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1strongswan-4.6.2
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4- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
5 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
6 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
7 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
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9- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
10 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
11 Linux IMA possible. Measurement reference values are automatically stored
12 in an SQLite database.
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15strongswan-4.6.1
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18- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
19 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
20 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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21 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
22 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
23 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
24 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
25 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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27- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
28 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
29 post-installation phase.
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34
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35- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
36 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
37 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
38
39- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
40 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
41 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
42 for the initial patch.
43
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44- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
45 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
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47- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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49- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
50 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
51 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
52 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
53 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
54 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
55
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56- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
57 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
58 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
59 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
60 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
61 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
62
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63- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
64 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
65 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
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70
a7edbd21 71- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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72 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
73 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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74 directory.
75
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76- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
77 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
78
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79- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
80 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
81 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
82
83- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
84 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
85
f8799170 86- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 87 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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88 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
89 interfaces.
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91- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
92 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
93
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94- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
95 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
96 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
97 the client is admitted to the network.
98 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
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100- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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101 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
102
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103- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
104 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
105 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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108strongswan-4.5.2
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111- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
112 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
113 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
114 whitelist administration.
115
92ebb7c5 116- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 117 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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118 application about detected duplicates.
119
120- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
121 authentication to previously used certificates.
122
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123- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
124 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
125 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
126 only starts|routes the specific child config.
127
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128- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
129
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130- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
131 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
132
133- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 134 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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136- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
137 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
138 support configuration reloading.
139
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140- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
141 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
142 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
143 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
144 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
145 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
146
147- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
148 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
149 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
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155- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
156 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 157 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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158 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
159 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 160 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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162- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
163 in place of the external libtnc library.
164
165- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
166 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
167 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
168 the corresponding protocol stack.
169
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170- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
171 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
172 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
173 in an SQL database.
174
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175- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
176 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
177 points in an SQL database.
178
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179- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
180 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
181 replaced, respectively.
182
183- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
184 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
185 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
186 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
187 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
188 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
189 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
190
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191- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
192 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
193
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194- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
195 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
196 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
197
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198- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
199 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
200 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
201 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 203- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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204 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
205 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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207- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
208 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
209 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
210 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
211 ./configure switch.
212
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213- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
214 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
215 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
216 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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217 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
218 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
219
220- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
221 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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223- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
224 support for delta CRLs.
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229
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230- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
231 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 232 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 233 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 234 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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236- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
237 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
238 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
239 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
240
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241- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
242 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 243 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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244 tokens.
245
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246- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
247 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
248 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
249 client authentication.
250
251- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
252 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 253 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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255- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
256 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
257 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
258 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
259 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 260 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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261 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
262 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
263
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264- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
265 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
266 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
267
268- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
269 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
270
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271- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
272 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
273 availability.
274
275- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
276 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
277 implement a simple event listener.
278
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279- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
280 initial responder moves to a different address.
281
282- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
283
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284- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
285 identity was different from the IKE identity.
286
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287- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
288 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
289 UNITY_BANNER).
290
291- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
292 charon plugins.
293
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294- Added man page for strongswan.conf
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299
ec40c02a 300- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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301 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
302 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 304- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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305 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
306 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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308- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
309
e9448cfc 310- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 311 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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313- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
314 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
315 in strongswan.conf, if required.
316
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317- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
318
319- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
320 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
321
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322- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
323 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
324
e87b78c6 325- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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326 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
327 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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329- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
330 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
331
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332- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
333 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
334
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335- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
336 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
337 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
338 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
339 plugin.
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341- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
342 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
343 unauthenticated users.
344
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348
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349- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
350 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
351 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
352 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 353 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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354 secunet Security Networks AG.
355
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356- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
357 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
358 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
359 kernel interface.
360
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361- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
362 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
363 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
364 from IBM for his contribution.
365
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366- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
367 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
368 are allocated.
369
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370- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
371 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
372 command line option.
