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1strongswan-5.3.2
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4- Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
5 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
6 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
7 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
8 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
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14- Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
15 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
16 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
17 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
18 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
19 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
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21- The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
22 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
23 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
24 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
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30- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
31 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
32 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
33 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
34 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
35 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
36 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
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38- Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
39 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
40 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
41 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
42
43- Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
44 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
45 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
46 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
47 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
48 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
49 enough.
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51- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
52 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
53 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
54 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
55 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
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57- The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
58 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
59 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
60 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
61 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
62 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
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64- For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
65 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
66 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
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68- EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
69 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
70 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
71 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
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73- Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
74 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
75 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
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77- The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
78 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
79 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
80
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81- The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
82 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
83 PT-TLS transport medium.
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89- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
90 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
91 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
92 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
93 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
94 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
95 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
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97- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
98 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
99 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
100 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
101
30a90ccf 102- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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103 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
104 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
105
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106- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
107 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
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113- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
114 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
115 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
116 supports native systemd journal logging.
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118- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
119 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
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121- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
122 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
123 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
124 per segment basis.
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126- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
127 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
128
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129- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
130 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
131 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
132 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
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135strongswan-5.2.0
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138- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
139 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
140 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
141 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
142 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
143 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
144 WinHTTP API.
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146- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
147 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
148 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
149 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
150 for more control and better reliability.
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152- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
153 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
154 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
155 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 156 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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158- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
159 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
160
37cb91d7 161- The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
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162 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
163 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
164 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
165 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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167- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
168 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
169
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170- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
171 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
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173- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
174
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178- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
179 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
180 6Wind.
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183strongswan-5.1.3
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186- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
187 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
188 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
189 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
190 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
191
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192- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
193 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
194 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
195 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
196
197- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
198 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
199 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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201- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
202 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
203
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208- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
209 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
210 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
211 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
212 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
213 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
214 the current defaults.
215
216- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
217 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
218 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
219 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
220 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
221 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
222
223- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
224 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
225 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
226 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
227 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
228
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229- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
230 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
231 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
232 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
233 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
234 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
235
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236- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
237 Attestation IMV.
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239- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
240 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
241
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242- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
243 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
244 Andrea Bonomi.
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246- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
247 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
248 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
249
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254- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
255 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
256 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
257 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
258
259- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
260 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
261 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
262
2b32884d 263- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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264 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
265 plugin.
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267- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
268 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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270- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
271 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
272 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
273 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
274 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
275
276- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
277 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
278 as pluto used it.
279
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280- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
281 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
282 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
283 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
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285- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
286 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
287 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
288
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289- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
290 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
291 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
292 from a internal network.
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294- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
295 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
296 more trustworthy alternative.
297
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298- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
299 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
300
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301- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
302 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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304- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
305 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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307- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
308 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
309
310- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
311 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
312
313- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
314 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
315
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316- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
317 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
318 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
319 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
320
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325- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
326 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
327 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
328 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
329
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330- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
331 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
332 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
333 few simple command line options.
334
335- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 336 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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337 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
338
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339- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
340 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
341
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342- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
343 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
344 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
345 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
346 backend for IKEv1.
347
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349 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
350 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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352- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
353 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
354 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
355 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
356 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
357 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
358
359- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
360 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
361 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
362
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363- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
364
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366 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
367 between peers.
368
226f34e0 369- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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370 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
371 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
372 and/or device.
373
374- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
375 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
376 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
377 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
378 production releases).
379
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380- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
381 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
382 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
383
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384- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
385 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
386 hashtables.
387
388- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
389 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
390 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
391 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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393- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
394 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
395 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
396 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
397
398- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
399 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
400 TCP connections from a different host.
401
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408- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
409 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
410 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
411 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
412 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
413 legitimate one.
414
415- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
416 was fixed as well.
417
418- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
419 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
420
421- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
422 requests.
423
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424- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
425
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430- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
431 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
432 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
433 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
434 created by Reto Guadagnini.
