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1strongswan-4.5.3
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4- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
5 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec by
6 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec to that
7 directory.
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9- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
10 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections.
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12- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
13 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
14
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15- IMC/IMV test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
16 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
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18- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
19 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
20 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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24
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25- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
26 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
27 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
28 whitelist administration.
29
92ebb7c5 30- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 31 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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32 application about detected duplicates.
33
34- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
35 authentication to previously used certificates.
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37- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
38 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
39 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
40 only starts|routes the specific child config.
41
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42- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
43
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44- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
45 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
46
47- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 48 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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50- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
51 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
52 support configuration reloading.
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54- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
55 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
56 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
57 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
58 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
59 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
60
61- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
62 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
63 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
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68
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69- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
70 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 71 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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72 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
73 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 74 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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76- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
77 in place of the external libtnc library.
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79- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
80 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
81 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
82 the corresponding protocol stack.
83
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84- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
85 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
86 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
87 in an SQL database.
88
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89- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
90 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
91 points in an SQL database.
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93- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
94 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
95 replaced, respectively.
96
97- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
98 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
99 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
100 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
101 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
102 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
103 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
104
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105- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
106 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
107
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108- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
109 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
110 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
111
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112- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
113 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
114 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
115 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 117- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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118 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
119 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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121- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
122 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
123 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
124 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
125 ./configure switch.
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127- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
128 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
129 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
130 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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131 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
132 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
133
134- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
135 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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137- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
138 support for delta CRLs.
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143
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144- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
145 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 146 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 147 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 148 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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150- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
151 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
152 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
153 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
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155- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
156 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 157 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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158 tokens.
159
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160- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
161 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
162 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
163 client authentication.
164
165- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
166 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 167 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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169- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
170 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
171 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
172 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
173 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 174 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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175 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
176 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
177
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178- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
179 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
180 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
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182- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
183 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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185- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
186 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
187 availability.
188
189- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
190 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
191 implement a simple event listener.
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193- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
194 initial responder moves to a different address.
195
196- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
197
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198- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
199 identity was different from the IKE identity.
200
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201- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
202 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
203 UNITY_BANNER).
204
205- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
206 charon plugins.
207
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208- Added man page for strongswan.conf
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213
ec40c02a 214- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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215 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
216 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 218- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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219 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
220 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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222- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
223
e9448cfc 224- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 225 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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227- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
228 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
229 in strongswan.conf, if required.
230
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231- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
232
233- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
234 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
235
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236- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
237 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
238
e87b78c6 239- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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240 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
241 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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243- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
244 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
245
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246- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
247 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
248
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249- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
250 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
251 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
252 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
253 plugin.
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255- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
256 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
257 unauthenticated users.
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263- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
264 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
265 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
266 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 267 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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268 secunet Security Networks AG.
269
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270- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
271 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
272 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
273 kernel interface.
274
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275- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
276 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
277 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
278 from IBM for his contribution.
279
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280- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
281 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
282 are allocated.
283
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284- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
285 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
286 command line option.
287
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288- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
289 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
290 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
291 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
292 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
293 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
294
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295- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
296 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 297 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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298 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
299
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300- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
301 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
302 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
303 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
304
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305- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
306 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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311
cdad91de 312- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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313 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
314
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315- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
316 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
317 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
318
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319- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
320
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321- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
322
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323- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
324 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
325 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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326 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
327
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328- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
329
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332- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
333 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
334 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
335 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
336 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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338- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
339 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
340 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
341
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342- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
343 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
344
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345- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
346 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
347 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
348 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
349 this is the case.
350
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351- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
352 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
353 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
354 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
355 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
356
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357- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
358 allowing interoperability.
359
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363
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364- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
365 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
366 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 367 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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368 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
369
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370- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
371 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
372 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
373 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
374 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
375
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376- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
377 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
378 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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380- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
381 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
382 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
383
d245f5cf 384- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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385 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
386
387- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
388 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
389 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
390
391- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
392 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
393
394- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
395 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
396 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
397 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
398 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
399 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
400
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401- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
402 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
403 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
404 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
405
b80fa9ca 406- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 407 statements.
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409- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
410
411- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
412 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
413
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414- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
415 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
416
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417- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
418 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
419 and the libstrongswan library.
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424
425- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
426 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
427
428- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
429 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
430
431- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
432
433
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436
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437- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
438 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
439 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
440 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
441 manipulations can be reliably detected.
442
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443- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
444 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
445
446- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
447 authenticated encryption algorithms.
448
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449- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
450
451- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
452 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
453 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
454
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458
459- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
460 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
461
462- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
463 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
464 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
465
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466- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
467 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
468 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
469 with IKEv1.
