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4- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
5 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
6 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
7 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
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9- The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
10 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
11 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
12 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
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15strongswan-5.3.3
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18- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
19 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
20 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
21 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
22 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
23 cipher for ESP SAs.
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63d37038 25- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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26 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
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28- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
29 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
30 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
31 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
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33- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
34 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
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36- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
37 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
38 daemon when it installs its policies.
39
40- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
41 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
42 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
43 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
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45- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
46 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
47 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
48 same config as responder).
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50- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
51 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
52
a215008c 53- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 54 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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55 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
56
57- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
58 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
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64- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
65 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
66 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
67 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
68 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
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74- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
75 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
76 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
77 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
78 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
79 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
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81- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
82 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
83 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
84 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
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90- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
91 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
92 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
93 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
94 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
95 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
96 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
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98- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
99 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
100 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
101 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
102
103- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
104 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
105 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
106 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
107 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
108 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
109 enough.
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111- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
112 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
113 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
114 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
115 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
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117- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
118 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
119 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
120 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
121 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
122 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
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124- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
125 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
126 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
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128- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
129 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
130 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
131 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
132
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133- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
134 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
135 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
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137- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
138 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
139 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
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141- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
142 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
143 PT-TLS transport medium.
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149- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
150 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
151 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
152 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
153 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
154 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
155 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
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157- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
158 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
159 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
160 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
161
30a90ccf 162- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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163 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
164 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
165
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166- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
167 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
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173- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
174 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
175 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
176 supports native systemd journal logging.
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178- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
179 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
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181- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
182 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
183 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
184 per segment basis.
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186- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
187 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
188
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189- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
190 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
191 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
192 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
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198- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
199 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
200 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
201 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
202 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
203 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
204 WinHTTP API.
205
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206- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
207 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
208 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
209 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
210 for more control and better reliability.
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212- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
213 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
214 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
215 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 216 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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218- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
219 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
220
37cb91d7 221- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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222 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
223 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
224 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
225 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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227- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
228 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
229
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230- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
231 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
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233- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
234
03b5def0 235- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 236 Connect.
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238- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
239 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
240 6Wind.
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246- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
247 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
248 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
249 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
250 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
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252- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
253 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
254 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
255 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
256
257- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
258 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
259 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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261- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
262 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
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268- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
269 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
270 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
271 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
272 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
273 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
274 the current defaults.
275
276- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
277 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
278 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
279 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
280 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
281 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
282
283- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
284 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
285 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
286 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
287 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
288
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289- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
290 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
291 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
292 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
293 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
294 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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296- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
297 Attestation IMV.
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299- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
300 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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302- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
303 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
304 Andrea Bonomi.
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306- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
307 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
308 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
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314- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
315 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
316 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
317 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
318
319- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
320 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
321 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
322
2b32884d 323- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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324 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
325 plugin.
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327- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
328 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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330- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
331 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
332 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
333 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
334 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
335
336- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
337 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
338 as pluto used it.
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340- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
341 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
342 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
343 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
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345- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
346 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
347 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
348
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349- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
350 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
351 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
352 from a internal network.
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354- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
355 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
356 more trustworthy alternative.
357
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358- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
359 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
360
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361- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
362 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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364- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
365 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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367- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
368 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
369
370- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
371 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
372
373- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
374 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
375
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376- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
377 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
378 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
379 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
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385- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
386 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
387 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
388 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
389
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390- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
391 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
392 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
393 few simple command line options.
394
395- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 396 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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397 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
398
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399- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
400 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
401
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402- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
403 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
404 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
405 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
406 backend for IKEv1.
407
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409 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
410 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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412- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
413 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
414 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
415 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
416 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
417 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
418
419- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
420 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
421 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
422
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423- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
424
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426 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
427 between peers.
428
226f34e0 429- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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430 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
431 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
432 and/or device.
433
434- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
435 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
436 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
437 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
438 production releases).
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440- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
441 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
442 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
443
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444- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
445 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
446 hashtables.
