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4- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
5 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
6 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
7 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
8 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
9 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
10 WinHTTP API.
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12- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
13 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
14 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
15 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
16 for more control and better reliability.
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18- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
19 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
20 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
21 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 22 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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24- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
25 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
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27- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
28 Ubuntu, etc.) or rpm (Fedora, RedHat, etc) package managers, respectively,
29 using the swidGenerator (https://github.com/tnc-ba/swidGenerator) which
30 generates SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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32- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
33 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
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35- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
36 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
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38- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
39
03b5def0 40- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
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44strongswan-5.1.3
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46
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47- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
48 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
49 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
50 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
51 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
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53- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
54 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
55 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
56 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
57
58- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
59 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
60 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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62- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
63 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
64
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68
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69- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
70 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
71 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
72 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
73 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
74 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
75 the current defaults.
76
77- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
78 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
79 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
80 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
81 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
82 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
83
84- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
85 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
86 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
87 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
88 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
89
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90- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
91 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
92 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
93 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
94 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
95 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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97- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
98 Attestation IMV.
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100- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
101 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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103- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
104 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
105 Andrea Bonomi.
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107- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
108 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
109 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
110
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115- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
116 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
117 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
118 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
119
120- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
121 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
122 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
123
2b32884d 124- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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125 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
126 plugin.
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128- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
129 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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131- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
132 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
133 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
134 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
135 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
136
137- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
138 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
139 as pluto used it.
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141- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
142 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
143 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
144 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
145
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146- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
147 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
148 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
149
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150- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
151 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
152 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
153 from a internal network.
154
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155- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
156 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
157 more trustworthy alternative.
158
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159- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
160 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
161
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162- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
163 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
164
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165- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
166 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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168- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
169 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
170
171- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
172 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
173
174- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
175 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
176
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177- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
178 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
179 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
180 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
181
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186- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
187 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
188 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
189 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
190
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191- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
192 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
193 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
194 few simple command line options.
195
196- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 197 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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198 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
199
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200- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
201 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
202
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203- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
204 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
205 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
206 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
207 backend for IKEv1.
208
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210 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
211 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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213- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
214 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
215 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
216 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
217 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
218 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
219
220- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
221 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
222 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
223
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224- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
225
3a938a6f 226- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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227 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
228 between peers.
229
226f34e0 230- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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231 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
232 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
233 and/or device.
234
235- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
236 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
237 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
238 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
239 production releases).
240
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241- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
242 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
243 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
244
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245- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
246 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
247 hashtables.
248
249- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
250 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
251 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
252 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
253
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254- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
255 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
256 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
257 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
258
259- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
260 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
261 TCP connections from a different host.
262
78e6f69e 263- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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268
269- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
270 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
271 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
272 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
273 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
274 legitimate one.
275
276- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
277 was fixed as well.
278
279- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
280 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
281
282- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
283 requests.
284
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285- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
286
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291- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
292 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
293 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
294 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
295 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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297- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
298 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
299 device ID in the attest database.
300
301- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
302 if the hardware supports it.
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304- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
305 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
306 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
307 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
308 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
309 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
310 to Accounting-Stops.
311
312- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
313 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
314 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
315
316- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
317 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
318
319- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
320 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
321 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
322 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
323
324- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
325 IKE packets.
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327- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
328 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
329 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
330 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
331 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
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333- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
334 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
335 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
336 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
337 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
338 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
339 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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344- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
345 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
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347- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
348 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
349
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350- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
351 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
352 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
353 or receive notifications.
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355- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
356 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
357
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358- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
359 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
360 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
361 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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363- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
364 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
365 section.
366
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367- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
368 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
369 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
370 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
371 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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373- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
374 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
375 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
376 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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378- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
379 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
380 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
381
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382- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
383 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
384 Volker Rümelin.
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386- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
387 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
388
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389- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
390 guest images based on Debian.
391
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395
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396- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
397 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
398
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399- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
400 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 401 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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403- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
404 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
405 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 406 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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407 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
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409- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
410 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
411 against a RADIUS server.
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413- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
414 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
415 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
416 including xauth-pam.
417
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418- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
419 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
420 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
421 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
422 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
423 aware clients.
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425- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
426 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
427 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
428
429- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
430 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
431 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
432 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
433
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434- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
435 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
436 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
437 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
438 IP addresses to return.
439
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440- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
441 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
442 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
443 specified or referenced named pools.
