4 - Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
5 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
7 - The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
8 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
10 - A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
11 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
12 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
13 or receive notifications.
19 - Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
20 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
22 - Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
23 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
24 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
26 - The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
27 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
28 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
29 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
30 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
32 - The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
33 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
34 against a RADIUS server.
36 - The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
37 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
38 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
41 - The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
42 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
43 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
44 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
45 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
48 - An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
49 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
50 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
52 - The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
53 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
54 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
55 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
57 - The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
58 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
59 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
60 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
61 IP addresses to return.
63 - The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
64 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
65 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
66 specified or referenced named pools.
68 - Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
69 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
71 - The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
72 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
74 - The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
75 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
76 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
79 - The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
80 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
82 - The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
83 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
84 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
86 - All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
87 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
92 - The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
93 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
94 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
95 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
96 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
97 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
98 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
99 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
101 - Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
102 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
103 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
104 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
105 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
106 the thread calling the listener.
107 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
108 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
109 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
110 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
112 - Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
115 - The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
116 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
117 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
118 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
119 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
122 - In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
123 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
124 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
125 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
126 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
127 using SHA-256 or better.
133 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
134 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
137 - Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
143 - The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
144 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
146 - The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
147 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
148 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
149 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
151 - The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
152 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
153 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
156 - Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
159 - The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
160 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
162 - The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
163 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
165 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
166 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
172 - Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
173 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
174 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
175 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
177 - Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
178 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
179 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
180 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
182 - The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
183 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
184 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
186 - Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
187 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
188 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
190 - Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
196 - Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
197 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
198 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
199 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
200 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
201 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
202 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
203 libraries for resolving external symbols.
205 - Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
206 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
207 post-installation phase.
213 - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
214 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
215 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
217 - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
218 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
219 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
220 for the initial patch.
222 - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
223 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
225 - Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
227 - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
228 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
229 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
230 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
231 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
232 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
234 - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
235 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
236 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
237 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
238 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
239 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
241 - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
242 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
243 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
249 - Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
250 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
251 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
254 - The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
255 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
257 - Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
258 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
259 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
261 - Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
262 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
264 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
265 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
266 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
269 - The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
270 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
272 - IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
273 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
274 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
275 the client is admitted to the network.
276 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
278 - IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
279 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
281 - The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
282 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
283 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
289 - The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
290 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
291 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
292 whitelist administration.
294 - The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
295 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
296 application about detected duplicates.
298 - The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
299 authentication to previously used certificates.
301 - In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
302 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
303 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
304 only starts|routes the specific child config.
306 - fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
308 - Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
309 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
311 - The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
312 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
314 - The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
315 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
316 support configuration reloading.
318 - Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
319 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
320 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
321 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
322 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
323 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
325 - In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
326 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
327 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
333 - Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
334 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
335 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
336 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
337 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
338 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
340 - Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
341 in place of the external libtnc library.
343 - The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
344 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
345 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
346 the corresponding protocol stack.
348 - IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
349 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
350 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
353 - The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
354 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
355 points in an SQL database.
357 - The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
358 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
359 replaced, respectively.
361 - Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
362 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
363 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
364 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
365 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
366 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
367 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
369 - ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
370 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
372 - Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
373 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
374 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
376 - The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
377 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
378 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
381 - The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
382 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
383 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
385 - The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
386 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
387 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
388 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
391 - The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
392 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
393 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
394 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
395 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
396 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
398 - The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
399 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
401 - The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
402 support for delta CRLs.
408 - IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
409 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
410 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
411 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
412 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
414 - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
415 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
416 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
417 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
419 - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
420 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
421 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
424 - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
425 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
426 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
427 client authentication.
429 - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
430 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
431 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
433 - Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
434 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
435 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
436 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
437 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
438 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
439 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
440 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
442 - The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
443 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
444 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
446 - Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
447 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
449 - The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
450 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
453 - The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
454 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
455 implement a simple event listener.
457 - Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
458 initial responder moves to a different address.
460 - Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
462 - Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
463 identity was different from the IKE identity.
465 - Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
466 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
469 - Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
472 - Added man page for strongswan.conf
478 - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
479 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
480 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
482 - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
483 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
486 - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
488 - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
489 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
491 - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
492 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
493 in strongswan.conf, if required.
495 - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
497 - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
498 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
500 - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
501 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
503 - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
504 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
505 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
507 - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
508 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
510 - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
511 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
513 - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
514 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
515 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
516 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
519 - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
520 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
521 unauthenticated users.
527 - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
528 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
529 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
530 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
531 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
532 secunet Security Networks AG.
