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1strongswan-5.9.3
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4- Added AES_ECB, SHA-3 and SHAKE-256 support to wolfssl plugin.
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6- Converted most of the test case scenarios to the vici interface
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12- Together with a Linux 5.8 kernel supporting the IMA measurement of the GRUB
13 bootloader and the Linux kernel, the strongSwan Attestation IMC allows to do
14 remote attestation of the complete boot phase. A recent TPM 2.0 device with a
15 SHA-256 PCR bank is required, so that both BIOS and IMA file measurements are
16 based on SHA-256 hashes.
17
18- Our own TLS library (libtls) that we use for TLS-based EAP methods and PT-TLS
19 gained experimental support for TLS 1.3. Thanks to Méline Sieber (client) and
20 Pascal Knecht (client and server) for their work on this.
21 Because the use of TLS 1.3 with these EAP methods is not yet standardized (two
22 Internet-Drafts are being worked on), the default maximum version is currently
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23 set to TLS 1.2, which is now also the default minimum version. However the TNC
24 test scenarios using PT-TLS transport already use TLS 1.3.
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26- Other improvements for libtls also affect older TLS versions. For instance, we
27 added support for ECDH with Curve25519/448 (DH groups may also be configured
28 now), for EdDSA keys and certificates and for RSA-PSS signatures. Support for
29 old and weak cipher suites has been removed (e.g. with 3DES and MD5) as well
30 as signature schemes with SHA-1.
31
32- The listener_t::ike_update event is now also called for MOBIKE updates. Its
33 signature has changed so we only have to call it once if both addresses/ports
34 have changed (e.g. for an address family switch). The event is now also
35 exposed via vici.
36
37- The farp plugin has been ported to macOS and FreeBSD. Thanks to Dan James for
38 working on this.
39
40- To fix DNS server installation with systemd-resolved, charon-nm now creates a
41 dummy TUN device again (was removed with 5.5.1).
42
43- The botan plugin can use rng_t implementations provided by other plugins when
44 generating keys etc. if the Botan library supports it.
45
46- charon-tkm now supports multiple CAs and is configured via vici/swanctl.
47
48- Simple glob patterns (e.g. include conf.d/*.conf) now also work on Windows.
49 Handling of forward slashes in paths on Windows has also been improved.
50
51- The abbreviations for the 'surname' and 'serial number' RDNs in ASN.1 DNs have
52 been changed to align with RFC 4519: The abbreviation for 'surname' is now
53 "SN" (was "S" before), which was previously used for 'serial number' that can
54 now be specified as "serialNumber" only.
55
56- An issue with Windows clients requesting previous IPv6 but not IPv4 virtual
57 IP addresses has been fixed.
58
59- ike_sa_manager_t: Checking out IKE_SAs by config is now atomic (e.g. when
60 acquires for different children of the same connection arrive concurrently).
61 The checkout_new() method has been renamed to create_new(). A new
62 checkout_new() method allows registering a new IKE_SA with the manager before
63 checking it in, so jobs can be queued without losing them as they can block
64 on checking out the new SA.
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67strongswan-5.9.1
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70- Remote attestation via TNC supports the SHA-256 based TPM 2.0 BIOS/EFI
71 measurements introduced with the Linux 5.4 kernel.
72
73- Nonces in OCSP responses are not enforced anymore and only validated if a
74 nonce is actually contained.
75
76- Fixed an issue when only some fragments of a retransmitted IKEv2 message were
77 received, which prevented processing a following fragmented message.
78
79- All queued vici messages are now sent to subscribed clients during shutdown,
80 which includes ike/child-updown events triggered when all SAs are deleted.
81
82- CHILD_SA IP addresses are updated before installation to allow MOBIKE updates
83 while retransmitting a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
84
85- When looking for a route to the peer, the kernel-netlink plugin ignores the
86 current source address if it's deprecated.
87
88- The file and syslog loggers support logging the log level of each message
89 after the subsystem (e.g. [IKE2]).
90
91- charon-nm is now properly terminated during system shutdown.
92
93- Improved support for EdDSA keys in vici/swanctl, in particular, encrypted
94 keys are now supported.
95
96- A new global strongswan.conf option allows sending the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID
97 to prevent Cisco devices from narrowing a 0.0.0.0/0 traffic selector.
98
99- The openssl plugin accepts CRLs issued by non-CA certificates if they contain
100 the cRLSign keyUsage flag (the x509 plugin already does this since 4.5.1).
101
102- Attributes in PKCS#7 containers, as used in SCEP, are now properly
103 DER-encoded, i.e. sorted.
104
105- The load-tester plugin now supports virtual IPv6 addresses and IPv6 source
106 address pools.
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112- We prefer AEAD algorithms for ESP and therefore put AES-GCM in a default AEAD
113 proposal in front of the previous default proposal.
114
115- The NM backend now clears cached credentials when disconnecting, has DPD and
116 and close action set to restart, and supports custom remote TS via 'remote-ts'
117 option (no GUI support).
118
119- The pkcs11 plugin falls back to software hashing for PKCS#1v1.5 RSA signatures
120 if mechanisms with hashing (e.g. CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS) are not supported.
121
122- The owner/group of log files is now set so the daemon can reopen them if the
123 config is reloaded and it doesn't run as root.
124
125- The wolfssl plugin (with wolfSSL 4.4.0+) supports x448 DH and Ed448 keys.
126
127- The vici plugin stores all CA certificates in one location, which avoids
128 issues with unloading authority sections or clearing all credentials.
129
130- When unloading a vici connection with start_action=start, any related IKE_SAs
131 without children are now terminated (including those in CONNECTING state).
132
133- The hashtable implementation has been changed so it maintains insertion order.
134 This was mainly done so the vici plugin can store its connections in a
135 hashtable, which makes managing high numbers of connections faster.
136
137- The default maximum size for vici messages (512 KiB) can now be changed via
138 VICI_MESSAGE_SIZE_MAX compile option.
139
140- The charon.check_current_path option allows forcing a DPD exchange to check if
141 the current path still works whenever interface/address-changes are detected.
142
143- It's possible to use clocks other than CLOCK_MONOTONIC (e.g. CLOCK_BOOTTIME)
144 via TIME_CLOCK_ID compile option if clock_gettime() is available and
145 pthread_condattr_setclock() supports that clock.
146
147- Test cases and functions can now be filtered when running the unit tests.
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152
153- In IKEv1 Quick Mode make sure that a proposal exists before determining
154 lifetimes (fixes crash due to null pointer exception).
155
156- OpenSSL currently doesn't support squeezing bytes out of a SHAKE128/256
157 XOF (eXtended Output Function) multiple times. Unfortunately,
158 EVP_DigestFinalXOF() completely resets the context and later calls not
159 simply fail, they cause a null-pointer dereference in libcrypto. This
160 fixes the crash at the cost of repeating initializing the whole state
161 and allocating too much data for subsequent calls.
162
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166
167- Updates for the NM backend (and plugin), among others: EAP-TLS authentication,
168 configurable local and remote IKE identities, custom server port, redirection
169 and reauthentication support.
170
171- Previously used reqids are now reallocated to workaround an issue on FreeBSD
172 where the daemon can't use reqids > 16383.
173
174- On Linux, throw type routes are installed for passthrough policies. They act
175 as fallbacks on routes in other tables and require less information, so they
176 can be installed earlier and are not affected by updates.
177
178- For IKEv1, the lifetimes of the selected transform are returned to the
179 initiator, which is an issue with peers that propose different lifetimes in
180 different transforms. We also return the correct transform and proposal IDs.
181
182- IKE_SAs are not re-established anymore if a deletion has been queued.
183
184- Added support for Ed448 keys and certificates via openssl plugin and pki tool.
185 The openssl plugin also supports SHA-3 and SHAKE128/256.
186
187- The use of algorithm IDs from the private use ranges can now be enabled
188 globally, to use them even if no strongSwan vendor ID was exchanged.
189
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193
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194- Identity-based CA constraints are supported via vici/swanctl.conf. They
195 enforce that the remote's certificate chain contains a CA certificate with a
196 specific identity. While similar to the existing CA constraints, they don't
197 require that the CA certificate is locally installed such as intermediate CA
198 certificates received from peers. Compared to wildcard identity matching (e.g.
