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