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5 Enrollment Protocol" (RFC 8894 SCEP) replacing the obsoleted scepclient that
6 has been removed.
7
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8- The pki --est|estca commands support the HTTPS-based "Enrollment over Secure
9 Transport" (RFC 7070 EST) protocol.
10
11- The pki --req command can create a certificate request based on an existing
12 PKCS#10 template by replacing the public key and re-generating the signature
13 with the new private key.
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18
19- The IKEv2 key derivation is now delayed until the keys are actually needed for
20 the next message. Instead of deriving the keys while processing an IKE_SA_INIT
21 request, it's delayed until the corresponding IKE_AUTH request is received.
22 DH implementations now must do costly public key validation and the key
23 derivation in get_shared_secret().
24
25- Inbound IKEv2 messages are not parsed immediately anymore, instead we first
26 check a request's MID and compare its hash to that of the previous request to
27 decide if it's a valid retransmit (for fragmented message we only keep track
28 of the first fragment, so we don't have to wait for all fragments and
29 reconstruct the message, which we did before).
30
31- The retransmission logic in the dhcp plugin has been fixed so that four
32 retransmits are sent per DHCP request over a total of 15 seconds (previously,
33 it could happen that all were sent within the same second without any time
34 to actually wait for a response).
35
36- The connmark plugin now considers configured masks in installed firewall
37 rules, which allows using the upper parts of the mark value for other
38 purposes. Just consider that the daemon might have to be restarted regularly
39 to reset the global unique mark counter as that's unaware of any masks.
40
41- Child config selection has been improved as responder in cases where multiple
42 children use transport mode traffic selectors.
43
44- The outbound SA/policy is now also removed after IKEv1 CHILD_SA rekeyings.
45
46- The openssl plugin supports AES and Camellia in CTR mode.
47
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51
52- The IKEv2 key derivation, in particular prf+, has been modularized to simplify
53 certification (e.g. FIPS-140) via an already certified third-party library.
54 The botan, openssl and wolfssl plugins implement the key derivation for
55 HMAC-based PRFs via their respective HKDF implementation. A generic
56 implementation is provided by the new kdf plugin.
57
58- Labeled IPsec with IKEv2 is supported in an SELinux and a proprietary simple
59 mode. In SELinux mode, traffic that matches a trap policy with generic
60 context (e.g. system_u:object_r:ipsec_spd_t:s0) triggers the negotiation of
61 CHILD_SAs with a specific label. With the simple mode, labels are not set on
62 SAs/policies but can be used as identifier to select specific child configs.
63
64- DoS protection has been improved: COOKIE secrets are now switched based on a
65 time limit (2 min.), a new per-IP threshold (default 3) is used to trigger
66 them, and unprocessed IKE_SA_INITs are already counted as half-open IKE_SAs.
67
68- Initiating duplicate CHILD_SAs within the same IKE_SA is largely prevented.
69
70- Immediately initiating a CHILD_SA with trap policies is now possible via
71 `start_action=trap|start`.
72
73- If the source address is unknown when initiating an IKEv2 SA, a NAT situation
74 is now forced for IPv4 (for IPv6, NAT-T is disabled) to avoid causing
75 asymmetric enabling of UDP-encapsulation.
76
77- Installing unnecessary exclude routes for VPN servers on FreeBSD is avoided.
78
79- The new `map_level` option for syslog loggers allows mapping log levels
80 to syslog levels starting at the specified number.
81
82- The addrblock plugin allows limiting the validation depth of issuer addrblock
83 extensions.
84
85- The default AEAD ESP proposal (sent since 5.9.0) now includes `noesn` to make
86 it standards-compliant.
87
88- Individual CHILD_SAs can be queried via the `list-sas` vici command (or
89 `swanctl --list-sas ), either by unique ID or name.
90
91- Compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0 has been improved.
92
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96
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97- Fixed a vulnerability in the EAP client implementation that was caused by
98 incorrectly handling early EAP-Success messages. It may allow to bypass the
99 client and in some scenarios even the server authentication, or could lead to
100 a denial-of-service attack.
101 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2021-45079.
102
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103- Using the trusted RSA or ECC Endorsement Key of the TPM 2.0, libtpmtss may now
104 establish a secure session via RSA encryption or an ephemeral ECDH key
105 exchange, respectively. The session allows HMAC-based authenticated
106 communication with the TPM 2.0 and the exchanged parameters can be encrypted
107 where necessary to guarantee confidentiality (e.g. when using the TPM as RNG).
108
109- Basic support for OpenSSL 3.0 has been added, in particular, the new
110 load_legacy option (enabled by default) allows loading the "legacy" provider
111 for algorithms like MD4 and DES (both required for EAP-MSCHAPv2), and the
112 existing fips_mode option allows explicitly loading the "fips" provider e.g.
113 if it's not activated in OpenSSL's fipsmodule.cnf.
114
115- The MTU of TUN devices created by the kernel-pfroute plugin on macOS and
116 FreeBSD is now configurable and reduced to 1400 bytes, by default. This also
117 fixes an issue on macOS 12 that prevented the detection of virtual IPs
118 installed on such TUN devices.
119
120- When rekeying CHILD_SAs, the old outbound SA is now uninstalled shortly after
121 the new SA has been installed on the initiator/winner. This is useful for
122 IPsec implementations where the ordering of SAs is unpredictable and we can't
123 set the SPI on the outbound policy to switch to the new SA while both are
124 installed.
125
126- The sw-collector utility may now iterate through APT history logs processed
127 by logrotate.
128
129- The openssl plugin now only announces the ECDH groups actually supported by
130 OpenSSL (determined via EC_get_builtin_curves()).
131
132
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136- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by
137 an integer overflow when processing RSASSA-PSS signatures with very large
138 salt lengths.
139 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2021-41990.
140
141- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerabililty in the in-memory certificate cache
142 if certificates are replaced and a very large random value caused an integer
143 overflow.
144 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2021-41991.
145
146- Fixed a related flaw that caused the daemon to accept an infinite number of
147 versions of a valid certificate by modifying the parameters in the
148 signatureAlgorithm field of the outer X.509 Certificate structure.
149
150- AUTH_LIFETIME notifies are now only sent by a responder if it can't
151 reauthenticate the IKE_SA itself due to asymmetric authentication (i.e. EAP)
152 or the use of virtual IPs.
153
154- Serial number generation in several pki sub-commands has been fixed so they
155 don't start with an unintended zero byte.
156
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157- Initialize libtpmtss in all programs and library that use it.
158
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159- Migrated testing scripts to Python 3.
160
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164
165- Added AES_ECB, SHA-3 and SHAKE-256 support to wolfssl plugin.
166
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167- Added AES_CCM and SHA-3 signature support to openssl plugin.
168
169- The x509 and openssl plugins now consider the authorityKeyIdentifier, if
170 available, before verifying signatures, which avoids unnecessary signature
171 verifications after a CA key rollover if both certificates are loaded.
172
173- The pkcs11 plugin better handles optional attributes like CKA_TRUSTED, which
174 previously depended on a version check.
175
176- charon-nm now supports using SANs as client identities, not only full DNs.
177
178- charon-tkm now handles IKE encryption.
179
180- A MOBIKE update is sent again if a a change in the NAT mappings is detected
181 but the endpoints stay the same.
182
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183- Converted most of the test case scenarios to the vici interface
184
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188
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189- Together with a Linux 5.8 kernel supporting the IMA measurement of the GRUB
190 bootloader and the Linux kernel, the strongSwan Attestation IMC allows to do
191 remote attestation of the complete boot phase. A recent TPM 2.0 device with a
192 SHA-256 PCR bank is required, so that both BIOS and IMA file measurements are
193 based on SHA-256 hashes.
194
195- Our own TLS library (libtls) that we use for TLS-based EAP methods and PT-TLS
196 gained experimental support for TLS 1.3. Thanks to Méline Sieber (client) and
197 Pascal Knecht (client and server) for their work on this.
198 Because the use of TLS 1.3 with these EAP methods is not yet standardized (two
199 Internet-Drafts are being worked on), the default maximum version is currently
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200 set to TLS 1.2, which is now also the default minimum version. However the TNC
201 test scenarios using PT-TLS transport already use TLS 1.3.
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203- Other improvements for libtls also affect older TLS versions. For instance, we
204 added support for ECDH with Curve25519/448 (DH groups may also be configured
205 now), for EdDSA keys and certificates and for RSA-PSS signatures. Support for
206 old and weak cipher suites has been removed (e.g. with 3DES and MD5) as well
207 as signature schemes with SHA-1.
208
209- The listener_t::ike_update event is now also called for MOBIKE updates. Its
210 signature has changed so we only have to call it once if both addresses/ports
211 have changed (e.g. for an address family switch). The event is now also
212 exposed via vici.
213
214- The farp plugin has been ported to macOS and FreeBSD. Thanks to Dan James for
215 working on this.
216
217- To fix DNS server installation with systemd-resolved, charon-nm now creates a
218 dummy TUN device again (was removed with 5.5.1).
219
220- The botan plugin can use rng_t implementations provided by other plugins when
221 generating keys etc. if the Botan library supports it.
222
223- charon-tkm now supports multiple CAs and is configured via vici/swanctl.
224
225- Simple glob patterns (e.g. include conf.d/*.conf) now also work on Windows.
226 Handling of forward slashes in paths on Windows has also been improved.
227
228- The abbreviations for the 'surname' and 'serial number' RDNs in ASN.1 DNs have
229 been changed to align with RFC 4519: The abbreviation for 'surname' is now
230 "SN" (was "S" before), which was previously used for 'serial number' that can
231 now be specified as "serialNumber" only.