199 "..., OU=Research, CN=*") this requires less trust in the intermediate CAs (to
200 only issue certificates with legitimate subject DNs) as long as path length
201 basic constraints prevent them from issuing further intermediate CAs.
202
203- Intermediate CA certificates may now be sent in hash-and-URL encoding by
204 configuring a base URL for the parent CA.
205
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206- Implemented NIST SP-800-90A Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG)
207 based on AES-CTR and SHA2-HMAC modes. Currently used by gmp and ntru plugins.
208
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209- Random nonces sent in an OCSP requests are now expected in the corresponding
210 OCSP responses.
211
212- The kernel-netlink plugin ignores deprecated IPv6 addresses for MOBIKE.
213 Whether temporary or permanent IPv6 addresses are included depends on the
214 charon.prefer_temporary_addrs setting.
215
216- Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN) are configured via PF_KEY if supported by the
217 kernel.
218
219- Unique section names are used for CHILD_SAs in vici child-updown events and
220 more information (e.g. statistics) are included for individually deleted
221 CHILD_SAs (in particular for IKEv1).
222
223- So fallbacks to other plugins work properly, creating HMACs via openssl plugin
224 now fails instantly if the underlying hash algorithm isn't supported (e.g.
225 MD5 in FIPS-mode).
226
227- Exponents of RSA keys read from TPM 2.0 via SAPI are now correctly converted.
228
229- Routing table IDs > 255 are supported for custom routes on Linux.
230
231- The D-Bus config file for charon-nm is now installed in
232 $(datadir)/dbus-1/system.d instead of $(sysconfdir)/dbus-1/system.d.
233
234- INVALID_MAJOR_VERSION notifies are now correctly sent in messages of the same
235 exchange type and using the same message ID as the request.
236
237- IKEv2 SAs are immediately destroyed when sending or receiving INVALID_SYNTAX
238 notifies in authenticated messages.
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244- RDNs in Distinguished Names can now optionally be matched less strict. The
245 global option charon.rdn_matching takes two alternative values that cause the
246 matching algorithm to either ignore the order of matched RDNs or additionally
247 accept DNs that contain more RDNs than configured (unmatched RDNs are treated
248 like wildcard matches).
249
250- The updown plugin now passes the same interface to the script that is also
251 used for the automatically installed routes, i.e. the interface over which the
252 peer is reached instead of the interface on which the local address is found.
253
254- TPM 2.0 contexts are now protected by a mutex to prevent issues if multiple
255 IKE_SAs use the same private key concurrently.
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261- The systemd service units have been renamed. The modern unit, which was called
262 strongswan-swanctl, is now called strongswan (the previous name is configured
263 as alias). The legacy unit is now called strongswan-starter.
264
265- Support for XFRM interfaces (available since Linux 4.19) has been added.
266 Configuration is possible via swanctl.conf. Interfaces may be created
267 dynamically via updown/vici scripts, or statically before or after
268 establishing the SAs. Routes must be added manually as needed (the daemon will
269 not install any routes for outbound policies with an interface ID).
270
271- Initiation of childless IKE_SAs is supported (RFC 6023). If enabled and
272 supported by the responder, no CHILD_SA is established during IKE_AUTH. This
273 allows using a separate DH exchange even for the first CHILD_SA, which is
274 otherwise created with keys derived from the IKE_SA's key material.
275
276- The NetworkManager backend and plugin support IPv6.
277
278- The new wolfssl plugin is a wrapper around the wolfSSL crypto library. Thanks
279 to Sean Parkinson of wolfSSL Inc. for the initial patch.
280
281- IKE SPIs may optionally be labeled via the charon.spi_mask|label options. This
282 feature was extracted from charon-tkm, however, now applies the mask/label in
283 network order.
284
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285- The openssl plugin supports ChaCha20-Poly1305 when built with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
286
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287- The PB-TNC finite state machine according to section 3.2 of RFC 5793 was not
288 correctly implemented when sending either a CRETRY or SRETRY batch. These
289 batches can only be sent in the "Decided" state and a CRETRY batch can
290 immediately carry all messages usually transported by a CDATA batch. It is
291 currently not possible to send a SRETRY batch since full-duplex mode for
292 PT-TLS transport is not supported.
293
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294- Instead of marking virtual IPv6 addresses as deprecated, the kernel-netlink
295 plugin uses address labels to avoid their use for non-VPN traffic.
296
297- The agent plugin creates sockets to the ssh/gpg-agent dynamically and does not
298 keep them open, which otherwise can prevent the agent from getting terminated.
299
300- To avoid broadcast loops the forecast plugin now only reinjects packets that
301 are marked or received from the configured interface.
302
303- UTF-8 encoded passwords are supported via EAP-MSCHAPv2, which internally uses
304 an UTF-16LE encoding to calculate the NT hash.
305
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306- Adds the build-certs script to generate the keys and certificates used for
307 regression tests dynamically. They are built with the pki version installed
308 in the KVM root image so it's not necessary to have an up-to-date version with
309 all required plugins installed on the host system.
310
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315- Private key implementations may optionally provide a list of supported
316 signature schemes, which is used by the tpm plugin because for each key on a
317 TPM 2.0 the hash algorithm and for RSA also the padding scheme is predefined.
318
319- For RSA with PSS padding, the TPM 2.0 specification mandates the maximum salt
320 length (as defined by the length of the key and hash). However, if the TPM is
321 FIPS-168-4 compliant, the salt length equals the hash length. This is assumed
322 for FIPS-140-2 compliant TPMs, but if that's not the case, it might be
323 necessary to manually enable charon.plugins.tpm.fips_186_4 if the TPM doesn't
324 use the maximum salt length.
325
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326- swanctl now accesses directories for credentials relative to swanctl.conf, in
327 particular, when it's loaded from a custom location via --file argument. The
328 base directory that's used if --file is not given is configurable at runtime
329 via SWANCTL_DIR environment variable.
330
331- With RADIUS Accounting enabled, the eap-radius plugin adds the session ID to
332 Access-Request messages, simplifying associating database entries for IP
333 leases and accounting with sessions.
334
335- IPs assigned by RADIUS servers are included in Accounting-Stop even if clients
336 don't claim them, allowing releasing them early on connection errors.
337
338- Selectors installed on transport mode SAs by the kernel-netlink plugin are
339 updated on IP address changes (e.g. via MOBIKE).
340
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341- Added support for RSA signatures with SHA-256 and SHA-512 to the agent plugin.
342 For older versions of ssh/gpg-agent that only support SHA-1, IKEv2 signature
343 authentication has to be disabled via charon.signature_authentication.
344
345- The sshkey and agent plugins support Ed25519/Ed448 SSH keys and signatures.
346
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347- The openssl plugin supports X25519/X448 Diffie-Hellman and Ed25519/Ed448 keys
348 and signatures when built against OpenSSL 1.1.1.
349
0e80eb23 350- Ed25519, ChaCha20/Poly1305, SHA-3 and AES-CCM were added to the botan plugin.
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351
352- The mysql plugin now properly handles database connections with transactions
353 under heavy load.
354
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355- IP addresses in HA pools are now distributed evenly among all segments.
356
357- On newer FreeBSD kernels, the kernel-pfkey plugin reads the reqid directly
358 from SADB_ACQUIRE messages, i.e. not requiring previous policy installation by
359 the plugin, e.g. for compatibility with if_ipsec(4) VTIs.
360
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364
365- Fixes a vulnerability in the gmp plugin triggered by crafted certificates with
366 RSA keys with very small moduli. When verifying signatures with such keys,
367 the code patched with the fix for CVE-2018-16151/2 caused an integer underflow
368 and subsequent heap buffer overflow that results in a crash of the daemon.
369 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-17540.
370
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374
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375- Fixes a potential authorization bypass vulnerability in the gmp plugin that
376 was caused by a too lenient verification of PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures. Several
377 flaws could be exploited by a Bleichenbacher-style attack to forge signatures
378 for low-exponent keys (i.e. with e=3). CVE-2018-16151 has been assigned to
379 the problem of accepting random bytes after the OID of the hash function in
380 such signatures, and CVE-2018-16152 has been assigned to the issue of not
b3ab7a48 381 verifying that the parameters in the ASN.1 algorithmIdentifier structure is
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382 empty. Other flaws that don't lead to a vulnerability directly (e.g. not
383 checking for at least 8 bytes of padding) have no separate CVE assigned.