447
448- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
449 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
450 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
451 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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453- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
454 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
455 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
456 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
457
458- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
459 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
460 TCP connections from a different host.
461
78e6f69e 462- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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468- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
469 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
470 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
471 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
472 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
473 legitimate one.
474
475- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
476 was fixed as well.
477
478- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
479 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
480
481- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
482 requests.
483
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484- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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490- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
491 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
492 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
493 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
494 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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496- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
497 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
498 device ID in the attest database.
499
500- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
501 if the hardware supports it.
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503- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
504 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
505 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
506 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
507 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
508 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
509 to Accounting-Stops.
510
511- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
512 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
513 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
514
515- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
516 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
517
518- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
519 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
520 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
521 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
522
523- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
524 IKE packets.
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526- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
527 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
528 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
529 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
530 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
531
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532- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
533 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
534 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
535 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
536 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
537 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
538 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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542
543- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
544 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
545
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546- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
547 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
548
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549- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
550 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
551 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
552 or receive notifications.
553
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554- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
555 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
556
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557- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
558 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
559 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
560 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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562- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
563 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
564 section.
565
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566- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
567 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
568 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
569 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
570 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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572- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
573 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
574 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
575 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
576
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577- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
578 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
579 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
580
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581- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
582 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
583 Volker Rümelin.
584
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585- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
586 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
587
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588- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
589 guest images based on Debian.
590
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594
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595- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
596 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
597
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598- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
599 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 600 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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602- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
603 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
604 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 605 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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607
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608- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
609 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
610 against a RADIUS server.
611
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612- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
613 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
614 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
615 including xauth-pam.
616
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617- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
618 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
619 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
620 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
621 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
622 aware clients.
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624- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
625 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
626 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
627
628- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
629 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
630 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
631 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
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633- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
634 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
635 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
636 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
637 IP addresses to return.
638
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639- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
640 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
641 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
642 specified or referenced named pools.
643
644- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
645 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
646
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647- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
648 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
649
650- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
651 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
652 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
653 is preserved.
654
655- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
656 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
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658- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
659 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
660 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
661
662- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
663 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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669- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
670 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
671 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
672 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
673 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
674 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
675 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
676 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
677
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678- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
679 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
680 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
681 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
682 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
683 the thread calling the listener.
684 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
685 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
686 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
687 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
688
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689- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
690 reappear.
691
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692- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
693 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
694 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
695 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
696 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
697 feature).
698
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699- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
700 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
701 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
702 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
703 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
704 using SHA-256 or better.
705
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708----------------
709
710- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
711 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
712 a legitimate one.
713
714- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
715
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719
720- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
721 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
722
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723- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
724 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
725 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
726 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
727
728- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
729 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
730 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
731 console.
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733- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
734 RFC 4595.
735
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736- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
737 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
738
4e2e77d5 739- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 740 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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742- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
743 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
744
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747----------------
748
749- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
750 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
751 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
752 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
753
754- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
755 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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756 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
757 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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759- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
760 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
761 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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763- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
764 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
765 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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767- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
768
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772
773- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
774 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
775 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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776 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
777 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
778 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
779 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
780 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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782- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
783 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
784 post-installation phase.
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790- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
791 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
792 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
793
794- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
795 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
796 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
797 for the initial patch.
798
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800 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
801
802- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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804- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
805 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
806 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
807 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
808 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
809 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
810
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812 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
813 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
814 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
815 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
816 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
817
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818- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
819 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
820 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
821
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825
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828 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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830
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832 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
833
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834- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
835 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
836 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
837
838- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
839 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
840
f8799170 841- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 842 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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844 interfaces.
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846- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
847 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
848
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850 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
851 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
852 the client is admitted to the network.
853 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
854
855- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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856 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
857
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858- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
859 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
860 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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866- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
867 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
868 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
869 whitelist administration.
870
92ebb7c5 871- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
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873 application about detected duplicates.
874
875- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
876 authentication to previously used certificates.
877
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879 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
880 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
881 only starts|routes the specific child config.
882
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884
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886 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
887
888- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 889 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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891- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
892 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
893 support configuration reloading.