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471- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
472 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
473 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
474 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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479
480- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 481 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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482 dynamically.
483
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484- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
485 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
486 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
487 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
488 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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490- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
491 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
492 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
493 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
494 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
495 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
496
09dbca9f 497- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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498 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
499 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
500
501- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
502 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
503 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
504
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506
507- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
508 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
509 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
510 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
511 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 512 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
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513 developped by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
514 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
515
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517 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
518
d44fd821 519- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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520 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
521 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 522 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 523 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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525
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527----------------
528
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529- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
530 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
531 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
532 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
533 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
534
535- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
536 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
537
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539 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
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541- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
542 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
543 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 544
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545- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
546 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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550-----------------
551
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552- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
553 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Succesfully
554 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
555
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556- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
557 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
558 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
559 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
560 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
561 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
562 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
563 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
564 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
565
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567 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
568 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
569 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
570
571- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 572 IDr payload anymore.
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574
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576-----------------
577
578- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
579 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
580
581- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occuring with
b6b90b68 582 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
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584- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
585 parameters field is optional.
586
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588
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593- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
594 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
595 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
596
597- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 598 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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600
601- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
602 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
603
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606-----------------
607
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608- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
609 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
610
611- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
612 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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614
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616-----------------
617
618- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
619 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
620 counterparts with better lookup times.
621
622- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
623 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
624 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
625
626- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
627 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
628 on the fly.
629
630- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
631 command queries assigned leases.
632
633- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
634 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
635
636- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
637 reliable source of randomness.
638
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640----------------
641
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642- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
643 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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645- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
646 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
647 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
648
649- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 650 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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651 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
652 parallelization to multiple cores.
653
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654- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
655 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 656
509e07c5 657- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 658 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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659 memory or hardware.
660
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661- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
662 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
663 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
664 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
665
666- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
667 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
668 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
669 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
670 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
671 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Adress.
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673- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
674 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
675 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
676
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678strongswan-4.2.8
679----------------
680
5dadb16e 681- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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682 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
683 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
684
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686 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
687 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
688 long as possible and other fixes.
689
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690- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
691 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
692 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
693
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696----------------
697
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698- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
699 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
700 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
701 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 702 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 703
b6b90b68 704- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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705 ssh-agent.
706
707- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 708 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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709
710- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
711 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
712 newer libcap2 library.
713
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714- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
715 charon keying daemon.
716
717
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719----------------
720
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721- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
722 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
723 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
724 in the Gnome Keyring.
725
726- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
727 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 728 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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730
731- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
732 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
733 authentication.
734
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735- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
736 authentication types and EAP identities.
737
738- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
739 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
740
741- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
742 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
743
744
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746----------------
747
b6b90b68 748- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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749
750- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
751 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
752 storing only history information has become optional and can be
753 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
754 strongswan.conf.
755
eb0cc338 756- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 757 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 758
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759- management of different virtual IP pools for different
760 network interfaces have become possible.
761
b6b90b68 762- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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763 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
764
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765- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
766
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768strongswan-4.2.4
769----------------
770
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771- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
772 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 773
73a8eed3 774- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 775 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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776
777- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
778 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
779
780- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
781 X.509 certificates.
782
783- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
784 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 785
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786- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
787 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
788
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790strongswan-4.2.3
791----------------
792
b6b90b68 793- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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794 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
795
796- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
797 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
798
799
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801----------------
802
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803- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
804 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 805 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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806 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
807 to software-based crypto plugins.
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809- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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810 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
811 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
812 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
813
814- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 815 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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816 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
817
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820----------------
821
c306dfb1 822- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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823 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
824 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
825 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
826 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
827 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 828
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830 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
831 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
832 connections.
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834- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionaly supports random number
58caabf7 835 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 836 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 837
b6b90b68 838- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 839 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 840 re-implemented.
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842- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
843 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 844
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845- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
846 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
847 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 848
466abb49 849- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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850 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
851 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
852 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 853 separate plugin.
58caabf7 854
c306dfb1 855- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 856
c306dfb1 857- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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859- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 860 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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861 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
862
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866
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867- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
868 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
869 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
870 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
871 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
872 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
873 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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875- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
876 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
877
878- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
879 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
880 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
881 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
882 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
883 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
884 The following new plugins are available:
885 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
886 top of either MySQL or SQLite
887 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
888
889- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
890 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
891 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
892
b6b90b68 893- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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894 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
895 by other applications.
b6b90b68 896
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899-----------------
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901- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
902 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
903 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
904
905- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 906 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 907
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908- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
909 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
910 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
911
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914-----------------
915
916- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 917 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 918
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920 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
921 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
922 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
923
924- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
925 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
926 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
927 before using it.
