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1strongswan-5.0.1
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4- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
5 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
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7- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
8 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 9 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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11- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
12 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
13 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 14 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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15 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
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17- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
18 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
19 against a RADIUS server.
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21- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
22 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
23 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
24 including xauth-pam.
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26- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
27 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
28 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
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30- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
31 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
32 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
33 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
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35- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
36 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
37 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
38 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
39 IP addresses to return.
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41- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
42 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
43 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
44 specified or referenced named pools.
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46- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
47 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
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49- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
50 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
51 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
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53- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
54 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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56strongswan-5.0.0
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59- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
60 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
61 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
62 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
63 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
64 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
65 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
66 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
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68- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
69 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
70 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
71 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
72 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
73 the thread calling the listener.
74 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
75 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
76 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
77 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
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79- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
80 reappear.
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82- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
83 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
84 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
85 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
86 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
87 feature).
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89- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
90 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
91 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
92 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
93 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
94 using SHA-256 or better.
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97strongswan-4.6.4
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99
100- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
101 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
102 a legitimate one.
103
104- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
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110- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
111 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
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113- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
114 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
115 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
116 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
117
118- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
119 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
120 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
121 console.
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123- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
124 RFC 4595.
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126- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
127 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
128
4e2e77d5 129- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 130 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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132- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
133 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
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139- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
140 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
141 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
142 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
143
144- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
145 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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146 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
147 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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149- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
150 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
151 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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153- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
154 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
155 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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157- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
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163- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
164 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
165 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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166 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
167 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
168 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
169 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
170 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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172- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
173 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
174 post-installation phase.
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180- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
181 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
182 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
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184- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
185 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
186 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
187 for the initial patch.
188
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189- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
190 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
191
192- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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194- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
195 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
196 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
197 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
198 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
199 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
200
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201- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
202 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
203 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
204 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
205 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
206 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
207
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208- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
209 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
210 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
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a7edbd21 216- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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217 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
218 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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219 directory.
220
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221- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
222 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
223
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224- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
225 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
226 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
227
228- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
229 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
230
f8799170 231- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 232 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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233 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
234 interfaces.
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236- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
237 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
238
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239- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
240 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
241 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
242 the client is admitted to the network.
243 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
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245- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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246 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
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248- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
249 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
250 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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255
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256- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
257 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
258 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
259 whitelist administration.
260
92ebb7c5 261- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 262 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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263 application about detected duplicates.
264
265- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
266 authentication to previously used certificates.
267
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268- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
269 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
270 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
271 only starts|routes the specific child config.
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273- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
274
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275- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
276 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
277
278- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 279 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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281- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
282 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
283 support configuration reloading.
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285- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
286 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
287 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
288 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
289 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
290 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
291
292- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
293 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
294 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
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299
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300- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
301 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 302 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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303 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
304 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 305 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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307- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
308 in place of the external libtnc library.
309
310- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
311 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
312 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
313 the corresponding protocol stack.
314
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315- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
316 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
317 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
318 in an SQL database.
319
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320- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
321 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
322 points in an SQL database.
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324- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
325 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
326 replaced, respectively.
327
328- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
329 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
330 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
331 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
332 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
333 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
334 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
335
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336- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
337 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
338
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339- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
340 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
341 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
342
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343- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
344 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
345 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
346 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 348- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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349 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
350 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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352- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
353 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
354 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
355 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
356 ./configure switch.
357
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358- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
359 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
360 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
361 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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362 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
363 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
364
365- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
366 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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368- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
369 support for delta CRLs.
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374
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375- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
376 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 377 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 378 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 379 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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381- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
382 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
383 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
384 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
385
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386- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
387 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 388 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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389 tokens.
390
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391- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
392 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
393 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
394 client authentication.
395
396- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
397 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 398 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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400- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
401 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
402 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
403 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
404 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 405 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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406 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
407 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
408
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409- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
410 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
411 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
412
413- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
414 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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416- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
417 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
418 availability.
419
420- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
421 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
422 implement a simple event listener.
423
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424- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
425 initial responder moves to a different address.
426
427- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
428
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429- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
430 identity was different from the IKE identity.
431
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432- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
433 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
434 UNITY_BANNER).
435
436- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
437 charon plugins.