373
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374- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
375 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
376 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
377 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
378 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
379 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
380
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381- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
382 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 383 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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384 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
385
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386- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
387 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
388 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
389 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
390
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391- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
392 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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397
cdad91de 398- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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399 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
400
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401- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
402 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
403 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
404
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405- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
406
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407- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
408
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409- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
410 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
411 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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412 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
413
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414- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
415
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418- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
419 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
420 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
421 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
422 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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424- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
425 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
426 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
427
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428- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
429 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
430
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431- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
432 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
433 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
434 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
435 this is the case.
436
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437- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
438 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
439 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
440 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
441 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
442
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443- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
444 allowing interoperability.
445
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449
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450- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
451 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
452 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 453 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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454 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
455
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456- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
457 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
458 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
459 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
460 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
461
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462- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
463 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
464 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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466- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
467 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
468 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
469
d245f5cf 470- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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471 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
472
473- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
474 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
475 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
476
477- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
478 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
479
480- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
481 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
482 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
483 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
484 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
485 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
486
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487- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
488 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
489 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
490 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
491
b80fa9ca 492- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 493 statements.
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496
497- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
498 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
499
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500- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
501 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
502
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503- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
504 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
505 and the libstrongswan library.
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509----------------
510
511- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
512 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
513
514- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
515 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
516
517- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
518
519
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521----------------
522
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523- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
524 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
525 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
526 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
527 manipulations can be reliably detected.
528
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529- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
530 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
531
532- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
533 authenticated encryption algorithms.
534
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535- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
536
537- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
538 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
539 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
540
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543----------------
544
545- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
546 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
547
548- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
549 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
550 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
551
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552- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
553 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
554 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
555 with IKEv1.
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557- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
558 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
559 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
560 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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564----------------
565
566- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 567 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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568 dynamically.
569
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570- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
571 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
572 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
573 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
574 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 575
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577 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
578 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
579 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
580 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
581 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
582
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584 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
585 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
586
587- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
588 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
589 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
590
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592
593- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
594 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
595 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
596 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
597 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 598 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 599 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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601
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603 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
604
d44fd821 605- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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606 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
607 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 608 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 609 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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611
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613----------------
614
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615- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
616 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
617 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
618 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
619 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
620
621- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
622 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
623
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624- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
625 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 626
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627- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
628 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
629 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 630
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632 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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636-----------------
637
22180558 638- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 639 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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640 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
641
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642- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
643 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
644 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
645 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
646 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
647 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
648 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
649 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
650 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
651
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652- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
653 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
654 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
655 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
656
657- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 658 IDr payload anymore.
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660
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661strongswan-4.2.13
662-----------------
663
664- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
665 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
666
f3bb1bd0 667- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 668 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 669
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670- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
671 parameters field is optional.
672
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674
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678
679- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
680 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
681 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
682
683- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 684 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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685 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
686
687- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
688 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
689
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691strongswan-4.2.11
692-----------------
693
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694- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
695 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
696
697- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
698 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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700
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702-----------------
703
704- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
705 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
706 counterparts with better lookup times.
707
708- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
709 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
710 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
711
712- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
713 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
714 on the fly.
715
716- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
717 command queries assigned leases.
718
719- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
720 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
721
722- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
723 reliable source of randomness.
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726----------------
727
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728- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
729 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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731- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
732 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
733 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
734
735- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 736 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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738 parallelization to multiple cores.
739
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740- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
741 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 742
509e07c5 743- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 744 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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745 memory or hardware.
746
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747- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
748 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
749 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
750 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
751
752- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
753 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
754 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
755 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
756 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 757 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 758
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759- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
760 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
761 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
762
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764strongswan-4.2.8
765----------------
766
5dadb16e 767- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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768 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
769 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
770
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771- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
772 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
773 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
774 long as possible and other fixes.
775
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776- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
777 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
778 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
779
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782----------------
783
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784- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
785 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
786 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
787 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 788 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 789
b6b90b68 790- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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791 ssh-agent.
792
793- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 794 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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796- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
797 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
798 newer libcap2 library.