232
233- An issue with Windows clients requesting previous IPv6 but not IPv4 virtual
234 IP addresses has been fixed.
235
236- ike_sa_manager_t: Checking out IKE_SAs by config is now atomic (e.g. when
237 acquires for different children of the same connection arrive concurrently).
238 The checkout_new() method has been renamed to create_new(). A new
239 checkout_new() method allows registering a new IKE_SA with the manager before
240 checking it in, so jobs can be queued without losing them as they can block
241 on checking out the new SA.
242
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246
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247- Remote attestation via TNC supports the SHA-256 based TPM 2.0 BIOS/EFI
248 measurements introduced with the Linux 5.4 kernel.
249
250- Nonces in OCSP responses are not enforced anymore and only validated if a
251 nonce is actually contained.
252
253- Fixed an issue when only some fragments of a retransmitted IKEv2 message were
254 received, which prevented processing a following fragmented message.
255
256- All queued vici messages are now sent to subscribed clients during shutdown,
257 which includes ike/child-updown events triggered when all SAs are deleted.
258
259- CHILD_SA IP addresses are updated before installation to allow MOBIKE updates
260 while retransmitting a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
261
262- When looking for a route to the peer, the kernel-netlink plugin ignores the
263 current source address if it's deprecated.
264
265- The file and syslog loggers support logging the log level of each message
266 after the subsystem (e.g. [IKE2]).
267
268- charon-nm is now properly terminated during system shutdown.
269
270- Improved support for EdDSA keys in vici/swanctl, in particular, encrypted
271 keys are now supported.
272
273- A new global strongswan.conf option allows sending the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID
274 to prevent Cisco devices from narrowing a 0.0.0.0/0 traffic selector.
275
276- The openssl plugin accepts CRLs issued by non-CA certificates if they contain
277 the cRLSign keyUsage flag (the x509 plugin already does this since 4.5.1).
278
279- Attributes in PKCS#7 containers, as used in SCEP, are now properly
280 DER-encoded, i.e. sorted.
281
282- The load-tester plugin now supports virtual IPv6 addresses and IPv6 source
283 address pools.
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288
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289- We prefer AEAD algorithms for ESP and therefore put AES-GCM in a default AEAD
290 proposal in front of the previous default proposal.
291
292- The NM backend now clears cached credentials when disconnecting, has DPD and
293 and close action set to restart, and supports custom remote TS via 'remote-ts'
294 option (no GUI support).
295
296- The pkcs11 plugin falls back to software hashing for PKCS#1v1.5 RSA signatures
297 if mechanisms with hashing (e.g. CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS) are not supported.
298
299- The owner/group of log files is now set so the daemon can reopen them if the
300 config is reloaded and it doesn't run as root.
301
302- The wolfssl plugin (with wolfSSL 4.4.0+) supports x448 DH and Ed448 keys.
303
304- The vici plugin stores all CA certificates in one location, which avoids
305 issues with unloading authority sections or clearing all credentials.
306
307- When unloading a vici connection with start_action=start, any related IKE_SAs
308 without children are now terminated (including those in CONNECTING state).
309
310- The hashtable implementation has been changed so it maintains insertion order.
311 This was mainly done so the vici plugin can store its connections in a
312 hashtable, which makes managing high numbers of connections faster.
313
314- The default maximum size for vici messages (512 KiB) can now be changed via
315 VICI_MESSAGE_SIZE_MAX compile option.
316
317- The charon.check_current_path option allows forcing a DPD exchange to check if
318 the current path still works whenever interface/address-changes are detected.
319
320- It's possible to use clocks other than CLOCK_MONOTONIC (e.g. CLOCK_BOOTTIME)
321 via TIME_CLOCK_ID compile option if clock_gettime() is available and
322 pthread_condattr_setclock() supports that clock.
323
324- Test cases and functions can now be filtered when running the unit tests.
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329
330- In IKEv1 Quick Mode make sure that a proposal exists before determining
331 lifetimes (fixes crash due to null pointer exception).
332
333- OpenSSL currently doesn't support squeezing bytes out of a SHAKE128/256
334 XOF (eXtended Output Function) multiple times. Unfortunately,
335 EVP_DigestFinalXOF() completely resets the context and later calls not
336 simply fail, they cause a null-pointer dereference in libcrypto. This
337 fixes the crash at the cost of repeating initializing the whole state
338 and allocating too much data for subsequent calls.
339
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343
344- Updates for the NM backend (and plugin), among others: EAP-TLS authentication,
345 configurable local and remote IKE identities, custom server port, redirection
346 and reauthentication support.
347
348- Previously used reqids are now reallocated to workaround an issue on FreeBSD
349 where the daemon can't use reqids > 16383.
350
351- On Linux, throw type routes are installed for passthrough policies. They act
352 as fallbacks on routes in other tables and require less information, so they
353 can be installed earlier and are not affected by updates.
354
355- For IKEv1, the lifetimes of the selected transform are returned to the
356 initiator, which is an issue with peers that propose different lifetimes in
357 different transforms. We also return the correct transform and proposal IDs.
358
359- IKE_SAs are not re-established anymore if a deletion has been queued.
360
361- Added support for Ed448 keys and certificates via openssl plugin and pki tool.
362 The openssl plugin also supports SHA-3 and SHAKE128/256.
363
364- The use of algorithm IDs from the private use ranges can now be enabled
365 globally, to use them even if no strongSwan vendor ID was exchanged.
366
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370
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371- Identity-based CA constraints are supported via vici/swanctl.conf. They
372 enforce that the remote's certificate chain contains a CA certificate with a
373 specific identity. While similar to the existing CA constraints, they don't
374 require that the CA certificate is locally installed such as intermediate CA
375 certificates received from peers. Compared to wildcard identity matching (e.g.
376 "..., OU=Research, CN=*") this requires less trust in the intermediate CAs (to
377 only issue certificates with legitimate subject DNs) as long as path length
378 basic constraints prevent them from issuing further intermediate CAs.
379
380- Intermediate CA certificates may now be sent in hash-and-URL encoding by
381 configuring a base URL for the parent CA.
382
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383- Implemented NIST SP-800-90A Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG)
384 based on AES-CTR and SHA2-HMAC modes. Currently used by gmp and ntru plugins.
385
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386- Random nonces sent in an OCSP requests are now expected in the corresponding
387 OCSP responses.
388
389- The kernel-netlink plugin ignores deprecated IPv6 addresses for MOBIKE.
390 Whether temporary or permanent IPv6 addresses are included depends on the
391 charon.prefer_temporary_addrs setting.
392
393- Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN) are configured via PF_KEY if supported by the
394 kernel.
395
396- Unique section names are used for CHILD_SAs in vici child-updown events and
397 more information (e.g. statistics) are included for individually deleted
398 CHILD_SAs (in particular for IKEv1).
399
400- So fallbacks to other plugins work properly, creating HMACs via openssl plugin
401 now fails instantly if the underlying hash algorithm isn't supported (e.g.
402 MD5 in FIPS-mode).
403
404- Exponents of RSA keys read from TPM 2.0 via SAPI are now correctly converted.
405
406- Routing table IDs > 255 are supported for custom routes on Linux.
407
408- The D-Bus config file for charon-nm is now installed in
409 $(datadir)/dbus-1/system.d instead of $(sysconfdir)/dbus-1/system.d.
410
411- INVALID_MAJOR_VERSION notifies are now correctly sent in messages of the same
412 exchange type and using the same message ID as the request.
413
414- IKEv2 SAs are immediately destroyed when sending or receiving INVALID_SYNTAX
415 notifies in authenticated messages.
416
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420
421- RDNs in Distinguished Names can now optionally be matched less strict. The
422 global option charon.rdn_matching takes two alternative values that cause the
423 matching algorithm to either ignore the order of matched RDNs or additionally
424 accept DNs that contain more RDNs than configured (unmatched RDNs are treated
425 like wildcard matches).
426
427- The updown plugin now passes the same interface to the script that is also
428 used for the automatically installed routes, i.e. the interface over which the
429 peer is reached instead of the interface on which the local address is found.
430
431- TPM 2.0 contexts are now protected by a mutex to prevent issues if multiple
432 IKE_SAs use the same private key concurrently.
433
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437
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438- The systemd service units have been renamed. The modern unit, which was called
439 strongswan-swanctl, is now called strongswan (the previous name is configured
440 as alias). The legacy unit is now called strongswan-starter.
441
442- Support for XFRM interfaces (available since Linux 4.19) has been added.
443 Configuration is possible via swanctl.conf. Interfaces may be created
444 dynamically via updown/vici scripts, or statically before or after
445 establishing the SAs. Routes must be added manually as needed (the daemon will
446 not install any routes for outbound policies with an interface ID).
447
448- Initiation of childless IKE_SAs is supported (RFC 6023). If enabled and
449 supported by the responder, no CHILD_SA is established during IKE_AUTH. This
450 allows using a separate DH exchange even for the first CHILD_SA, which is
451 otherwise created with keys derived from the IKE_SA's key material.
452
453- The NetworkManager backend and plugin support IPv6.
454
455- The new wolfssl plugin is a wrapper around the wolfSSL crypto library. Thanks
456 to Sean Parkinson of wolfSSL Inc. for the initial patch.
457
458- IKE SPIs may optionally be labeled via the charon.spi_mask|label options. This
459 feature was extracted from charon-tkm, however, now applies the mask/label in
460 network order.