438
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439- Added man page for strongswan.conf
440
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444
ec40c02a 445- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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446 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
447 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 449- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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450 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
451 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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453- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
454
e9448cfc 455- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 456 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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458- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
459 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
460 in strongswan.conf, if required.
461
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462- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
463
464- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
465 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
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467- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
468 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
469
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471 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
472 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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474- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
475 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
476
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477- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
478 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
479
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480- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
481 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
482 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
483 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
484 plugin.
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486- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
487 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
488 unauthenticated users.
489
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493
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494- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
495 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
496 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
497 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 498 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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499 secunet Security Networks AG.
500
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501- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
502 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
503 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
504 kernel interface.
505
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506- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
507 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
508 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
509 from IBM for his contribution.
510
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511- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
512 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
513 are allocated.
514
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515- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
516 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
517 command line option.
518
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519- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
520 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
521 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
522 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
523 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
524 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
525
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526- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
527 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 528 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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529 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
530
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531- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
532 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
533 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
534 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
535
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536- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
537 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 538
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542
cdad91de 543- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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544 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
545
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546- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
547 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
548 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
549
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550- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
551
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552- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
553
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554- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
555 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
556 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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557 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
558
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559- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
560
2b2c69e9 561- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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563- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
564 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
565 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
566 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
567 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 568
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569- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
570 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
571 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
572
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573- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
574 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
575
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576- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
577 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
578 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
579 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
580 this is the case.
581
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582- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
583 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
584 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
585 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
586 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
587
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588- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
589 allowing interoperability.
590
591
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592strongswan-4.3.5
593----------------
594
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595- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
596 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
597 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 598 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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599 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
600
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601- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
602 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
603 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
604 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
605 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
606
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607- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
608 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
609 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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611- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
612 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
613 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
614
d245f5cf 615- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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616 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
617
618- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
619 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
620 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
621
622- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
623 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
624
625- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
626 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
627 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
628 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
629 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
630 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
631
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632- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
633 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
634 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
635 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
636
b80fa9ca 637- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 638 statements.
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640- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
641
642- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
643 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
644
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645- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
646 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
647
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648- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
649 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
650 and the libstrongswan library.
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654----------------
655
656- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
657 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
658
659- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
660 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
661
662- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
663
664
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666----------------
667
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668- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
669 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
670 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
671 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
672 manipulations can be reliably detected.
673
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674- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
675 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
676
677- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
678 authenticated encryption algorithms.
679
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680- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
681
682- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
683 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
684 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
685
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688----------------
689
690- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
691 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
692
693- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
694 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
695 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
696
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697- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
698 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
699 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
700 with IKEv1.
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702- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
703 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
704 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
705 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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709----------------
710
711- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 712 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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714
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715- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
716 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
717 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
718 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
719 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 720
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722 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
723 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
724 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
725 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
726 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
727
09dbca9f 728- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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729 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
730 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
731
732- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
733 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
734 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
735
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736- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
737
738- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
739 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
740 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
741 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
742 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 743 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 744 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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745 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
746
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747- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
748 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
749
d44fd821 750- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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751 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
752 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 753 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 754 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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756
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758----------------
759
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760- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
761 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
762 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
763 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
764 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
765
766- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
767 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
768
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769- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
770 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
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772- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
773 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
774 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 775
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776- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
777 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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781-----------------
782
22180558 783- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 784 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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785 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
786
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787- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
788 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
789 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
790 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
791 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
792 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
793 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
794 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
795 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
796
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797- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
798 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
799 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
800 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
801
802- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 803 IDr payload anymore.
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805
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806strongswan-4.2.13
807-----------------
808
809- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
810 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
811
f3bb1bd0 812- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 813 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
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815- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
816 parameters field is optional.
817
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819
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824- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
825 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
826 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
827
828- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 829 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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830 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
831
832- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
833 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
834
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837-----------------
838
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839- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
840 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
841
842- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
843 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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847-----------------
848
849- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
850 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
851 counterparts with better lookup times.
852
853- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
854 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
855 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
856
857- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
858 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
859 on the fly.
860
861- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
862 command queries assigned leases.
863
864- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
865 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
866
867- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
868 reliable source of randomness.
