]> git.ipfire.org Git - people/ms/strongswan.git/blame - NEWS
tpm_extendpcr: Extend digests into a TPM PCR
[people/ms/strongswan.git] / NEWS
CommitLineData
4f60b72a
AS
1strongswan-5.6.2
2----------------
3
4- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
5 referenced via the NV index.
6
5d3eb57c
AS
7- Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
8 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
9
4f60b72a 10
d43b84dc
AS
11strongswan-5.6.1
12----------------
13
caee751d
TB
14- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
15 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
16 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
17 custom proposals.
18
19- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
20 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
21 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
22 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
23 authentication constraints.
24
25- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
26 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
27
28- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 29 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
c80cec2d
AS
30 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
31 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
32 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
33 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
d43b84dc
AS
34
35- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
36 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
37 versions having an empty package name.
38
caee751d
TB
39- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
40 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
41 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
42
43- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
44 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
45 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
46
47- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
48 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
49
50- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
51 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
52
d43b84dc 53
693705c7
AS
54strongswan-5.6.0
55----------------
56
7cc4a92d
TB
57- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
58 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
59 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
60 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
61 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
62 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
63 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
64 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
65
693705c7 66- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 67 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
693705c7 68
f237bfcb 69- The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
693705c7
AS
70 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
71
72- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
73 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
f0ae8c17
AS
74 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
75 package versions.
693705c7
AS
76
77- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
78 via the --keyid parameter.
79
80- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
81 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
82
f237bfcb
TB
83- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
84 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
85 binary EAP secret.
86
87- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
88 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
89 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
90 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
91
92- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
93 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
94
693705c7 95
d38d1fcd
AS
96strongswan-5.5.3
97----------------
98
8622a742
TB
99- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
100 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
101 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
102 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
103 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
104 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
105
106- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
107 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
108 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
109 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
110
85ee4107
TB
111- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
112 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
113 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
114 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
115 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
116 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
117
118- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
119 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
120 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
121 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
122 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
123 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
124 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
125
126- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
127 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
128 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
129
130- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
131 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
132 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
133
134- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
135 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
136 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
137
138- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
139 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
140 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
141 certificate cache).
142
143- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
144 for hardware that supports this.
145
146- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
147 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
148 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
149 referenced.
150
d38d1fcd
AS
151- The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
152
153
4a979994
AS
154strongswan-5.5.2
155----------------
156
011195f1
AS
157- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
158 by RFC 8031.
159
65797c9f
AS
160- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
161 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
162 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
163
af9341c2
AS
164- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
165 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
166 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
6885375e
AS
167 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
168 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
169 the TPM private key.
af9341c2 170
7ae95468
MW
171- The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
172 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
173 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
174 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
175 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
176
e16d1005 177- In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
4a979994
AS
178 of stale copies in cache memory.
179
e16d1005
TB
180- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
181 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
182 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
183 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
184 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
185 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
186 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
187 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
188
189 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
190 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
191 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
192 section.
193
4a979994 194
8aaa6de3
AS
195strongswan-5.5.1
196----------------
197
198- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
199 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
200 Peter Schwabe.
201
e31ed9ab
AS
202- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
203 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
204 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
205 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
206 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
207
e6a4bd83
AS
208- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
209 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
210 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
211 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
212 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
213
6b3e408b
AS
214- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
215 sha3 and gmp plugins.
216
e31ed9ab 217- The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
8aaa6de3
AS
218 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
219 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
220
a617223e
AS
221- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
222 base and delta CRLs to disk.
223
e6a4bd83
AS
224- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
225 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
226
8aaa6de3
AS
227- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
228 tss2_tcti_finalize().
229
230
6a24637d
AS
231strongswan-5.5.0
232----------------
233
234- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
235 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
236 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
237
b977ef8e
TB
238- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
239 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
240 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
8fafbffd 241
b977ef8e
TB
242- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
243 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
244
245- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
246 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
247
248- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
249 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
250 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
251 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
252 and prefer those with a reqid.
253
254- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
255
256- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
257 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
258 identities and EAP types.
259
260- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
261 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
262 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
263
264- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
265 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
266 child_cfg_t now take structs.
8fafbffd 267
6a24637d 268
b5eed58a
AS
269strongswan-5.4.0
270----------------
271
6fc68343
TB
272- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
273 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
274 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
275 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
276 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
277
c171afea
TB
278- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
279 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
280 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
281
b4337c5b
TB
282- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
283 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
284 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
285 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
286 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
287 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
288 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
289 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
290
b5eed58a
AS
291- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
292 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
293 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
294
5c25780c
AS
295- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
296 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
297 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
298 support arbitrary ranges.
299
bebccf98
AS
300- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
301 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
302 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
303 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
304
305- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
306 used as owners of shared secrets.
307
b5eed58a 308
33895f4b
TB
309strongswan-5.3.5
310----------------
311
312- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
313 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
314
315- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
316
317
6590298d
AS
318strongswan-5.3.4
319----------------
320
453e204a
TB
321- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
322 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
323 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
324 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
325
6590298d
AS
326- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
327 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
328 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
329 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
330
331
63d37038
AS
332strongswan-5.3.3
333----------------
334
18e0d66b
TB
335- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
336 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
337 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
338 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
339 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
340 cipher for ESP SAs.
39660798 341
63d37038 342- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
18e0d66b
TB
343 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
344
345- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
346 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
347 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
348 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
349
350- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
351 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
352
353- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
354 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
355 daemon when it installs its policies.
356
357- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
358 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
359 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
360 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
361
362- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
363 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
364 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
365 same config as responder).
366
367- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
368 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
369
a215008c 370- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 371 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
a215008c
AS
372 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
373
374- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
375 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
376
39660798 377
2b19e517
TB
378strongswan-5.3.2
379----------------
380
381- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
382 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
383 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
384 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
385 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
386
387
eb423ebb
AS
388strongswan-5.3.1
389----------------
390
099260d8
TB
391- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
392 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
393 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
394 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
395 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
396 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
397
e8ba1d47
MW
398- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
399 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
400 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
401 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
402
403
c6595222
AS
404strongswan-5.3.0
405----------------
406
4a00f912
MW
407- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
408 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
409 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
410 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
411 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
412 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
413 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
414
3f1ef3a6
TB
415- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
416 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
417 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
418 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
419
420- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
421 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
422 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
423 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
424 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
425 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
426 enough.