444
445- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
446 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
447
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448- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
449 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
450
451- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
452 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
453 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
454 is preserved.
455
456- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
457 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
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459- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
460 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
461 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
462
463- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
464 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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470- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
471 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
472 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
473 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
474 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
475 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
476 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
477 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
478
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479- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
480 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
481 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
482 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
483 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
484 the thread calling the listener.
485 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
486 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
487 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
488 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
489
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490- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
491 reappear.
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493- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
494 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
495 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
496 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
497 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
498 feature).
499
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500- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
501 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
502 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
503 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
504 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
505 using SHA-256 or better.
506
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511- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
512 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
513 a legitimate one.
514
515- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
516
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520
521- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
522 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
523
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524- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
525 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
526 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
527 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
528
529- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
530 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
531 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
532 console.
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534- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
535 RFC 4595.
536
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538 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
539
4e2e77d5 540- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 541 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
c224f765 542
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544 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
545
546
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548----------------
549
550- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
551 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
552 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
553 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
554
555- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
556 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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557 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
558 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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560- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
561 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
562 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 563
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564- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
565 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
566 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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569
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572----------------
573
574- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
575 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
576 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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578 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
579 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
580 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
581 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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583- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
584 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
585 post-installation phase.
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590
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591- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
592 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
593 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
594
595- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
596 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
597 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
598 for the initial patch.
599
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601 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
602
603- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
604
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606 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
607 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
608 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
609 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
610 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
611
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613 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
614 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
615 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
616 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
617 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
618
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620 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
621 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
622
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626
a7edbd21 627- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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629 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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631
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632- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
633 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
634
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636 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
637 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
638
639- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
640 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
641
f8799170 642- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 643 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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645 interfaces.
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647- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
648 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
649
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650- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
651 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
652 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
653 the client is admitted to the network.
654 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
655
656- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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658
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659- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
660 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
661 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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666
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667- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
668 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
669 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
670 whitelist administration.
671
92ebb7c5 672- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
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674 application about detected duplicates.
675
676- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
677 authentication to previously used certificates.
678
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680 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
681 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
682 only starts|routes the specific child config.
683
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685
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687 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
688
689- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 690 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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692- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
693 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
694 support configuration reloading.
695
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697 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
698 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
699 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
700 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
701 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
702
703- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
704 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
705 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
706
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710
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711- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
712 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 713 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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714 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
715 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 716 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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718- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
719 in place of the external libtnc library.
720
721- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
722 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
723 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
724 the corresponding protocol stack.
725
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727 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
728 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
729 in an SQL database.
730
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731- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
732 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
733 points in an SQL database.
734
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736 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
737 replaced, respectively.
738
739- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
740 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
741 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
742 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
743 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
744 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
745 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
746
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748 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
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750- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
751 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
752 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
753
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754- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
755 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
756 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
757 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 758
41ed0294 759- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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760 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
761 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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763- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
764 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
765 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
766 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
767 ./configure switch.
768
77eee25f 769- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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772 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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773 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
774 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
775
776- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
777 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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780 support for delta CRLs.
781
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786- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
787 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 788 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 789 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 790 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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792- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
793 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
794 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
795 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
796
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797- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
798 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 799 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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801
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802- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
803 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
804 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
805 client authentication.
806
807- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
808 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 809 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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812 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
813 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
814 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
815 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 816 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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818 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
819
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821 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
822 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
823
824- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
825 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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827- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
828 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
829 availability.
830
831- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
832 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
833 implement a simple event listener.
834
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836 initial responder moves to a different address.
837
838- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
839
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841 identity was different from the IKE identity.
842
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843- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
844 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
845 UNITY_BANNER).
846
847- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
848 charon plugins.
849
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850- Added man page for strongswan.conf
851
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855
ec40c02a 856- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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857 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
858 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 859
b22bb9f2 860- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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861 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
862 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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864- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
865
e9448cfc 866- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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869- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
870 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
871 in strongswan.conf, if required.
872
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874
875- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
876 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
877
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878- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
879 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
880
e87b78c6 881- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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882 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
883 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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885- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
886 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
887
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888- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
889 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
890
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891- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
892 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
893 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
894 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
895 plugin.
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897- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
898 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
899 unauthenticated users.