928
929- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 930 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 931 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 932
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935----------------
936
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937- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
938 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
939 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
940 added.
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942- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
943 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
944
945- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
946 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
947
948- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
949
8b678ad4 950- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 951 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 952 loaded twice.
5076770c 953
83e0d841 954
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956----------------
957
5076770c 958- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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959
960
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962----------------
963
964- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
965 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
966 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
967
6e193274 968- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 969 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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970 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
971
972- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
973 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 974 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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975
976- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
977 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
978
979- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
980
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983----------------
984
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985- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
986 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
987 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
988 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
989 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
990 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
991 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
992 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
993
994- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
995 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
996 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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997 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
998
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1000 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1001 startup.
b6b90b68 1002
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1004 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1005 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1006 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1007 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1008
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1010 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1012
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1013strongswan-4.1.5
1014----------------
1015
1016- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1017 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1018 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1019 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1020 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1021 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1022
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1023- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1024 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1025 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1026 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1027
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1030----------------
1031
1032- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1033 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1034 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1035 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1036 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1037 parameter is not required any more.
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1038
1039- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1040 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1041 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1042
1043 right=peer.foo.bar
1044 rightallowany=yes
1045
1046 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1047 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1048 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1049 as
1050
1051 right=%any
1052
1053 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1054 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1055
1056 right=%peer.foo.bar
1057
1058 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1059
1060- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1061 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1062 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1063 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1064 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1066- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1067 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1068 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1069 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1070 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1071
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1072- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1073 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1074 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1075 by Robert Varga.
1076
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1077- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1078 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1079
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1082----------------
1083
b6b90b68 1084- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1085 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1086
1087- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1088 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1089 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1090
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1091- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1092 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1093 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1094 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1095
1096- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1097 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1098 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1099 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1100
b6b90b68 1101- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1102 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1103 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1104 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1105 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1106 to implement.
a3354a69 1107
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1108 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occuring with Linux kernel
1109 headers > 2.6.17.
1110
1111
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1113----------------
1114
e23d98a7 1115- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1116 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1117 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1118 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1119
1120- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1121 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1122
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1123- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1124
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1125- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1126
dfbe2a0f 1127- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1128 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1129
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1130- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1131
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1132- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1133 connection name.
1134
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1137----------------
1138
1139- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1140 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1141 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1142 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1143 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1144 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1145
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1146- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1147 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1148 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1149
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1150- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1151 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1152 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1153 vendor ID.
1154
1155- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1156 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1157 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1158 message.
1159
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1160- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1161 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1162
3b4f7d92 1163
34bbd0c3 1164strongswan-4.1.0
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1166
1167- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1168 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1169
1170- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1171 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1172 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1173 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1174
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1175- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1176
c5d0fbb6 1177- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1178 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1179 accessLocations.
1180
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1181- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1182 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1183 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1184 option.
1185
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1186- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1187 code reuse and separation.
1188
1189- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1190 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1191 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1192
1193- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1194 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1195 specify it.
1196
1197- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1198 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1199 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1200 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1201 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1202 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1203
1204- Added client side support for cookies.
1205
1206- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1207 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1208 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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1212----------------
1213
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1214- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1215 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1216 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1217
1218- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1219 to a default string.
1220
1221
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1222strongswan-4.0.6
1223----------------
1224
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1225- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1226 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1227 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1228 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1229 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1230
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1231- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1232
5903179b 1233- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1234
5903179b 1235- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1236
5903179b 1237- various other bugfixes
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1238
1239
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1240strongswan-4.0.5
1241----------------
1242
1243- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1244 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1245
1246- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1247 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1248
1249- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1250 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1251 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1252 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1253
0cd645d2 1254 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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1256 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1257
1258 config setup
03bf883d 1259 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1260
03bf883d 1261 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1262
03bf883d 1263 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1265
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1266strongswan-4.0.4
1267----------------
1268
1269- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1270
1271- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1272 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1273 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1274 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1275 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1276
1277- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1278 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1279 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1280
1281- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1282
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1283- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1284 or 3DES are supported.
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1285
1286- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1287 encrypt IKE traffic.
1288
1289- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1290 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1291
1292- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1293 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1294 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1295 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1296
1297
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1298strongswan-4.0.3
1299----------------
1300
1301- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1302 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1303 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1304 kernel.
1305
1306- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1307 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1308 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1309 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1310
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1311- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1312 algorithm configuration statements.