427
1e1e88e6
MW
428- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
429 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
430 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
431 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
432 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
433
dc88d179
MW
434- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
435 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
436 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
437 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
438 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
439 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
440
2185c29b
MW
441- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
442 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
443 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
444
f05a578b
MW
445- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
446 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
447 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
448 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
449
27bd0fed
AS
450- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
451 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
452 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
453
e0359350
AS
454- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
455 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
456 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
457
7b4a96b2
AS
458- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
459 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
460 PT-TLS transport medium.
461
4a00f912 462
045501d5
MW
463strongswan-5.2.2
464----------------
465
919449a3
TB
466- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
467 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
468 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
469 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
470 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
471 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
472 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
473
045501d5
MW
474- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
475 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
476 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
477 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
478
30a90ccf 479- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
32d19652
AS
480 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
481 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
482
30a90ccf
TB
483- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
484 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
485
045501d5 486
dcdcae01
MW
487strongswan-5.2.1
488----------------
489
490- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
491 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
492 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
493 supports native systemd journal logging.
494
55758bec
TB
495- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
496 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
497
e9a93cb7
AS
498- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
499 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
500 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
501 per segment basis.
502
9180c921
MW
503- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
504 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
505
7431ad0d
MW
506- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
507 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
508 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
509 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
510
dcdcae01 511
37cb91d7
AS
512strongswan-5.2.0
513----------------
514
4c5e52f5
MW
515- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
516 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
517 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
518 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
519 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
520 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
521 WinHTTP API.
522
4787523c
MW
523- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
524 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
525 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
526 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
527 for more control and better reliability.
528
b30c09ea
MW
529- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
530 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
531 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
532 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 533 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
b30c09ea 534
6048d773
AS
535- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
536 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
537
37cb91d7 538- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
3d2b36b8
TB
539 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
540 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
541 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
542 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
37cb91d7
AS
543
544- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
545 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
546
9b9d5223
AS
547- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
548 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
549
41a4d5a4
AS
550- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
551
03b5def0 552- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 553 Connect.
03b5def0 554
52d77f32
MW
555- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
556 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
557 6Wind.
558
37cb91d7 559
8101e6aa
MW
560strongswan-5.1.3
561----------------
562
e59ce07b
TB
563- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
564 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
565 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
566 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
567 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
568
8101e6aa
MW
569- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
570 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
571 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
572 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
573
574- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
575 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
576 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
577
7dc7fdea
MW
578- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
579 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
580
8101e6aa 581
acc25f29
AS
582strongswan-5.1.2
583----------------
584
c2d5add6
TB
585- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
586 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
587 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
588 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
589 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
590 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
591 the current defaults.
592
593- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
594 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
595 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
596 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
597 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
598 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
599
600- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
601 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
602 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
603 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
604 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
605
acc25f29
AS
606- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
607 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
608 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
609 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
610 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
611 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
612
800b361e
AS
613- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
614 Attestation IMV.
615
c2d5add6
TB
616- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
617 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
618
572582f5
MW
619- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
620 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
621 Andrea Bonomi.
acc25f29 622
0cec570a
MW
623- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
624 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
625 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
626
627
2b32884d
AS
628strongswan-5.1.1
629----------------
630
7b8fbd74
AS
631- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
632 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
633 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
634 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
635
636- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
637 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
638 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
639
2b32884d 640- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
1c1ba803
TB
641 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
642 plugin.
2b32884d 643
fa2f6aa1
AS
644- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
645 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
646
38fb8e4e
MW
647- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
648 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
649 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
650 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
651 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
652
653- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
654 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
655 as pluto used it.
656
390d2b50
MW
657- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
658 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
659 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
660 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
661
1c1ba803
TB
662- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
663 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
664 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
665
38fb8e4e
MW
666- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
667 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
668 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
669 from a internal network.
670
34dff30c
AS
671- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
672 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
673 more trustworthy alternative.
674
390d2b50
MW
675- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
676 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
677
1c1ba803
TB
678- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
679 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
680
38fb8e4e
MW
681- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
682 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
2b32884d 683
1c1ba803
TB
684- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
685 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
686
687- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
688 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
689
690- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
691 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
692
390d2b50
MW
693- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
694 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
695 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
696 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
697
fa2f6aa1 698
40b0a15c
MW
699strongswan-5.1.0
700----------------
701
3a938a6f
TB
702- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
703 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
704 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
705 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
706
40b0a15c
MW
707- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
708 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
709 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
710 few simple command line options.
711
712- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 713 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
40b0a15c
MW
714 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
715
78e6f69e
TB
716- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
717 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
718
68957d18
MW
719- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
720 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
721 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
722 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
723 backend for IKEv1.
724
78e6f69e 725- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
2334ae56
MW
726 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
727 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
78e6f69e
TB
728
729- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
730 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
731 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
732 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
733 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
734 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
735
736- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
737 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
738 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
739
40b0a15c
MW
740- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
741
3a938a6f 742- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
40b0a15c
MW
743 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
744 between peers.
745
226f34e0 746- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
78e6f69e
TB
747 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
748 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
749 and/or device.
750
751- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
752 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
753 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
754 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
755 production releases).
756
56b753ca
MW
757- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
758 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
759 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
760
78e6f69e
TB
761- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
762 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
763 hashtables.
764
765- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
766 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
767 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
768 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
769
c3b8335c
MW
770- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
771 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
772 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
773 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
774
775- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
776 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
777 TCP connections from a different host.
778
78e6f69e 779- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
226f34e0 780
40b0a15c 781
2e12fc4b
AS
782strongswan-5.0.4
783----------------
784
785- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
786 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
787 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
788 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
789 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
790 legitimate one.
791
792- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
793 was fixed as well.
794
795- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
796 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
797
798- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
799 requests.
800
bec5bf02
AS
801- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
802
2e12fc4b 803
d69eb037
TB
804strongswan-5.0.3
805----------------
806
807- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
808 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
809 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
810 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
811 created by Reto Guadagnini.
812
1fc609fe
AS
813- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
814 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
815 device ID in the attest database.
816
817- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
818 if the hardware supports it.
7a93844f 819
96776d6f
MW
820- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
821 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
822 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
823 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
824 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
825 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
826 to Accounting-Stops.
827
828- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
829 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
830 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
831
832- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
833 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
834
835- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
836 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
837 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
838 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
839
840- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
841 IKE packets.
7a93844f 842
e34666a4
TB
843- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
844 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
845 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
846 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
847 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
848
db50a35a
RB
849- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
850 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
851 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
852 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
853 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
854 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
855 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
856
c2a5e7bc
AS
857strongswan-5.0.2
858----------------
859
860- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
861 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
862
a19d5913
MW
863- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
864 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
865
343e9989
MW
866- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
867 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
868 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
869 or receive notifications.