435
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436- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
437 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
438 device ID in the attest database.
439
440- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
441 if the hardware supports it.
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443- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
444 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
445 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
446 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
447 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
448 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
449 to Accounting-Stops.
450
451- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
452 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
453 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
454
455- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
456 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
457
458- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
459 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
460 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
461 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
462
463- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
464 IKE packets.
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466- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
467 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
468 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
469 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
470 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
471
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472- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
473 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
474 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
475 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
476 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
477 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
478 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
479
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483- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
484 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
485
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486- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
487 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
488
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489- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
490 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
491 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
492 or receive notifications.
493
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494- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
495 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
496
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497- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
498 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
499 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
500 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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502- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
503 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
504 section.
505
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506- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
507 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
508 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
509 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
510 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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512- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
513 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
514 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
515 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
516
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517- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
518 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
519 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
520
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521- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
522 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
523 Volker Rümelin.
524
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525- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
526 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
527
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528- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
529 guest images based on Debian.
530
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533----------------
534
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535- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
536 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
537
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538- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
539 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 540 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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542- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
543 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
544 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 545 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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546 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
547
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548- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
549 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
550 against a RADIUS server.
551
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552- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
553 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
554 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
555 including xauth-pam.
556
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557- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
558 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
559 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
560 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
561 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
562 aware clients.
563
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564- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
565 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
566 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
567
568- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
569 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
570 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
571 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
572
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573- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
574 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
575 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
576 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
577 IP addresses to return.
578
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579- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
580 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
581 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
582 specified or referenced named pools.
583
584- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
585 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
586
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587- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
588 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
589
590- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
591 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
592 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
593 is preserved.
594
595- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
596 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
597
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598- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
599 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
600 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
601
602- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
603 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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608
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609- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
610 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
611 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
612 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
613 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
614 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
615 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
616 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
617
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618- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
619 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
620 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
621 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
622 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
623 the thread calling the listener.
624 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
625 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
626 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
627 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
628
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629- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
630 reappear.
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632- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
633 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
634 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
635 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
636 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
637 feature).
638
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639- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
640 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
641 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
642 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
643 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
644 using SHA-256 or better.
645
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648----------------
649
650- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
651 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
652 a legitimate one.
653
654- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
655
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658----------------
659
660- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
661 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
662
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663- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
664 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
665 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
666 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
667
668- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
669 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
670 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
671 console.
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673- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
674 RFC 4595.
675
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676- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
677 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
678
4e2e77d5 679- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 680 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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682- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
683 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
684
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687----------------
688
689- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
690 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
691 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
692 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
693
694- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
695 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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696 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
697 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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699- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
700 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
701 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
60e99b37 702
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703- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
704 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
705 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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707- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
708
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712
713- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
714 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
715 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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717 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
718 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
719 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
720 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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722- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
723 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
724 post-installation phase.
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729
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730- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
731 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
732 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
733
734- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
735 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
736 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
737 for the initial patch.
738
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740 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
741
742- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
743
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744- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
745 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
746 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
747 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
748 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
749 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
750
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751- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
752 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
753 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
754 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
755 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
756 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
757
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758- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
759 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
760 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
761
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765
a7edbd21 766- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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767 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
768 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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770
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771- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
772 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
773
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774- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
775 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
776 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
777
778- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
779 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
780
f8799170 781- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 782 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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783 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
784 interfaces.
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786- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
787 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
788
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790 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
791 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
792 the client is admitted to the network.
793 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
794
795- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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796 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
797
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798- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
799 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
800 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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805
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806- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
807 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
808 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
809 whitelist administration.
810
92ebb7c5 811- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 812 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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813 application about detected duplicates.
814
815- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
816 authentication to previously used certificates.
817
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819 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
820 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
821 only starts|routes the specific child config.
822
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824
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825- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
826 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
827
828- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 829 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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831- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
832 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
833 support configuration reloading.