900
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906 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
907 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
908 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 909 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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911
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912- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
913 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
914 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
915 kernel interface.
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917- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
918 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
919 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
920 from IBM for his contribution.
921
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923 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
924 are allocated.
925
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927 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
928 command line option.
929
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930- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
931 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
932 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
933 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
934 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
935 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
936
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937- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
938 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 939 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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941
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942- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
943 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
944 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
945 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
946
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948 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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953
cdad91de 954- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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955 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
956
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957- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
958 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
959 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
960
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961- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
962
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964
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965- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
966 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
967 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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969
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970- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
971
2b2c69e9 972- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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974- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
975 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
976 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
977 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
978 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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980- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
981 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
982 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
983
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984- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
985 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
986
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987- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
988 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
989 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
990 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
991 this is the case.
992
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993- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
994 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
995 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
996 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
997 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
998
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1000 allowing interoperability.
1001
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1005
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1006- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1007 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1008 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1009 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1010 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1011
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1012- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1013 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1014 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1015 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1016 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1017
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1018- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1019 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1020 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1022- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1023 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1024 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1025
d245f5cf 1026- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1027 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1028
1029- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1030 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1031 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1032
1033- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1034 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1035
1036- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1037 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1038 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1039 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1040 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1041 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1042
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1043- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1044 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1045 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1046 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1047
b80fa9ca 1048- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1049 statements.
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1051- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1052
1053- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1054 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1055
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1056- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1057 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1058
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1059- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1060 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1061 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1062
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1064strongswan-4.3.4
1065----------------
1066
1067- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1068 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1069
1070- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1071 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1072
1073- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1074
1075
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1076strongswan-4.3.3
1077----------------
1078
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1079- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1080 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1081 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1082 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1083 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1084
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1085- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1086 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1087
1088- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1089 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1090
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1091- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1092
1093- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1094 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1095 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1096
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1099----------------
1100
1101- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1102 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1103
1104- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1105 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1106 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1107
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1108- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1109 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1110 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1111 with IKEv1.
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1112
1113- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1114 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1115 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1116 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1117
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1120----------------
1121
1122- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1123 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1124 dynamically.
1125
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1126- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1127 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1128 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1129 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1130 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1131
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1132- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1133 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1134 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1135 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1136 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1137 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1138
09dbca9f 1139- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1140 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1141 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1142
1143- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1144 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1145 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1146
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1147- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1148
1149- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1150 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1151 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1152 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1153 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1154 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1155 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1156 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1157
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1158- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1159 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1160
d44fd821 1161- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1162 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1163 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1164 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1165 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1166
1167
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1168strongswan-4.3.0
1169----------------
1170
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1171- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1172 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1173 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1174 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1175 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1176
1177- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1178 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1179
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1180- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1181 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1182
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1183- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1184 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1185 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1186
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1187- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1188 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1189
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1191strongswan-4.2.14
1192-----------------
1193
22180558 1194- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1195 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1196 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1197
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1198- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1199 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1200 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1201 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1202 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1203 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1204 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1205 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1206 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1207
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1208- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1209 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1210 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1211 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1212
1213- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1214 IDr payload anymore.
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1215
1216
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1217strongswan-4.2.13
1218-----------------
1219
1220- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1221 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1222
f3bb1bd0 1223- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1224 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1225
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1226- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1227 parameters field is optional.
1228
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1229- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1230
076e7853 1231
bfde75ee 1232strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 1233-----------------
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1234
1235- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1236 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1237 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1238
1239- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1240 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1241 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1242
1243- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1244 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1245
b6b90b68 1246
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1247strongswan-4.2.11
1248-----------------
1249
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1250- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1251 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1252
1253- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1254 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1255
1256
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1257strongswan-4.2.10
1258-----------------
1259
1260- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1261 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1262 counterparts with better lookup times.
1263
1264- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1265 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1266 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1267
1268- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1269 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1270 on the fly.
1271
1272- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1273 command queries assigned leases.
1274
1275- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1276 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1277
1278- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1279 reliable source of randomness.
1280
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1281strongswan-4.2.9
1282----------------
1283
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1284- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1285 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1286
1287- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1288 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1289 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1290
1291- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1292 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1293 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1294 parallelization to multiple cores.
1295
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1296- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1297 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1298
509e07c5 1299- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1300 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1301 memory or hardware.