869
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872
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873- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
874 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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876- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
877 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
878 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
879
880- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 881 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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883 parallelization to multiple cores.
884
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885- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
886 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 887
509e07c5 888- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 889 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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890 memory or hardware.
891
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892- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
893 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
894 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
895 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
896
897- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
898 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
899 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
900 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
901 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 902 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
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905 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
906 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
907
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909strongswan-4.2.8
910----------------
911
5dadb16e 912- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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913 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
914 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
915
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917 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
918 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
919 long as possible and other fixes.
920
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921- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
922 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
923 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
924
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928
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929- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
930 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
931 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
932 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 933 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 934
b6b90b68 935- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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937
938- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 939 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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941- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
942 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
943 newer libcap2 library.
944
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945- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
946 charon keying daemon.
947
948
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951
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952- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
953 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
954 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
955 in the Gnome Keyring.
956
957- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
958 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 959 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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961
962- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
963 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
964 authentication.
965
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967 authentication types and EAP identities.
968
969- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
970 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
971
972- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
973 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
974
975
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977----------------
978
b6b90b68 979- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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981- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
982 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
983 storing only history information has become optional and can be
984 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
985 strongswan.conf.
986
eb0cc338 987- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 988 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 989
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990- management of different virtual IP pools for different
991 network interfaces have become possible.
992
b6b90b68 993- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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994 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
995
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996- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
997
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1000----------------
1001
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1002- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1003 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1004
73a8eed3 1005- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1006 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1008- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1009 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1010
1011- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1012 X.509 certificates.
1013
1014- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1015 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1016
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1017- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1018 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1019
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1021strongswan-4.2.3
1022----------------
1023
b6b90b68 1024- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1025 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1026
1027- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1028 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1029
1030
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1031strongswan-4.2.2
1032----------------
1033
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1034- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1035 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1036 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1037 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1038 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1039
1040- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1041 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1042 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1043 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1044
1045- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1046 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1047 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1048
7f491111 1049
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1051----------------
1052
c306dfb1 1053- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1054 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1055 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1056 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1057 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1058 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1059
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1060- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1061 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1062 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1063 connections.
b6b90b68 1064
f3bb1bd0 1065- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1066 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1067 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1068
b6b90b68 1069- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1070 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1071 re-implemented.
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1072
1073- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1074 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1075
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1076- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1077 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1078 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1079
466abb49 1080- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1081 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1082 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1083 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1084 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1085
c306dfb1 1086- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1087
c306dfb1 1088- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1089
1090- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1091 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1092 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1093
5c5d67d6 1094
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1096----------------
1097
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1098- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1099 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1100 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1101 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1102 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1103 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1104 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1105
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1106- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1107 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1108
1109- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1110 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1111 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1112 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1113 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1114 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1115 The following new plugins are available:
1116 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1117 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1118 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1119
1120- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1121 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1122 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1123
b6b90b68 1124- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1125 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1126 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1127
a11ea97d 1128
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1129strongswan-4.1.11
1130-----------------
fb6d76cd 1131
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1132- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1133 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1134 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1135
1136- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1137 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1138
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1139- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1140 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1141 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1142
fb6d76cd 1143
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1144strongswan-4.1.10
1145-----------------
1146
1147- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1148 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1149
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1150- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1151 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1152 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1153 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1154
1155- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1156 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1157 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1158 before using it.
1159
1160- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1161 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1162 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1163
fb6d76cd 1164
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1165strongswan-4.1.9
1166----------------
1167
800b3356
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1168- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1169 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1170 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1171 added.
5076770c 1172
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1173- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1174 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1175
1176- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1177 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1178
1179- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1180
8b678ad4 1181- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1182 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1183 loaded twice.
5076770c 1184
83e0d841 1185
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1186strongswan-4.1.8
1187----------------
1188
5076770c 1189- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1190
1191
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1192strongswan-4.1.7
1193----------------
1194
1195- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1196 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1197 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1198
6e193274 1199- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1200 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1201 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1202
1203- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1204 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1205 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1206
1207- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1208 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1209
1210- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1211
a4a3632c 1212
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1213strongswan-4.1.6
1214----------------
1215
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1216- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1217 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1218 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1219 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1220 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1221 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1222 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1223 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1224
1225- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1226 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1227 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1228 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1229
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1230- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1231 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1232 startup.
b6b90b68 1233
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1234- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1235 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1236 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1237 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1238 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1239
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1240- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1241 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1242
1243
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1244strongswan-4.1.5
1245----------------
1246
1247- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1248 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1249 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1250 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1251 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1252 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1253
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1254- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1255 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1256 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1257 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1258
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1260strongswan-4.1.4
1261----------------
1262
1263- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1264 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1265 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1266 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1267 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1268 parameter is not required any more.