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896 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
897 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
898 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
899 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
900 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
901
902- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
903 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
904 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
905
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908----------------
909
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910- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
911 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
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914 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 915 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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917- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
918 in place of the external libtnc library.
919
920- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
921 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
922 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
923 the corresponding protocol stack.
924
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926 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
927 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
928 in an SQL database.
929
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930- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
931 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
932 points in an SQL database.
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935 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
936 replaced, respectively.
937
938- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
939 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
940 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
941 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
942 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
943 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
944 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
945
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947 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
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950 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
951 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
952
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953- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
954 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
955 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
956 xcbc algorithms.
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959 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
960 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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963 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
964 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
965 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
966 ./configure switch.
967
77eee25f 968- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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971 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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972 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
973 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
974
975- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
976 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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978- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
979 support for delta CRLs.
980
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984
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985- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
986 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 987 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 988 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 989 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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991- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
992 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
993 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
994 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
995
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996- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
997 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 998 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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1001- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1002 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1003 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1004 client authentication.
1005
1006- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1007 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 1008 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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1011 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1012 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1013 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1014 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 1015 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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1016 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1017 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1018
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1019- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1020 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1021 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1022
1023- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1024 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1025
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1026- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1027 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1028 availability.
1029
1030- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1031 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1032 implement a simple event listener.
1033
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1034- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1035 initial responder moves to a different address.
1036
1037- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1038
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1039- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1040 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1041
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1042- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1043 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1044 UNITY_BANNER).
1045
1046- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1047 charon plugins.
1048
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1049- Added man page for strongswan.conf
1050
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1052strongswan-4.4.1
1053----------------
1054
ec40c02a 1055- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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1056 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1057 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 1058
b22bb9f2 1059- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1060 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1061 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 1062
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1063- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1064
e9448cfc 1065- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 1066 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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1067
1068- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1069 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1070 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1071
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1072- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1073
1074- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1075 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1076
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1077- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1078 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1079
e87b78c6 1080- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1081 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1082 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1083
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1084- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1085 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1086
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1087- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1088 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1089
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1090- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1091 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1092 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1093 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1094 plugin.
1c1f132a 1095
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1096- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1097 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1098 unauthenticated users.
1099
03b5e4d8 1100
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1101strongswan-4.4.0
1102----------------
1103
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1104- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1105 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1106 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1107 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1108 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1109 secunet Security Networks AG.
1110
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1111- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1112 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1113 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1114 kernel interface.
1115
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1116- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1117 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1118 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1119 from IBM for his contribution.
1120
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1121- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1122 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1123 are allocated.
1124
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1125- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1126 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1127 command line option.
1128
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1129- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1130 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1131 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1132 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1133 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1134 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1135
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1136- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1137 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1138 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1139 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1140
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1141- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1142 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1143 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1144 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1145
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1146- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1147 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1148
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1150strongswan-4.3.6
1151----------------
1152
cdad91de 1153- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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1154 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1155
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1156- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1157 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1158 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1159
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1160- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1161
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1162- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1163
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1164- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1165 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1166 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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1167 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1168
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1169- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1170
2b2c69e9 1171- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 1172
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1173- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1174 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1175 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1176 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1177 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1178
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1179- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1180 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1181 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1182
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1183- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1184 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1185
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1186- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1187 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1188 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1189 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1190 this is the case.
1191
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1192- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1193 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1194 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1195 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1196 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1197
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1198- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1199 allowing interoperability.
1200
1201
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1202strongswan-4.3.5
1203----------------
1204
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1205- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1206 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1207 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1208 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1209 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1210
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1211- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1212 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1213 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1214 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1215 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1216
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1217- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1218 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1219 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1221- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1222 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1223 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1224
d245f5cf 1225- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1226 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1227
1228- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1229 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1230 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1231
1232- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1233 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1234
1235- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1236 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1237 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1238 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1239 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1240 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1241
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1242- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1243 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1244 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1245 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1246
b80fa9ca 1247- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1248 statements.
b80fa9ca 1249
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1250- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1251
1252- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1253 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1254
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1255- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1256 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1257
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1258- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1259 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1260 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1261
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1263strongswan-4.3.4
1264----------------
1265
1266- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1267 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1268
1269- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1270 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1271
1272- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1273
1274
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1275strongswan-4.3.3
1276----------------
1277
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1278- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1279 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1280 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1281 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1282 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1283
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1284- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1285 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1286
1287- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1288 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1289
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1290- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1291
1292- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1293 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1294 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1295
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1297strongswan-4.3.2
1298----------------
1299
1300- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1301 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1302
1303- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1304 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1305 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1306
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1307- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1308 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1309 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1310 with IKEv1.