1313
1314
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1315strongswan-4.0.2
1316----------------
1317
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1318- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1319 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1320 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1321 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1322
b6b90b68 1323- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1324 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1325 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1326 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1327
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1328- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1329 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1330 dpddelay=60s).
1331
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1332- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1333 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1334 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1335 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1336
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1337- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1338 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1339 and a more extensible code base.
1340
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1341- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1342 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1343 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1344 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1345 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1346 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1347 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1348
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1350strongswan-4.0.1
1351----------------
1352
b6b90b68 1353- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1354 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1355 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1356 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1357 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1358 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1359 algorithms for IKE:
1360 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1361 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1362 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1363 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1364 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1365 blowfish192, blowfish256
1366 Integrity: md5, sha1
1367 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1368 libstrongswan.
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1370- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1371 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1372 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1373 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1374 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1375 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1376
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1377- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1378 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1379 configuration examples).
1380
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1381- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1382 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1383 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1384 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1385
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1386- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1387 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1388 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1389 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1390 via ipsec starter.
1391
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1394----------------
1395
1396- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1397 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1398 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1399 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1400 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1401 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1402 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1403 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1404 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1405 status command).
1406
1407
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1409----------------
1410
1411- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1412 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1413 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1414 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1415 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1416 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1417 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1418 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1419 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1420 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1421 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1422 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1423
1424- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1425 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1426 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1427 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1428 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1429 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1430 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1431 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1432 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 1433 be inserted.
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1435- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1436 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1437 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1438 be found.
1439
1440
1441strongswan-2.6.4
1442----------------
1443
1444- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1445 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1446 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1447 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1449
1450- added support of DPD restart mode
1451
1452- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1453 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1454 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1455
1456- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1457 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1458
1459
1460strongswan-2.6.3
1461----------------
1462
b6b90b68 1463- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1465
1466- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1467 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1468 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1471 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1472
1473- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1474 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1475 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1476 the ipsec status command.
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1479strongswan-2.6.2
1480----------------
1481
1482- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1483 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1484 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1485
1486- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1487 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1488 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1489
1490- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1491 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1492
1493 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1494 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1495
1496- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1497 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1498 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1499
1500 conn rw
1501 right=%any
1502 rightid=@foo.bar
1503 authby=secret
1504
1505- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1506
1507- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1508
1509- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1510 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1511 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1512
1513- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1514 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1515 servers.
1516
1517- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1518 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1519
1520
1521strongswan-2.6.1
1522----------------
1523
1524- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1525 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1526 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1527
1528
1529strongswan-2.6.0
1530----------------
1531
1532- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1533 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1534 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1535 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1536 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1537 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1538 accelerated tremedously.
1539
1540- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1541 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1542 reload pluto's connections.
1543
1544- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1545 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1546 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1547
1548- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1549
1550- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1551
1552- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1553 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1554 documented yet.
1555
1556
1557strongswan-2.5.7
1558----------------
1559
1560- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1561 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1562 listing.
1563
1564
1565strongswan-2.5.6
1566----------------
1567
1568- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1569 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1570 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1571 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1572
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1574 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1575 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1576 has been changed from one year to five years.
1577
1578
1579strongswan-2.5.5
1580----------------
1581
1582- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1583 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1584 via the whack interface. Notation:
1585
1586 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1587 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1588 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1589 [--keyid <keyid>]
1590
1591 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1592 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1593 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1594 [--keyid <keyid>]
1595
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1598 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1599 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1600 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1601 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1602 permanently.
1603
1604- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1605 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1606 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1607 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1608 is automatically generated by calling the function
1609
1610 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1611
1612 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1613 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1614
1615
1616strongswan-2.5.4
1617----------------
1618
1619- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1620 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1621 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1622 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1623
1624- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1625 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1626
1627
1628strongswan-2.5.3
1629----------------
1630
1631- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1632 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1633 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1634 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1635 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1636
1637- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1638
1639 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1640 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1641 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 1642 self-signed certs)
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1644- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1645 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1646 attribute for AES encryption.
1647
1648- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1649
1650- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1651
1652
1653strongswan-2.5.2
1654----------------
1655
1656- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1657 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1658 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1659 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1660 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1661
1662- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1663 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1664 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1665
1666
1667strongswan-2.5.1
1668----------------
1669
1670- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1671 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1672 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1673 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1674 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1675 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1676 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1677 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1678
1679- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1680 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1681 the command
1682
1683 ipsec auto --listcards
1684
1685 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1686 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1687 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1688 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1689
1690 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1691 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1692 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1693
1694 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1695
1696 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1697 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1698 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1699
1700- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1701 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1702 to generate a signature.