461
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462- The openssl plugin supports ChaCha20-Poly1305 when built with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
463
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464- The PB-TNC finite state machine according to section 3.2 of RFC 5793 was not
465 correctly implemented when sending either a CRETRY or SRETRY batch. These
466 batches can only be sent in the "Decided" state and a CRETRY batch can
467 immediately carry all messages usually transported by a CDATA batch. It is
468 currently not possible to send a SRETRY batch since full-duplex mode for
469 PT-TLS transport is not supported.
470
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471- Instead of marking virtual IPv6 addresses as deprecated, the kernel-netlink
472 plugin uses address labels to avoid their use for non-VPN traffic.
473
474- The agent plugin creates sockets to the ssh/gpg-agent dynamically and does not
475 keep them open, which otherwise can prevent the agent from getting terminated.
476
477- To avoid broadcast loops the forecast plugin now only reinjects packets that
478 are marked or received from the configured interface.
479
480- UTF-8 encoded passwords are supported via EAP-MSCHAPv2, which internally uses
481 an UTF-16LE encoding to calculate the NT hash.
482
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483- Adds the build-certs script to generate the keys and certificates used for
484 regression tests dynamically. They are built with the pki version installed
485 in the KVM root image so it's not necessary to have an up-to-date version with
486 all required plugins installed on the host system.
487
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492- Private key implementations may optionally provide a list of supported
493 signature schemes, which is used by the tpm plugin because for each key on a
494 TPM 2.0 the hash algorithm and for RSA also the padding scheme is predefined.
495
496- For RSA with PSS padding, the TPM 2.0 specification mandates the maximum salt
497 length (as defined by the length of the key and hash). However, if the TPM is
498 FIPS-168-4 compliant, the salt length equals the hash length. This is assumed
499 for FIPS-140-2 compliant TPMs, but if that's not the case, it might be
500 necessary to manually enable charon.plugins.tpm.fips_186_4 if the TPM doesn't
501 use the maximum salt length.
502
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503- swanctl now accesses directories for credentials relative to swanctl.conf, in
504 particular, when it's loaded from a custom location via --file argument. The
505 base directory that's used if --file is not given is configurable at runtime
506 via SWANCTL_DIR environment variable.
507
508- With RADIUS Accounting enabled, the eap-radius plugin adds the session ID to
509 Access-Request messages, simplifying associating database entries for IP
510 leases and accounting with sessions.
511
512- IPs assigned by RADIUS servers are included in Accounting-Stop even if clients
513 don't claim them, allowing releasing them early on connection errors.
514
515- Selectors installed on transport mode SAs by the kernel-netlink plugin are
516 updated on IP address changes (e.g. via MOBIKE).
517
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518- Added support for RSA signatures with SHA-256 and SHA-512 to the agent plugin.
519 For older versions of ssh/gpg-agent that only support SHA-1, IKEv2 signature
520 authentication has to be disabled via charon.signature_authentication.
521
522- The sshkey and agent plugins support Ed25519/Ed448 SSH keys and signatures.
523
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524- The openssl plugin supports X25519/X448 Diffie-Hellman and Ed25519/Ed448 keys
525 and signatures when built against OpenSSL 1.1.1.
526
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529- The mysql plugin now properly handles database connections with transactions
530 under heavy load.
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532- IP addresses in HA pools are now distributed evenly among all segments.
533
534- On newer FreeBSD kernels, the kernel-pfkey plugin reads the reqid directly
535 from SADB_ACQUIRE messages, i.e. not requiring previous policy installation by
536 the plugin, e.g. for compatibility with if_ipsec(4) VTIs.
537
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542- Fixes a vulnerability in the gmp plugin triggered by crafted certificates with
543 RSA keys with very small moduli. When verifying signatures with such keys,
544 the code patched with the fix for CVE-2018-16151/2 caused an integer underflow
545 and subsequent heap buffer overflow that results in a crash of the daemon.
546 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-17540.
547
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552- Fixes a potential authorization bypass vulnerability in the gmp plugin that
553 was caused by a too lenient verification of PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures. Several
554 flaws could be exploited by a Bleichenbacher-style attack to forge signatures
555 for low-exponent keys (i.e. with e=3). CVE-2018-16151 has been assigned to
556 the problem of accepting random bytes after the OID of the hash function in
557 such signatures, and CVE-2018-16152 has been assigned to the issue of not
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559 empty. Other flaws that don't lead to a vulnerability directly (e.g. not
560 checking for at least 8 bytes of padding) have no separate CVE assigned.
561
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562- Dots are not allowed anymore in section names in swanctl.conf and
563 strongswan.conf. This mainly affects the configuration of file loggers. If the
564 path for such a log file contains dots it now has to be configured in the new
565 `path` setting within the arbitrarily renamed subsection in the `filelog`
566 section.
567
568- Sections in swanctl.conf and strongswan.conf may now reference other sections.
569 All settings and subsections from such a section are inherited. This allows
570 to simplify configs as redundant information has only to be specified once
571 and may then be included in other sections (refer to the example in the man
572 page for strongswan.conf).
573
574- The originally selected IKE config (based on the IPs and IKE version) can now
575 change if no matching algorithm proposal is found. This way the order
576 of the configs doesn't matter that much anymore and it's easily possible to
577 specify separate configs for clients that require weak algorithms (instead
578 of having to also add them in other configs that might be selected).
579
580- Support for Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2 (draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2)
581 has been added.
582
583- The new botan plugin is a wrapper around the Botan C++ crypto library. It
584 requires a fairly recent build from Botan's master branch (or the upcoming
585 2.8.0 release). Thanks to René Korthaus and his team from Rohde & Schwarz
586 Cybersecurity for the initial patch.
587
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588- The pki tool accepts a xmppAddr otherName as a subjectAlternativeName using
589 the syntax --san xmppaddr:<jid>.
590
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592 for PA-TNC". SWIMA subscription option sets CLOSE_WRITE trigger on apt
593 history.log file resulting in a ClientRetry PB-TNC batch to initialize
594 a new measurement cycle.
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596- Added support for fuzzing the PA-TNC (RFC 5792) and PB-TNC (RFC 5793) NEA
597 protocols on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure.
598
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599- Support for version 2 of Intel's TPM2-TSS TGC Software Stack. The presence of
600 the in-kernel /dev/tpmrm0 resource manager is automatically detected.
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602- Marks the in- and/or outbound SA should apply to packets after processing may
603 be configured in swanctl.conf on Linux. For outbound SAs this requires at
604 least a 4.14 kernel. Setting a mask and configuring a mark/mask for inbound
605 SAs will be added with the upcoming 4.19 kernel.
606
607- New options in swanctl.conf allow configuring how/whether DF, ECN and DS
608 fields in the IP headers are copied during IPsec processing. Controlling this
609 is currently only possible on Linux.
610
611- To avoid conflicts, the dhcp plugin now only uses the DHCP server port if
612 explicitly configured.
613
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617
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618- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is
619 used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF.
620 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811.
621
622- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received
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623 length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured,
624 root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default
625 configuration this shouldn't be an issue.
626 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-5388.
627
628⁻ CRLs that are not yet valid are now ignored to avoid problems in scenarios
629 where expired certificates are removed from CRLs and the clock on the host
630 doing the revocation check is trailing behind that of the host issuing CRLs.
631
632- The issuer of fetched CRLs is now compared to the issuer of the checked
633 certificate.
634
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635- CRL validation results other than revocation (e.g. a skipped check because
636 the CRL couldn't be fetched) are now stored also for intermediate CA
637 certificates and not only for end-entity certificates, so a strict CRL policy
638 can be enforced in such cases.
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640- In compliance with RFC 4945, section 5.1.3.2, certificates used for IKE must
641 now either not contain a keyUsage extension (like the ones generated by pki)
0d0c8f7d 642 or have at least one of the digitalSignature or nonRepudiation bits set.
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644- New options for vici/swanctl allow forcing the local termination of an IKE_SA.
645 This might be useful in situations where it's known the other end is not
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646 reachable anymore, or that it already removed the IKE_SA, so retransmitting a
647 DELETE and waiting for a response would be pointless. Waiting only a certain
648 amount of time for a response before destroying the IKE_SA is also possible
649 by additionally specifying a timeout.
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650
651- When removing routes, the kernel-netlink plugin now checks if it tracks other
652 routes for the same destination and replaces the installed route instead of
653 just removing it. Same during installation, where existing routes previously
654 weren't replaced. This should allow using traps with virtual IPs on Linux.
655
656- The dhcp plugin only sends the client identifier option if identity_lease is
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657 enabled. It can also send identities of up to 255 bytes length, instead of
658 the previous 64 bytes. If a server address is configured, DHCP requests are
659 now sent from port 67 instead of 68 to avoid ICMP port unreachables.
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661- Roam events are now completely ignored for IKEv1 SAs.
662
663- ChaCha20/Poly1305 is now correctly proposed without key length. For
664 compatibility with older releases the chacha20poly1305compat keyword may be
665 included in proposals to also propose the algorithm with a key length.
666
667- Configuration of hardware offload of IPsec SAs is now more flexible and allows
0d0c8f7d 668 a new mode, which automatically uses it if the kernel and device support it.
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670- SHA-2 based PRFs are supported in PKCS#8 files as generated by OpenSSL 1.1.
671
672- The pki --verify tool may load CA certificates and CRLs from directories.
673
674- Fixed an issue with DNS servers passed to NetworkManager in charon-nm.