534 - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
535 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
536 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
539 - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
540 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
541 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
542 from IBM for his contribution.
544 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
545 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
548 - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
549 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
552 - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
553 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
554 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
555 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
556 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
557 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
559 - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
560 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
561 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
562 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
564 - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
565 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
566 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
567 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
569 - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
570 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
576 - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
577 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
579 - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
580 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
581 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
583 - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
585 - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
587 - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
588 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
589 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
590 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
592 - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
594 - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
596 - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
597 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
598 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
599 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
600 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
602 - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
603 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
604 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
606 - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
607 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
609 - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
610 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
611 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
612 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
615 - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
616 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
617 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
618 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
619 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
621 - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
622 allowing interoperability.
628 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
629 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
630 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
631 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
632 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
634 - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
635 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
636 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
637 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
638 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
640 - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
641 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
642 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
644 - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
645 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
646 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
648 - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
649 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
651 - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
652 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
653 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
655 - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
656 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
658 - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
659 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
660 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
661 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
662 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
663 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
665 - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
666 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
667 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
668 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
670 - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
673 - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
675 - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
676 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
678 - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
679 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
681 - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
682 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
683 and the libstrongswan library.
689 - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
690 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
692 - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
693 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
695 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
701 - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
702 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
703 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
704 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
705 manipulations can be reliably detected.
707 - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
708 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
710 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
711 authenticated encryption algorithms.
713 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
715 - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
716 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
717 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
723 - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
724 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
726 - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
727 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
728 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
730 - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
731 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
732 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
735 - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
736 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
737 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
738 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
744 - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
745 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
748 - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
749 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
750 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
751 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
752 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
754 - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
755 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
756 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
757 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
758 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
759 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
761 - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
762 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
763 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
765 - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
766 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
767 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
769 - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
771 - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
772 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
773 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
774 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
775 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
776 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
777 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
778 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
780 - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
781 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
783 - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
784 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
785 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
786 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
787 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
793 - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
794 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
795 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
796 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
797 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
799 - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
800 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
802 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
803 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
805 - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
806 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
807 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
809 - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
810 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
816 - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
817 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
818 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
820 - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
821 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
822 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
823 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
824 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
825 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
826 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
827 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
828 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
830 - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
831 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
832 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
833 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
835 - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
842 - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
843 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
845 - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
846 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
848 - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
849 parameters field is optional.
851 - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
857 - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
858 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
859 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
861 - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
862 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
863 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
865 - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
866 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
872 - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
873 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
875 - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
876 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
882 - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
883 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
884 counterparts with better lookup times.
886 - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
887 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
888 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
890 - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
891 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
894 - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
895 command queries assigned leases.
897 - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
898 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
900 - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
901 reliable source of randomness.
906 - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
907 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
909 - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
910 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
911 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
913 - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
914 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
915 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
916 parallelization to multiple cores.
918 - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
919 further slim down the daemon core.
921 - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
922 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
925 - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
926 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
927 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
928 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
930 - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
931 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
932 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
933 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
934 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
935 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
937 - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
938 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
939 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
945 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
946 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
947 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
949 - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
950 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
951 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
952 long as possible and other fixes.
954 - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
955 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
956 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
962 - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
963 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
964 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
965 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
966 for making us aware of this problem.
968 - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
971 - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
972 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
974 - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
975 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
976 newer libcap2 library.
978 - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
979 charon keying daemon.
985 - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
986 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
987 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
988 in the Gnome Keyring.
990 - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
991 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
992 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
993 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
995 - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
996 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
999 - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1000 authentication types and EAP identities.
1002 - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1003 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1005 - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1006 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1012 - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
1014 - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1015 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1016 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1017 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1020 - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
1021 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
1023 - management of different virtual IP pools for different
1024 network interfaces have become possible.
1026 - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
1027 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1029 - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1035 - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1036 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
1038 - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
1039 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
1041 - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1042 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1044 - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1047 - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1048 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
1050 - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1051 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1057 - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
1058 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1060 - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1061 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1067 - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1068 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
1069 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
1070 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1071 to software-based crypto plugins.
1073 - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
1074 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1075 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1076 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1078 - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
1079 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
1080 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1086 - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
1087 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1088 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1089 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1090 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1091 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
1093 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1094 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1095 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1098 - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
1099 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
1100 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
1102 - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
1103 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
1106 - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1107 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
1109 - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1110 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1111 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
1113 - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
1114 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1115 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1116 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
1119 - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
1121 - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
1123 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
1124 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
1125 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1131 - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1132 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1133 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1134 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1135 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1136 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1137 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
1139 - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1140 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1142 - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1143 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1144 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1145 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1146 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1147 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1148 The following new plugins are available:
1149 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1150 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1151 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1153 - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1154 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1155 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1157 - The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
1158 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1159 by other applications.