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1269
1270- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1271 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1272 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1273
1274 right=peer.foo.bar
1275 rightallowany=yes
1276
1277 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1278 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1279 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1280 as
1281
1282 right=%any
1283
1284 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1285 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1286
1287 right=%peer.foo.bar
1288
1289 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1290
1291- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1292 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1293 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1294 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1295 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 1296
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1297- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1298 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1299 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1300 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1301 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1302
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1303- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1304 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1305 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1306 by Robert Varga.
1307
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1308- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1309 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1310
06651827 1311
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1312strongswan-4.1.3
1313----------------
1314
b6b90b68 1315- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1316 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1317
1318- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1319 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1320 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1321
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1322- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1323 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1324 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1325 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1326
1327- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1328 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1329 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1330 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1331
b6b90b68 1332- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1333 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1334 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1335 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1336 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1337 to implement.
a3354a69 1338
f3bb1bd0 1339 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1340 headers > 2.6.17.
1341
1342
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1343strongswan-4.1.2
1344----------------
1345
e23d98a7 1346- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1347 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1348 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1349 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1350
1351- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1352 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1353
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1354- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1355
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1356- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1357
dfbe2a0f 1358- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1359 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1360
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1361- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1362
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1363- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1364 connection name.
1365
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1367strongswan-4.1.1
1368----------------
1369
1370- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1371 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1372 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1373 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1374 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1375 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1376
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1377- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1378 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1379 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1380
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1381- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1382 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1383 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1384 vendor ID.
1385
1386- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1387 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1388 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1389 message.
1390
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1391- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1392 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1393
3b4f7d92 1394
34bbd0c3 1395strongswan-4.1.0
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1397
1398- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1399 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1400
1401- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1402 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1403 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1404 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1405
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1406- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1407
c5d0fbb6 1408- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1409 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1410 accessLocations.
1411
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1412- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1413 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1414 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1415 option.
1416
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1417- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1418 code reuse and separation.
1419
1420- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1421 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1422 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1423
1424- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1425 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1426 specify it.
1427
1428- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1429 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1430 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1431 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1432 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1433 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1434
1435- Added client side support for cookies.
1436
1437- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1438 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1439 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1440
e23d98a7 1441
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1442strongswan-4.0.7
1443----------------
1444
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1445- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1446 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1447 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1448
1449- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1450 to a default string.
1451
1452
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1454----------------
1455
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1456- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1457 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1458 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1459 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1460 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1461
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1462- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1463
5903179b 1464- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1465
5903179b 1466- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1467
5903179b 1468- various other bugfixes
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1470
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1471strongswan-4.0.5
1472----------------
1473
1474- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1475 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1476
1477- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1478 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1479
1480- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1481 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1482 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1483 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1484
0cd645d2 1485 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1486
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1487 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1488
1489 config setup
03bf883d 1490 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1491
03bf883d 1492 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1493
03bf883d 1494 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1496
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1497strongswan-4.0.4
1498----------------
1499
1500- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1501
1502- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1503 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1504 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1505 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1506 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1507
1508- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1509 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1510 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1511
1512- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1513
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1514- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1515 or 3DES are supported.
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1516
1517- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1518 encrypt IKE traffic.
1519
1520- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1521 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1522
1523- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1524 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1525 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1526 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1527
1528
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1529strongswan-4.0.3
1530----------------
1531
1532- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1533 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1534 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1535 kernel.
1536
1537- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1538 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1539 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1540 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1541
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1543 algorithm configuration statements.
1544
1545
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1546strongswan-4.0.2
1547----------------
1548
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1549- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1550 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1551 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1552 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1553
b6b90b68 1554- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1555 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1556 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1557 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1558
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1559- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1560 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1561 dpddelay=60s).