675
676
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678----------------
679
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680- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the parser for PKCS#1 RSASSA-PSS signatures that
681 was caused by insufficient input validation. One of the configurable
682 parameters in algorithm identifier structures for RSASSA-PSS signatures is the
683 mask generation function (MGF). Only MGF1 is currently specified for this
684 purpose. However, this in turn takes itself a parameter that specifies the
685 underlying hash function. strongSwan's parser did not correctly handle the
686 case of this parameter being absent, causing an undefined data read.
687 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-6459.
688
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689- The previously negotiated DH group is reused when rekeying an SA, instead of
690 using the first group in the configured proposals, which avoids an additional
691 exchange if the peer selected a different group via INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD when
692 the SA was created initially.
693 The selected DH group is also moved to the front of all sent proposals that
694 contain it and all proposals that don't are moved to the back in order to
695 convey the preference for this group to the peer.
696
697- Handling of MOBIKE task queuing has been improved. In particular, the response
698 to an address update is not ignored anymore if only an address list update or
699 DPD is queued.
700
701- The fallback drop policies installed to avoid traffic leaks when replacing
702 addresses in installed policies are now replaced by temporary drop policies,
703 which also prevent acquires because we currently delete and reinstall IPsec
704 SAs to update their addresses.
705
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706- Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
707 referenced via the NV index.
708
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709- Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
710 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
711
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712- Fixed proposal selection if a peer incorrectly sends DH groups in the ESP
713 proposals during IKE_AUTH and also if a DH group is configured in the local
714 ESP proposal and charon.prefer_configured_proposals is disabled.
715
716- MSKs received via RADIUS are now padded to 64 bytes to avoid compatibility
717 issues with EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PRFs that have a block size < 64 bytes (e.g.
718 AES-XCBC-PRF-128).
719
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720- The tpm_extendpcr command line tool extends a digest into a TPM PCR.
721
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722- Ported the NetworkManager backend from the deprecated libnm-glib to libnm.
723
724- The save-keys debugging/development plugin saves IKE and/or ESP keys to files
725 compatible with Wireshark.
726
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730
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731- In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
732 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
733 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
734 custom proposals.
735
736- Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
737 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
738 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
739 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
740 authentication constraints.
741
742- The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
743 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
744
745- The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
d43b84dc 746 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
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747 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
748 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
749 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
750 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
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752- The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
753 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
754 versions having an empty package name.
755
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756- A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
757 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
758 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
759
760- The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
761 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
762 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
763
764- Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
765 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
766
767- Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
768 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
769
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772----------------
773
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774- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
775 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
776 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
777 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
778 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
779 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
780 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
781 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
782
693705c7 783- New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
f0ae8c17 784 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
693705c7 785
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787 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
788
789- The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
790 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
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791 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
792 package versions.
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794- The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
795 via the --keyid parameter.
796
797- libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
798 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
799
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800- The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
801 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
802 binary EAP secret.
803
804- CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
805 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
806 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
807 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
808
809- The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
810 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
811
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813strongswan-5.5.3
814----------------
815
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816- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
817 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
818 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
819 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
820 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
821 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
822
823- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
824 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
825 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
826 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
827
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828- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
829 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
830 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
831 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
832 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
833 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
834
835- The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
836 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
837 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
838 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
839 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
840 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
841 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
842
843- Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
844 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
845 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
846
847- Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
848 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
849 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
850
851- A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
852 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
853 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
854
855- The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
856 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
857 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
858 certificate cache).
859
860- Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
861 for hardware that supports this.
862
863- When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
864 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
865 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
866 referenced.
867
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868- The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
869
870
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872----------------
873
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874- Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
875 by RFC 8031.
876
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877- Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
878 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
879 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
880
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881- The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
882 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
883 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
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884 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
885 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
886 the TPM private key.
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888- The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
889 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
890 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
891 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
892 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
893
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895 of stale copies in cache memory.
896
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897- Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
898 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
899 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
900 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
901 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
902 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
903 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
904 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
905
906 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
907 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
908 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
909 section.
910
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913----------------
914
915- The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
916 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
917 Peter Schwabe.
918
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919- The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
920 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
921 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
922 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
923 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
924
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925- The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
926 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
927 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
928 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
929 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
930
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931- The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
932 sha3 and gmp plugins.
933
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936 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
937
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938- Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
939 base and delta CRLs to disk.
940
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941- IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
942 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
943
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944- libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
945 tss2_tcti_finalize().
946
947
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950
951- The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
952 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
953 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
954
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955- The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
956 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
957 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
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959- IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
960 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
961
962- The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
963 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
964
965- FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
966 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
967 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
968 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
969 and prefer those with a reqid.
970
971- For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
972
973- Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
974 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
975 identities and EAP types.
976
977- DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
978 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
979 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
980
981- The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
982 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
983 child_cfg_t now take structs.
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988
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989- Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
990 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
991 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
992 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
993 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
994
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995- The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
996 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
997 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
998
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999- The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
1000 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
1001 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
1002 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
1003 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
1004 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
1005 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
1006 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
1007
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1008- For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
1009 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
1010 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
1011
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1012- Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
1013 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
1014 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
1015 support arbitrary ranges.
1016
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1017- The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
1018 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
1019 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
1020 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
1021
1022- Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
1023 used as owners of shared secrets.
1024
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1028
1029- Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
1030 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
1031
1032- RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
1033
1034
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1038- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
1039 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
1040 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
1041 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
1042
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1044 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
1045 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
1046 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
1047
1048
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1051
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1052- Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
1053 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
1054 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
1055 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
1056 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
1057 cipher for ESP SAs.
39660798 1058
63d37038 1059- The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
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1060 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
1061
1062- In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
1063 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
b3ab7a48 1064 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures using the
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1065 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
1066
1067- Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
1068 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
1069
1070- The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
1071 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
1072 daemon when it installs its policies.
1073
1074- Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
1075 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
1076 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
1077 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
1078
1079- Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
1080 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
1081 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
1082 same config as responder).
1083
1084- The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
1085 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
1086
a215008c 1087- Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
453e204a 1088 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
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1089 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
1090
1091- Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
1092 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
1093
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1096----------------
1097
1098- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
1099 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
1100 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
1101 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
1102 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
1103
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1106----------------
1107
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1108- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
1109 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
1110 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
1111 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
1112 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
1113 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
1114
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1115- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
1116 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
1117 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
1118 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
1119
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1123
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1124- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
1125 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
1126 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
1127 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
1128 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
1129 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
1130 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
1131
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1132- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
1133 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
1134 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
1135 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
1136
1137- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
1138 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
1139 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
1140 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
1141 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
1142 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
1143 enough.
1144
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1145- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
1146 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
1147 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
1148 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
1149 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
1150
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1151- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
1152 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
1153 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
1154 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
1155 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
1156 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
1157
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1158- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
1159 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
1160 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
1161
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1162- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
1163 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
1164 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
1165 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
1166
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1167- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
1168 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
1169 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
1170
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1171- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
1172 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
1173 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
1174
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1175- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
1176 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
1177 PT-TLS transport medium.
1178
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1180strongswan-5.2.2
1181----------------
1182
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1183- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
1184 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
1185 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
1186 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
1187 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
1188 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
1189 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
1190
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1191- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
1192 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
1193 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
1194 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
1195
30a90ccf 1196- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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1197 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
1198 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
1199
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1200- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
1201 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
1202
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1204strongswan-5.2.1
1205----------------
1206
1207- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
1208 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
1209 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
1210 supports native systemd journal logging.
1211
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1212- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
1213 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
1214
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1215- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
1216 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
1217 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
1218 per segment basis.
1219
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1220- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
1221 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
1222
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1223- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
1224 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
1225 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
1226 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
1227
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1229strongswan-5.2.0
1230----------------
1231
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1232- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
1233 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
1234 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
1235 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
1236 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
1237 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
1238 WinHTTP API.
1239
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1240- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
1241 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
1242 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
1243 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
1244 for more control and better reliability.
1245
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1246- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
1247 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
1248 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
1249 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 1250 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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1252- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
1253 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
1254
37cb91d7 1255- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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1256 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
1257 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
1258 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
1259 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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1260
1261- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
1262 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
1263
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1264- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
1265 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
1266
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1267- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
1268
03b5def0 1269- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
6048d773 1270 Connect.
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1272- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
1273 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
1274 6Wind.
1275
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1277strongswan-5.1.3
1278----------------
1279
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1280- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
1281 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
1282 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
1283 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
1284 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
1285
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1286- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
1287 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
1288 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
1289 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
1290
1291- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
1292 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
1293 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
1294
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1295- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
1296 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
1297
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1299strongswan-5.1.2
1300----------------
1301
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1302- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
1303 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
1304 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
1305 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
1306 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
1307 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
1308 the current defaults.
1309
1310- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
1311 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
1312 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
1313 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
1314 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
1315 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
1316
1317- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
1318 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
1319 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
1320 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
1321 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
1322
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1323- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
1324 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
1325 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
1326 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
1327 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
1328 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
1329
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1330- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
1331 Attestation IMV.
1332
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1333- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
1334 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
1335
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1336- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
1337 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
1338 Andrea Bonomi.
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1340- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
1341 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
1342 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
1343
1344
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1345strongswan-5.1.1
1346----------------
1347
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1348- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
1349 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
1350 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
1351 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
1352
1353- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
1354 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
1355 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
1356
2b32884d 1357- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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1358 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
1359 plugin.
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1361- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
1362 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
1363
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1364- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
1365 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
1366 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
1367 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
1368 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
1369
1370- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
1371 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
1372 as pluto used it.
1373
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1374- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
1375 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
1376 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
1377 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
1378
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1379- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
1380 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
1381 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
1382
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1383- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
1384 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
1385 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
1386 from a internal network.
