2435
2436 - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
2437 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
2438 using the openac facility. For more details see
2439
2440 man ipsec_openac.
2441
2442 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2443 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2444 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
2445
2446 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2447
2448 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2449 Research or Sales, only.
2450
2451 - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
2452 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
2453 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2454 Secure Entry Clients.
2455
2456 - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2457 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2458 now both set to 24 h.
2459
2460 - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2461 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2462
2463 - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2464 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2465 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
2466
2467 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2468
2469
2470 strongswan-2.2.2
2471 ----------------
2472
2473 - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2474 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2475 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2476 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2477
2478 - Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
2479 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2480 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
2481
2482 - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2483
2484 - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2485 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2486
2487
2488 strongswan-2.2.1
2489 ----------------
2490
2491 - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2492 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2493
2494 - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
2495 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
2496
2497 - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
2498 occurring when a smartcard is present.
2499
2500 - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
2501
2502 - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2503
2504 - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2505
2506
2507 strongswan-2.2.0
2508 ----------------
2509
2510 - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2511
2512 dpdaction=clear|hold
2513
2514 activates DPD for the given connection.
2515
2516 - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2517 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2518 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
2519
2520 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
2521
2522 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2523
2524 - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2525 using the compile option VENDORID
2526
2527 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2528
2529 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2530
2531 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2532
2533 - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2534 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
2535
2536 - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2537
2538 - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2539 connection.
2540
2541
2542 strongswan-2.1.5
2543 ----------------
2544
2545 - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2546 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2547 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2548 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2549 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2550
2551 - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2552 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2553
2554
2555 strongswan-2.1.4
2556 ----------------
2557
2558 - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2559 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2560 an optional connection selector:
2561
2562 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2563
2564 - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2565 man page.
2566
2567 - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2568 of malformed distinguished names.
2569
2570 - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2571
2572 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2573
2574 - Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2575
2576
2577 strongswan-2.1.3
2578 ----------------
2579
2580 - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2581 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
2582
2583
2584 strongswan-2.1.2
2585 ----------------
2586
2587 - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2588 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2589 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
2590
2591
2592 strongswan-2.1.1
2593 ----------------
2594
2595 - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2596
2597
2598 strongswan-2.1.0
2599 ----------------
2600
2601 - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2602
2603 ca kool
2604 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2605 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2606 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2607 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2608 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2609 auto=add # add, ignore
2610
2611 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
2612
2613 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2614
2615 - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2616 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2617
2618
2619 strongswan-2.0.2
2620 ----------------
2621
2622 - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2623 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
2624
2625 - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
2626 during kernel compilation
2627
2628 - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2629 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2630
2631 - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2632 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2633 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2634
2635
2636 strongswan-2.0.1
2637 ----------------
2638
2639 - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2640 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2641 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2642 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2643
2644 - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2645 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
2646
2647
2648 strongswan-2.0.0
2649 ----------------
2650
2651 - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12