384
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385- Dots are not allowed anymore in section names in swanctl.conf and
386 strongswan.conf. This mainly affects the configuration of file loggers. If the
387 path for such a log file contains dots it now has to be configured in the new
388 `path` setting within the arbitrarily renamed subsection in the `filelog`
389 section.
390
391- Sections in swanctl.conf and strongswan.conf may now reference other sections.
392 All settings and subsections from such a section are inherited. This allows
393 to simplify configs as redundant information has only to be specified once
394 and may then be included in other sections (refer to the example in the man
395 page for strongswan.conf).
396
397- The originally selected IKE config (based on the IPs and IKE version) can now
398 change if no matching algorithm proposal is found. This way the order
399 of the configs doesn't matter that much anymore and it's easily possible to
400 specify separate configs for clients that require weak algorithms (instead
401 of having to also add them in other configs that might be selected).
402
403- Support for Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2 (draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2)
404 has been added.
405
406- The new botan plugin is a wrapper around the Botan C++ crypto library. It
407 requires a fairly recent build from Botan's master branch (or the upcoming
408 2.8.0 release). Thanks to René Korthaus and his team from Rohde & Schwarz
409 Cybersecurity for the initial patch.
410
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411- The pki tool accepts a xmppAddr otherName as a subjectAlternativeName using
412 the syntax --san xmppaddr:<jid>.
413
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415 for PA-TNC". SWIMA subscription option sets CLOSE_WRITE trigger on apt
416 history.log file resulting in a ClientRetry PB-TNC batch to initialize
417 a new measurement cycle.
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419- Added support for fuzzing the PA-TNC (RFC 5792) and PB-TNC (RFC 5793) NEA
420 protocols on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure.
421
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422- Support for version 2 of Intel's TPM2-TSS TGC Software Stack. The presence of
423 the in-kernel /dev/tpmrm0 resource manager is automatically detected.
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425- Marks the in- and/or outbound SA should apply to packets after processing may
426 be configured in swanctl.conf on Linux. For outbound SAs this requires at
427 least a 4.14 kernel. Setting a mask and configuring a mark/mask for inbound
428 SAs will be added with the upcoming 4.19 kernel.
429
430- New options in swanctl.conf allow configuring how/whether DF, ECN and DS
431 fields in the IP headers are copied during IPsec processing. Controlling this
432 is currently only possible on Linux.
433
434- To avoid conflicts, the dhcp plugin now only uses the DHCP server port if
435 explicitly configured.
436
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440
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441- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is
442 used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF.
443 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811.
444
445- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received
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446 length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured,
447 root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default
448 configuration this shouldn't be an issue.
449 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-5388.
450
451⁻ CRLs that are not yet valid are now ignored to avoid problems in scenarios
452 where expired certificates are removed from CRLs and the clock on the host
453 doing the revocation check is trailing behind that of the host issuing CRLs.
454
455- The issuer of fetched CRLs is now compared to the issuer of the checked
456 certificate.
457
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458- CRL validation results other than revocation (e.g. a skipped check because
459 the CRL couldn't be fetched) are now stored also for intermediate CA
460 certificates and not only for end-entity certificates, so a strict CRL policy
461 can be enforced in such cases.
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463- In compliance with RFC 4945, section 5.1.3.2, certificates used for IKE must
464 now either not contain a keyUsage extension (like the ones generated by pki)
0d0c8f7d 465 or have at least one of the digitalSignature or nonRepudiation bits set.
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467- New options for vici/swanctl allow forcing the local termination of an IKE_SA.
468 This might be useful in situations where it's known the other end is not
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469 reachable anymore, or that it already removed the IKE_SA, so retransmitting a
470 DELETE and waiting for a response would be pointless. Waiting only a certain
471 amount of time for a response before destroying the IKE_SA is also possible
472 by additionally specifying a timeout.
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474- When removing routes, the kernel-netlink plugin now checks if it tracks other
475 routes for the same destination and replaces the installed route instead of
476 just removing it. Same during installation, where existing routes previously
477 weren't replaced. This should allow using traps with virtual IPs on Linux.
478
479- The dhcp plugin only sends the client identifier option if identity_lease is
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480 enabled. It can also send identities of up to 255 bytes length, instead of
481 the previous 64 bytes. If a server address is configured, DHCP requests are
482 now sent from port 67 instead of 68 to avoid ICMP port unreachables.
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484- Roam events are now completely ignored for IKEv1 SAs.
485
486- ChaCha20/Poly1305 is now correctly proposed without key length. For
487 compatibility with older releases the chacha20poly1305compat keyword may be
488 included in proposals to also propose the algorithm with a key length.
489
490- Configuration of hardware offload of IPsec SAs is now more flexible and allows
0d0c8f7d 491 a new mode, which automatically uses it if the kernel and device support it.
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493- SHA-2 based PRFs are supported in PKCS#8 files as generated by OpenSSL 1.1.
494
495- The pki --verify tool may load CA certificates and CRLs from directories.
496
497- Fixed an issue with DNS servers passed to NetworkManager in charon-nm.
498
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503- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the parser for PKCS#1 RSASSA-PSS signatures that
504 was caused by insufficient input validation. One of the configurable
505 parameters in algorithm identifier structures for RSASSA-PSS signatures is the
506 mask generation function (MGF). Only MGF1 is currently specified for this
507 purpose. However, this in turn takes itself a parameter that specifies the
508 underlying hash function. strongSwan's parser did not correctly handle the
509 case of this parameter being absent, causing an undefined data read.
510 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-6459.
511
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512- The previously negotiated DH group is reused when rekeying an SA, instead of
513 using the first group in the configured proposals, which avoids an additional
514 exchange if the peer selected a different group via INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD when
515 the SA was created initially.
516 The selected DH group is also moved to the front of all sent proposals that
517 contain it and all proposals that don't are moved to the back in order to
518 convey the preference for this group to the peer.
519
520- Handling of MOBIKE task queuing has been improved. In particular, the response
521 to an address update is not ignored anymore if only an address list update or
522 DPD is queued.
523
524- The fallback drop policies installed to avoid traffic leaks when replacing
525 addresses in installed policies are now replaced by temporary drop policies,
526 which also prevent acquires because we currently delete and reinstall IPsec
527 SAs to update their addresses.
528
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529- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
530 referenced via the NV index.
531
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532- Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
533 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
534
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535- Fixed proposal selection if a peer incorrectly sends DH groups in the ESP
536 proposals during IKE_AUTH and also if a DH group is configured in the local
537 ESP proposal and charon.prefer_configured_proposals is disabled.
538
539- MSKs received via RADIUS are now padded to 64 bytes to avoid compatibility
540 issues with EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PRFs that have a block size < 64 bytes (e.g.
541 AES-XCBC-PRF-128).
542
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543- The tpm_extendpcr command line tool extends a digest into a TPM PCR.
544
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545- Ported the NetworkManager backend from the deprecated libnm-glib to libnm.
546
547- The save-keys debugging/development plugin saves IKE and/or ESP keys to files
548 compatible with Wireshark.
549
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552----------------
553
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554- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
555 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
556 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
557 custom proposals.
558
559- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
560 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
561 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
562 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
563 authentication constraints.
564
565- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
566 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
567
568- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 569 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
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570 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
571 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
572 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
573 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
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575- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
576 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
577 versions having an empty package name.
578
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579- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
580 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
581 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
582
583- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
584 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
585 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
586
587- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
588 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
589
590- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
591 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
592
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595----------------
596
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597- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
598 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
599 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
600 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
601 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
602 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
603 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
604 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
605
693705c7 606- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 607 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
693705c7 608
f237bfcb 609- The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
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610 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
611
612- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
613 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
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614 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
615 package versions.
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617- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
618 via the --keyid parameter.
619
620- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
621 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
622
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623- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
624 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
625 binary EAP secret.
626
627- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
628 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
629 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
630 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
631
632- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
633 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
634
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637----------------
638
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639- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
640 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
641 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
642 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
643 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
644 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
645
646- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
647 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
648 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
649 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
650
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651- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
652 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
653 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
654 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
655 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
656 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
657
658- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
659 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
660 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
661 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
662 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
663 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
664 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
665
666- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
667 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
668 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
669
670- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
671 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
672 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
673
674- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
675 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
676 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
677
678- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
679 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
680 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
681 certificate cache).
682
683- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
684 for hardware that supports this.