1387
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1388- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
1389 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
1390 more trustworthy alternative.
1391
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1392- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
1393 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
1394
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1395- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
1396 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
1397
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1398- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
1399 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
2b32884d 1400
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1401- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
1402 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
1403
1404- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
1405 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
1406
1407- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
1408 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
1409
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1410- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
1411 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
1412 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
1413 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
1414
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1416strongswan-5.1.0
1417----------------
1418
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1419- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
1420 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
1421 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
1422 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
1423
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1424- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
1425 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
1426 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
1427 few simple command line options.
1428
1429- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 1430 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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1431 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
1432
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1433- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
1434 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
1435
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1436- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
1437 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
1438 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
1439 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
1440 backend for IKEv1.
1441
78e6f69e 1442- The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
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1443 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
1444 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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1445
1446- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
1447 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
1448 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
1449 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
1450 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
1451 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
1452
1453- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
1454 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
1455 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
1456
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1457- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
1458
3a938a6f 1459- IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
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1460 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
1461 between peers.
1462
226f34e0 1463- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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1464 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
1465 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
1466 and/or device.
1467
1468- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
1469 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
1470 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
1471 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
1472 production releases).
1473
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1474- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
1475 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
1476 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
1477
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1478- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
1479 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
1480 hashtables.
1481
1482- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
1483 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
1484 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
1485 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
1486
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1487- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
1488 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
1489 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
1490 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
1491
1492- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
1493 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
1494 TCP connections from a different host.
1495
78e6f69e 1496- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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1499strongswan-5.0.4
1500----------------
1501
1502- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
1503 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
1504 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
1505 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
1506 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
1507 legitimate one.
1508
1509- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
1510 was fixed as well.
1511
1512- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
1513 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
1514
1515- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
1516 requests.
1517
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1518- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
1519
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1522----------------
1523
1524- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
1525 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
1526 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
1527 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
1528 created by Reto Guadagnini.
1529
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1530- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
1531 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
1532 device ID in the attest database.
1533
1534- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
1535 if the hardware supports it.
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1537- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
1538 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
1539 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
1540 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
1541 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
1542 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
1543 to Accounting-Stops.
1544
1545- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
1546 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
1547 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
1548
1549- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
1550 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
1551
1552- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
1553 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
1554 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
1555 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
1556
1557- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
1558 IKE packets.
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1560- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
1561 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
1562 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
1563 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
1564 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
1565
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1566- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
1567 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
1568 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
1569 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
1570 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
1571 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
e4a3ef2e 1572 can be found at https://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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1575----------------
1576
1577- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
1578 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
1579
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1580- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
1581 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
1582
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1583- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
1584 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
1585 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
1586 or receive notifications.
1587
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1588- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
1589 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
1590
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1591- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
1592 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
1593 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
1594 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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1596- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
1597 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
1598 section.
1599
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1600- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
1601 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
1602 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
1603 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
1604 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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1606- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
1607 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
1608 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
1609 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
1610
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1611- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
1612 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
1613 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
1614
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1615- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
1616 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
1617 Volker Rümelin.
1618
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1619- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
1620 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
1621
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1622- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
1623 guest images based on Debian.
1624
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1627----------------
1628
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1629- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
1630 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
1631
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1632- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
1633 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 1634 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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1636- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
1637 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
1638 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
b3ab7a48 1639 consolidated recommendation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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1641
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1642- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
1643 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
1644 against a RADIUS server.
1645
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1646- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
1647 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
1648 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
1649 including xauth-pam.
1650
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1651- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
1652 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
1653 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
1654 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
1655 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
1656 aware clients.
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1658- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
1659 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
1660 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
1661
1662- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
1663 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
1664 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
1665 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
1666
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1667- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
1668 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
1669 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
1670 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
1671 IP addresses to return.
1672
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1673- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
1674 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
1675 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
1676 specified or referenced named pools.
1677
1678- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
1679 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
1680
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1681- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
1682 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
1683
1684- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
1685 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
1686 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
1687 is preserved.
1688
1689- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
1690 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
1691
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1692- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
1693 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
1694 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
1695
1696- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
1697 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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1703- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
1704 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
1705 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
1706 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
1707 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
1708 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
df18934d 1709 mode.
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1711- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
1712 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
1713 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
1714 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
1715 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1716 the thread calling the listener.
1717 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1718 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1719 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1720 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1721
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1722- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1723 reappear.
1724
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1725- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1726 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1727 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1728 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1729 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1730 feature).
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1732- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1733 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1734 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1735 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1736 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1737 using SHA-256 or better.
1738
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1741----------------
1742
1743- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1744 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1745 a legitimate one.
1746
1747- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1748
1749
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1751----------------
1752
1753- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1754 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1755
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1756- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1757 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1758 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1759 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1760
1761- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1762 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1763 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1764 console.
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1766- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1767 RFC 4595.
1768
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1769- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1770 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1771
4e2e77d5 1772- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 1773 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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1775- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1776 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1777
1778
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1780----------------
1781
1782- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1783 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1784 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1785 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1786
1787- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1788 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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1789 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1790 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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1792- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1793 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1794 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 1795
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1796- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1797 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1798 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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1800- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1801
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1804----------------
1805
1806- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1807 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1808 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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1809 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1810 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1811 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1812 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1813 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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1816 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1817 post-installation phase.
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1823- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1824 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1825 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1826
1827- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1828 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1829 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1830 for the initial patch.
1831
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1832- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1833 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1834
1835- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1836
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1837- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1838 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1839 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1840 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1841 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1842 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1843
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1844- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1845 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1846 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1847 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1848 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1849 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1850
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1851- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1852 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1853 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1854
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1857----------------
1858
a7edbd21 1859- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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1860 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1861 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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1863
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1864- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1865 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1866
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1867- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1868 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1869 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1870
1871- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1872 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1873
f8799170 1874- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 1875 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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1876 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1877 interfaces.
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1879- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1880 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1881
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1882- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1883 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1884 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1885 the client is admitted to the network.
1886 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1887
1888- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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1889 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1890
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1891- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1892 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1893 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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1899- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1900 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1901 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1902 whitelist administration.
1903
92ebb7c5 1904- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 1905 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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1906 application about detected duplicates.
1907
1908- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1909 authentication to previously used certificates.
1910
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1911- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1912 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1913 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1914 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1915
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1917
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1918- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1919 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1920
1921- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 1922 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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1924- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1925 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1926 support configuration reloading.
1927
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1928- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1929 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1930 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1931 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1932 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1933 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1934
1935- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1936 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1937 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1938
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1942
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1943- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1944 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 1945 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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1946 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1947 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 1948 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1b7e081b 1949
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1950- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1951 in place of the external libtnc library.
1952
1953- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1954 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1955 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1956 the corresponding protocol stack.
1957
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1959 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1960 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1961 in an SQL database.
1962
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1963- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1964 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1965 points in an SQL database.
1966
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1968 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1969 replaced, respectively.
1970
1971- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1972 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1973 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1974 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1975 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1976 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1977 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1978
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1980 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1981
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1982- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1983 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1984 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1985
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1986- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1987 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1988 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1989 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 1991- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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1992 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1993 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
41ed0294 1994
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1996 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1997 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1998 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1999 ./configure switch.
2000
77eee25f 2001- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 2002 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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2003 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
2004 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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2005 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
2006 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
2007
2008- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
2009 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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2012 support for delta CRLs.
2013
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2017
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2018- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
2019 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 2020 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 2021 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 2022 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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2024- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
2025 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
2026 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
2027 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
2028
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2029- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
2030 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 2031 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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2033
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2034- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
2035 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
2036 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
2037 client authentication.
2038
2039- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
2040 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 2041 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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2043- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
2044 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
2045 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
2046 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
2047 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 2048 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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2049 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
2050 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
2051
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2052- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
2053 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
2054 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
2055
2056- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
2057 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
2058
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2059- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
2060 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
2061 availability.
2062
2063- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
2064 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
2065 implement a simple event listener.
2066
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2067- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
2068 initial responder moves to a different address.
2069
2070- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
2071
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2072- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
2073 identity was different from the IKE identity.
2074
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2075- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
2076 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
2077 UNITY_BANNER).
2078
2079- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
2080 charon plugins.
2081
3f84e2d6
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2082- Added man page for strongswan.conf
2083
a782b52f 2084
03b5e4d8
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2085strongswan-4.4.1
2086----------------
2087
ec40c02a 2088- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
b22bb9f2
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2089 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
2090 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 2091
b22bb9f2 2092- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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2093 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
2094 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
e87b78c6 2095
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2096- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
2097
e9448cfc 2098- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
2db6d5b8 2099 by default. Please update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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2100
2101- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
2102 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
2103 in strongswan.conf, if required.
2104
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2105- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
2106
2107- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
2108 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
2109
03b5e4d8
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2110- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
2111 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
2112
e87b78c6 2113- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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2114 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
2115 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 2116
c5c6f9b6
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2117- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
2118 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
2119
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2120- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
2121 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
2122
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2123- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
2124 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
2125 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
2126 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
2127 plugin.
1c1f132a 2128
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2129- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
2130 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
2131 unauthenticated users.
2132
03b5e4d8 2133
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2134strongswan-4.4.0
2135----------------
2136
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2137- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
2138 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
df18934d 2139 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module.
9235edc2 2140 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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2141 secunet Security Networks AG.
2142
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2143- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
2144 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
2145 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
2146 kernel interface.
2147
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2148- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
2149 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
2150 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
2151 from IBM for his contribution.