1165 - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1166 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1167 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1169 - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
1170 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
1172 - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1173 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1174 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1180 - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
1181 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
1183 - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1184 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1185 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1186 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1188 - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1189 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1190 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1193 - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
1194 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
1195 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
1201 - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1202 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1203 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1206 - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1207 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1209 - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1210 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1212 - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1214 - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
1215 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
1222 - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
1228 - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1229 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1230 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1232 - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
1233 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
1234 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1236 - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1237 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
1238 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
1240 - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1241 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1243 - Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1249 - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1250 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1251 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1252 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1253 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1254 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1255 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1256 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1258 - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1259 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1260 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
1261 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1263 - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1264 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1267 - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1268 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1269 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1270 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1271 AUTHentication having been configured.
1273 - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1274 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
1280 - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1281 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1282 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1283 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1284 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1285 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1287 - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1288 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1289 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1290 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1296 - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1297 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1298 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1299 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
1300 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1301 parameter is not required any more.
1303 - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1304 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1305 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1310 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1311 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1312 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1317 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1318 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1322 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1324 - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1325 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1326 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1327 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1328 connections as a responder are still possible.
1330 - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1331 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1332 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1333 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1334 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
1336 - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1337 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1338 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1341 - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1342 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
1348 - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
1349 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1351 - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
1352 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1353 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
1355 - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1356 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1357 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1358 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1360 - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1361 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1362 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1363 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1365 - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
1366 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1367 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1368 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
1369 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
1372 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
1379 - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
1380 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1381 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1382 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1384 - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1385 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1387 - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1389 - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1391 - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
1392 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
1394 - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1396 - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1403 - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1404 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1405 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1406 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1407 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1408 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1410 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1411 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1412 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1414 - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1415 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1416 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1419 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1420 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1421 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1424 - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1425 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1431 - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1432 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1434 - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1435 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1436 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1437 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1439 - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1441 - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
1442 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
1445 - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1446 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1447 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1450 - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1451 code reuse and separation.
1453 - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1454 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1455 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1457 - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1458 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1461 - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1462 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1463 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1464 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1465 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1466 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1468 - Added client side support for cookies.
1470 - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1471 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1472 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
1478 - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1479 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1480 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1482 - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1483 to a default string.
1489 - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1490 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1491 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1492 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
1493 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1495 - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1497 - IKEv2: Support for transport mode
1499 - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
1501 - various other bugfixes
1507 - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1508 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1510 - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1511 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1513 - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1514 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1515 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1516 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
1518 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
1520 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1523 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
1525 or changed at runtime via stroke as
1527 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
1533 - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1535 - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1536 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1537 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1538 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1539 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1541 - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1542 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1543 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1545 - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1547 - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1548 or 3DES are supported.
1550 - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1551 encrypt IKE traffic.
1553 - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1554 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1556 - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1557 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1558 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1559 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1565 - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
1566 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1567 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
1570 - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1571 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1572 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1573 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1575 - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1576 algorithm configuration statements.
1582 - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1583 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1584 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1585 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
1587 - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
1588 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
1589 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
1590 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1592 - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1593 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1596 - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1597 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1598 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1599 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1601 - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1602 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
1603 and a more extensible code base.
1605 - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1606 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1607 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1608 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1609 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1610 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1611 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1617 - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
1618 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1619 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1620 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
1621 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
1622 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1624 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1625 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1626 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1628 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
1629 blowfish192, blowfish256
1630 Integrity: md5, sha1
1631 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
1634 - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1635 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
1636 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
1637 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1638 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1639 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
1641 - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1642 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1643 configuration examples).
1645 - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1646 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
1647 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
1648 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1650 - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1651 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1652 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1653 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1660 - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
1661 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
1662 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1663 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1664 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1665 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1666 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1667 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1668 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1675 - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1676 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1677 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1678 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1679 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1680 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1681 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1682 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1683 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1684 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1685 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1686 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1688 - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1689 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1690 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1691 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1692 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1693 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1694 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1695 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1696 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
1699 - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1700 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1701 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1708 - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1709 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1710 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
1711 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
1712 are required any more.
1714 - added support of DPD restart mode
1716 - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1717 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1718 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1720 - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1721 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1727 - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
1728 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
1730 - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1731 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1732 via the auth=ah parameter.