1302
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1303- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1304 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1305 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1306 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1307
1308- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1309 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1310 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1311 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1312 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1313 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1314
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1315- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1316 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1317 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1318
73937bd8 1319
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1320strongswan-4.2.8
1321----------------
1322
5dadb16e 1323- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1324 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1325 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1326
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1327- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1328 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1329 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1330 long as possible and other fixes.
1331
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1332- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1333 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1334 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1335
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1337strongswan-4.2.7
1338----------------
1339
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1340- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1341 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1342 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1343 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1344 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1345
b6b90b68 1346- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1347 ssh-agent.
1348
1349- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1350 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1351
1352- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1353 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1354 newer libcap2 library.
1355
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1356- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1357 charon keying daemon.
1358
1359
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1360strongswan-4.2.6
1361----------------
1362
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1363- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1364 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1365 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1366 in the Gnome Keyring.
1367
1368- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1369 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1370 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1371 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1372
1373- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1374 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1375 authentication.
1376
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1377- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1378 authentication types and EAP identities.
1379
1380- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1381 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1382
1383- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1384 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1385
1386
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1387strongswan-4.2.5
1388----------------
1389
b6b90b68 1390- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1391
1392- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1393 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1394 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1395 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1396 strongswan.conf.
1397
eb0cc338 1398- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1399 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1400
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1401- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1402 network interfaces have become possible.
1403
b6b90b68 1404- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1405 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1406
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1407- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1408
b6b90b68 1409
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1410strongswan-4.2.4
1411----------------
1412
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1413- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1414 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1415
73a8eed3 1416- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1417 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1418
1419- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1420 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1421
1422- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1423 X.509 certificates.
1424
1425- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1426 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1427
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1428- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1429 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1430
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1432strongswan-4.2.3
1433----------------
1434
b6b90b68 1435- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1436 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1437
1438- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1439 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1440
1441
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1442strongswan-4.2.2
1443----------------
1444
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1445- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1446 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1447 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1448 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1449 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1450
1451- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1452 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1453 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1454 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1455
1456- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1457 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1458 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1459
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1461strongswan-4.2.1
1462----------------
1463
c306dfb1 1464- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1465 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1466 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1467 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1468 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1469 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1470
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1471- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1472 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1473 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1474 connections.
b6b90b68 1475
f3bb1bd0 1476- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1477 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1478 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1479
b6b90b68 1480- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1481 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1482 re-implemented.
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1483
1484- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1485 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1486
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1487- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1488 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1489 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1490
466abb49 1491- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1492 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1493 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1494 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1495 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1496
c306dfb1 1497- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1498
c306dfb1 1499- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1501- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1502 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1503 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1504
5c5d67d6 1505
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1507----------------
1508
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1509- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1510 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1511 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1512 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1513 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1514 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1515 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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1517- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1518 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1519
1520- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1521 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1522 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1523 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1524 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1525 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1526 The following new plugins are available:
1527 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1528 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1529 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1530
1531- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1532 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1533 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1534
b6b90b68 1535- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1536 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1537 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1538
a11ea97d 1539
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1540strongswan-4.1.11
1541-----------------
fb6d76cd 1542
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1543- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1544 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1545 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1546
1547- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1548 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1549
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1550- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1551 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1552 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1553
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1555strongswan-4.1.10
1556-----------------
1557
1558- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1559 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1560
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1561- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1562 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1563 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1564 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1565
1566- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1567 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1568 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1569 before using it.
1570
1571- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1572 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1573 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1574
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1577----------------
1578
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1579- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1580 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1581 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1582 added.
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1584- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1585 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1586
1587- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1588 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1589
1590- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1591
8b678ad4 1592- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1593 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1594 loaded twice.
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1598----------------
1599
5076770c 1600- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1602
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1604----------------
1605
1606- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1607 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1608 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1609
6e193274 1610- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1611 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1612 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1613
1614- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1615 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1616 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1617
1618- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1619 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1620
1621- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1622
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1625----------------
1626
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1627- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1628 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1629 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1630 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1631 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1632 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1633 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1634 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1635
1636- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1637 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1638 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1639 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1640
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1641- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1642 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1643 startup.