870
ecdd5aed
MW
871- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
872 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
873
6910e5c7
MW
874- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
875 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
876 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
877 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
c2a5e7bc 878
8fc7bbc6
MW
879- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
880 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
881 section.
882
78b2a2b1
MW
883- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
884 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
885 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
886 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
887 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
888
cc0cc3b5
MW
889- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
890 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
891 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
892 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
893
f31b4180
TB
894- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
895 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
896 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
897
0e0870ae
MW
898- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
899 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
900 Volker Rümelin.
901
2f0441a3
MW
902- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
903 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
904
73791223
TB
905- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
906 guest images based on Debian.
907
1fc609fe 908
ecfd714c
AS
909strongswan-5.0.1
910----------------
911
6f93927b
AS
912- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
913 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
914
ecfd714c
AS
915- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
916 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 917 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
ecfd714c
AS
918
919- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
920 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
921 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 922 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
ecfd714c
AS
923 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
924
804d702b
MW
925- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
926 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
927 against a RADIUS server.
928
3423b3a8
MW
929- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
930 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
931 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
932 including xauth-pam.
933
cc48f360
MW
934- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
935 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
936 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
937 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
938 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
939 aware clients.
940
cbe244a5
TB
941- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
942 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
943 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
944
945- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
946 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
947 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
948 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
949
e76f3d0d
MW
950- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
951 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
952 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
953 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
954 IP addresses to return.
955
69e056a2
MW
956- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
957 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
958 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
959 specified or referenced named pools.
960
961- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
962 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
963
4a025539
TB
964- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
965 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
966
967- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
968 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
969 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
970 is preserved.
971
972- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
973 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
974
804d702b
MW
975- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
976 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
977 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
978
979- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
980 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
ecfd714c 981
1fc609fe 982
d55c2404
TB
983strongswan-5.0.0
984----------------
985
794cdbc5
MW
986- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
987 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
988 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
989 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
990 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
991 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
ca280574 992 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
794cdbc5
MW
993 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
994
d55c2404
TB
995- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
996 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
997 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
998 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
999 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1000 the thread calling the listener.
1001 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1002 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1003 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1004 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1005
ed7186cb
TB
1006- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1007 reappear.
1008
f97c269e
TB
1009- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1010 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1011 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1012 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1013 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1014 feature).
1015
5a6e5e0d
MW
1016- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1017 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1018 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1019 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1020 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1021 using SHA-256 or better.
1022
d55c2404 1023
93d9a02e
TB
1024strongswan-4.6.4
1025----------------
1026
1027- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1028 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1029 a legitimate one.
1030
1031- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1032
1033
c224f765
AS
1034strongswan-4.6.3
1035----------------
1036
1037- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1038 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1039
4bc7577d
MW
1040- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1041 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1042 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1043 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1044
1045- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1046 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1047 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1048 console.
c224f765
AS
1049
1050- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1051 RFC 4595.
1052
d7590217
TB
1053- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1054 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1055
4e2e77d5 1056- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1057 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
c224f765 1058
5f1931ad
AS
1059- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1060 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1061
1062
60e99b37
AS
1063strongswan-4.6.2
1064----------------
1065
1066- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1067 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1068 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1069 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1070
1071- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1072 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
de4a0c83
AS
1073 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1074 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
60e99b37 1075
a345aa26
MW
1076- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1077 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1078 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 1079
de4a0c83
AS
1080- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1081 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1082 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
dcefa267 1083
a8958012
MW
1084- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1085
de4a0c83 1086
acb92cb4
AS
1087strongswan-4.6.1
1088----------------
1089
1090- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1091 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1092 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
18f85b66
AS
1093 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1094 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1095 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1096 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1097 libraries for resolving external symbols.
acb92cb4
AS
1098
1099- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
1100 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1101 post-installation phase.
5ed3e3a7 1102
acb92cb4 1103
92a1b234 1104strongswan-4.6.0
5a2e2e0b
AS
1105----------------
1106
37276728
MW
1107- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1108 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1109 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1110
1111- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1112 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1113 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1114 for the initial patch.
1115
5fd8e530
TB
1116- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1117 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1118
1119- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1120
602ee58e
TB
1121- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1122 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1123 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1124 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1125 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1126 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1127
37276728
MW
1128- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1129 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1130 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1131 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1132 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1133 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1134
fd81ac05
AS
1135- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1136 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1137 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1138
37276728 1139
5d179d19
AS
1140strongswan-4.5.3
1141----------------
1142
a7edbd21 1143- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
b18a697a
AS
1144 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1145 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
a7edbd21
TB
1146 directory.
1147
b18a697a
AS
1148- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1149 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1150
107ea60f
TB
1151- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1152 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1153 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1154
1155- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1156 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1157
f8799170 1158- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1159 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
107ea60f
TB
1160 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1161 interfaces.
f8799170 1162
93095183
TB
1163- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1164 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1165
b18a697a
AS
1166- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1167 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1168 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1169 the client is admitted to the network.
1170 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1171
1172- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
5d179d19
AS
1173 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1174
4876f896
MW
1175- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1176 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1177 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
5d179d19 1178
5a2e2e0b 1179
6f2378c1
AS
1180strongswan-4.5.2
1181----------------
1182
320e98c2
MW
1183- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1184 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1185 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1186 whitelist administration.
1187
92ebb7c5 1188- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1189 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
92ebb7c5
MW
1190 application about detected duplicates.
1191
1192- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1193 authentication to previously used certificates.
1194
6f2378c1
AS
1195- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1196 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1197 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1198 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1199
6ca05fe2
AS
1200- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
1201
1ee7440b
AS
1202- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1203 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1204
1205- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1206 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
1ee7440b 1207
cf6ca6d7
MW
1208- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1209 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1210 support configuration reloading.
1211
d3d21c29
MW
1212- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1213 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1214 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1215 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1216 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1217 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1218
1219- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1220 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1221 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1222
6f2378c1 1223
41ba5ce7
AS
1224strongswan-4.5.1
1225----------------
1226
1b7e081b
AS
1227- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1228 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1229 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
1b7e081b
AS
1230 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1231 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1232 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1233
5cdaafef
AS
1234- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1235 in place of the external libtnc library.