799
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800- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
801 charon keying daemon.
802
803
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806
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807- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
808 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
809 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
810 in the Gnome Keyring.
811
812- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
813 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 814 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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815 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
816
817- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
818 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
819 authentication.
820
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821- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
822 authentication types and EAP identities.
823
824- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
825 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
826
827- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
828 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
829
830
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832----------------
833
b6b90b68 834- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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835
836- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
837 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
838 storing only history information has become optional and can be
839 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
840 strongswan.conf.
841
eb0cc338 842- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 843 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 844
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845- management of different virtual IP pools for different
846 network interfaces have become possible.
847
b6b90b68 848- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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849 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
850
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851- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
852
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855----------------
856
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857- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
858 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 859
73a8eed3 860- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 861 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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863- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
864 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
865
866- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
867 X.509 certificates.
868
869- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
870 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 871
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872- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
873 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
874
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876strongswan-4.2.3
877----------------
878
b6b90b68 879- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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880 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
881
882- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
883 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
884
885
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887----------------
888
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889- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
890 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 891 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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892 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
893 to software-based crypto plugins.
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895- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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896 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
897 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
898 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
899
900- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 901 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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902 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
903
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906----------------
907
c306dfb1 908- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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909 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
910 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
911 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
912 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
913 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
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916 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
917 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
918 connections.
b6b90b68 919
f3bb1bd0 920- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 921 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 922 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 923
b6b90b68 924- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 925 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 926 re-implemented.
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928- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
929 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
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932 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
933 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 934
466abb49 935- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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936 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
937 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
938 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 939 separate plugin.
58caabf7 940
c306dfb1 941- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 942
c306dfb1 943- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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945- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 946 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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947 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
948
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952
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953- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
954 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
955 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
956 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
957 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
958 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
959 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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961- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
962 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
963
964- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
965 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
966 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
967 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
968 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
969 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
970 The following new plugins are available:
971 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
972 top of either MySQL or SQLite
973 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
974
975- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
976 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
977 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
978
b6b90b68 979- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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980 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
981 by other applications.
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987- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
988 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
989 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
990
991- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 992 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 993
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994- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
995 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
996 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
997
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1000-----------------
1001
1002- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1003 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
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1006 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1007 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1008 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1009
1010- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1011 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1012 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1013 before using it.
1014
1015- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1016 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1017 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1018
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1021----------------
1022
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1023- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1024 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1025 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1026 added.
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1028- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1029 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1030
1031- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1032 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1033
1034- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1035
8b678ad4 1036- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1037 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1038 loaded twice.
5076770c 1039
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1042----------------
1043
5076770c 1044- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1045
1046
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1048----------------
1049
1050- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1051 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1052 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1053
6e193274 1054- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1055 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1056 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1057
1058- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1059 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1060 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1061
1062- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1063 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1064
1065- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1066
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1069----------------
1070
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1071- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1072 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1073 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1074 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1075 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1076 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1077 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1078 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1079
1080- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1081 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1082 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1083 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1084
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1085- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1086 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1087 startup.
b6b90b68 1088
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1089- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1090 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1091 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1092 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1093 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1094
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1095- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1096 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1098
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1100----------------
1101
1102- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1103 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1104 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1105 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1106 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1107 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1108
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1109- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1110 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1111 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1112 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1113
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1116----------------
1117
1118- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1119 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1120 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1121 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1122 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1123 parameter is not required any more.
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1124
1125- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1126 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1127 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1128
1129 right=peer.foo.bar
1130 rightallowany=yes
1131
1132 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1133 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1134 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1135 as
1136
1137 right=%any
1138
1139 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1140 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1141
1142 right=%peer.foo.bar
1143
1144 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1145
1146- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1147 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1148 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1149 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1150 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1152- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1153 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1154 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1155 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1156 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1157
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1158- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1159 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1160 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1161 by Robert Varga.