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835- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
836 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
837 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
838 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
839 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
840 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
841
842- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
843 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
844 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
845
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849
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850- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
851 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 852 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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853 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
854 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 855 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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857- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
858 in place of the external libtnc library.
859
860- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
861 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
862 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
863 the corresponding protocol stack.
864
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865- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
866 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
867 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
868 in an SQL database.
869
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870- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
871 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
872 points in an SQL database.
873
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875 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
876 replaced, respectively.
877
878- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
879 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
880 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
881 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
882 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
883 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
884 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
885
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886- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
887 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
888
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889- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
890 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
891 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
892
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893- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
894 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
895 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
896 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 897
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899 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
900 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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902- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
903 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
904 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
905 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
906 ./configure switch.
907
77eee25f 908- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
cf95d292 909 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
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910 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
911 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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912 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
913 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
914
915- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
916 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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919 support for delta CRLs.
920
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924
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925- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
926 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 927 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 928 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 929 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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932 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
933 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
934 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
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936- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
937 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 938 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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940
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941- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
942 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
943 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
944 client authentication.
945
946- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
947 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 948 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
a782b52f 949
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951 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
952 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
953 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
954 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 955 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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957 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
958
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960 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
961 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
962
963- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
964 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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966- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
967 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
968 availability.
969
970- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
971 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
972 implement a simple event listener.
973
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974- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
975 initial responder moves to a different address.
976
977- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
978
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980 identity was different from the IKE identity.
981
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982- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
983 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
984 UNITY_BANNER).
985
986- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
987 charon plugins.
988
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989- Added man page for strongswan.conf
990
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993----------------
994
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996 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
997 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 998
b22bb9f2 999- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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1000 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1001 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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1004
e9448cfc 1005- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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1008- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1009 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1010 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1011
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1012- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1013
1014- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1015 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1016
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1017- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1018 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1019
e87b78c6 1020- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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1021 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1022 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
e87b78c6 1023
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1024- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1025 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1026
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1027- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1028 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1029
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1030- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1031 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1032 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1033 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1034 plugin.
1c1f132a 1035
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1036- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1037 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1038 unauthenticated users.
1039
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1042----------------
1043
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1044- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1045 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1046 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1047 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 1048 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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1049 secunet Security Networks AG.
1050
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1051- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1052 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1053 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1054 kernel interface.
1055
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1056- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1057 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1058 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1059 from IBM for his contribution.
1060
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1061- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1062 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1063 are allocated.
1064
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1065- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1066 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1067 command line option.
1068
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1069- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1070 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1071 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1072 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1073 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1074 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1075
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1076- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1077 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1078 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1079 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1080
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1081- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1082 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1083 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1084 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1085
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1086- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1087 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1088
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1090strongswan-4.3.6
1091----------------
1092
cdad91de 1093- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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1094 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1095
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1096- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1097 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1098 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1099
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1100- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1101
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1102- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1103
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1104- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1105 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1106 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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1107 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1108
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1109- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1110
2b2c69e9 1111- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
44e41c4c 1112
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1113- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1114 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1115 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1116 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1117 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1118
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1119- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1120 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1121 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1122
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1123- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1124 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1125
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1126- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1127 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1128 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1129 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1130 this is the case.
1131
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1132- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1133 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1134 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1135 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1136 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1137
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1138- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1139 allowing interoperability.
1140
1141
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1142strongswan-4.3.5
1143----------------
1144
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1145- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1146 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1147 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1148 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1149 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1150
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1151- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1152 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1153 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1154 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1155 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1156
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1157- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1158 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1159 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1161- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1162 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1163 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1164
d245f5cf 1165- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1166 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1167
1168- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1169 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1170 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1171
1172- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1173 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1174
1175- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1176 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1177 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1178 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1179 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1180 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1181
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1182- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1183 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1184 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1185 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1186
b80fa9ca 1187- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1188 statements.