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1311
1312- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1313 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1314 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1315 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1316
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1318strongswan-4.3.1
1319----------------
1320
1321- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1322 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1323 dynamically.
1324
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1325- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1326 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1327 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1328 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1329 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1330
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1331- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1332 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1333 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1334 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1335 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1336 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1337
09dbca9f 1338- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1339 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1340 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1341
1342- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1343 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1344 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1345
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1346- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1347
1348- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1349 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1350 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1351 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1352 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1353 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1354 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1355 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1356
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1357- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1358 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1359
d44fd821 1360- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1361 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1362 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1363 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1364 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1365
1366
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1367strongswan-4.3.0
1368----------------
1369
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1370- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1371 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1372 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1373 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1374 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1375
1376- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1377 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1378
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1379- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1380 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1381
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1382- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1383 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1384 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1385
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1386- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1387 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1388
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1390strongswan-4.2.14
1391-----------------
1392
22180558 1393- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1394 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1395 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1396
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1397- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1398 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1399 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1400 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1401 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1402 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1403 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1404 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1405 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1406
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1407- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1408 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1409 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1410 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1411
1412- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1413 IDr payload anymore.
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1414
1415
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1416strongswan-4.2.13
1417-----------------
1418
1419- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1420 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1421
f3bb1bd0 1422- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1423 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1424
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1425- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1426 parameters field is optional.
1427
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1428- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1429
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1433
1434- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1435 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1436 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1437
1438- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1439 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1440 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1441
1442- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1443 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1444
b6b90b68 1445
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1446strongswan-4.2.11
1447-----------------
1448
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1449- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1450 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1451
1452- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1453 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1455
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1456strongswan-4.2.10
1457-----------------
1458
1459- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1460 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1461 counterparts with better lookup times.
1462
1463- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1464 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1465 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1466
1467- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1468 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1469 on the fly.
1470
1471- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1472 command queries assigned leases.
1473
1474- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1475 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1476
1477- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1478 reliable source of randomness.
1479
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1481----------------
1482
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1483- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1484 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1485
1486- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1487 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1488 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1489
1490- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1491 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1492 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1493 parallelization to multiple cores.
1494
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1495- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1496 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1497
509e07c5 1498- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1499 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1500 memory or hardware.
1501
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1502- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1503 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1504 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1505 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1506
1507- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1508 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1509 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1510 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1511 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1512 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1513
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1514- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1515 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1516 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1517
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1519strongswan-4.2.8
1520----------------
1521
5dadb16e 1522- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1523 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1524 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1525
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1526- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1527 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1528 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1529 long as possible and other fixes.
1530
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1531- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1532 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1533 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1534
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1536strongswan-4.2.7
1537----------------
1538
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1539- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1540 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1541 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1542 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1543 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1544
b6b90b68 1545- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1546 ssh-agent.
1547
1548- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1549 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1550
1551- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1552 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1553 newer libcap2 library.
1554
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1555- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1556 charon keying daemon.
1557
1558
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1560----------------
1561
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1562- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1563 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1564 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1565 in the Gnome Keyring.
1566
1567- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1568 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1569 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1570 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1571
1572- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1573 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1574 authentication.
1575
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1576- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1577 authentication types and EAP identities.
1578
1579- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1580 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1581
1582- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1583 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1584
1585
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1587----------------
1588
b6b90b68 1589- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1590
1591- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1592 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1593 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1594 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1595 strongswan.conf.
1596
eb0cc338 1597- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1598 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1599
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1600- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1601 network interfaces have become possible.