1162
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1163- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1164 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1165
06651827 1166
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1168----------------
1169
b6b90b68 1170- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1171 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1172
1173- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1174 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1175 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1176
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1177- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1178 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1179 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1180 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1181
1182- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1183 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1184 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1185 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1186
b6b90b68 1187- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1188 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1189 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1190 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1191 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1192 to implement.
a3354a69 1193
f3bb1bd0 1194 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1195 headers > 2.6.17.
1196
1197
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1199----------------
1200
e23d98a7 1201- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1202 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1203 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1204 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1205
1206- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1207 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1208
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1209- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1210
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1211- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1212
dfbe2a0f 1213- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1214 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1215
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1216- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1217
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1218- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1219 connection name.
1220
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1222strongswan-4.1.1
1223----------------
1224
1225- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1226 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1227 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1228 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1229 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1230 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1231
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1232- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1233 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1234 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1235
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1236- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1237 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1238 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1239 vendor ID.
1240
1241- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1242 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1243 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1244 message.
1245
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1246- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1247 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1248
3b4f7d92 1249
34bbd0c3 1250strongswan-4.1.0
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1251----------------
1252
1253- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1254 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1255
1256- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1257 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1258 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1259 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1260
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1261- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1262
c5d0fbb6 1263- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1264 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1265 accessLocations.
1266
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1267- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1268 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1269 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1270 option.
1271
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1272- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1273 code reuse and separation.
1274
1275- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1276 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1277 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1278
1279- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1280 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1281 specify it.
1282
1283- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1284 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1285 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1286 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1287 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1288 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1289
1290- Added client side support for cookies.
1291
1292- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1293 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1294 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1295
e23d98a7 1296
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1298----------------
1299
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1300- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1301 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1302 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1303
1304- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1305 to a default string.
1306
1307
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1308strongswan-4.0.6
1309----------------
1310
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1311- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1312 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1313 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1314 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1315 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1316
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1317- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1318
5903179b 1319- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1320
5903179b 1321- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1322
5903179b 1323- various other bugfixes
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1324
1325
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1326strongswan-4.0.5
1327----------------
1328
1329- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1330 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1331
1332- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1333 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1334
1335- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1336 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1337 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1338 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1339
0cd645d2 1340 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1341
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1342 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1343
1344 config setup
03bf883d 1345 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1346
03bf883d 1347 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1348
03bf883d 1349 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1350
1351
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1352strongswan-4.0.4
1353----------------
1354
1355- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1356
1357- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1358 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1359 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1360 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1361 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1362
1363- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1364 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1365 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1366
1367- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1368
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1369- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1370 or 3DES are supported.
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1371
1372- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1373 encrypt IKE traffic.
1374
1375- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1376 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1377
1378- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1379 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1380 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1381 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1382
1383
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1384strongswan-4.0.3
1385----------------
1386
1387- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1388 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1389 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1390 kernel.
1391
1392- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1393 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1394 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1395 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1396
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1397- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1398 algorithm configuration statements.
1399
1400
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1401strongswan-4.0.2
1402----------------
1403
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1404- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1405 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1406 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1407 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1408
b6b90b68 1409- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1410 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1411 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1412 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1413
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1414- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1415 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1416 dpddelay=60s).
1417
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1418- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1419 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1420 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1421 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1422
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1423- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1424 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1425 and a more extensible code base.
1426
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1427- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1428 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1429 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1430 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1431 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1432 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1433 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1434
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1436strongswan-4.0.1
1437----------------
1438
b6b90b68 1439- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1440 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1441 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1442 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1443 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1444 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1445 algorithms for IKE:
1446 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1447 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1448 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1449 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1450 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1451 blowfish192, blowfish256
1452 Integrity: md5, sha1
1453 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1454 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1455
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1456- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1457 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1458 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1459 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1460 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1461 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1462
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1463- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1464 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1465 configuration examples).
1466
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1467- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1468 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1469 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1470 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1471
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1472- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1473 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1474 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1475 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1476 via ipsec starter.
1477
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1479strongswan-4.0.0
1480----------------
1481
1482- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1483 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1484 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1485 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1486 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1487 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1488 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1489 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1490 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1491 status command).