1703
1704- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1705 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1706 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1707 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1708 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1709
1710- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1711 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1712
1713- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1714 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1715 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1716
1717
1718strongswan-2.5.0
1719----------------
1720
1721- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1722 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1723 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1724 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1725 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1726 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1727
1728- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1729 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1730 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1731 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1732 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1733 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1736 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1737 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1738
1739
1740strongswan-2.4.4
1741----------------
1742
1743- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1744
1745- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1746
1747
1748strongswan-2.4.3
1749----------------
1750
1751- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1752 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1753
1754- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1755
1756- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1757 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1758 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1759
1760- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1761 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1762 included.
1763
1764
1765strongswan-2.4.2
1766----------------
1767
1768- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1769 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1770 value of 50.
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1773 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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1775 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
1776 pad has to be done only once.
1777
1778- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1779 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1780 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 1781
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1785
1786- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1787 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1788
1789- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1790 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1791 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 1792
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1794 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1795 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1796
1797
1798strongswan-2.4.1
1799----------------
1800
1801- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1802 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1803 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1804 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1805 "left" be"local".
1806
1807
1808strongswan-2.4.0a
1809-----------------
1810
1811- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1812
1813- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1814 Michael Meier
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1816
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1818----------------
1819
1820- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1821 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1822 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1823 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1824 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1825 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1826 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1827
1828- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1829 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1830 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
1831 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
1832 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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1834- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
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b6b90b68 1836 in a particular test.
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1838
1839strongswan-2.3.2
1840----------------
1841
1842- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
1843 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 1844
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1846
1847- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
1848 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
1849 Delete SA messages.
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1852 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
1853 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
1854 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
1855
1856
1857strongswan-2.3.1
1858----------------
1859
1860- Added basic Mode Config functionality
1861
1862- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
1863 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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1865- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
1866 module.
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1869 maximum udp size patches.
1870
1871- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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1874strongswan-2.3.0
1875----------------
1876
1877- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
1878 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
1879 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
1880 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
1881 subdirectory.
1882
1883- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 1884 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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b6b90b68 1886
997358a6 1887 man ipsec_openac.
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1890 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
1891 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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1894
1895 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
1896 Research or Sales, only.
1897
1898- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 1899 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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1901 Secure Entry Clients.
1902
1903- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
1904 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
1905 now both set to 24 h.
1906
1907- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
1908 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
1909
1910- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
1911 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
1912 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 1913
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1915
1916
1917strongswan-2.2.2
1918----------------
1919
1920- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
1921 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
1922 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
1923 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
1924
1925- Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
1926 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
1927 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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1930
1931- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
1932 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
1933
1934
1935strongswan-2.2.1
1936----------------
1937
1938- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
1939 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
1940
1941- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag
1942 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
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1945 occuring when a smartcard is present.
1946
1947- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 1948
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1950
1951- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
1952
1953
1954strongswan-2.2.0
1955----------------
1956
1957- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
1958
1959 dpdaction=clear|hold
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1962
1963- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
1964 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
1965 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 1966
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1970
1971- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
1972 using the compile option VENDORID
1973
1974- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
1975
1976- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
1977
1978- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
1979
1980- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
1981 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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1984
1985- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
1986 connection.
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1989strongswan-2.1.5
1990----------------
1991
1992- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
1993 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
1994 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
1995 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
1996 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
1997
1998- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
1999 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2000
2001
2002strongswan-2.1.4
2003----------------
2004
2005- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2006 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2007 an optional connection selector:
2008
2009 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2010
2011- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2012 man page.
2013
2014- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2015 of malformed distinguished names.
2016
2017- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2018
2019 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2020
2021- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2022
2023
2024strongswan-2.1.3
2025----------------
2026
2027- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2028 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2031strongswan-2.1.2
2032----------------
2033
2034- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2035 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2036 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2039strongswan-2.1.1
2040----------------
2041
2042- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2043
2044
2045strongswan-2.1.0
2046----------------
2047
2048- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2049
2050 ca kool
2051 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2052 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2053 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2054 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2055 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2056 auto=add # add, ignore
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997358a6 2058 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2061
2062- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2063 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2064
2065
2066strongswan-2.0.2
2067----------------
2068
2069- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2070 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2072- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2073 during kernel compilation
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2076 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2077
2078- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2079 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2080 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2081
2082
2083strongswan-2.0.1
2084----------------
2085
2086- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2087 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2088 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2089 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2090
2091- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2092 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2094
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2096----------------
2097
2098- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12