1602
b6b90b68 1603- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1604 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1605
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1606- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1607
b6b90b68 1608
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1609strongswan-4.2.4
1610----------------
1611
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1612- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1613 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1614
73a8eed3 1615- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1616 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1617
1618- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1619 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1620
1621- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1622 X.509 certificates.
1623
1624- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1625 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1626
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1627- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1628 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1629
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1631strongswan-4.2.3
1632----------------
1633
b6b90b68 1634- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1635 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1636
1637- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1638 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1639
1640
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1641strongswan-4.2.2
1642----------------
1643
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1644- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1645 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1646 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1647 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1648 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1649
1650- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1651 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1652 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1653 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1654
1655- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1656 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1657 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1658
7f491111 1659
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1660strongswan-4.2.1
1661----------------
1662
c306dfb1 1663- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1664 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1665 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1666 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1667 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1668 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1669
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1670- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1671 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1672 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1673 connections.
b6b90b68 1674
f3bb1bd0 1675- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1676 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1677 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1678
b6b90b68 1679- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1680 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1681 re-implemented.
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1682
1683- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1684 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1685
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1686- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1687 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1688 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1689
466abb49 1690- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1691 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1692 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1693 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1694 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1695
c306dfb1 1696- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1697
c306dfb1 1698- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1699
1700- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1701 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1702 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1703
5c5d67d6 1704
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1706----------------
1707
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1708- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1709 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1710 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1711 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1712 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1713 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1714 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1715
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1716- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1717 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1718
1719- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1720 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1721 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1722 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1723 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1724 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1725 The following new plugins are available:
1726 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1727 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1728 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1729
1730- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1731 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1732 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1733
b6b90b68 1734- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1735 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1736 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1737
a11ea97d 1738
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1739strongswan-4.1.11
1740-----------------
fb6d76cd 1741
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1742- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1743 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1744 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1745
1746- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1747 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1748
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1749- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1750 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1751 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1752
fb6d76cd 1753
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1754strongswan-4.1.10
1755-----------------
1756
1757- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1758 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1759
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1760- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1761 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1762 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1763 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1764
1765- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1766 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1767 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1768 before using it.
1769
1770- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1771 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1772 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1773
fb6d76cd 1774
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1775strongswan-4.1.9
1776----------------
1777
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1778- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1779 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1780 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1781 added.
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1783- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1784 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1785
1786- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1787 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1788
1789- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1790
8b678ad4 1791- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1792 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1793 loaded twice.
5076770c 1794
83e0d841 1795
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1796strongswan-4.1.8
1797----------------
1798
5076770c 1799- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1800
1801
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1803----------------
1804
1805- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1806 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1807 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1808
6e193274 1809- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1810 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1811 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1812
1813- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1814 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1815 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1816
1817- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1818 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1819
1820- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1821
a4a3632c 1822
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1823strongswan-4.1.6
1824----------------
1825
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1826- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1827 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1828 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1829 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1830 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1831 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1832 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1833 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1834
1835- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1836 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1837 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1838 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1839
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1840- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1841 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1842 startup.
b6b90b68 1843
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1844- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1845 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1846 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1847 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1848 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1849
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1850- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1851 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1853
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1854strongswan-4.1.5
1855----------------
1856
1857- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1858 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1859 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1860 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1861 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1862 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1863
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1864- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1865 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1866 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1867 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1868
7ad634a2 1869
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1871----------------
1872
1873- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1874 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1875 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1876 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1877 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1878 parameter is not required any more.
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1879
1880- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1881 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1882 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1883
1884 right=peer.foo.bar
1885 rightallowany=yes
1886
1887 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1888 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1889 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1890 as
1891
1892 right=%any
1893
1894 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1895 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1896
1897 right=%peer.foo.bar
1898
1899 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1900
1901- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1902 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1903 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1904 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1905 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 1906
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1907- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1908 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1909 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1910 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1911 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1912
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1913- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1914 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1915 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1916 by Robert Varga.