1236
1237- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1238 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1239 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1240 the corresponding protocol stack.
1241
41ba5ce7
AS
1242- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1243 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1244 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1245 in an SQL database.
1246
1b7e081b
AS
1247- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1248 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1249 points in an SQL database.
1250
ae09bc62
TB
1251- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1252 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1253 replaced, respectively.
1254
1255- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1256 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1257 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1258 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1259 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1260 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1261 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1262
840e7044
AS
1263- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1264 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1265
e44817df
MW
1266- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1267 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1268 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1269
78a547c9
MW
1270- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1271 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1272 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1273 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 1274
41ed0294 1275- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
983a5e88
MW
1276 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1277 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1278
f0783464
MW
1279- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1280 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1281 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1282 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1283 ./configure switch.
1284
77eee25f 1285- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1286 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
77eee25f
MW
1287 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1288 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
96c4addc
MW
1289 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1290 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1291
1292- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1293 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
77eee25f 1294
fb1e7df1
MW
1295- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1296 support for delta CRLs.
1297
5cdaafef 1298
44582075
MW
1299strongswan-4.5.0
1300----------------
1301
b14923ec
AS
1302- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1303 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1304 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1305 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1306 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
b14923ec 1307
44582075
MW
1308- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1309 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1310 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1311 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1312
84c9bc42
MW
1313- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1314 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1315 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
84c9bc42
MW
1316 tokens.
1317
a782b52f
MW
1318- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1319 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1320 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1321 client authentication.
1322
1323- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1324 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1325 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 1326
8a1353fc
AS
1327- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
1328 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1329 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1330 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1331 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1332 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
8a1353fc
AS
1333 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1334 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1335
b3cabd1f
TB
1336- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1337 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1338 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1339
1340- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1341 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1342
18a4f865
MW
1343- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1344 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1345 availability.
1346
1347- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1348 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1349 implement a simple event listener.
1350
b3cabd1f
TB
1351- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1352 initial responder moves to a different address.
1353
1354- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1355
3f84e2d6
AS
1356- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1357 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1358
f6032361
AS
1359- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1360 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1361 UNITY_BANNER).
1362
1363- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1364 charon plugins.
1365
3f84e2d6
AS
1366- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1367
a782b52f 1368
03b5e4d8
AS
1369strongswan-4.4.1
1370----------------
1371
ec40c02a 1372- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
b22bb9f2
AS
1373 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1374 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1375
b22bb9f2 1376- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
b59340a2
AS
1377 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1378 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1379
3561cc4b
AS
1380- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1381
e9448cfc 1382- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 1383 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
e9448cfc
MW
1384
1385- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1386 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1387 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1388
7f3a9468
MW
1389- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1390
1391- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1392 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1393
03b5e4d8
AS
1394- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1395 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1396
e87b78c6 1397- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
b59340a2
AS
1398 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1399 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1400
c5c6f9b6
AS
1401- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1402 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1403
fe2434cf
MW
1404- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1405 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1406
c8bd06c7
MW
1407- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1408 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1409 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1410 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1411 plugin.
1c1f132a 1412
c5c921bf
MW
1413- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1414 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1415 unauthenticated users.
1416
03b5e4d8 1417
00c60592
MW
1418strongswan-4.4.0
1419----------------
1420
d101a61f
MW
1421- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1422 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1423 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1424 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1425 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
d101a61f
MW
1426 secunet Security Networks AG.
1427
dd8cb2b0
AS
1428- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1429 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1430 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1431 kernel interface.
1432
4590260b
MW
1433- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1434 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1435 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1436 from IBM for his contribution.
1437
9235edc2
AS
1438- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1439 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1440 are allocated.
1441
d6457833
AS
1442- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1443 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1444 command line option.
1445
2d097a0b
MW
1446- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1447 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1448 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1449 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1450 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1451 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1452
6d6994c6
MW
1453- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1454 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1455 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
6d6994c6
MW
1456 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1457
00c60592
MW
1458- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1459 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1460 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1461 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1462
3e6b50ed
MW
1463- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1464 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1465
d6457833 1466
4c68a85a
AS
1467strongswan-4.3.6
1468----------------
1469
cdad91de 1470- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
e98a4d80
AS
1471 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1472
a7155606
AS
1473- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1474 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1475 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1476
f721e0fb
AS
1477- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1478
4c68a85a
AS
1479- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1480
909c0c3d
MW
1481- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1482 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1483 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
aa9eeb5d
MW
1484 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1485
44e41c4c
AS
1486- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1487
2b2c69e9 1488- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 1489
52fd0ef9
MW
1490- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1491 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1492 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1493 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1494 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1495
2b2c69e9
MW
1496- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1497 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1498 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1499
6ec949e0
MW
1500- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1501 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1502
cdad91de
MW
1503- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1504 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1505 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1506 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1507 this is the case.
1508
aca9f9ab
MW
1509- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1510 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1511 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1512 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1513 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1514
0a975307
AS
1515- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1516 allowing interoperability.
1517
1518
b6b90b68
MW
1519strongswan-4.3.5
1520----------------
1521
628f023d
AS
1522- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1523 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1524 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1525 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
628f023d
AS
1526 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1527
b42bfc79
MW
1528- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1529 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1530 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1531 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1532 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1533
d245f5cf
AS
1534- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1535 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1536 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
b6b90b68 1537
55b045ab
MW
1538- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1539 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1540 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1541
d245f5cf 1542- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
b6b90b68
MW
1543 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1544
1545- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1546 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1547 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1548
1549- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1550 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1551
1552- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 1553 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
b6b90b68
MW
1554 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1555 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1556 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1557 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1558
85af7a89
MW
1559- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1560 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1561 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1562 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1563
b80fa9ca 1564- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1565 statements.
b80fa9ca 1566
509f70c1
AS
1567- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1568
1569- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1570 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1571
cea4bd8f
AS
1572- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1573 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1574
509f70c1
AS
1575- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1576 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1577 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1578
85af7a89 1579
430dd08a
AS
1580strongswan-4.3.4
1581----------------
1582
1583- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1584 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1585
1586- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1587 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1588
1589- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1590
1591
1c7f456a
AS
1592strongswan-4.3.3
1593----------------
1594
aa74d705
AS
1595- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1596 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1597 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1598 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1599 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1600
1c7f456a
AS
1601- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1602 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1603
1604- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1605 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1606
aa74d705
AS
1607- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1608
1609- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1610 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1611 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1612
1c7f456a 1613
80c0710c
MW
1614strongswan-4.3.2
1615----------------
1616
1617- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1618 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1619
1620- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1621 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1622 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1623
b32af120
AS
1624- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1625 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1626 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1627 with IKEv1.