2152
9235edc2
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2153- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
2154 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
2155 are allocated.
2156
d6457833
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2157- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
2158 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
2159 command line option.
2160
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2161- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
2162 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
2163 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
2164 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
2165 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
2166 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
2167
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2168- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
2169 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 2170 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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2171 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
2172
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2173- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
2174 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
2175 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
2176 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
2177
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2178- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
2179 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 2180
d6457833 2181
4c68a85a
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2182strongswan-4.3.6
2183----------------
2184
cdad91de 2185- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
e98a4d80
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2186 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
2187
a7155606
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2188- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
2189 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
2190 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
2191
f721e0fb
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2192- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
2193
4c68a85a
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2194- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
2195
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2196- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
2197 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
2198 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
aa9eeb5d
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2199 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
2200
44e41c4c
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2201- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
2202
2b2c69e9 2203- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 2204
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2205- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
2206 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
2207 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
2208 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
2209 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 2210
2b2c69e9
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2211- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
2212 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
2213 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
2214
6ec949e0
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2215- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
2216 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
2217
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2218- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
2219 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
2220 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
2221 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
2222 this is the case.
2223
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2224- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
2225 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
2226 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
2227 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
2228 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
2229
0a975307
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2230- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
2231 allowing interoperability.
2232
2233
b6b90b68
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2234strongswan-4.3.5
2235----------------
2236
628f023d
AS
2237- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
2238 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
2239 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 2240 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
628f023d
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2241 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
2242
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2243- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
2244 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
2245 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
2246 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
2247 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
2248
d245f5cf
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2249- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
2250 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
2251 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
b6b90b68 2252
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2253- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
2254 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
2255 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
2256
d245f5cf 2257- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
b6b90b68
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2258 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
2259
2260- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
2261 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
2262 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
2263
2264- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
2265 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
2266
2267- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1003cf23 2268 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
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2269 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
2270 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
2271 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
2272 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
2273
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2274- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
2275 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
2276 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
2277 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
2278
b80fa9ca 2279- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 2280 statements.
b80fa9ca 2281
509f70c1
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2282- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
2283
2284- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
2285 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
2286
cea4bd8f
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2287- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
2288 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
2289
509f70c1
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2290- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
2291 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
2292 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 2293
85af7a89 2294
430dd08a
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2295strongswan-4.3.4
2296----------------
2297
2298- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
df18934d 2299 be found in the documentation.
430dd08a
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2300
2301- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
2302 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
2303
2304- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
2305
2306
1c7f456a
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2307strongswan-4.3.3
2308----------------
2309
aa74d705
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2310- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
2311 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
2312 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
2313 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
2314 manipulations can be reliably detected.
2315
1c7f456a
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2316- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
2317 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
2318
2319- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
2320 authenticated encryption algorithms.
2321
aa74d705
AS
2322- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
2323
2324- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
2325 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
2326 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
2327
1c7f456a 2328
80c0710c
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2329strongswan-4.3.2
2330----------------
2331
2332- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
2333 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
2334
2335- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
2336 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
2337 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
2338
b32af120
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2339- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
2340 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
2341 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
2342 with IKEv1.
126f2130
AS
2343
2344- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
2345 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
2346 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
2347 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 2348
b32af120 2349
3bf7c249
MW
2350strongswan-4.3.1
2351----------------
2352
2353- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 2354 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
3bf7c249
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2355 dynamically.
2356
09dbca9f
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2357- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
2358 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
b3ab7a48 2359 as its identity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
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2360 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
2361 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 2362
050cc582
AS
2363- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
2364 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
2365 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
2366 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
2367 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
2368 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
2369
09dbca9f 2370- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
047b2e42
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2371 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
2372 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
2373
2374- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
2375 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
2376 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
2377
050cc582
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2378- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
2379
2380- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
2381 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
2382 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
2383 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
17c99722 2384 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer dereference because the
b6b90b68 2385 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 2386 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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AS
2387 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
2388
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2389- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
2390 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
2391
d44fd821 2392- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
050cc582
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2393 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
2394 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 2395 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 2396 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
d44fd821
AS
2397
2398
247e665a
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2399strongswan-4.3.0
2400----------------
2401
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2402- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
2403 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
2404 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
2405 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
b3ab7a48 2406 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more details.
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2407
2408- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
2409 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
2410
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AS
2411- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
2412 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 2413
558c89e7
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2414- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
2415 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
2416 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 2417
558c89e7
AS
2418- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
2419 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 2420
247e665a 2421
623bca40
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2422strongswan-4.2.14
2423-----------------
2424
22180558 2425- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 2426 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
22180558
AS
2427 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
2428
79b27294
AS
2429- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
2430 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
2431 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
2432 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
2433 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
2434 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
2435 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
2436 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
2437 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
2438
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AS
2439- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
2440 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
2441 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
2442 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
2443
2444- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 2445 IDr payload anymore.
623bca40
AS
2446
2447
076e7853
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2448strongswan-4.2.13
2449-----------------
2450
2451- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
2452 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
2453
f3bb1bd0 2454- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 2455 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 2456
f15483ef
AS
2457- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
2458 parameters field is optional.
2459
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2460- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
2461
076e7853 2462
bfde75ee 2463strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 2464-----------------
bfde75ee
AS
2465
2466- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
2467 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
2468 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
2469
2470- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 2471 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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AS
2472 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
2473
2474- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
2475 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
2476
b6b90b68 2477
0519ca90
AS
2478strongswan-4.2.11
2479-----------------
2480
ae1ae574
AS
2481- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
2482 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
2483
2484- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
2485 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
0519ca90
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2486
2487
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2488strongswan-4.2.10
2489-----------------
2490
2491- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
2492 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
2493 counterparts with better lookup times.
2494
2495- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1003cf23 2496 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
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2497 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
2498
2499- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
2500 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
2501 on the fly.
2502
2503- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
2504 command queries assigned leases.
2505
2506- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
2507 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
2508
2509- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
2510 reliable source of randomness.
2511
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2512strongswan-4.2.9
2513----------------
2514
509e07c5
AS
2515- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
2516 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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2517
2518- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
2519 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
2520 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
2521
2522- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 2523 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
73937bd8
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2524 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
2525 parallelization to multiple cores.
2526
509e07c5
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2527- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
2528 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 2529
509e07c5 2530- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 2531 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
73937bd8
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2532 memory or hardware.
2533
509e07c5
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2534- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
2535 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
2536 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
2537 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
2538
2539- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
2540 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
2541 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
2542 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
2543 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 2544 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 2545
4dc0dce8
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2546- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
2547 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
2548 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
2549
73937bd8 2550
e39b271b
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2551strongswan-4.2.8
2552----------------
2553
5dadb16e 2554- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
e39b271b
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2555 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
2556 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
2557
4f0241e6
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2558- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
2559 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
2db6d5b8 2560 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addresses in MOBIKE updates as
4f0241e6
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2561 long as possible and other fixes.
2562
5dadb16e
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2563- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
2564 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
2565 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
2566
e39b271b 2567
e376d75f
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2568strongswan-4.2.7
2569----------------
2570
b37cda82
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2571- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
2572 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
2573 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
2574 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 2575 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 2576
b6b90b68 2577- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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2578 ssh-agent.
2579
2580- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 2581 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
e376d75f
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2582
2583- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
2584 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
2585 newer libcap2 library.
2586
b37cda82
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2587- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
2588 charon keying daemon.
2589
2590
9f9d6ece
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2591strongswan-4.2.6
2592----------------
2593
609166f4
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2594- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
2595 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
2596 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
2597 in the Gnome Keyring.
2598
2599- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
2600 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 2601 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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2602 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
2603
2604- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
2605 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
2606 authentication.
2607
9f9d6ece
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2608- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
2609 authentication types and EAP identities.
2610
2611- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
2612 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
2613
2614- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
2615 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
2616
2617
174216c7
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2618strongswan-4.2.5
2619----------------
2620
b6b90b68 2621- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
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2622
2623- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
2624 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
2625 storing only history information has become optional and can be
2626 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
2627 strongswan.conf.
2628
eb0cc338 2629- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 2630 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 2631
174216c7
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2632- management of different virtual IP pools for different
2633 network interfaces have become possible.
2634
b6b90b68 2635- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
174216c7
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2636 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
2637
8124e491
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2638- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
2639
b6b90b68 2640
179dd12c
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2641strongswan-4.2.4
2642----------------
2643
9de95037
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2644- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
2645 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 2646
73a8eed3 2647- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 2648 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
73a8eed3
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2649
2650- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
2651 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
2652
2653- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
2654 X.509 certificates.
2655
2656- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
2657 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 2658
e0bb4dbb
AS
2659- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
2660 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
2661
179dd12c 2662
83d9e870
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2663strongswan-4.2.3
2664----------------
2665
b6b90b68 2666- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
83d9e870
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2667 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
2668
2669- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
2670 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
2671
2672
7f491111
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2673strongswan-4.2.2
2674----------------
2675
a57cd446
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2676- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
2677 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 2678 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
a57cd446
AS
2679 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
2680 to software-based crypto plugins.
7f491111
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2681
2682- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
AS
2683 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
2684 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
2685 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
2686
2687- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 2688 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
a57cd446
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2689 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
2690
7f491111 2691
5c5d67d6
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2692strongswan-4.2.1
2693----------------
2694
c306dfb1 2695- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
b1f8fc0c
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2696 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
2697 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
2698 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
2699 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
2700 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 2701
58caabf7
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2702- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
2703 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
2704 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
2705 connections.
b6b90b68 2706
f3bb1bd0 2707- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 2708 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 2709 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 2710
b6b90b68 2711- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 2712 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 2713 re-implemented.