685
686- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
687 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
688 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
689 referenced.
690
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691- The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
692
693
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694strongswan-5.5.2
695----------------
696
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697- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
698 by RFC 8031.
699
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700- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
701 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
702 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
703
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704- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
705 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
706 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
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707 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
708 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
709 the TPM private key.
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712 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
713 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
714 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
715 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
716
e16d1005 717- In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
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718 of stale copies in cache memory.
719
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720- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
721 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
722 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
723 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
724 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
725 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
726 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
727 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
728
729 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
730 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
731 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
732 section.
733
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736----------------
737
738- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
739 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
740 Peter Schwabe.
741
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742- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
743 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
744 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
745 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
746 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
747
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748- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
749 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
750 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
751 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
752 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
753
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754- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
755 sha3 and gmp plugins.
756
e31ed9ab 757- The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
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758 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
759 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
760
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761- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
762 base and delta CRLs to disk.
763
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764- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
765 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
766
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767- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
768 tss2_tcti_finalize().
769
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772----------------
773
774- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
775 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
776 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
777
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778- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
779 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
780 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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782- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
783 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
784
785- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
786 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
787
788- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
789 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
790 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
791 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
792 and prefer those with a reqid.
793
794- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
795
796- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
797 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
798 identities and EAP types.
799
800- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
801 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
802 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
803
804- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
805 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
806 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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810----------------
811
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812- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
813 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
814 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
815 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
816 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
817
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818- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
819 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
820 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
821
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822- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
823 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
824 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
825 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
826 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
827 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
828 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
829 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
830
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831- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
832 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
833 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
834
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835- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
836 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
837 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
838 support arbitrary ranges.
839
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840- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
841 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
842 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
843 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
844
845- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
846 used as owners of shared secrets.
847
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850----------------
851
852- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
853 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
854
855- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
856
857
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858strongswan-5.3.4
859----------------
860
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861- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
862 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
863 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
864 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
865
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866- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
867 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
868 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
869 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
870
871
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872strongswan-5.3.3
873----------------
874
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875- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
876 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
877 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
878 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
879 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
880 cipher for ESP SAs.
39660798 881
63d37038 882- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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883 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
884
885- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
886 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
b3ab7a48 887 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures using the
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888 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
889
890- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
891 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
892
893- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
894 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
895 daemon when it installs its policies.
896
897- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
898 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
899 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
900 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
901
902- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
903 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
904 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
905 same config as responder).
906
907- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
908 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
909
a215008c 910- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 911 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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912 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
913
914- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
915 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
916
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919----------------
920
921- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
922 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
923 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
924 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
925 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
926
927
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928strongswan-5.3.1
929----------------
930
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931- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
932 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
933 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
934 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
935 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
936 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
937
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938- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
939 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
940 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
941 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
942
943
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945----------------
946
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947- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
948 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
949 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
950 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
951 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
952 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
953 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
954
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955- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
956 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
957 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
958 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
959
960- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
961 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
962 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
963 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
964 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
965 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
966 enough.
967
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969 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
970 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
971 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
972 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
973
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974- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
975 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
976 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
977 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
978 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
979 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
980
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981- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
982 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
983 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
984
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985- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
986 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
987 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
988 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
989
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990- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
991 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
992 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
993
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994- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
995 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
996 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
997
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998- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
999 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
1000 PT-TLS transport medium.
1001
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1006- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
1007 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
1008 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
1009 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
1010 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
1011 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
1012 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
1013
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1014- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
1015 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
1016 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
1017 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
1018
30a90ccf 1019- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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1020 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
1021 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
1022
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1024 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
1025
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1028----------------
1029
1030- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
1031 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
1032 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
1033 supports native systemd journal logging.
1034
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1035- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
1036 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
1037
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1038- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
1039 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
1040 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
1041 per segment basis.
1042
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1043- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
1044 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
1045
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1046- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
1047 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
1048 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
1049 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
1050
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1054
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1055- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
1056 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
1057 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
1058 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
1059 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
1060 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
1061 WinHTTP API.
1062
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1063- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
1064 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
1065 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
1066 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
1067 for more control and better reliability.
1068
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1069- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
1070 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
1071 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
1072 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 1073 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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1075- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
1076 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
1077
37cb91d7 1078- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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1079 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
1080 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
1081 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
1082 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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1084- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
1085 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
1086
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1087- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
1088 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
1089
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1090- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
1091
03b5def0 1092- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 1093 Connect.
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1095- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
1096 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
1097 6Wind.
1098
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1102
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1103- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
1104 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
1105 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
1106 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
1107 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
1108
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1109- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
1110 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
1111 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
1112 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
1113
1114- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
1115 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
1116 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
1117
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1118- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
1119 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
1120
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1125- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
1126 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
1127 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
1128 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
1129 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
1130 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
1131 the current defaults.
1132
1133- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
1134 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
1135 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
1136 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
1137 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
1138 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
1139
1140- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
1141 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
1142 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
1143 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
1144 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
1145
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1146- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
1147 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
1148 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
1149 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
1150 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
1151 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
1152
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1153- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
1154 Attestation IMV.
1155
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1156- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
1157 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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1159- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
1160 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
1161 Andrea Bonomi.
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1163- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
1164 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
1165 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
1166
1167
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1169----------------
1170
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1171- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
1172 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
1173 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
1174 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
1175
1176- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
1177 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
1178 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
1179
2b32884d 1180- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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1181 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
1182 plugin.
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1184- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
1185 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
1186
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1187- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
1188 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
1189 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
1190 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
1191 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
1192
1193- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
1194 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
1195 as pluto used it.
1196
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1197- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
1198 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
1199 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
1200 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
1201
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1202- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
1203 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
1204 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
1205
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1206- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
1207 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
1208 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
1209 from a internal network.
1210
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1211- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
1212 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
1213 more trustworthy alternative.
1214
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1215- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
1216 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
1217
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1218- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
1219 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
1220
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1221- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
1222 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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1224- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
1225 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
1226
1227- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
1228 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
1229
1230- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
1231 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
1232
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1233- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
1234 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
1235 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
1236 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
1237
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1240----------------
1241
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1242- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
1243 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
1244 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
1245 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
1246
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1247- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
1248 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
1249 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
1250 few simple command line options.
1251
1252- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 1253 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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1254 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
1255
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1256- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
1257 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
1258
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1259- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
1260 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
1261 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
1262 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
1263 backend for IKEv1.
1264
78e6f69e 1265- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
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1266 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
1267 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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1268
1269- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
1270 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
1271 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
1272 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
1273 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
1274 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
1275
1276- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
1277 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
1278 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
1279
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1280- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
1281
3a938a6f 1282- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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1283 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
1284 between peers.
1285
226f34e0 1286- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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1287 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
1288 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
1289 and/or device.
1290
1291- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
1292 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
1293 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
1294 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
1295 production releases).
1296
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1297- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
1298 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
1299 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
1300
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1301- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
1302 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
1303 hashtables.
1304
1305- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
1306 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
1307 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
1308 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
1309
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1310- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
1311 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
1312 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
1313 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
1314
1315- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
1316 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
1317 TCP connections from a different host.
1318
78e6f69e 1319- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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1322strongswan-5.0.4
1323----------------
1324
1325- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
1326 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
1327 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
1328 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
1329 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
1330 legitimate one.
1331
1332- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
1333 was fixed as well.
1334
1335- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
1336 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
1337
1338- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
1339 requests.
1340
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1341- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
1342
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1345----------------
1346
1347- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
1348 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
1349 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
1350 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
1351 created by Reto Guadagnini.
1352
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1353- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
1354 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
1355 device ID in the attest database.
1356
1357- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
1358 if the hardware supports it.
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1360- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
1361 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
1362 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
1363 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
1364 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
1365 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
1366 to Accounting-Stops.
1367
1368- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
1369 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
1370 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
1371
1372- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
1373 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
1374
1375- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
1376 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
1377 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
1378 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
1379
1380- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
1381 IKE packets.
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1383- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
1384 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
1385 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
1386 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
1387 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
1388
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1389- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
1390 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
1391 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
1392 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
1393 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
1394 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
e4a3ef2e 1395 can be found at https://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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1398----------------
1399
1400- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
1401 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
1402
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1403- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
1404 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
1405
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1406- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
1407 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
1408 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
1409 or receive notifications.