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1645- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1646 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1647 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1648 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1649 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1650
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1651- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1652 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1654
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1655strongswan-4.1.5
1656----------------
1657
1658- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1659 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1660 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1661 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1662 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1663 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1664
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1665- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1666 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1667 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1668 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1669
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1671strongswan-4.1.4
1672----------------
1673
1674- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1675 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1676 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1677 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1678 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1679 parameter is not required any more.
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1680
1681- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1682 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1683 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1684
1685 right=peer.foo.bar
1686 rightallowany=yes
1687
1688 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1689 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1690 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1691 as
1692
1693 right=%any
1694
1695 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1696 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1697
1698 right=%peer.foo.bar
1699
1700 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1701
1702- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1703 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1704 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1705 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1706 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1708- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1709 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1710 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1711 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1712 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1713
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1714- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1715 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1716 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1717 by Robert Varga.
1718
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1719- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1720 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1721
06651827 1722
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1723strongswan-4.1.3
1724----------------
1725
b6b90b68 1726- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1727 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1728
1729- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1730 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1731 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1732
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1733- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1734 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1735 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1736 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1737
1738- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1739 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1740 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1741 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1742
b6b90b68 1743- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1744 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1745 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1746 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1747 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1748 to implement.
a3354a69 1749
f3bb1bd0 1750 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1751 headers > 2.6.17.
1752
1753
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1754strongswan-4.1.2
1755----------------
1756
e23d98a7 1757- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1758 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1759 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1760 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1761
1762- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1763 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1764
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1765- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1766
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1767- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1768
dfbe2a0f 1769- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1770 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1771
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1772- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1773
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1774- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1775 connection name.
1776
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1778strongswan-4.1.1
1779----------------
1780
1781- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1782 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1783 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1784 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1785 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1786 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1787
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1788- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1789 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1790 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1791
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1792- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1793 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1794 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1795 vendor ID.
1796
1797- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1798 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1799 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1800 message.
1801
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1802- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1803 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1804
3b4f7d92 1805
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1808
1809- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1810 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1811
1812- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1813 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1814 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1815 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1816
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1817- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1818
c5d0fbb6 1819- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1820 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1821 accessLocations.
1822
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1823- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1824 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1825 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1826 option.
1827
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1828- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1829 code reuse and separation.
1830
1831- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1832 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1833 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1834
1835- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1836 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1837 specify it.
1838
1839- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1840 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1841 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1842 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1843 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1844 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1845
1846- Added client side support for cookies.
1847
1848- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1849 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1850 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1851
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1854----------------
1855
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1856- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1857 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1858 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1859
1860- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1861 to a default string.
1862
1863
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1865----------------
1866
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1867- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1868 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1869 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1870 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1871 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1872
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1873- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1874
5903179b 1875- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1876
5903179b 1877- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1878
5903179b 1879- various other bugfixes
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1880
1881
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1882strongswan-4.0.5
1883----------------
1884
1885- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1886 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1887
1888- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1889 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1890
1891- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1892 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1893 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1894 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1895
0cd645d2 1896 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1897
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1898 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1899
1900 config setup
03bf883d 1901 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1902
03bf883d 1903 or changed at runtime via stroke as
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03bf883d 1905 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1907
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1909----------------
1910
1911- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1912
1913- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1914 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1915 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1916 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1917 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1918
1919- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1920 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1921 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1922
1923- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1924
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1925- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1926 or 3DES are supported.
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1927
1928- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1929 encrypt IKE traffic.
1930
1931- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1932 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1933
1934- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1935 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1936 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1937 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1938
1939
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1940strongswan-4.0.3
1941----------------
1942
1943- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1944 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1945 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1946 kernel.
1947
1948- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1949 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1950 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1951 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1952
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1953- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1954 algorithm configuration statements.
1955
1956
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1957strongswan-4.0.2
1958----------------
1959
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1960- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1961 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1962 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1963 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1964
b6b90b68 1965- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1966 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1967 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1968 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1969
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1970- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1971 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1972 dpddelay=60s).
1973
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1974- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1975 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1976 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1977 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1978
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1979- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1980 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1981 and a more extensible code base.
1982
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1983- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1984 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1985 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1986 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1987 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1988 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1989 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1990
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1993----------------
1994
b6b90b68 1995- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1996 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1997 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1998 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1999 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2000 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2001 algorithms for IKE:
2002 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2003 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2004 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2005 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2006 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2007 blowfish192, blowfish256
2008 Integrity: md5, sha1
2009 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2010 libstrongswan.