1492
1493
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1495----------------
1496
1497- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1498 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1499 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1500 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1501 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1502 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1503 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1504 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 1505 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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1507 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1508 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1509
1510- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1511 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1512 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1513 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1514 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1515 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1516 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1517 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1518 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 1519 be inserted.
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1521- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1522 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1523 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1524 be found.
1525
1526
1527strongswan-2.6.4
1528----------------
1529
1530- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1531 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1532 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1533 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1535
1536- added support of DPD restart mode
1537
1538- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1539 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1540 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1541
1542- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1543 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1544
1545
1546strongswan-2.6.3
1547----------------
1548
b6b90b68 1549- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1551
1552- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1553 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1554 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1556- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
1557 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1558
1559- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1560 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1561 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1562 the ipsec status command.
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1565strongswan-2.6.2
1566----------------
1567
1568- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1569 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1570 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1571
1572- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1573 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1574 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1575
1576- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1577 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1578
1579 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1580 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1581
1582- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1583 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1584 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1585
1586 conn rw
1587 right=%any
1588 rightid=@foo.bar
1589 authby=secret
1590
1591- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1592
1593- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1594
1595- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1596 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1597 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1598
1599- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1600 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1601 servers.
1602
1603- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1604 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1605
1606
1607strongswan-2.6.1
1608----------------
1609
1610- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1611 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1612 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1613
1614
1615strongswan-2.6.0
1616----------------
1617
1618- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1619 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1620 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1621 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1622 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1623 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1624 accelerated tremedously.
1625
1626- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1627 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1629
1630- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1631 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1632 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1633
1634- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1635
1636- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1637
1638- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1639 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1640 documented yet.
1641
1642
1643strongswan-2.5.7
1644----------------
1645
1646- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1647 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1648 listing.
1649
1650
1651strongswan-2.5.6
1652----------------
1653
1654- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1655 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1656 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1657 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1658
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1660 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1661 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1662 has been changed from one year to five years.
1663
1664
1665strongswan-2.5.5
1666----------------
1667
1668- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1669 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1670 via the whack interface. Notation:
1671
1672 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1673 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1674 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1675 [--keyid <keyid>]
1676
1677 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1678 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1679 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1680 [--keyid <keyid>]
1681
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1684 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1685 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1686 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1687 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1688 permanently.
1689
1690- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1691 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1692 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1693 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1694 is automatically generated by calling the function
1695
1696 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1697
1698 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1699 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1700
1701
1702strongswan-2.5.4
1703----------------
1704
1705- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1706 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1707 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1708 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1709
1710- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1711 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1712
1713
1714strongswan-2.5.3
1715----------------
1716
1717- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1718 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1719 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1720 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1721 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1722
1723- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1724
1725 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1726 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1727 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 1728 self-signed certs)
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1730- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1731 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1732 attribute for AES encryption.
1733
1734- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1735
1736- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1737
1738
1739strongswan-2.5.2
1740----------------
1741
1742- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1743 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1744 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1745 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1746 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1747
1748- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1749 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1750 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1751
1752
1753strongswan-2.5.1
1754----------------
1755
1756- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1757 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1758 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1759 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1760 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1761 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1762 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1763 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1764
1765- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1766 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1767 the command
1768
1769 ipsec auto --listcards
1770
1771 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1772 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1773 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1774 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1775
1776 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1777 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1778 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1779
1780 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1781
1782 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1783 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1784 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1785
1786- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1787 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1788 to generate a signature.
1789
1790- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1791 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1792 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1793 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1794 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1795
1796- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1797 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1798
1799- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1800 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1801 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1802
1803
1804strongswan-2.5.0
1805----------------
1806
1807- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1808 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1809 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1810 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1811 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1812 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1813
1814- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1815 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1816 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1817 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1818 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1819 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1822 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1823 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1824
1825
1826strongswan-2.4.4
1827----------------
1828
1829- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1830
1831- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1832
1833
1834strongswan-2.4.3
1835----------------
1836
1837- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1838 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1839
1840- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1841
1842- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1843 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1844 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1845
1846- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1847 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1848 included.