1410
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1411- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
1412 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
1413
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1414- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
1415 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
1416 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
1417 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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1419- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
1420 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
1421 section.
1422
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1423- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
1424 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
1425 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
1426 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
1427 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
1428
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1429- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
1430 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
1431 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
1432 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
1433
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1434- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
1435 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
1436 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
1437
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1438- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
1439 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
1440 Volker Rümelin.
1441
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1442- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
1443 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
1444
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1445- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
1446 guest images based on Debian.
1447
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1450----------------
1451
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1452- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
1453 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
1454
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1455- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
1456 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 1457 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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1458
1459- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
1460 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
1461 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
b3ab7a48 1462 consolidated recommendation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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1463 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
1464
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1465- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
1466 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
1467 against a RADIUS server.
1468
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1469- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
1470 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
1471 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
1472 including xauth-pam.
1473
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1474- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
1475 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
1476 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
1477 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
1478 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
1479 aware clients.
1480
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1481- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
1482 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
1483 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
1484
1485- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
1486 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
1487 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
1488 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
1489
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1490- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
1491 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
1492 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
1493 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
1494 IP addresses to return.
1495
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1496- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
1497 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
1498 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
1499 specified or referenced named pools.
1500
1501- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
1502 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
1503
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1504- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
1505 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
1506
1507- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
1508 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
1509 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
1510 is preserved.
1511
1512- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
1513 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
1514
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1515- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
1516 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
1517 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
1518
1519- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
1520 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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1525
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1526- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
1527 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
1528 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
1529 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
1530 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
1531 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
ca280574 1532 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
e4a3ef2e 1533 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
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1535- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
1536 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
1537 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
1538 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
1539 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1540 the thread calling the listener.
1541 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1542 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1543 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1544 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1545
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1546- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1547 reappear.
1548
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1549- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1550 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1551 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1552 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1553 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1554 feature).
1555
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1556- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1557 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1558 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1559 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1560 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1561 using SHA-256 or better.
1562
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1565----------------
1566
1567- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1568 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1569 a legitimate one.
1570
1571- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1572
1573
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1575----------------
1576
1577- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1578 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1579
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1580- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1581 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1582 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1583 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1584
1585- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1586 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1587 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1588 console.
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1590- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1591 RFC 4595.
1592
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1593- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1594 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1595
4e2e77d5 1596- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1597 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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1599- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1600 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1601
1602
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1604----------------
1605
1606- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1607 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1608 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1609 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1610
1611- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1612 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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1613 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1614 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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1616- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1617 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1618 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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1620- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1621 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1622 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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1624- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1625
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1628----------------
1629
1630- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1631 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1632 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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1633 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1634 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1635 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1636 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1637 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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1640 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1641 post-installation phase.
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1646
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1647- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1648 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1649 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1650
1651- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1652 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1653 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1654 for the initial patch.
1655
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1656- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1657 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1658
1659- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1660
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1661- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1662 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1663 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1664 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1665 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1666 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1667
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1668- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1669 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1670 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1671 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1672 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1673 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1674
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1675- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1676 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1677 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1678
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1681----------------
1682
a7edbd21 1683- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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1684 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1685 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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1686 directory.
1687
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1688- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1689 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1690
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1691- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1692 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1693 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1694
1695- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1696 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1697
f8799170 1698- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1699 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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1700 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1701 interfaces.
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1703- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1704 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1705
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1706- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1707 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1708 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1709 the client is admitted to the network.
1710 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1711
1712- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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1713 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1714
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1715- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1716 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1717 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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1722
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1723- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1724 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1725 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1726 whitelist administration.
1727
92ebb7c5 1728- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1729 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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1730 application about detected duplicates.
1731
1732- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1733 authentication to previously used certificates.
1734
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1735- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1736 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1737 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1738 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1739
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1740- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
1741
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1742- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1743 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1744
1745- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1746 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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1748- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1749 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1750 support configuration reloading.
1751
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1752- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1753 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1754 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1755 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1756 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1757 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1758
1759- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1760 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1761 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1762
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1765----------------
1766
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1767- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1768 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1769 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1770 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1771 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1772 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1773
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1774- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1775 in place of the external libtnc library.
1776
1777- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1778 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1779 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1780 the corresponding protocol stack.
1781
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1782- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1783 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1784 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1785 in an SQL database.
1786
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1787- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1788 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1789 points in an SQL database.
1790
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1791- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1792 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1793 replaced, respectively.
1794
1795- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1796 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1797 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1798 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1799 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1800 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1801 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1802
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1803- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1804 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1805
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1806- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1807 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1808 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1809
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1810- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1811 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1812 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1813 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 1815- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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1816 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1817 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1818
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1819- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1820 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1821 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1822 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1823 ./configure switch.
1824
77eee25f 1825- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 1826 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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1827 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1828 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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1829 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1830 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1831
1832- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1833 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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1835- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1836 support for delta CRLs.
1837
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1840----------------
1841
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1842- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1843 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 1844 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 1845 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 1846 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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1848- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1849 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1850 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1851 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1852
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1853- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1854 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 1855 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1856 tokens.
1857
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1858- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1859 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1860 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1861 client authentication.
1862
1863- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1864 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1865 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 1866
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1868 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1869 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1870 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1871 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1872 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1873 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1874 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1875
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1876- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1877 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1878 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1879
1880- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1881 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1882
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1883- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1884 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1885 availability.
1886
1887- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1888 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1889 implement a simple event listener.
1890
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1891- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1892 initial responder moves to a different address.
1893
1894- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1895
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1896- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1897 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1898
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1899- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1900 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1901 UNITY_BANNER).
1902
1903- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1904 charon plugins.
1905
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1906- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1907
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1910----------------
1911
ec40c02a 1912- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1913 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1914 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1915
b22bb9f2 1916- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1917 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1918 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1919
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1921
e9448cfc 1922- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
2db6d5b8 1923 by default. Please update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1925- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1926 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1927 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1928
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1929- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1930
1931- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1932 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1933
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1934- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1935 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1936
e87b78c6 1937- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1938 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1939 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1940
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1941- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1942 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1943
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1944- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1945 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1946
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1947- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1948 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1949 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1950 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1951 plugin.
1c1f132a 1952
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1953- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1954 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1955 unauthenticated users.
1956
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1960
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1961- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1962 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1963 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
e4a3ef2e 1964 https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1965 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1966 secunet Security Networks AG.
1967
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1968- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1969 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1970 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1971 kernel interface.
1972
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1973- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1974 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1975 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1976 from IBM for his contribution.
1977
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1978- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1979 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1980 are allocated.
1981
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1983 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1984 command line option.
1985
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1986- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1987 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1988 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1989 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1990 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1991 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1992
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1993- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1994 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1995 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1996 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1997
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1998- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1999 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
2000 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
2001 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
2002
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2004 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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2009
cdad91de 2010- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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2011 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
2012
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2013- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
2014 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
2015 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
2016
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2017- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
2018
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2019- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
2020
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2021- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
2022 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
2023 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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2024 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
2025
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2026- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
2027
2b2c69e9 2028- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 2029
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2030- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
2031 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
2032 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
2033 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
2034 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 2035
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2036- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
2037 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
2038 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
2039
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2040- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
2041 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
2042
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2043- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
2044 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
2045 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
2046 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
2047 this is the case.
2048
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2049- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
2050 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
2051 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
2052 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
2053 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
2054
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2055- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
2056 allowing interoperability.
2057
2058
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2059strongswan-4.3.5
2060----------------
2061
628f023d
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2062- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
2063 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
2064 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 2065 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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2066 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
2067
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2068- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
2069 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
2070 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
2071 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
2072 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
2073
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2074- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
2075 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
2076 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
b6b90b68 2077
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2078- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
2079 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
2080 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
2081
d245f5cf 2082- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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2083 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
2084
2085- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
2086 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
2087 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
2088
2089- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
2090 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
2091
2092- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 2093 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
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2094 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
2095 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
2096 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
2097 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
2098
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2099- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
2100 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
2101 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
2102 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
2103
b80fa9ca 2104- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 2105 statements.
b80fa9ca 2106
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2107- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
2108
2109- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
2110 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
2111
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2112- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
2113 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
2114
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2115- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
2116 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
2117 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 2118
85af7a89 2119
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2120strongswan-4.3.4
2121----------------
2122
2123- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
2124 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
2125
2126- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
2127 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
2128
2129- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
2130
2131
1c7f456a
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2132strongswan-4.3.3
2133----------------
2134
aa74d705
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2135- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
2136 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
2137 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
2138 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
2139 manipulations can be reliably detected.