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2012- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2013 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2014 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2015 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2016 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2017 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
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2019- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2020 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2021 configuration examples).
2022
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2023- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2024 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2025 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2026 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2027
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2028- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2029 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2030 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2031 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2032 via ipsec starter.
2033
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2035strongswan-4.0.0
2036----------------
2037
2038- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2039 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2040 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2041 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2042 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2043 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2044 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2045 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2046 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2047 status command).
2048
2049
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2050strongswan-2.7.0
2051----------------
2052
2053- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2054 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2055 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2056 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2057 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2058 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2059 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2060 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2061 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2062 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2063 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2064 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2065
2066- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2067 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2068 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2069 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2070 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2071 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2072 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2073 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2074 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2075 be inserted.
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2076
2077- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2078 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2079 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2080 be found.
2081
2082
2083strongswan-2.6.4
2084----------------
2085
2086- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2087 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2088 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2089 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2090 are required any more.
2091
2092- added support of DPD restart mode
2093
2094- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2095 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2096 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2097
2098- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2099 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2100
2101
2102strongswan-2.6.3
2103----------------
2104
b6b90b68 2105- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2106 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2107
2108- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2109 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2110 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2111
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2112- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2113 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2114
2115- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2116 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2117 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2118 the ipsec status command.
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2120
2121strongswan-2.6.2
2122----------------
2123
2124- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2125 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2126 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2127
2128- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2129 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2130 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2131
2132- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2133 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2134
2135 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2136 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2137
2138- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2139 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2140 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2141
2142 conn rw
2143 right=%any
2144 rightid=@foo.bar
2145 authby=secret
2146
2147- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2148
2149- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2150
2151- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2152 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2153 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2154
2155- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2156 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2157 servers.
2158
2159- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2160 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2161
2162
2163strongswan-2.6.1
2164----------------
2165
2166- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2167 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2168 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2169
2170
2171strongswan-2.6.0
2172----------------
2173
2174- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2175 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2176 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2177 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2178 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2179 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2180 accelerated tremedously.
2181
2182- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2183 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2184 reload pluto's connections.
2185
2186- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2187 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2188 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2189
2190- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2191
2192- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2193
2194- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2195 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2196 documented yet.
2197
2198
2199strongswan-2.5.7
2200----------------
2201
2202- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2203 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2204 listing.
2205
2206
2207strongswan-2.5.6
2208----------------
2209
2210- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2211 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2212 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2213 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2214
b6b90b68 2215- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2216 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2217 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2218 has been changed from one year to five years.
2219
2220
2221strongswan-2.5.5
2222----------------
2223
2224- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2225 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2226 via the whack interface. Notation:
2227
2228 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2229 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2230 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2231 [--keyid <keyid>]
2232
2233 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2234 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2235 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2236 [--keyid <keyid>]
2237
b6b90b68 2238 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2239
2240 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2241 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2242 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2243 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2244 permanently.
2245
2246- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2247 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2248 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2249 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2250 is automatically generated by calling the function
2251
2252 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2253
2254 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2255 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2256
2257
2258strongswan-2.5.4
2259----------------
2260
2261- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2262 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2263 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2264 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2265
2266- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2267 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2268
2269
2270strongswan-2.5.3
2271----------------
2272
2273- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2274 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2275 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2276 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2277 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2278
2279- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2280
2281 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2282 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2283 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2284 self-signed certs)
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2285
2286- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2287 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2288 attribute for AES encryption.
2289
2290- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2291
2292- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2293
2294
2295strongswan-2.5.2
2296----------------
2297
2298- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2299 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2300 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2301 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2302 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2303
2304- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2305 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2306 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2307
2308
2309strongswan-2.5.1
2310----------------
2311
2312- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2313 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2314 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2315 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2316 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2317 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2318 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2319 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2320
2321- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2322 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2323 the command
2324
2325 ipsec auto --listcards
2326
2327 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2328 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2329 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2330 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2331
2332 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2333 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2334 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2335
2336 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2337
2338 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2339 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2340 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2341
2342- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2343 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2344 to generate a signature.