126f2130
AS
1628
1629- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1630 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1631 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1632 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1633
b32af120 1634
3bf7c249
MW
1635strongswan-4.3.1
1636----------------
1637
1638- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1639 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
3bf7c249
MW
1640 dynamically.
1641
09dbca9f
MW
1642- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1643 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1644 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1645 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1646 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1647
050cc582
AS
1648- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1649 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1650 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1651 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1652 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1653 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1654
09dbca9f 1655- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
047b2e42
MW
1656 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1657 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1658
1659- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1660 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1661 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1662
050cc582
AS
1663- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1664
1665- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1666 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1667 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1668 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1669 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1670 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1671 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
050cc582
AS
1672 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1673
047b2e42
MW
1674- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1675 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1676
d44fd821 1677- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
050cc582
AS
1678 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1679 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1680 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1681 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
d44fd821
AS
1682
1683
247e665a
AS
1684strongswan-4.3.0
1685----------------
1686
81fc8e5f
MW
1687- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1688 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1689 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1690 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1691 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1692
1693- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1694 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1695
558c89e7
AS
1696- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1697 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1698
558c89e7
AS
1699- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1700 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1701 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1702
558c89e7
AS
1703- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1704 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1705
247e665a 1706
623bca40
AS
1707strongswan-4.2.14
1708-----------------
1709
22180558 1710- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1711 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
22180558
AS
1712 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1713
79b27294
AS
1714- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1715 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1716 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1717 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1718 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1719 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1720 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1721 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1722 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1723
22180558
AS
1724- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1725 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1726 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1727 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1728
1729- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1730 IDr payload anymore.
623bca40
AS
1731
1732
076e7853
AS
1733strongswan-4.2.13
1734-----------------
1735
1736- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1737 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1738
f3bb1bd0 1739- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1740 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1741
f15483ef
AS
1742- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1743 parameters field is optional.
1744
03991bc1
MW
1745- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1746
076e7853 1747
bfde75ee 1748strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 1749-----------------
bfde75ee
AS
1750
1751- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1752 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1753 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1754
1755- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1756 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
bfde75ee
AS
1757 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1758
1759- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1760 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1761
b6b90b68 1762
0519ca90
AS
1763strongswan-4.2.11
1764-----------------
1765
ae1ae574
AS
1766- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1767 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1768
1769- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1770 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
0519ca90
AS
1771
1772
4856241c
MW
1773strongswan-4.2.10
1774-----------------
1775
1776- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1777 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1778 counterparts with better lookup times.
1779
1780- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 1781 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
4856241c
MW
1782 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1783
1784- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1785 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1786 on the fly.
1787
1788- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1789 command queries assigned leases.
1790
1791- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1792 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1793
1794- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1795 reliable source of randomness.
1796
73937bd8
MW
1797strongswan-4.2.9
1798----------------
1799
509e07c5
AS
1800- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1801 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
73937bd8
MW
1802
1803- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1804 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1805 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1806
1807- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1808 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
73937bd8
MW
1809 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1810 parallelization to multiple cores.
1811
509e07c5
AS
1812- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1813 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1814
509e07c5 1815- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1816 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
73937bd8
MW
1817 memory or hardware.
1818
509e07c5
AS
1819- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1820 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1821 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1822 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1823
1824- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1825 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1826 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1827 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1828 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1829 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1830
4dc0dce8
AS
1831- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1832 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1833 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1834
73937bd8 1835
e39b271b
AS
1836strongswan-4.2.8
1837----------------
1838
5dadb16e 1839- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
e39b271b
AS
1840 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1841 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1842
4f0241e6
MW
1843- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1844 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1845 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1846 long as possible and other fixes.
1847
5dadb16e
AS
1848- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1849 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1850 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1851
e39b271b 1852
e376d75f
MW
1853strongswan-4.2.7
1854----------------
1855
b37cda82
AS
1856- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1857 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1858 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1859 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1860 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1861
b6b90b68 1862- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
e376d75f
MW
1863 ssh-agent.
1864
1865- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1866 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
e376d75f
MW
1867
1868- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1869 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1870 newer libcap2 library.
1871
b37cda82
AS
1872- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1873 charon keying daemon.
1874
1875
9f9d6ece
AS
1876strongswan-4.2.6
1877----------------
1878
609166f4
MW
1879- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1880 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1881 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1882 in the Gnome Keyring.
1883
1884- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1885 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1886 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
609166f4
MW
1887 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1888
1889- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1890 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1891 authentication.
1892
9f9d6ece
AS
1893- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1894 authentication types and EAP identities.
1895
1896- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1897 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1898
1899- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1900 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1901
1902
174216c7
AS
1903strongswan-4.2.5
1904----------------
1905
b6b90b68 1906- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
AS
1907
1908- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1909 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1910 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1911 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1912 strongswan.conf.
1913
eb0cc338 1914- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1915 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1916
174216c7
AS
1917- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1918 network interfaces have become possible.
1919
b6b90b68 1920- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
174216c7
AS
1921 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1922
8124e491
AS
1923- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1924
b6b90b68 1925
179dd12c
AS
1926strongswan-4.2.4
1927----------------
1928
9de95037
AS
1929- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1930 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1931
73a8eed3 1932- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1933 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
73a8eed3
AS
1934
1935- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1936 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1937
1938- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1939 X.509 certificates.
1940
1941- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1942 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1943
e0bb4dbb
AS
1944- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1945 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1946
179dd12c 1947
83d9e870
AS
1948strongswan-4.2.3
1949----------------
1950
b6b90b68 1951- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
83d9e870
AS
1952 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1953
1954- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1955 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1956
1957
7f491111
MW
1958strongswan-4.2.2
1959----------------
1960
a57cd446
AS
1961- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1962 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1963 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
a57cd446
AS
1964 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1965 to software-based crypto plugins.
7f491111
MW
1966
1967- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
AS
1968 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1969 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1970 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1971
1972- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1973 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
a57cd446
AS
1974 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1975
7f491111 1976
5c5d67d6
AS
1977strongswan-4.2.1
1978----------------
1979
c306dfb1 1980- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
b1f8fc0c
TB
1981 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1982 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1983 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1984 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1985 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1986
58caabf7
MW
1987- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1988 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1989 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1990 connections.
b6b90b68 1991
f3bb1bd0 1992- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1993 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1994 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1995
b6b90b68 1996- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1997 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1998 re-implemented.