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2714
2715- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2716 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 2717
58caabf7
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2718- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2719 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2720 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 2721
466abb49 2722- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
58caabf7
MW
2723 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2724 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2725 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 2726 separate plugin.
58caabf7 2727
c306dfb1 2728- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 2729
c306dfb1 2730- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
AS
2731
2732- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 2733 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
466abb49
AS
2734 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2735
5c5d67d6 2736
a11ea97d
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2737strongswan-4.2.0
2738----------------
2739
16f5dacd
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2740- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2741 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2742 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2743 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2744 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2745 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2746 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 2747
16f5dacd
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2748- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2749 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2750
2751- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2752 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2753 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2754 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2755 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2756 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2757 The following new plugins are available:
2758 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2759 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2760 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2761
2762- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2763 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2764 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2765
89bd016e 2766- The framework of strongSwan Manager has evolved to the web application
16f5dacd
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2767 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2768 by other applications.
b6b90b68 2769
a11ea97d 2770
6859f760
AS
2771strongswan-4.1.11
2772-----------------
fb6d76cd 2773
a561f74d
AS
2774- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2775 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2776 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2777
2778- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 2779 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 2780
e6b50b3f
AS
2781- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2782 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2783 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2784
fb6d76cd 2785
83e0d841
AS
2786strongswan-4.1.10
2787-----------------
2788
2789- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 2790 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 2791
fdc7c943
MW
2792- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2793 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2794 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2795 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2796
2797- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2798 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2799 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2800 before using it.
2801
2802- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 2803 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 2804 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 2805
fb6d76cd 2806
5076770c
AS
2807strongswan-4.1.9
2808----------------
2809
800b3356
AS
2810- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2811 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2812 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2813 added.
5076770c 2814
6f274c2a
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2815- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2816 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2817
2818- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2819 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2820
2821- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2822
8b678ad4 2823- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 2824 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 2825 loaded twice.
5076770c 2826
83e0d841 2827
b82e8231
AS
2828strongswan-4.1.8
2829----------------
2830
5076770c 2831- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
b82e8231
AS
2832
2833
a4a3632c
AS
2834strongswan-4.1.7
2835----------------
2836
2837- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2838 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2db6d5b8 2839 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erroneously deleted.
a4a3632c 2840
6e193274 2841- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 2842 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
6e193274
MW
2843 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2844
2845- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
df18934d 2846 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon.
6e193274
MW
2847
2848- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2849 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2850
2851- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2852
a4a3632c 2853
3dcf9dbd
AS
2854strongswan-4.1.6
2855----------------
2856
3eac4dfd
AS
2857- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2858 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2859 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2860 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2861 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2862 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2863 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2864 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2865
2866- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2867 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2868 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
b6b90b68
MW
2869 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2870
bdc0b55b
AS
2871- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2872 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2873 startup.
b6b90b68 2874
3eac4dfd
AS
2875- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2876 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2877 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2878 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2879 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 2880
f872f9d1
AS
2881- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2882 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
3dcf9dbd
AS
2883
2884
7ad634a2
AS
2885strongswan-4.1.5
2886----------------
2887
2888- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2889 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2890 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2891 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2892 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2893 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2894
8f5b363c
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2895- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2896 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2897 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2898 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2899
7ad634a2 2900
e93c68ba
AS
2901strongswan-4.1.4
2902----------------
2903
f6aafb30 2904- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behavior as its
e93c68ba
AS
2905 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2906 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2907 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
b7af55ac
AS
2908 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2909 parameter is not required any more.
078ce348
AS
2910
2911- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2912 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2913 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2914
2915 right=peer.foo.bar
2916 rightallowany=yes
2917
2918 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2919 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2920 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2921 as
2922
53f8ac3d 2923 right=%any
078ce348
AS
2924
2925 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1fbdab85
AS
2926 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2927
2928 right=%peer.foo.bar
2929
2930 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2931
2932- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2933 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2934 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2935 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2936 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 2937
a0a0bdd7
AS
2938- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2939 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2940 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2941 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2942 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 2943
a0a0bdd7
AS
2944- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2945 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2946 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2947 by Robert Varga.
2948
e3606f2b
MW
2949- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2950 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 2951
06651827 2952
a3354a69
AS
2953strongswan-4.1.3
2954----------------
2955
b6b90b68 2956- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
35d4809c
AS
2957 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2958
2959- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
41e16cf4
AS
2960 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2961 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 2962
998ca0ea
MW
2963- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2964 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2965 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2966 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2967
2968- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2969 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2970 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2971 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2972
b6b90b68 2973- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
998ca0ea
MW
2974 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2975 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2976 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 2977 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 2978 to implement.
a3354a69 2979
53f8ac3d
TB
2980- Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2981 headers > 2.6.17.
41e16cf4
AS
2982
2983
8ea7b96f
AS
2984strongswan-4.1.2
2985----------------
2986
e23d98a7 2987- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
37fb0355
MW
2988 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2989 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2990 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2991
2992- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2993 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2994
d931f465
MW
2995- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2996
37fb0355
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2997- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2998
dfbe2a0f 2999- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 3000 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 3001
9f78f957
AS
3002- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
3003
8ea7b96f
AS
3004- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
3005 connection name.
3006
e23d98a7 3007
ed284399
MW
3008strongswan-4.1.1
3009----------------
3010
3011- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
3012 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
3013 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
3014 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
3015 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
3016 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
3017
db88e37d
AS
3018- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
3019 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
3020 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
3021
3b4f7d92
AS
3022- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
3023 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
3024 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
3025 vendor ID.
3026
3027- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
3028 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
3029 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
3030 message.
3031
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3032- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
3033 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
3034
3b4f7d92 3035
34bbd0c3 3036strongswan-4.1.0
cd3958f8
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3037----------------
3038
3039- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
3040 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
3041
3042- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
3043 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
3044 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
3045 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
3046
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3047- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
3048
c5d0fbb6 3049- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 3050 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
c5d0fbb6
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3051 accessLocations.
3052
69ed04bf
AS
3053- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
3054 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
3055 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
3056 option.
3057
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3058- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
3059 code reuse and separation.
3060
3061- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
3062 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
3063 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
3064
3065- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
3066 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
3067 specify it.
3068
3069- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
3070 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
3071 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
3072 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
3073 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
3074 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
3075
3076- Added client side support for cookies.
3077
3078- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
3079 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
3080 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 3081
e23d98a7 3082
1c266d7d
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3083strongswan-4.0.7
3084----------------
3085
6fdf5f44
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3086- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
3087 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
3088 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1c266d7d
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3089
3090- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
3091 to a default string.
3092
3093
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3094strongswan-4.0.6
3095----------------
3096
e38a15d4
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3097- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
3098 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
3099 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
3100 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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3101 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
3102
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3103- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
3104
5903179b 3105- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 3106
5903179b 3107- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 3108
5903179b 3109- various other bugfixes
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3110
3111
0cd645d2
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3112strongswan-4.0.5
3113----------------
3114
3115- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
3116 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
3117
3118- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
3119 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
3120
3121- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
3122 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
3123 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
3124 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 3125
0cd645d2 3126 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 3127
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3128 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
3129
3130 config setup
53f8ac3d 3131 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 3132
03bf883d 3133 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 3134
03bf883d 3135 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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3136
3137
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3138strongswan-4.0.4
3139----------------
3140
3141- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
3142
3143- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
3144 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
3145 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
3146 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
3147 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
3148
3149- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
3150 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
b3ab7a48 3151 method to authenticate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
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3152
3153- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
3154
112ad7c3
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3155- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
3156 or 3DES are supported.
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3157
3158- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
3159 encrypt IKE traffic.
3160
3161- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
3162 signed with such a hash algorithm.
3163
3164- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
3165 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
3166 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
3167 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
3168
3169
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3170strongswan-4.0.3
3171----------------
3172
3173- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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3174 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
3175 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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3176 kernel.
3177
3178- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
3179 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
3180 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
3181 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
3182
b425d998
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3183- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
3184 algorithm configuration statements.
3185
3186
bf4df11f
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3187strongswan-4.0.2
3188----------------
3189
623d3dcf
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3190- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
3191 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
3192 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
3193 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 3194
b6b90b68 3195- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 3196 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 3197 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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3198 ipsec.conf rules for now.
3199
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3200- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
3201 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
3202 dpddelay=60s).
3203
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3204- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
3205 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
3206 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
3207 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
3208
b6b90b68
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3209- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
3210 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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3211 and a more extensible code base.
3212
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3213- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
3214 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
3215 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
3216 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
3217 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
3218 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
3219 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
3220
bf4df11f 3221
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3222strongswan-4.0.1
3223----------------
3224
b6b90b68 3225- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
c15c3d4b
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3226 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
3227 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
3228 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 3229 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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3230 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
3231 algorithms for IKE:
3232 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
3233 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
3234 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
3235 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 3236 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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3237 blowfish192, blowfish256
3238 Integrity: md5, sha1
3239 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 3240 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 3241
c15c3d4b
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3242- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
3243 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 3244 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
c15c3d4b
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3245 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
3246 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
3247 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 3248
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3249- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
3250 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
3251 configuration examples).
3252
f2c2d395
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3253- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
3254 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 3255 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
f2c2d395
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3256 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
3257
22ff6f57
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3258- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
3259 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
3260 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
3261 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
3262 via ipsec starter.