2140
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2141- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
2142 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
2143
2144- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
2145 authenticated encryption algorithms.
2146
aa74d705
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2147- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
2148
2149- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
2150 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
2151 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
2152
1c7f456a 2153
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2154strongswan-4.3.2
2155----------------
2156
2157- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
2158 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
2159
2160- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
2161 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
2162 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
2163
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2164- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
2165 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
2166 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
2167 with IKEv1.
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2168
2169- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
2170 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
2171 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
2172 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 2173
b32af120 2174
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2175strongswan-4.3.1
2176----------------
2177
2178- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 2179 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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2180 dynamically.
2181
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2182- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
2183 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
b3ab7a48 2184 as its identity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
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2185 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
2186 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 2187
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2188- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
2189 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
2190 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
2191 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
2192 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
2193 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
2194
09dbca9f 2195- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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2196 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
2197 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
2198
2199- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
2200 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
2201 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
2202
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2203- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
2204
2205- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
2206 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
2207 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
2208 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
17c99722 2209 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer dereference because the
b6b90b68 2210 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 2211 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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2212 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
2213
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2214- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
2215 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
2216
d44fd821 2217- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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2218 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
2219 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 2220 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 2221 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
d44fd821
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2222
2223
247e665a
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2224strongswan-4.3.0
2225----------------
2226
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2227- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
2228 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
2229 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
2230 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
b3ab7a48 2231 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more details.
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2232
2233- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
2234 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
2235
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AS
2236- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
2237 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 2238
558c89e7
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2239- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
2240 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
2241 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 2242
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AS
2243- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
2244 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 2245
247e665a 2246
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2247strongswan-4.2.14
2248-----------------
2249
22180558 2250- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 2251 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
22180558
AS
2252 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
2253
79b27294
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2254- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
2255 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
2256 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
2257 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
2258 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
2259 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
2260 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
2261 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
2262 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
2263
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2264- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
2265 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
2266 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
2267 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
2268
2269- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 2270 IDr payload anymore.
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AS
2271
2272
076e7853
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2273strongswan-4.2.13
2274-----------------
2275
2276- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
2277 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
2278
f3bb1bd0 2279- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 2280 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 2281
f15483ef
AS
2282- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
2283 parameters field is optional.
2284
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2285- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
2286
076e7853 2287
bfde75ee 2288strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 2289-----------------
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AS
2290
2291- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
2292 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
2293 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
2294
2295- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 2296 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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2297 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
2298
2299- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
2300 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
2301
b6b90b68 2302
0519ca90
AS
2303strongswan-4.2.11
2304-----------------
2305
ae1ae574
AS
2306- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
2307 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
2308
2309- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
2310 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
0519ca90
AS
2311
2312
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2313strongswan-4.2.10
2314-----------------
2315
2316- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
2317 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
2318 counterparts with better lookup times.
2319
2320- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 2321 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
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2322 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
2323
2324- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
2325 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
2326 on the fly.
2327
2328- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
2329 command queries assigned leases.
2330
2331- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
2332 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
2333
2334- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
2335 reliable source of randomness.
2336
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2337strongswan-4.2.9
2338----------------
2339
509e07c5
AS
2340- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
2341 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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2342
2343- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
2344 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
2345 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
2346
2347- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 2348 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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2349 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
2350 parallelization to multiple cores.
2351
509e07c5
AS
2352- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
2353 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 2354
509e07c5 2355- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 2356 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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2357 memory or hardware.
2358
509e07c5
AS
2359- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
2360 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
2361 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
2362 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
2363
2364- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
2365 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
2366 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
2367 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
2368 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 2369 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 2370
4dc0dce8
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2371- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
2372 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
2373 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
2374
73937bd8 2375
e39b271b
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2376strongswan-4.2.8
2377----------------
2378
5dadb16e 2379- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
e39b271b
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2380 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
2381 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
2382
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2383- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
2384 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
2db6d5b8 2385 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addresses in MOBIKE updates as
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2386 long as possible and other fixes.
2387
5dadb16e
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2388- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
2389 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
2390 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
2391
e39b271b 2392
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2393strongswan-4.2.7
2394----------------
2395
b37cda82
AS
2396- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
2397 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
2398 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
2399 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 2400 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 2401
b6b90b68 2402- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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2403 ssh-agent.
2404
2405- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 2406 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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2407
2408- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
2409 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
2410 newer libcap2 library.
2411
b37cda82
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2412- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
2413 charon keying daemon.
2414
2415
9f9d6ece
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2416strongswan-4.2.6
2417----------------
2418
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2419- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
2420 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
2421 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
2422 in the Gnome Keyring.
2423
2424- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
2425 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 2426 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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2427 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
2428
2429- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
2430 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
2431 authentication.
2432
9f9d6ece
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2433- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
2434 authentication types and EAP identities.
2435
2436- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
2437 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
2438
2439- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
2440 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
2441
2442
174216c7
AS
2443strongswan-4.2.5
2444----------------
2445
b6b90b68 2446- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
AS
2447
2448- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
2449 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
2450 storing only history information has become optional and can be
2451 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
2452 strongswan.conf.
2453
eb0cc338 2454- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 2455 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 2456
174216c7
AS
2457- management of different virtual IP pools for different
2458 network interfaces have become possible.
2459
b6b90b68 2460- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
174216c7
AS
2461 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
2462
8124e491
AS
2463- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
2464
b6b90b68 2465
179dd12c
AS
2466strongswan-4.2.4
2467----------------
2468
9de95037
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2469- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
2470 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 2471
73a8eed3 2472- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 2473 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
73a8eed3
AS
2474
2475- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
2476 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
2477
2478- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
2479 X.509 certificates.
2480
2481- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
2482 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 2483
e0bb4dbb
AS
2484- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
2485 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
2486
179dd12c 2487
83d9e870
AS
2488strongswan-4.2.3
2489----------------
2490
b6b90b68 2491- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
83d9e870
AS
2492 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
2493
2494- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
2495 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
2496
2497
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2498strongswan-4.2.2
2499----------------
2500
a57cd446
AS
2501- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
2502 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 2503 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
a57cd446
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2504 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
2505 to software-based crypto plugins.
7f491111
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2506
2507- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
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2508 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
2509 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
2510 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
2511
2512- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 2513 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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2514 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
2515
7f491111 2516
5c5d67d6
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2517strongswan-4.2.1
2518----------------
2519
c306dfb1 2520- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
b1f8fc0c
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2521 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
2522 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
2523 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
2524 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
2525 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 2526
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2527- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
2528 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
2529 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
2530 connections.
b6b90b68 2531
f3bb1bd0 2532- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 2533 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 2534 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 2535
b6b90b68 2536- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 2537 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 2538 re-implemented.
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2539
2540- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2541 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 2542
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2543- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2544 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2545 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2546
466abb49 2547- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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2548 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2549 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2550 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2551 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2552
c306dfb1 2553- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2554
c306dfb1 2555- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
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2556
2557- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2558 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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2559 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2560
5c5d67d6 2561
a11ea97d
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2562strongswan-4.2.0
2563----------------
2564
16f5dacd
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2565- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2566 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2567 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2568 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2569 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2570 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2571 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2572
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2573- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2574 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2575
2576- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2577 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2578 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2579 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2580 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2581 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2582 The following new plugins are available:
2583 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2584 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2585 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2586
2587- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2588 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2589 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2590
89bd016e 2591- The framework of strongSwan Manager has evolved to the web application
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2592 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2593 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2594
a11ea97d 2595
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2596strongswan-4.1.11
2597-----------------
fb6d76cd 2598
a561f74d
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2599- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2600 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2601 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2602
2603- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2604 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2605
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2606- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2607 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2608 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2609
fb6d76cd 2610
83e0d841
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2611strongswan-4.1.10
2612-----------------
2613
2614- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2615 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2616
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2617- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2618 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2619 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2620 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2621
2622- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2623 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2624 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2625 before using it.
2626
2627- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2628 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2629 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2630
fb6d76cd 2631
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2632strongswan-4.1.9
2633----------------
2634
800b3356
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2635- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2636 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2637 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2638 added.