58caabf7
MW
1999
2000- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2001 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 2002
58caabf7
MW
2003- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2004 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2005 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2006
466abb49 2007- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
58caabf7
MW
2008 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2009 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2010 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2011 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2012
c306dfb1 2013- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2014
c306dfb1 2015- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
AS
2016
2017- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2018 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
466abb49
AS
2019 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2020
5c5d67d6 2021
a11ea97d
AS
2022strongswan-4.2.0
2023----------------
2024
16f5dacd
MW
2025- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2026 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2027 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2028 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2029 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2030 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2031 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2032
16f5dacd
MW
2033- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2034 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2035
2036- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2037 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2038 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2039 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2040 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2041 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2042 The following new plugins are available:
2043 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2044 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2045 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2046
2047- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2048 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2049 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2050
b6b90b68 2051- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
16f5dacd
MW
2052 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2053 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2054
a11ea97d 2055
6859f760
AS
2056strongswan-4.1.11
2057-----------------
fb6d76cd 2058
a561f74d
AS
2059- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2060 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2061 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2062
2063- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2064 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2065
e6b50b3f
AS
2066- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2067 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2068 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2069
fb6d76cd 2070
83e0d841
AS
2071strongswan-4.1.10
2072-----------------
2073
2074- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2075 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2076
fdc7c943
MW
2077- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2078 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2079 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2080 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2081
2082- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2083 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2084 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2085 before using it.
2086
2087- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2088 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2089 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2090
fb6d76cd 2091
5076770c
AS
2092strongswan-4.1.9
2093----------------
2094
800b3356
AS
2095- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2096 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2097 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2098 added.
5076770c 2099
6f274c2a
MW
2100- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2101 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2102
2103- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2104 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2105
2106- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2107
8b678ad4 2108- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2109 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2110 loaded twice.
5076770c 2111
83e0d841 2112
b82e8231
AS
2113strongswan-4.1.8
2114----------------
2115
5076770c 2116- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
b82e8231
AS
2117
2118
a4a3632c
AS
2119strongswan-4.1.7
2120----------------
2121
2122- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2123 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2124 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
2125
6e193274 2126- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2127 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
6e193274
MW
2128 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2129
2130- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2131 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 2132 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
6e193274
MW
2133
2134- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2135 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2136
2137- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2138
a4a3632c 2139
3dcf9dbd
AS
2140strongswan-4.1.6
2141----------------
2142
3eac4dfd
AS
2143- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2144 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2145 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2146 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2147 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2148 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2149 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2150 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2151
2152- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2153 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2154 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
b6b90b68
MW
2155 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2156
bdc0b55b
AS
2157- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2158 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2159 startup.
b6b90b68 2160
3eac4dfd
AS
2161- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2162 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2163 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2164 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2165 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2166
f872f9d1
AS
2167- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2168 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
3dcf9dbd
AS
2169
2170
7ad634a2
AS
2171strongswan-4.1.5
2172----------------
2173
2174- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2175 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2176 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2177 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2178 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2179 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2180
8f5b363c
MW
2181- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2182 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2183 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2184 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2185
7ad634a2 2186
e93c68ba
AS
2187strongswan-4.1.4
2188----------------
2189
2190- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2191 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2192 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2193 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
AS
2194 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2195 parameter is not required any more.
078ce348
AS
2196
2197- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2198 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2199 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2200
2201 right=peer.foo.bar
2202 rightallowany=yes
2203
2204 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2205 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2206 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2207 as
2208
2209 right=%any
2210
2211 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1fbdab85
AS
2212 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2213
2214 right=%peer.foo.bar
2215
2216 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2217
2218- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2219 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2220 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2221 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2222 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2223
a0a0bdd7
AS
2224- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2225 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2226 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2227 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2228 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2229
a0a0bdd7
AS
2230- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2231 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2232 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2233 by Robert Varga.
2234
e3606f2b
MW
2235- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2236 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2237
06651827 2238
a3354a69
AS
2239strongswan-4.1.3
2240----------------
2241
b6b90b68 2242- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
35d4809c
AS
2243 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2244
2245- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
41e16cf4
AS
2246 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2247 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2248
998ca0ea
MW
2249- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2250 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2251 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2252 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2253
2254- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2255 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2256 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2257 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2258
b6b90b68 2259- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
998ca0ea
MW
2260 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2261 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2262 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2263 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2264 to implement.
a3354a69 2265
f3bb1bd0 2266 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
41e16cf4
AS
2267 headers > 2.6.17.
2268
2269
8ea7b96f
AS
2270strongswan-4.1.2
2271----------------
2272
e23d98a7 2273- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
37fb0355
MW
2274 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2275 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2276 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2277
2278- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2279 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2280
d931f465
MW
2281- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2282
37fb0355
MW
2283- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2284
dfbe2a0f 2285- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2286 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 2287
9f78f957
AS
2288- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2289
8ea7b96f
AS
2290- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2291 connection name.
2292
e23d98a7 2293
ed284399
MW
2294strongswan-4.1.1
2295----------------
2296
2297- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2298 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2299 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2300 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2301 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2302 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2303
db88e37d
AS
2304- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2305 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2306 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2307
3b4f7d92
AS
2308- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2309 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2310 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2311 vendor ID.
2312
2313- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2314 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2315 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2316 message.
2317
46b9ff68
AS
2318- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2319 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2320
3b4f7d92 2321
34bbd0c3 2322strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
AS
2323----------------
2324
2325- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2326 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2327
2328- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2329 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2330 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2331 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2332
9b45443d
MW
2333- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2334
c5d0fbb6 2335- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2336 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
AS
2337 accessLocations.
2338
69ed04bf
AS
2339- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2340 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2341 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2342 option.
2343
9b45443d
MW
2344- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2345 code reuse and separation.
2346
2347- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2348 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2349 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2350
2351- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2352 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2353 specify it.
2354
2355- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2356 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2357 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2358 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2359 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2360 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2361
2362- Added client side support for cookies.
2363
2364- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2365 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2366 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 2367
e23d98a7 2368
1c266d7d
AS
2369strongswan-4.0.7
2370----------------
2371
6fdf5f44
AS
2372- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2373 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2374 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1c266d7d
AS
2375
2376- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2377 to a default string.