2345
2346- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2347 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2348 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2349 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2350 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2351
2352- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2353 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2354
2355- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2356 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2357 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2358
2359
2360strongswan-2.5.0
2361----------------
2362
2363- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2364 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2365 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2366 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2367 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2368 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2369
2370- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2371 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2372 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2373 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2374 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2375 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2377- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2378 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2379 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2380
2381
2382strongswan-2.4.4
2383----------------
2384
2385- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2386
2387- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2388
2389
2390strongswan-2.4.3
2391----------------
2392
2393- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2394 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2395
2396- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2397
2398- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2399 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2400 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2401
2402- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2403 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2404 included.
2405
2406
2407strongswan-2.4.2
2408----------------
2409
2410- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2411 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2412 value of 50.
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2414- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2415 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2416 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2417 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2418 pad has to be done only once.
2419
2420- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2421 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2422 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2423
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b6b90b68 2425
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2426- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2427
2428- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2429 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2430
2431- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2432 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2433 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2435- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2436 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2437 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2438
2439
2440strongswan-2.4.1
2441----------------
2442
2443- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2444 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2445 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2446 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2447 "left" be"local".
2448
2449
2450strongswan-2.4.0a
2451-----------------
2452
2453- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2454
2455- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2456 Michael Meier
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2458
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2459strongswan-2.4.0
2460----------------
2461
2462- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2463 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2464 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2465 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2466 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2467 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2468 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2469
2470- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2471 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2472 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2473 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2474 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2475
2476- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2477 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2478 in a particular test.
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2480
2481strongswan-2.3.2
2482----------------
2483
2484- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2485 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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2487- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2488
2489- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2490 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2491 Delete SA messages.
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2493- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2494 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2495 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2496 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2497
2498
2499strongswan-2.3.1
2500----------------
2501
2502- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2503
2504- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2505 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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2507- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2508 module.
b6b90b68 2509
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2510- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2511 maximum udp size patches.
2512
2513- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2516strongswan-2.3.0
2517----------------
2518
2519- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2520 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2521 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2522 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2523 subdirectory.
2524
2525- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2526 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2527 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2528
997358a6 2529 man ipsec_openac.
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2531 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2532 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2533 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2535 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2536
2537 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2538 Research or Sales, only.
2539
2540- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2541 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2542 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2543 Secure Entry Clients.
2544
2545- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2546 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2547 now both set to 24 h.
2548
2549- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2550 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2551
2552- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2553 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2554 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2555
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2556 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2557
2558
2559strongswan-2.2.2
2560----------------
2561
2562- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2563 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2564 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2565 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2566
f3bb1bd0 2567- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2568 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2569 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2570
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2571- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2572
2573- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2574 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2575
2576
2577strongswan-2.2.1
2578----------------
2579
2580- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2581 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2582
f3bb1bd0 2583- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2584 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2585
997358a6 2586- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2587 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2588
2589- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2590
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2591- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2592
2593- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2594
2595
2596strongswan-2.2.0
2597----------------
2598
2599- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2600
2601 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2604
2605- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2606 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2607 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2608
997358a6 2609 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
b6b90b68 2610
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2611 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2612
2613- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2614 using the compile option VENDORID
2615
2616- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2617
2618- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2619
2620- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2621
2622- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2623 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2625- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2626
2627- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2628 connection.
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2631strongswan-2.1.5
2632----------------
2633
2634- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2635 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2636 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2637 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2638 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2639
2640- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2641 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2642
2643
2644strongswan-2.1.4
2645----------------
2646
2647- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2648 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2649 an optional connection selector:
2650
2651 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2652
2653- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2654 man page.
2655
2656- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2657 of malformed distinguished names.
2658
2659- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2660
2661 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2662
2663- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2664
2665
2666strongswan-2.1.3
2667----------------
2668
2669- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2670 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2673strongswan-2.1.2
2674----------------
2675
2676- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2677 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2678 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2681strongswan-2.1.1
2682----------------
2683
2684- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2685
2686
2687strongswan-2.1.0
2688----------------
2689
2690- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2691
2692 ca kool
2693 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2694 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2695 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2696 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2697 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2698 auto=add # add, ignore
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2702 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2703
2704- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2705 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2706
2707
2708strongswan-2.0.2
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2710
2711- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2712 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2713
2714- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
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2717- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2718 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2719
2720- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2721 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2722 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2723
2724
2725strongswan-2.0.1
2726----------------
2727
2728- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2729 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2730 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2731 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2732
2733- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2734 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2736
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2738----------------
2739
2740- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12