1734 - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
1735 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1737 - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1738 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1739 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1740 the ipsec status command.
1746 - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1747 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1748 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1750 - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1751 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1752 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1754 - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1755 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1757 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1758 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1760 - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1761 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1762 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1769 - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1771 - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1773 - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1774 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1775 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1777 - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1778 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1781 - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1782 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1788 - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1789 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1790 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1796 - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1797 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1798 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1799 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1800 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1801 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1802 accelerated tremedously.
1804 - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
1805 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
1806 reload pluto's connections.
1808 - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1809 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1810 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1812 - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1814 - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1816 - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1817 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1824 - CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1825 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1832 - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1833 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1834 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1835 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1837 - The scepclient function now allows to define the
1838 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1839 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1840 has been changed from one year to five years.
1846 - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1847 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1848 via the whack interface. Notation:
1850 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1851 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1852 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1855 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1856 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1857 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1860 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
1862 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1863 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1864 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1865 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1868 - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1869 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1870 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1871 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1872 is automatically generated by calling the function
1874 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1876 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1877 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1883 - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1884 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1885 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1886 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1888 - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1889 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1895 - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1896 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1897 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1898 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1899 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1901 - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1903 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1904 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1905 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
1908 - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1909 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1910 attribute for AES encryption.
1912 - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1914 - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1920 - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1921 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1922 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1923 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1924 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1926 - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1927 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1928 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1934 - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1935 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1936 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1937 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1938 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1939 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1940 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1941 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1943 - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1944 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1947 ipsec auto --listcards
1949 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1950 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1951 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1952 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1954 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1955 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1956 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1958 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1960 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1961 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1962 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1964 - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1965 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1966 to generate a signature.
1968 - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1969 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1970 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1971 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1972 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1974 - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1975 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1977 - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1978 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1979 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1985 - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1986 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1987 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1988 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1989 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1990 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1992 - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1993 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1994 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1995 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1996 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1997 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
1999 - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2000 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2001 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2007 - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2009 - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2015 - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2016 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2018 - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2020 - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2021 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2022 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2024 - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2025 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2032 - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2033 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2036 - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2037 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
2038 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
2039 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2040 pad has to be done only once.
2042 - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2043 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2044 to be used with smart cards. Example:
2046 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
2048 - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2050 - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2051 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2053 - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2054 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2055 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
2057 - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2058 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2059 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2065 - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2066 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2067 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2068 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2075 - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2077 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2084 - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2085 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2086 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2087 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2088 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2089 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2090 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2092 - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2093 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2094 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2095 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2096 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
2098 - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
2099 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
2100 in a particular test.
2106 - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2107 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
2109 - fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2111 - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2112 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2115 - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2116 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2117 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2118 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2124 - Added basic Mode Config functionality
2126 - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2127 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
2129 - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2132 - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2133 maximum udp size patches.
2135 - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
2141 - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2142 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2143 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2144 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2147 - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
2148 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
2149 using the openac facility. For more details see
2153 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2154 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2155 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
2157 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2159 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2160 Research or Sales, only.
2162 - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
2163 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
2164 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2165 Secure Entry Clients.
2167 - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2168 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2169 now both set to 24 h.
2171 - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2172 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2174 - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2175 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2176 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
2178 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2184 - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2185 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2186 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2187 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2189 - Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
2190 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2191 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
2193 - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2195 - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2196 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2202 - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2203 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2205 - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
2206 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
2208 - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
2209 occurring when a smartcard is present.
2211 - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
2213 - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2215 - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2221 - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2223 dpdaction=clear|hold
2225 activates DPD for the given connection.
2227 - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2228 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2229 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
2231 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
2233 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2235 - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2236 using the compile option VENDORID
2238 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2240 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2242 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2244 - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2245 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
2247 - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2249 - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2256 - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2257 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2258 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2259 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2260 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2262 - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2263 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2269 - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2270 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2271 an optional connection selector:
2273 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2275 - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2278 - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2279 of malformed distinguished names.
2281 - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2283 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2285 - Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2291 - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2292 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
2298 - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2299 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2300 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
2306 - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2312 - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2315 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2316 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2317 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2318 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2319 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2320 auto=add # add, ignore
2322 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
2324 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2326 - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2327 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2333 - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2334 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
2336 - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
2337 during kernel compilation
2339 - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2340 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2342 - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2343 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2344 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2350 - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2351 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2352 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2353 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2355 - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2356 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
2362 - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12
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