2378
2379
2b4405a3
MW
2380strongswan-4.0.6
2381----------------
2382
e38a15d4
AS
2383- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2384 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2385 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2386 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
b6b90b68
MW
2387 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2388
2b4405a3
MW
2389- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2390
5903179b 2391- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2392
5903179b 2393- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2394
5903179b 2395- various other bugfixes
2b4405a3
MW
2396
2397
0cd645d2
AS
2398strongswan-4.0.5
2399----------------
2400
2401- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2402 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2403
2404- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2405 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2406
2407- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2408 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2409 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2410 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2411
0cd645d2 2412 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 2413
0cd645d2
AS
2414 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2415
2416 config setup
03bf883d 2417 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2418
03bf883d 2419 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2420
03bf883d 2421 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
0cd645d2
AS
2422
2423
48dc3934
MW
2424strongswan-4.0.4
2425----------------
2426
2427- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2428
2429- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2430 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2431 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2432 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2433 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2434
2435- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2436 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2437 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2438
2439- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2440
112ad7c3
AS
2441- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2442 or 3DES are supported.
48dc3934
MW
2443
2444- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2445 encrypt IKE traffic.
2446
2447- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2448 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2449
2450- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2451 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2452 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2453 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2454
2455
a1310b6b
MW
2456strongswan-4.0.3
2457----------------
2458
2459- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
b6b90b68
MW
2460 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2461 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
a1310b6b
MW
2462 kernel.
2463
2464- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2465 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2466 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2467 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2468
b425d998
AS
2469- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2470 algorithm configuration statements.
2471
2472
bf4df11f
AS
2473strongswan-4.0.2
2474----------------
2475
623d3dcf
AS
2476- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2477 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2478 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2479 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2480
b6b90b68 2481- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2482 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2483 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
efa40c11
MW
2484 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2485
623d3dcf
AS
2486- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2487 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2488 dpddelay=60s).
2489
efa40c11
MW
2490- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2491 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2492 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2493 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2494
b6b90b68
MW
2495- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2496 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
efa40c11
MW
2497 and a more extensible code base.
2498
cfd8b27f
AS
2499- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2500 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2501 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2502 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2503 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2504 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2505 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2506
bf4df11f 2507
7e81e975
MW
2508strongswan-4.0.1
2509----------------
2510
b6b90b68 2511- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
c15c3d4b
MW
2512 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2513 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2514 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2515 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
c15c3d4b
MW
2516 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2517 algorithms for IKE:
2518 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2519 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2520 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2521 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2522 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
c15c3d4b
MW
2523 blowfish192, blowfish256
2524 Integrity: md5, sha1
2525 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2526 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 2527
c15c3d4b
MW
2528- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2529 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2530 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
c15c3d4b
MW
2531 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2532 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2533 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2534
7e81e975
MW
2535- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2536 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2537 configuration examples).
2538
f2c2d395
MW
2539- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2540 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2541 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
f2c2d395
MW
2542 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2543
22ff6f57
MW
2544- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2545 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2546 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2547 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2548 via ipsec starter.
2549
b425d998 2550
9820c0e2
MW
2551strongswan-4.0.0
2552----------------
2553
2554- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2555 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
9820c0e2
MW
2556 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2557 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2558 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2559 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2560 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2561 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2562 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2563 status command).
2564
2565
997358a6
MW
2566strongswan-2.7.0
2567----------------
2568
2569- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2570 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2571 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2572 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2573 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2574 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2575 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2576 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2577 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
997358a6
MW
2578 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2579 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2580 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2581
2582- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2583 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2584 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2585 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2586 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2587 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2588 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2589 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2590 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2591 be inserted.
997358a6
MW
2592
2593- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2594 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2595 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2596 be found.
2597
2598
2599strongswan-2.6.4
2600----------------
2601
2602- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2603 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2604 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2605 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
997358a6
MW
2606 are required any more.
2607
2608- added support of DPD restart mode
2609
2610- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2611 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2612 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2613
2614- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2615 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2616
2617
2618strongswan-2.6.3
2619----------------
2620
b6b90b68 2621- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
997358a6
MW
2622 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2623
2624- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2625 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2626 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2627
997358a6
MW
2628- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2629 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2630
2631- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2632 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2633 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2634 the ipsec status command.
b6b90b68 2635
997358a6
MW
2636
2637strongswan-2.6.2
2638----------------
2639
2640- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2641 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2642 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2643
2644- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2645 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2646 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2647
2648- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2649 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2650
2651 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2652 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2653
2654- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2655 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2656 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2657
2658 conn rw
2659 right=%any
2660 rightid=@foo.bar
2661 authby=secret
2662
2663- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2664
2665- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2666
2667- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2668 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2669 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2670
2671- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2672 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2673 servers.
2674
2675- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2676 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2677
2678
2679strongswan-2.6.1
2680----------------
2681
2682- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2683 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2684 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2685
2686
2687strongswan-2.6.0
2688----------------
2689
2690- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2691 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2692 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2693 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2694 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2695 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2696 accelerated tremedously.
2697
2698- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2699 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
997358a6
MW
2700 reload pluto's connections.
2701
2702- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2703 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2704 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2705
2706- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2707
2708- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2709
2710- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2711 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2712 documented yet.
2713
2714
2715strongswan-2.5.7
2716----------------
2717
2718- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2719 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2720 listing.
2721
2722
2723strongswan-2.5.6
2724----------------
2725
2726- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2727 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2728 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2729 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2730
b6b90b68 2731- The scepclient function now allows to define the
997358a6
MW
2732 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2733 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2734 has been changed from one year to five years.
2735
2736
2737strongswan-2.5.5
2738----------------
2739
2740- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2741 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2742 via the whack interface. Notation:
2743
2744 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2745 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2746 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2747 [--keyid <keyid>]
2748
2749 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2750 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2751 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2752 [--keyid <keyid>]
2753
b6b90b68 2754 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
997358a6
MW
2755
2756 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2757 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2758 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2759 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2760 permanently.
2761
2762- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2763 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2764 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2765 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2766 is automatically generated by calling the function
2767
2768 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2769
2770 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2771 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2772
2773
2774strongswan-2.5.4
2775----------------
2776
2777- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2778 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2779 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2780 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2781
2782- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2783 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2784
2785
2786strongswan-2.5.3
2787----------------
2788
2789- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2790 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2791 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2792 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2793 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2794
2795- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2796
2797 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2798 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2799 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2800 self-signed certs)
997358a6
MW
2801
2802- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2803 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2804 attribute for AES encryption.