3263
b425d998 3264
9820c0e2
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3265strongswan-4.0.0
3266----------------
3267
3268- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 3269 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
9820c0e2
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3270 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
3271 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
3272 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
3273 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
3274 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
3275 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
3276 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
3277 status command).
3278
3279
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3280strongswan-2.7.0
3281----------------
3282
3283- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
3284 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
3285 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
3286 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
3287 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
3288 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
b3ab7a48 3289 left|rightfirewall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
997358a6 3290 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 3291 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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3292 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
3293 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
3294 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
3295
3296- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
3297 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
3298 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
3299 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
3300 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
3301 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
3302 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
3303 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
3304 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 3305 be inserted.
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3306
3307- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
3308 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
3309 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
3310 be found.
3311
3312
3313strongswan-2.6.4
3314----------------
3315
3316- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
3317 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
3318 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 3319 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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3320 are required any more.
3321
3322- added support of DPD restart mode
3323
3324- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
3325 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
3326 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
3327
3328- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
3329 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
3330
3331
3332strongswan-2.6.3
3333----------------
3334
b6b90b68 3335- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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3336 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
3337
3338- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
3339 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
3340 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 3341
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3342- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
3343 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
3344
3345- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
3346 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
3347 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
3348 the ipsec status command.
b6b90b68 3349
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3350
3351strongswan-2.6.2
3352----------------
3353
3354- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
3355 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
3356 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
3357
3358- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
3359 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
3360 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
3361
3362- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
3363 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
3364
3365 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
3366 rightid="UN=John Doe"
3367
3368- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
3369 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
3370 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
3371
3372 conn rw
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3373 right=%any
3374 rightid=@foo.bar
3375 authby=secret
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3376
3377- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
3378
3379- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
3380
3381- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
3382 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
3383 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
3384
3385- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
3386 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
3387 servers.
3388
3389- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
3390 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
3391
3392
3393strongswan-2.6.1
3394----------------
3395
3396- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
3397 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
3398 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
3399
3400
3401strongswan-2.6.0
3402----------------
3403
3404- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
3405 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
3406 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
3407 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
3408 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
3409 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
b3ab7a48 3410 accelerated tremendously.
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3411
3412- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 3413 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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3414 reload pluto's connections.
3415
3416- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
3417 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
3418 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
3419
3420- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
3421
3422- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
3423
3424- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
3425 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
3426 documented yet.
3427
3428
3429strongswan-2.5.7
3430----------------
3431
2db6d5b8 3432- CA certificates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
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3433 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
3434 listing.
3435
3436
3437strongswan-2.5.6
3438----------------
3439
3440- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
3441 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
3442 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
3443 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
3444
b6b90b68 3445- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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3446 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
3447 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
3448 has been changed from one year to five years.
3449
3450
3451strongswan-2.5.5
3452----------------
3453
3454- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
3455 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
3456 via the whack interface. Notation:
3457
3458 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
3459 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3460 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3461 [--keyid <keyid>]
3462
3463 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
3464 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3465 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
3466 [--keyid <keyid>]
3467
b6b90b68 3468 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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3469
3470 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
3471 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
3472 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
3473 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
3474 permanently.
3475
3476- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
3477 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
3478 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
3479 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
3480 is automatically generated by calling the function
3481
3482 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
3483
3484 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
3485 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
3486
3487
3488strongswan-2.5.4
3489----------------
3490
3491- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
3492 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
3493 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
3494 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
3495
3496- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
3497 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
3498
3499
3500strongswan-2.5.3
3501----------------
3502
3503- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
3504 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
3505 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
3506 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
3507 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
3508
3509- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
3510
3511 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
3512 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
3513 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 3514 self-signed certs)
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3515
3516- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
3517 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
53f8ac3d 3518 attribute for AES encryption.
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3519
3520- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
3521
3522- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
3523
3524
3525strongswan-2.5.2
3526----------------
3527
3528- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
3529 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
3530 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
3531 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
3532 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
3533
3534- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
3535 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
3536 multiple connections between two security gateways.
3537
3538
3539strongswan-2.5.1
3540----------------
3541
3542- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
3543 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
b3ab7a48 3544 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_ACQUIRE event
2db6d5b8 3545 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet existing
b3ab7a48 3546 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_ACQUIRE event led to an entry in
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3547 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
3548 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
3549 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
3550
3551- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
3552 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
3553 the command
3554
3555 ipsec auto --listcards
3556
3557 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
3558 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
3559 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
3560 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
3561
3562 %smartcard (selects object #1)
3563 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
3564 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
3565
3566 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
3567
3568 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
3569 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
3570 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
3571
3572- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
3573 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
3574 to generate a signature.
3575
3576- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
3577 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
3578 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
3579 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
3580 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
3581
3582- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
3583 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
3584
3585- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
3586 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
3587 towards the release of the SCEP client.
3588
3589
3590strongswan-2.5.0
3591----------------
3592
3593- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
3594 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
3595 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
3596 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
3597 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
3598 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
3599
3600- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
3601 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
3602 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
3603 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
3604 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
3605 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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3607- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
3608 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
3609 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
3610
3611
3612strongswan-2.4.4
3613----------------
3614
3615- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
3616
3617- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
3618
3619
3620strongswan-2.4.3
3621----------------
3622
3623- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
3624 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
3625
3626- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
3627
3628- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
3629 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
3630 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
3631
3632- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
3633 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
3634 included.
3635
3636
3637strongswan-2.4.2
3638----------------
3639
3640- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
3641 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
3642 value of 50.
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3644- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
3645 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 3646 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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3647 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
3648 pad has to be done only once.
3649
3650- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
3651 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
3652 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 3653
997358a6 3654 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
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3656- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
3657
3658- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
3659 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
3660
3661- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
3662 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
3663 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 3664
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3665- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
3666 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
3667 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
3668
3669
3670strongswan-2.4.1
3671----------------
3672
3673- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
3674 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
3675 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
3676 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
3677 "left" be"local".
3678
3679
3680strongswan-2.4.0a
3681-----------------
3682
3683- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
3684
3685- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
3686 Michael Meier
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3687
3688
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3689strongswan-2.4.0
3690----------------
3691
3692- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
3693 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
3694 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
3695 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
3696 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
3697 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
3698 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
3699
3700- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
3701 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
3702 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
3703 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
3704 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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3705
3706- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 3707 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 3708 in a particular test.
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3709
3710
3711strongswan-2.3.2
3712----------------
3713
3714- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3715 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 3716
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3717- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3718
3719- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3720 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3721 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 3722
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3723- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3724 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3725 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3726 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3727
3728
3729strongswan-2.3.1
3730----------------
3731
3732- Added basic Mode Config functionality
3733
3734- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3735 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 3736
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3737- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3738 module.
b6b90b68 3739
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3740- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3741 maximum udp size patches.
3742
3743- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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3745
3746strongswan-2.3.0
3747----------------
3748
3749- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3750 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3751 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3752 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3753 subdirectory.
3754
3755- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 3756 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 3757 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 3758
997358a6 3759 man ipsec_openac.
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3761 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3762 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3763 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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3765 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3766
3767 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3768 Research or Sales, only.
3769
3770- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 3771 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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3772 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3773 Secure Entry Clients.
3774
3775- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3776 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3777 now both set to 24 h.
3778
3779- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3780 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3781
3782- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3783 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3784 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 3785
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3786 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3787
3788
3789strongswan-2.2.2
3790----------------
3791
3792- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3793 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3794 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3795 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3796
f3bb1bd0 3797- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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3798 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3799 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 3800
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3801- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3802
3803- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3804 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3805
3806
3807strongswan-2.2.1
3808----------------
3809
3810- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3811 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3812
f3bb1bd0 3813- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 3814 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 3815
997358a6 3816- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 3817 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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3818
3819- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 3820
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3821- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3822
3823- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3824
3825
3826strongswan-2.2.0
3827----------------
3828
3829- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3830
3831 dpdaction=clear|hold
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3833 activates DPD for the given connection.
3834
3835- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3836 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3837 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 3838
997358a6 3839 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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3841 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3842
3843- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3844 using the compile option VENDORID
3845
3846- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3847
3848- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3849
3850- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3851
3852- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3853 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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3855- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3856
3857- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3858 connection.
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3860
3861strongswan-2.1.5
3862----------------
3863
3864- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3865 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3866 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3867 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3868 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3869
3870- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3871 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3872
3873
3874strongswan-2.1.4
3875----------------
3876
3877- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3878 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3879 an optional connection selector:
3880
3881 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3882
3883- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3884 man page.
3885
3886- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3887 of malformed distinguished names.
3888
3889- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3890
3891 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3892
3893- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3894
3895
3896strongswan-2.1.3
3897----------------
3898
3899- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3900 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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3902
3903strongswan-2.1.2
3904----------------
3905
3906- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3907 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3908 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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3910
3911strongswan-2.1.1
3912----------------
3913
3914- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3915
3916
3917strongswan-2.1.0
3918----------------
3919
3920- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3921
3922 ca kool
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3923 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3924 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3925 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3926 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3927 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3928 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 3929
997358a6 3930 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
b6b90b68 3931
53f8ac3d 3932 ipsec auto --listcainfos
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3933
3934- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3935 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3936
3937
3938strongswan-2.0.2
3939----------------
3940
3941- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3942 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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3943
3944- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 3945 during kernel compilation
b6b90b68 3946
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3947- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3948 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3949
3950- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3951 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3952 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3953
3954
3955strongswan-2.0.1
3956----------------
3957
3958- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3959 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3960 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3961 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3962
3963- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3964 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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3965
3966
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3967strongswan-2.0.0
3968----------------
3969
3970- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12