5076770c 2639
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2640- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2641 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2642
2643- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2644 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2645
2646- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2647
8b678ad4 2648- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2649 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2650 loaded twice.
5076770c 2651
83e0d841 2652
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2653strongswan-4.1.8
2654----------------
2655
5076770c 2656- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
b82e8231
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2657
2658
a4a3632c
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2659strongswan-4.1.7
2660----------------
2661
2662- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2663 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2db6d5b8 2664 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erroneously deleted.
a4a3632c 2665
6e193274 2666- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2667 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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2668 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2669
2670- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2671 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
e4a3ef2e 2672 (see https://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
6e193274
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2673
2674- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2675 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2676
2677- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2678
a4a3632c 2679
3dcf9dbd
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2680strongswan-4.1.6
2681----------------
2682
3eac4dfd
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2683- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2684 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2685 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2686 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2687 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2688 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2689 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2690 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2691
2692- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2693 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2694 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
b6b90b68
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2695 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2696
bdc0b55b
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2697- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2698 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2699 startup.
b6b90b68 2700
3eac4dfd
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2701- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2702 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2703 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2704 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2705 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2706
f872f9d1
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2707- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2708 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
3dcf9dbd
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2709
2710
7ad634a2
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2711strongswan-4.1.5
2712----------------
2713
2714- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2715 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2716 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2717 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2718 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2719 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2720
8f5b363c
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2721- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2722 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2723 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2724 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2725
7ad634a2 2726
e93c68ba
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2727strongswan-4.1.4
2728----------------
2729
2730- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2731 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2732 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2733 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
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2734 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2735 parameter is not required any more.
078ce348
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2736
2737- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2738 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2739 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2740
2741 right=peer.foo.bar
2742 rightallowany=yes
2743
2744 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2745 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2746 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2747 as
2748
53f8ac3d 2749 right=%any
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2750
2751 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1fbdab85
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2752 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2753
2754 right=%peer.foo.bar
2755
2756 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2757
2758- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2759 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2760 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2761 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2762 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2763
a0a0bdd7
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2764- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2765 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2766 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2767 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2768 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2769
a0a0bdd7
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2770- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2771 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2772 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2773 by Robert Varga.
2774
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2775- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2776 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2777
06651827 2778
a3354a69
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2779strongswan-4.1.3
2780----------------
2781
b6b90b68 2782- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
35d4809c
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2783 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2784
2785- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
41e16cf4
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2786 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2787 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2788
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2789- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2790 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2791 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2792 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2793
2794- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2795 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2796 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2797 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2798
b6b90b68 2799- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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2800 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2801 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2802 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2803 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2804 to implement.
a3354a69 2805
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2806- Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2807 headers > 2.6.17.
41e16cf4
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2808
2809
8ea7b96f
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2810strongswan-4.1.2
2811----------------
2812
e23d98a7 2813- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
37fb0355
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2814 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2815 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2816 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2817
2818- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2819 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2820
d931f465
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2821- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2822
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2823- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2824
dfbe2a0f 2825- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 2826 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 2827
9f78f957
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2828- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2829
8ea7b96f
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2830- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2831 connection name.
2832
e23d98a7 2833
ed284399
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2834strongswan-4.1.1
2835----------------
2836
2837- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2838 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2839 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2840 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2841 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2842 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2843
db88e37d
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2844- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2845 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2846 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2847
3b4f7d92
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2848- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2849 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2850 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2851 vendor ID.
2852
2853- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2854 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2855 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2856 message.
2857
46b9ff68
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2858- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2859 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2860
3b4f7d92 2861
34bbd0c3 2862strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
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2863----------------
2864
2865- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2866 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2867
2868- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2869 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2870 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2871 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2872
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2873- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2874
c5d0fbb6 2875- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2876 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
AS
2877 accessLocations.
2878
69ed04bf
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2879- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2880 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2881 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2882 option.
2883
9b45443d
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2884- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2885 code reuse and separation.
2886
2887- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2888 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2889 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2890
2891- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2892 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2893 specify it.
2894
2895- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2896 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2897 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2898 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2899 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2900 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2901
2902- Added client side support for cookies.
2903
2904- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2905 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2906 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 2907
e23d98a7 2908
1c266d7d
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2909strongswan-4.0.7
2910----------------
2911
6fdf5f44
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2912- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2913 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2914 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1c266d7d
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2915
2916- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2917 to a default string.
2918
2919
2b4405a3
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2920strongswan-4.0.6
2921----------------
2922
e38a15d4
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2923- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2924 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2925 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2926 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
b6b90b68
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2927 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2928
2b4405a3
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2929- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2930
5903179b 2931- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2932
5903179b 2933- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2934
5903179b 2935- various other bugfixes
2b4405a3
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2936
2937
0cd645d2
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2938strongswan-4.0.5
2939----------------
2940
2941- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2942 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2943
2944- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2945 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2946
2947- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2948 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2949 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2950 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2951
0cd645d2 2952 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 2953
0cd645d2
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2954 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2955
2956 config setup
53f8ac3d 2957 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2958
03bf883d 2959 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2960
03bf883d 2961 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
0cd645d2
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2962
2963
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2964strongswan-4.0.4
2965----------------
2966
2967- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2968
2969- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2970 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2971 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2972 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2973 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2974
2975- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2976 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
b3ab7a48 2977 method to authenticate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
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2978
2979- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2980
112ad7c3
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2981- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2982 or 3DES are supported.
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2983
2984- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2985 encrypt IKE traffic.
2986
2987- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2988 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2989
2990- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2991 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2992 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2993 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2994
2995
a1310b6b
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2996strongswan-4.0.3
2997----------------
2998
2999- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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3000 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
3001 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
a1310b6b
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3002 kernel.
3003
3004- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
3005 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
3006 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
3007 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
3008
b425d998
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3009- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
3010 algorithm configuration statements.
3011
3012
bf4df11f
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3013strongswan-4.0.2
3014----------------
3015
623d3dcf
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3016- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
3017 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
3018 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
3019 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 3020
b6b90b68 3021- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 3022 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 3023 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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3024 ipsec.conf rules for now.
3025
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3026- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
3027 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
3028 dpddelay=60s).
3029
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3030- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
3031 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
3032 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
3033 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
3034
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3035- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
3036 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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3037 and a more extensible code base.
3038
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3039- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
3040 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
3041 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
3042 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
3043 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
3044 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
3045 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
3046
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3048strongswan-4.0.1
3049----------------
3050
b6b90b68 3051- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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3052 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
3053 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
3054 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 3055 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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3056 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
3057 algorithms for IKE:
3058 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
3059 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
3060 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
3061 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 3062 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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3063 blowfish192, blowfish256
3064 Integrity: md5, sha1
3065 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 3066 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 3067
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3068- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
3069 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 3070 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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3071 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
3072 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
3073 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 3074
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3075- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
3076 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
3077 configuration examples).
3078
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3079- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
3080 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 3081 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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3082 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
3083
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3084- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
3085 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
3086 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
3087 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
3088 via ipsec starter.
3089
b425d998 3090
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3091strongswan-4.0.0
3092----------------
3093
3094- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 3095 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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3096 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
3097 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
3098 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
3099 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
3100 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
3101 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
3102 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
3103 status command).
3104
3105
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3106strongswan-2.7.0
3107----------------
3108
3109- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
3110 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
3111 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
3112 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
3113 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
3114 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
b3ab7a48 3115 left|rightfirewall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
997358a6 3116 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 3117 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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3118 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
3119 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
3120 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
3121
3122- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
3123 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
3124 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
3125 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
3126 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
3127 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
3128 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
3129 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
3130 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 3131 be inserted.
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3132
3133- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
3134 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
3135 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
3136 be found.
3137
3138
3139strongswan-2.6.4
3140----------------
3141
3142- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
3143 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
3144 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 3145 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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3146 are required any more.
3147
3148- added support of DPD restart mode
3149
3150- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
3151 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
3152 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
3153
3154- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
3155 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
3156
3157
3158strongswan-2.6.3
3159----------------
3160
b6b90b68 3161- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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3162 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
3163
3164- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
3165 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
3166 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 3167
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3168- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
3169 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
3170
3171- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
3172 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
3173 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
3174 the ipsec status command.
b6b90b68 3175
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3176
3177strongswan-2.6.2
3178----------------
3179
3180- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
3181 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
3182 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
3183
3184- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
3185 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
3186 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
3187
3188- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
3189 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
3190
3191 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
3192 rightid="UN=John Doe"
3193
3194- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
3195 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
3196 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
3197
3198 conn rw
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3199 right=%any
3200 rightid=@foo.bar
3201 authby=secret
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3202
3203- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
3204
3205- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
3206
3207- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
3208 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
3209 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
3210
3211- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
3212 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
3213 servers.