2805
2806- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2807
2808- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2809
2810
2811strongswan-2.5.2
2812----------------
2813
2814- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2815 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2816 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2817 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2818 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2819
2820- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2821 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2822 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2823
2824
2825strongswan-2.5.1
2826----------------
2827
2828- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2829 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2830 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2831 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2832 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2833 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2834 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2835 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2836
2837- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2838 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2839 the command
2840
2841 ipsec auto --listcards
2842
2843 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2844 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2845 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2846 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2847
2848 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2849 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2850 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2851
2852 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2853
2854 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2855 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2856 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2857
2858- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2859 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2860 to generate a signature.
2861
2862- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2863 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2864 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2865 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2866 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2867
2868- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2869 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2870
2871- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2872 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2873 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2874
2875
2876strongswan-2.5.0
2877----------------
2878
2879- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2880 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2881 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2882 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2883 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2884 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2885
2886- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2887 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2888 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2889 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2890 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2891 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
b6b90b68 2892
997358a6
MW
2893- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2894 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2895 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2896
2897
2898strongswan-2.4.4
2899----------------
2900
2901- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2902
2903- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2904
2905
2906strongswan-2.4.3
2907----------------
2908
2909- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2910 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2911
2912- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2913
2914- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2915 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2916 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2917
2918- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2919 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2920 included.
2921
2922
2923strongswan-2.4.2
2924----------------
2925
2926- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2927 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2928 value of 50.
b6b90b68 2929
997358a6
MW
2930- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2931 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2932 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
997358a6
MW
2933 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2934 pad has to be done only once.
2935
2936- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2937 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2938 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2939
997358a6 2940 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 2941
997358a6
MW
2942- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2943
2944- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2945 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2946
2947- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2948 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2949 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 2950
997358a6
MW
2951- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2952 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2953 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2954
2955
2956strongswan-2.4.1
2957----------------
2958
2959- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2960 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2961 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2962 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2963 "left" be"local".
2964
2965
2966strongswan-2.4.0a
2967-----------------
2968
2969- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2970
2971- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2972 Michael Meier
b6b90b68
MW
2973
2974
997358a6
MW
2975strongswan-2.4.0
2976----------------
2977
2978- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2979 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2980 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2981 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2982 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2983 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2984 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2985
2986- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2987 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2988 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2989 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2990 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
b6b90b68
MW
2991
2992- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2993 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2994 in a particular test.
997358a6
MW
2995
2996
2997strongswan-2.3.2
2998----------------
2999
3000- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3001 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 3002
997358a6
MW
3003- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3004
3005- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3006 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3007 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3008
997358a6
MW
3009- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3010 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3011 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3012 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3013
3014
3015strongswan-2.3.1
3016----------------
3017
3018- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3019
3020- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3021 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3022
997358a6
MW
3023- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3024 module.
b6b90b68 3025
997358a6
MW
3026- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3027 maximum udp size patches.
3028
3029- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
b6b90b68 3030
997358a6
MW
3031
3032strongswan-2.3.0
3033----------------
3034
3035- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3036 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3037 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3038 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3039 subdirectory.
3040
3041- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3042 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 3043 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 3044
997358a6 3045 man ipsec_openac.
b6b90b68 3046
997358a6
MW
3047 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3048 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3049 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 3050
997358a6
MW
3051 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3052
3053 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3054 Research or Sales, only.
3055
3056- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3057 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
997358a6
MW
3058 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3059 Secure Entry Clients.
3060
3061- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3062 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3063 now both set to 24 h.
3064
3065- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3066 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3067
3068- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3069 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3070 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 3071
997358a6
MW
3072 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3073
3074
3075strongswan-2.2.2
3076----------------
3077
3078- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3079 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3080 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3081 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3082
f3bb1bd0 3083- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
997358a6
MW
3084 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3085 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 3086
997358a6
MW
3087- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3088
3089- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3090 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3091
3092
3093strongswan-2.2.1
3094----------------
3095
3096- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3097 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3098
f3bb1bd0 3099- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3100 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 3101
997358a6 3102- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3103 occurring when a smartcard is present.
997358a6
MW
3104
3105- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 3106
997358a6
MW
3107- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3108
3109- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3110
3111
3112strongswan-2.2.0
3113----------------
3114
3115- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3116
3117 dpdaction=clear|hold
b6b90b68 3118
997358a6
MW
3119 activates DPD for the given connection.
3120
3121- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3122 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3123 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 3124
997358a6 3125 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
b6b90b68 3126
997358a6
MW
3127 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3128
3129- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3130 using the compile option VENDORID
3131
3132- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3133
3134- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3135
3136- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3137
3138- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3139 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
b6b90b68 3140
997358a6
MW
3141- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3142
3143- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3144 connection.
b6b90b68 3145
997358a6
MW
3146
3147strongswan-2.1.5
3148----------------
3149
3150- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3151 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3152 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3153 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3154 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3155
3156- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3157 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3158
3159
3160strongswan-2.1.4
3161----------------
3162
3163- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3164 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3165 an optional connection selector:
3166
3167 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3168
3169- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3170 man page.
3171
3172- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3173 of malformed distinguished names.
3174
3175- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3176
3177 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3178
3179- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3180
3181
3182strongswan-2.1.3
3183----------------
3184
3185- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3186 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
b6b90b68 3187
997358a6
MW
3188
3189strongswan-2.1.2
3190----------------
3191
3192- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3193 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3194 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
b6b90b68 3195
997358a6
MW
3196
3197strongswan-2.1.1
3198----------------
3199
3200- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3201
3202
3203strongswan-2.1.0
3204----------------
3205
3206- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3207
3208 ca kool
3209 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3210 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3211 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3212 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3213 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3214 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 3215
997358a6 3216 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
b6b90b68 3217
997358a6
MW
3218 ipsec auto --listcainfos
3219
3220- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3221 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3222
3223
3224strongswan-2.0.2
3225----------------
3226
3227- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3228 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
b6b90b68
MW
3229
3230- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3231 during kernel compilation
b6b90b68 3232
997358a6
MW
3233- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3234 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3235
3236- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3237 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3238 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3239
3240
3241strongswan-2.0.1
3242----------------
3243
3244- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3245 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3246 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3247 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3248
3249- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3250 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
b6b90b68
MW
3251
3252
997358a6
MW
3253strongswan-2.0.0
3254----------------
3255
3256- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12