1562
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1563- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1564 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1565 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1566 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1567
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1568- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1569 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1570 and a more extensible code base.
1571
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1572- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1573 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1574 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1575 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1576 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1577 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1578 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1579
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1582----------------
1583
b6b90b68 1584- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1585 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1586 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1587 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
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1589 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1590 algorithms for IKE:
1591 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1592 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1593 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1594 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1595 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1596 blowfish192, blowfish256
1597 Integrity: md5, sha1
1598 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1599 libstrongswan.
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1602 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1603 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1604 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1605 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1606 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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1609 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1610 configuration examples).
1611
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1612- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1613 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1614 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1615 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1616
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1618 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1619 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1620 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1621 via ipsec starter.
1622
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1625----------------
1626
1627- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1628 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1630 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1631 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1632 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1633 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1634 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1635 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1636 status command).
1637
1638
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1640----------------
1641
1642- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1643 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1644 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1645 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1646 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1647 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1648 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1649 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 1650 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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1652 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1653 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1654
1655- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1656 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1657 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1658 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1659 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1660 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1661 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1662 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1663 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
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1666- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1667 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1668 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1669 be found.
1670
1671
1672strongswan-2.6.4
1673----------------
1674
1675- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1676 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1677 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1678 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1680
1681- added support of DPD restart mode
1682
1683- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1684 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1685 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1686
1687- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1688 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1689
1690
1691strongswan-2.6.3
1692----------------
1693
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1696
1697- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1698 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1699 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1702 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1703
1704- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1705 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1706 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1707 the ipsec status command.
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1710strongswan-2.6.2
1711----------------
1712
1713- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1714 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1715 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1716
1717- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1718 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1719 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1720
1721- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1722 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1723
1724 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1725 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1726
1727- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1728 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1729 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1730
1731 conn rw
1732 right=%any
1733 rightid=@foo.bar
1734 authby=secret
1735
1736- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1737
1738- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1739
1740- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1741 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1742 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1743
1744- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1745 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1746 servers.
1747
1748- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1749 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1750
1751
1752strongswan-2.6.1
1753----------------
1754
1755- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1756 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1757 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1758
1759
1760strongswan-2.6.0
1761----------------
1762
1763- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1764 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1765 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1766 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1767 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1768 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1769 accelerated tremedously.
1770
1771- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
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1774
1775- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1776 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1777 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1778
1779- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1780
1781- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1782
1783- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1784 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1785 documented yet.
1786
1787
1788strongswan-2.5.7
1789----------------
1790
1791- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1792 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1793 listing.
1794
1795
1796strongswan-2.5.6
1797----------------
1798
1799- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1800 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1801 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1802 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1803
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1806 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1807 has been changed from one year to five years.
1808
1809
1810strongswan-2.5.5
1811----------------
1812
1813- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1814 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1815 via the whack interface. Notation:
1816
1817 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1818 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1819 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1820 [--keyid <keyid>]
1821
1822 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1823 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1824 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1825 [--keyid <keyid>]
1826
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1829 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1830 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1831 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1832 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1833 permanently.
1834
1835- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1836 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1837 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1838 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1839 is automatically generated by calling the function
1840
1841 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1842
1843 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1844 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1845
1846
1847strongswan-2.5.4
1848----------------
1849
1850- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1851 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1852 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1853 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1854
1855- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1856 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1857
1858
1859strongswan-2.5.3
1860----------------
1861
1862- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1863 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1864 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1865 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1866 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1867
1868- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1869
1870 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1871 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1872 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
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1875- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1876 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1877 attribute for AES encryption.
1878
1879- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1880
1881- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1882
1883
1884strongswan-2.5.2
1885----------------
1886
1887- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1888 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1889 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1890 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1891 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1892
1893- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1894 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1895 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1896
1897
1898strongswan-2.5.1
1899----------------
1900
1901- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1902 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1903 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1904 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1905 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1906 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1907 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1908 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1909
1910- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1911 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1912 the command
1913
1914 ipsec auto --listcards
1915
1916 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1917 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1918 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1919 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1920
1921 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1922 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1923 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1924
1925 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1926
1927 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1928 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1929 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1930
1931- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1932 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1933 to generate a signature.