1917
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1918- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1919 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1920
06651827 1921
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1922strongswan-4.1.3
1923----------------
1924
b6b90b68 1925- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1926 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1927
1928- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1929 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1930 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1931
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1932- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1933 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1934 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1935 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1936
1937- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1938 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1939 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1940 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1941
b6b90b68 1942- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1943 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1944 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1945 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1946 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1947 to implement.
a3354a69 1948
f3bb1bd0 1949 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1950 headers > 2.6.17.
1951
1952
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1953strongswan-4.1.2
1954----------------
1955
e23d98a7 1956- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1957 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1958 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1959 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1960
1961- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1962 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1963
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1964- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1965
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1966- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1967
dfbe2a0f 1968- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1969 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1970
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1971- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1972
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1973- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1974 connection name.
1975
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1978----------------
1979
1980- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1981 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1982 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1983 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1984 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1985 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1986
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1987- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1988 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1989 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1990
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1991- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1992 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1993 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1994 vendor ID.
1995
1996- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1997 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1998 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1999 message.
2000
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2002 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2003
3b4f7d92 2004
34bbd0c3 2005strongswan-4.1.0
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2007
2008- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2009 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2010
2011- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2012 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2013 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2014 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2015
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2016- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2017
c5d0fbb6 2018- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 2019 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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2020 accessLocations.
2021
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2022- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2023 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2024 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2025 option.
2026
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2027- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2028 code reuse and separation.
2029
2030- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2031 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2032 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2033
2034- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2035 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2036 specify it.
2037
2038- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2039 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2040 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2041 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2042 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2043 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2044
2045- Added client side support for cookies.
2046
2047- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2048 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2049 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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2053----------------
2054
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2055- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2056 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2057 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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2058
2059- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2060 to a default string.
2061
2062
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2063strongswan-4.0.6
2064----------------
2065
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2066- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2067 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2068 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2069 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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2070 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2071
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2072- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2073
5903179b 2074- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2075
5903179b 2076- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2077
5903179b 2078- various other bugfixes
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2079
2080
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2081strongswan-4.0.5
2082----------------
2083
2084- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2085 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2086
2087- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2088 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2089
2090- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2091 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2092 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2093 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2094
0cd645d2 2095 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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2097 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2098
2099 config setup
03bf883d 2100 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 2101
03bf883d 2102 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 2103
03bf883d 2104 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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2105
2106
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2107strongswan-4.0.4
2108----------------
2109
2110- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2111
2112- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2113 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2114 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2115 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2116 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2117
2118- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2119 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2120 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2121
2122- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2123
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2124- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2125 or 3DES are supported.
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2126
2127- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2128 encrypt IKE traffic.
2129
2130- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2131 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2132
2133- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2134 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2135 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2136 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2137
2138
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2139strongswan-4.0.3
2140----------------
2141
2142- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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2143 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2144 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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2145 kernel.
2146
2147- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2148 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2149 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2150 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2151
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2152- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2153 algorithm configuration statements.
2154
2155
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2156strongswan-4.0.2
2157----------------
2158
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2159- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2160 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2161 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2162 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2163
b6b90b68 2164- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2165 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2166 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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2167 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2168
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2169- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2170 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2171 dpddelay=60s).
2172
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2173- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2174 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2175 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2176 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2177
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2178- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2179 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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2180 and a more extensible code base.
2181
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2182- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2183 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2184 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2185 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2186 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2187 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2188 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2189
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2191strongswan-4.0.1
2192----------------
2193
b6b90b68 2194- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2195 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2196 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2197 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2198 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2199 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2200 algorithms for IKE:
2201 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2202 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2203 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2204 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2205 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2206 blowfish192, blowfish256
2207 Integrity: md5, sha1
2208 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2209 libstrongswan.
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2211- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2212 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2213 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2214 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2215 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2216 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2217
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2218- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2219 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2220 configuration examples).
2221
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2222- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2223 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2224 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2225 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2226
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2227- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2228 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2229 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2230 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2231 via ipsec starter.
2232
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2234strongswan-4.0.0
2235----------------
2236
2237- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2238 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2239 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2240 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2241 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2242 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2243 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2244 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2245 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2246 status command).