1849
1850
1851strongswan-2.4.2
1852----------------
1853
1854- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1855 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1856 value of 50.
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1859 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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1861 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
1862 pad has to be done only once.
1863
1864- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1865 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1866 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 1867
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1871
1872- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1873 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1874
1875- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1876 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1877 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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1880 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1881 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1882
1883
1884strongswan-2.4.1
1885----------------
1886
1887- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1888 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1889 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1890 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1891 "left" be"local".
1892
1893
1894strongswan-2.4.0a
1895-----------------
1896
1897- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1898
1899- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1900 Michael Meier
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1902
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1904----------------
1905
1906- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1907 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1908 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1909 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1910 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1911 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1912 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1913
1914- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1915 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1916 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
1917 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
1918 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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1920- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 1921 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 1922 in a particular test.
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1924
1925strongswan-2.3.2
1926----------------
1927
1928- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
1929 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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1932
1933- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
1934 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
1935 Delete SA messages.
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1938 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
1939 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
1940 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
1941
1942
1943strongswan-2.3.1
1944----------------
1945
1946- Added basic Mode Config functionality
1947
1948- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
1949 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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1952 module.
b6b90b68 1953
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1955 maximum udp size patches.
1956
1957- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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1960strongswan-2.3.0
1961----------------
1962
1963- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
1964 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
1965 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
1966 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
1967 subdirectory.
1968
1969- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 1970 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 1971 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 1972
997358a6 1973 man ipsec_openac.
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1976 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
1977 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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1980
1981 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
1982 Research or Sales, only.
1983
1984- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 1985 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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1987 Secure Entry Clients.
1988
1989- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
1990 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
1991 now both set to 24 h.
1992
1993- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
1994 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
1995
1996- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
1997 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
1998 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2000 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2001
2002
2003strongswan-2.2.2
2004----------------
2005
2006- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2007 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2008 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2009 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2010
f3bb1bd0 2011- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2013 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2016
2017- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2018 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2019
2020
2021strongswan-2.2.1
2022----------------
2023
2024- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2025 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2026
f3bb1bd0 2027- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2028 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2029
997358a6 2030- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2031 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2033- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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2036
2037- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2038
2039
2040strongswan-2.2.0
2041----------------
2042
2043- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2044
2045 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2048
2049- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2050 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2051 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2052
997358a6 2053 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2056
2057- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2058 using the compile option VENDORID
2059
2060- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2061
2062- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2063
2064- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2065
2066- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2067 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2070
2071- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2072 connection.
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2075strongswan-2.1.5
2076----------------
2077
2078- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2079 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2080 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2081 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2082 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2083
2084- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2085 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2086
2087
2088strongswan-2.1.4
2089----------------
2090
2091- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2092 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2093 an optional connection selector:
2094
2095 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2096
2097- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2098 man page.
2099
2100- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2101 of malformed distinguished names.
2102
2103- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2104
2105 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2106
2107- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2108
2109
2110strongswan-2.1.3
2111----------------
2112
2113- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2114 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2117strongswan-2.1.2
2118----------------
2119
2120- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2121 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2122 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2125strongswan-2.1.1
2126----------------
2127
2128- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2129
2130
2131strongswan-2.1.0
2132----------------
2133
2134- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2135
2136 ca kool
2137 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2138 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2139 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2140 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2141 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2142 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 2143
997358a6 2144 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2147
2148- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2149 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2150
2151
2152strongswan-2.0.2
2153----------------
2154
2155- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2156 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2158- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2159 during kernel compilation
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2161- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2162 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2163
2164- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2165 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2166 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2167
2168
2169strongswan-2.0.1
2170----------------
2171
2172- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2173 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2174 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2175 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2176
2177- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2178 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
b6b90b68
MW
2179
2180
997358a6
MW
2181strongswan-2.0.0
2182----------------
2183
2184- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12