1934
1935- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1936 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1937 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1938 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1939 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1940
1941- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1942 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1943
1944- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1945 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1946 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1947
1948
1949strongswan-2.5.0
1950----------------
1951
1952- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1953 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1954 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1955 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1956 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1957 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1958
1959- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1960 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1961 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1962 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1963 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1964 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1967 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1968 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1969
1970
1971strongswan-2.4.4
1972----------------
1973
1974- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1975
1976- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1977
1978
1979strongswan-2.4.3
1980----------------
1981
1982- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1983 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1984
1985- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1986
1987- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1988 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1989 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1990
1991- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1992 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1993 included.
1994
1995
1996strongswan-2.4.2
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1998
1999- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2000 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2001 value of 50.
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2004 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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2007 pad has to be done only once.
2008
2009- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2010 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2011 to be used with smart cards. Example:
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2016
2017- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2018 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2019
2020- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2021 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2022 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2025 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2026 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2027
2028
2029strongswan-2.4.1
2030----------------
2031
2032- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2033 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2034 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2035 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2036 "left" be"local".
2037
2038
2039strongswan-2.4.0a
2040-----------------
2041
2042- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2043
2044- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2045 Michael Meier
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2047
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2049----------------
2050
2051- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2052 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2053 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2054 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2055 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2056 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2057 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2058
2059- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2060 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2061 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2062 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2063 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2065- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
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2069
2070strongswan-2.3.2
2071----------------
2072
2073- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2074 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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2077
2078- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2079 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2080 Delete SA messages.
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2083 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2084 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2085 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2086
2087
2088strongswan-2.3.1
2089----------------
2090
2091- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2092
2093- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2094 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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2097 module.
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2100 maximum udp size patches.
2101
2102- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2105strongswan-2.3.0
2106----------------
2107
2108- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2109 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2110 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2111 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2112 subdirectory.
2113
2114- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2115 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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2120 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2121 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2122 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2124 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2125
2126 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2127 Research or Sales, only.
2128
2129- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2130 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2131 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2132 Secure Entry Clients.
2133
2134- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2135 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2136 now both set to 24 h.
2137
2138- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2139 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2140
2141- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2142 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2143 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2145 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2146
2147
2148strongswan-2.2.2
2149----------------
2150
2151- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2152 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2153 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2154 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2155
f3bb1bd0 2156- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2157 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2158 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2160- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2161
2162- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2163 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2164
2165
2166strongswan-2.2.1
2167----------------
2168
2169- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2170 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2171
f3bb1bd0 2172- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2173 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2174
997358a6 2175- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2176 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2178- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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2180- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2181
2182- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2183
2184
2185strongswan-2.2.0
2186----------------
2187
2188- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2189
2190 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2192 activates DPD for the given connection.
2193
2194- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2195 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2196 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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997358a6 2198 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2201
2202- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2203 using the compile option VENDORID
2204
2205- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2206
2207- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2208
2209- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2210
2211- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2212 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2214- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2215
2216- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2217 connection.
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2220strongswan-2.1.5
2221----------------
2222
2223- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2224 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2225 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2226 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2227 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2228
2229- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2230 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2231
2232
2233strongswan-2.1.4
2234----------------
2235
2236- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2237 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2238 an optional connection selector:
2239
2240 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2241
2242- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2243 man page.
2244
2245- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2246 of malformed distinguished names.
2247
2248- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2249
2250 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2251
2252- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2253
2254
2255strongswan-2.1.3
2256----------------
2257
2258- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2259 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2262strongswan-2.1.2
2263----------------
2264
2265- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2266 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2267 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2270strongswan-2.1.1
2271----------------
2272
2273- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2274
2275
2276strongswan-2.1.0
2277----------------
2278
2279- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2280
2281 ca kool
2282 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2283 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2284 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2285 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2286 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2287 auto=add # add, ignore
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997358a6 2289 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2291 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2292
2293- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2294 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2295
2296
2297strongswan-2.0.2
2298----------------
2299
2300- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2301 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2303- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2304 during kernel compilation
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2306- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2307 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2308
2309- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2310 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2311 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2312
2313
2314strongswan-2.0.1
2315----------------
2316
2317- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2318 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2319 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2320 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2321
2322- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2323 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2325
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2327----------------
2328
2329- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12