2247
2248
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2250----------------
2251
2252- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2253 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2254 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2255 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2256 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2257 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2258 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2259 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2260 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2261 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2262 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2263 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2264
2265- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2266 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2267 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2268 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2269 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2270 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2271 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2272 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2273 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2274 be inserted.
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2276- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2277 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2278 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2279 be found.
2280
2281
2282strongswan-2.6.4
2283----------------
2284
2285- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2286 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2287 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2288 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2289 are required any more.
2290
2291- added support of DPD restart mode
2292
2293- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2294 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2295 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2296
2297- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2298 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2299
2300
2301strongswan-2.6.3
2302----------------
2303
b6b90b68 2304- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2305 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2306
2307- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2308 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2309 via the auth=ah parameter.
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2311- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2312 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2313
2314- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2315 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2316 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2317 the ipsec status command.
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2320strongswan-2.6.2
2321----------------
2322
2323- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2324 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2325 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2326
2327- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2328 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2329 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2330
2331- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2332 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2333
2334 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2335 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2336
2337- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2338 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2339 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2340
2341 conn rw
2342 right=%any
2343 rightid=@foo.bar
2344 authby=secret
2345
2346- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2347
2348- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2349
2350- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2351 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2352 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2353
2354- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2355 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2356 servers.
2357
2358- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2359 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2360
2361
2362strongswan-2.6.1
2363----------------
2364
2365- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2366 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2367 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2368
2369
2370strongswan-2.6.0
2371----------------
2372
2373- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2374 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2375 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2376 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2377 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2378 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2379 accelerated tremedously.
2380
2381- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2382 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2383 reload pluto's connections.
2384
2385- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2386 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2387 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2388
2389- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2390
2391- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2392
2393- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2394 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2395 documented yet.
2396
2397
2398strongswan-2.5.7
2399----------------
2400
2401- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2402 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2403 listing.
2404
2405
2406strongswan-2.5.6
2407----------------
2408
2409- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2410 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2411 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2412 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2413
b6b90b68 2414- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2415 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2416 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2417 has been changed from one year to five years.
2418
2419
2420strongswan-2.5.5
2421----------------
2422
2423- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2424 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2425 via the whack interface. Notation:
2426
2427 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2428 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2429 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2430 [--keyid <keyid>]
2431
2432 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2433 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2434 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2435 [--keyid <keyid>]
2436
b6b90b68 2437 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2438
2439 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2440 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2441 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2442 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2443 permanently.
2444
2445- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2446 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2447 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2448 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2449 is automatically generated by calling the function
2450
2451 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2452
2453 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2454 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2455
2456
2457strongswan-2.5.4
2458----------------
2459
2460- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2461 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2462 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2463 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2464
2465- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2466 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2467
2468
2469strongswan-2.5.3
2470----------------
2471
2472- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2473 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2474 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2475 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2476 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2477
2478- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2479
2480 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2481 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2482 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2483 self-signed certs)
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2485- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2486 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2487 attribute for AES encryption.
2488
2489- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2490
2491- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2492
2493
2494strongswan-2.5.2
2495----------------
2496
2497- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2498 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2499 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2500 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2501 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2502
2503- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2504 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2505 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2506
2507
2508strongswan-2.5.1
2509----------------
2510
2511- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2512 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2513 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2514 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2515 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2516 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2517 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2518 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2519
2520- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2521 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2522 the command
2523
2524 ipsec auto --listcards
2525
2526 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2527 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2528 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2529 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2530
2531 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2532 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2533 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2534
2535 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2536
2537 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2538 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2539 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2540
2541- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2542 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2543 to generate a signature.
2544
2545- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2546 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2547 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2548 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2549 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2550
2551- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2552 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2553
2554- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2555 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2556 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2557
2558
2559strongswan-2.5.0
2560----------------
2561
2562- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2563 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2564 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2565 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2566 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2567 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2568
2569- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2570 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2571 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2572 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2573 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2574 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2576- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2577 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2578 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2579
2580
2581strongswan-2.4.4
2582----------------
2583
2584- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2585
2586- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2587
2588
2589strongswan-2.4.3
2590----------------
2591
2592- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2593 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2594
2595- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2596
2597- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2598 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2599 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2600
2601- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2602 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2603 included.