3214
3215- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
3216 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
3217
3218
3219strongswan-2.6.1
3220----------------
3221
3222- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
3223 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
3224 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
3225
3226
3227strongswan-2.6.0
3228----------------
3229
3230- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
3231 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
3232 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
3233 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
3234 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
3235 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
b3ab7a48 3236 accelerated tremendously.
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3237
3238- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 3239 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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3240 reload pluto's connections.
3241
3242- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
3243 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
3244 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
3245
3246- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
3247
3248- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
3249
3250- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
3251 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
3252 documented yet.
3253
3254
3255strongswan-2.5.7
3256----------------
3257
2db6d5b8 3258- CA certificates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
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3259 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
3260 listing.
3261
3262
3263strongswan-2.5.6
3264----------------
3265
3266- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
3267 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
3268 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
3269 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
3270
b6b90b68 3271- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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3272 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
3273 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
3274 has been changed from one year to five years.
3275
3276
3277strongswan-2.5.5
3278----------------
3279
3280- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
3281 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
3282 via the whack interface. Notation:
3283
3284 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
3285 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3286 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3287 [--keyid <keyid>]
3288
3289 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
3290 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3291 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3292 [--keyid <keyid>]
3293
b6b90b68 3294 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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3295
3296 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
3297 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
3298 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
3299 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
3300 permanently.
3301
3302- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
3303 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
3304 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
3305 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
3306 is automatically generated by calling the function
3307
3308 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
3309
3310 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
3311 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
3312
3313
3314strongswan-2.5.4
3315----------------
3316
3317- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
3318 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
3319 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
3320 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
3321
3322- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
3323 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
3324
3325
3326strongswan-2.5.3
3327----------------
3328
3329- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
3330 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
3331 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
3332 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
3333 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
3334
3335- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
3336
3337 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
3338 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
3339 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 3340 self-signed certs)
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3341
3342- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
3343 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
53f8ac3d 3344 attribute for AES encryption.
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3345
3346- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
3347
3348- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
3349
3350
3351strongswan-2.5.2
3352----------------
3353
3354- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
3355 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
3356 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
3357 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
3358 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
3359
3360- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
3361 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
3362 multiple connections between two security gateways.
3363
3364
3365strongswan-2.5.1
3366----------------
3367
3368- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
3369 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
b3ab7a48 3370 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_ACQUIRE event
2db6d5b8 3371 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet existing
b3ab7a48 3372 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_ACQUIRE event led to an entry in
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3373 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
3374 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
3375 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
3376
3377- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
3378 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
3379 the command
3380
3381 ipsec auto --listcards
3382
3383 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
3384 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
3385 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
3386 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
3387
3388 %smartcard (selects object #1)
3389 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
3390 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
3391
3392 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
3393
3394 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
3395 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
3396 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
3397
3398- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
3399 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
3400 to generate a signature.
3401
3402- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
3403 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
3404 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
3405 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
3406 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
3407
3408- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
3409 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
3410
3411- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
3412 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
3413 towards the release of the SCEP client.
3414
3415
3416strongswan-2.5.0
3417----------------
3418
3419- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
3420 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
3421 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
3422 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
3423 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
3424 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
3425
3426- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
3427 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
3428 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
3429 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
3430 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
3431 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
b6b90b68 3432
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3433- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
3434 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
3435 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
3436
3437
3438strongswan-2.4.4
3439----------------
3440
3441- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
3442
3443- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
3444
3445
3446strongswan-2.4.3
3447----------------
3448
3449- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
3450 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
3451
3452- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
3453
3454- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
3455 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
3456 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
3457
3458- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
3459 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
3460 included.
3461
3462
3463strongswan-2.4.2
3464----------------
3465
3466- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
3467 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
3468 value of 50.
b6b90b68 3469
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3470- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
3471 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 3472 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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3473 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
3474 pad has to be done only once.
3475
3476- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
3477 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
3478 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 3479
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b6b90b68 3481
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3482- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
3483
3484- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
3485 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
3486
3487- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
3488 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
3489 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 3490
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3491- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
3492 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
3493 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
3494
3495
3496strongswan-2.4.1
3497----------------
3498
3499- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
3500 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
3501 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
3502 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
3503 "left" be"local".
3504
3505
3506strongswan-2.4.0a
3507-----------------
3508
3509- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
3510
3511- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
3512 Michael Meier
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3513
3514
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3515strongswan-2.4.0
3516----------------
3517
3518- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
3519 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
3520 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
3521 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
3522 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
3523 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
3524 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
3525
3526- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
3527 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
3528 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
3529 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
3530 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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3531
3532- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 3533 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 3534 in a particular test.
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3535
3536
3537strongswan-2.3.2
3538----------------
3539
3540- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3541 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 3542
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3543- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3544
3545- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3546 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3547 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3548
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3549- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3550 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3551 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3552 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3553
3554
3555strongswan-2.3.1
3556----------------
3557
3558- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3559
3560- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3561 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3562
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3563- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3564 module.
b6b90b68 3565
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3566- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3567 maximum udp size patches.
3568
3569- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
b6b90b68 3570
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3571
3572strongswan-2.3.0
3573----------------
3574
3575- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3576 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3577 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3578 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3579 subdirectory.
3580
3581- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3582 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 3583 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 3584
997358a6 3585 man ipsec_openac.
b6b90b68 3586
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3587 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3588 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3589 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 3590
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3591 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3592
3593 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3594 Research or Sales, only.
3595
3596- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3597 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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3598 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3599 Secure Entry Clients.
3600
3601- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3602 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3603 now both set to 24 h.
3604
3605- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3606 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3607
3608- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3609 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3610 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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3612 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3613
3614
3615strongswan-2.2.2
3616----------------
3617
3618- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3619 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3620 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3621 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3622
f3bb1bd0 3623- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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3624 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3625 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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3627- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3628
3629- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3630 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3631
3632
3633strongswan-2.2.1
3634----------------
3635
3636- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3637 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3638
f3bb1bd0 3639- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3640 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 3641
997358a6 3642- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3643 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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3644
3645- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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3647- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3648
3649- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3650
3651
3652strongswan-2.2.0
3653----------------
3654
3655- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3656
3657 dpdaction=clear|hold
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3659 activates DPD for the given connection.
3660
3661- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3662 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3663 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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997358a6 3665 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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3667 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3668
3669- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3670 using the compile option VENDORID
3671
3672- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3673
3674- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3675
3676- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3677
3678- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3679 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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3681- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3682
3683- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3684 connection.
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3686
3687strongswan-2.1.5
3688----------------
3689
3690- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3691 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3692 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3693 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3694 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3695
3696- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3697 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3698
3699
3700strongswan-2.1.4
3701----------------
3702
3703- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3704 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3705 an optional connection selector:
3706
3707 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3708
3709- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3710 man page.
3711
3712- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3713 of malformed distinguished names.
3714
3715- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3716
3717 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3718
3719- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3720
3721
3722strongswan-2.1.3
3723----------------
3724
3725- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3726 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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3728
3729strongswan-2.1.2
3730----------------
3731
3732- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3733 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3734 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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3736
3737strongswan-2.1.1
3738----------------
3739
3740- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3741
3742
3743strongswan-2.1.0
3744----------------
3745
3746- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3747
3748 ca kool
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3749 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3750 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3751 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3752 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3753 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3754 auto=add # add, ignore
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997358a6 3756 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
b6b90b68 3757
53f8ac3d 3758 ipsec auto --listcainfos
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3759
3760- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3761 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3762
3763
3764strongswan-2.0.2
3765----------------
3766
3767- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3768 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3769
3770- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3771 during kernel compilation
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3773- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3774 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3775
3776- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3777 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3778 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3779
3780
3781strongswan-2.0.1
3782----------------
3783
3784- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3785 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3786 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3787 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3788
3789- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3790 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3791
3792
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3793strongswan-2.0.0
3794----------------
3795
3796- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12