2604
2605
2606strongswan-2.4.2
2607----------------
2608
2609- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2610 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2611 value of 50.
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2613- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2614 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2615 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2616 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2617 pad has to be done only once.
2618
2619- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2620 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2621 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2622
997358a6 2623 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
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2625- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2626
2627- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2628 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2629
2630- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2631 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2632 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2634- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2635 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2636 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2637
2638
2639strongswan-2.4.1
2640----------------
2641
2642- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2643 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2644 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2645 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2646 "left" be"local".
2647
2648
2649strongswan-2.4.0a
2650-----------------
2651
2652- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2653
2654- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2655 Michael Meier
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2656
2657
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2658strongswan-2.4.0
2659----------------
2660
2661- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2662 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2663 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2664 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2665 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2666 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2667 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2668
2669- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2670 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2671 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2672 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2673 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2674
2675- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2676 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2677 in a particular test.
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2678
2679
2680strongswan-2.3.2
2681----------------
2682
2683- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2684 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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2686- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2687
2688- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2689 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2690 Delete SA messages.
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2692- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2693 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2694 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2695 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2696
2697
2698strongswan-2.3.1
2699----------------
2700
2701- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2702
2703- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2704 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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2706- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2707 module.
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2709- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2710 maximum udp size patches.
2711
2712- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2715strongswan-2.3.0
2716----------------
2717
2718- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2719 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2720 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2721 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2722 subdirectory.
2723
2724- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2725 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2726 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2727
997358a6 2728 man ipsec_openac.
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2730 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2731 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2732 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2734 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2735
2736 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2737 Research or Sales, only.
2738
2739- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2740 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2741 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2742 Secure Entry Clients.
2743
2744- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2745 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2746 now both set to 24 h.
2747
2748- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2749 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2750
2751- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2752 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2753 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2755 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2756
2757
2758strongswan-2.2.2
2759----------------
2760
2761- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2762 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2763 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2764 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2765
f3bb1bd0 2766- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2767 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2768 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2770- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2771
2772- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2773 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2774
2775
2776strongswan-2.2.1
2777----------------
2778
2779- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2780 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2781
f3bb1bd0 2782- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2783 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2784
997358a6 2785- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2786 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2787
2788- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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2790- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2791
2792- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2793
2794
2795strongswan-2.2.0
2796----------------
2797
2798- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2799
2800 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2802 activates DPD for the given connection.
2803
2804- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2805 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2806 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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2810 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2811
2812- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2813 using the compile option VENDORID
2814
2815- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2816
2817- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2818
2819- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2820
2821- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2822 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2824- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2825
2826- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2827 connection.
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2829
2830strongswan-2.1.5
2831----------------
2832
2833- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2834 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2835 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2836 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2837 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2838
2839- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2840 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2841
2842
2843strongswan-2.1.4
2844----------------
2845
2846- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2847 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2848 an optional connection selector:
2849
2850 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2851
2852- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2853 man page.
2854
2855- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2856 of malformed distinguished names.
2857
2858- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2859
2860 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2861
2862- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2863
2864
2865strongswan-2.1.3
2866----------------
2867
2868- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2869 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2872strongswan-2.1.2
2873----------------
2874
2875- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2876 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2877 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2879
2880strongswan-2.1.1
2881----------------
2882
2883- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2884
2885
2886strongswan-2.1.0
2887----------------
2888
2889- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2890
2891 ca kool
2892 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2893 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2894 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2895 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2896 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2897 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 2898
997358a6 2899 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2901 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2902
2903- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2904 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2905
2906
2907strongswan-2.0.2
2908----------------
2909
2910- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2911 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2913- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2914 during kernel compilation
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2916- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2917 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2918
2919- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2920 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2921 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2922
2923
2924strongswan-2.0.1
2925----------------
2926
2927- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2928 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2929 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2930 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2931
2932- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2933 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2935
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2937----------------
2938
2939- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12