b80fa9ca 1189
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1190- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1191
1192- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1193 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1194
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1195- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1196 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1197
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1198- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1199 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1200 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1201
85af7a89 1202
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1203strongswan-4.3.4
1204----------------
1205
1206- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1207 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1208
1209- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1210 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1211
1212- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1213
1214
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1215strongswan-4.3.3
1216----------------
1217
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1218- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1219 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1220 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1221 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1222 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1223
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1224- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1225 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1226
1227- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1228 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1229
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1230- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1231
1232- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1233 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1234 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1235
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1237strongswan-4.3.2
1238----------------
1239
1240- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1241 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1242
1243- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1244 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1245 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1246
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1247- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1248 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1249 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1250 with IKEv1.
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1251
1252- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1253 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1254 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1255 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1256
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1258strongswan-4.3.1
1259----------------
1260
1261- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1262 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1263 dynamically.
1264
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1265- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1266 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1267 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1268 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1269 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1270
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1271- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1272 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1273 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1274 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1275 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1276 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1277
09dbca9f 1278- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1279 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1280 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1281
1282- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1283 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1284 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1285
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1286- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1287
1288- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1289 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1290 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1291 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1292 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1293 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1294 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1295 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1296
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1297- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1298 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1299
d44fd821 1300- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1301 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1302 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1303 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1304 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1305
1306
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1307strongswan-4.3.0
1308----------------
1309
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1310- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1311 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1312 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1313 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1314 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1315
1316- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1317 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1318
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1319- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1320 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1321
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1322- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1323 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1324 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1325
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1326- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1327 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1328
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1330strongswan-4.2.14
1331-----------------
1332
22180558 1333- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1334 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1335 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1336
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1337- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1338 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1339 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1340 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1341 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1342 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1343 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1344 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1345 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1346
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1347- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1348 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1349 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1350 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1351
1352- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1353 IDr payload anymore.
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1354
1355
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1356strongswan-4.2.13
1357-----------------
1358
1359- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1360 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1361
f3bb1bd0 1362- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1363 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1364
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1365- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1366 parameters field is optional.
1367
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1368- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1369
076e7853 1370
bfde75ee 1371strongswan-4.2.12
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1373
1374- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1375 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1376 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1377
1378- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1379 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1380 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1381
1382- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1383 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1384
b6b90b68 1385
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1386strongswan-4.2.11
1387-----------------
1388
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1389- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1390 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1391
1392- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1393 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1395
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1396strongswan-4.2.10
1397-----------------
1398
1399- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1400 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1401 counterparts with better lookup times.
1402
1403- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1404 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1405 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1406
1407- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1408 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1409 on the fly.
1410
1411- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1412 command queries assigned leases.
1413
1414- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1415 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1416
1417- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1418 reliable source of randomness.
1419
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1420strongswan-4.2.9
1421----------------
1422
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1423- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1424 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1425
1426- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1427 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1428 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1429
1430- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1431 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1432 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1433 parallelization to multiple cores.
1434
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1435- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1436 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1437
509e07c5 1438- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1439 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1440 memory or hardware.
1441
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1442- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1443 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1444 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1445 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1446
1447- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1448 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1449 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1450 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1451 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1452 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1453
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1454- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1455 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1456 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1457
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1459strongswan-4.2.8
1460----------------
1461
5dadb16e 1462- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1463 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1464 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1465
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1466- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1467 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1468 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1469 long as possible and other fixes.
1470
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1471- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1472 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1473 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1474
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1476strongswan-4.2.7
1477----------------
1478
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1479- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1480 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1481 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1482 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1483 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1484
b6b90b68 1485- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1486 ssh-agent.
1487
1488- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1489 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1490
1491- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1492 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1493 newer libcap2 library.
1494
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1495- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1496 charon keying daemon.
1497
1498
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1499strongswan-4.2.6
1500----------------
1501
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1502- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1503 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1504 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1505 in the Gnome Keyring.
1506
1507- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1508 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1509 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1510 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1511
1512- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1513 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1514 authentication.
1515
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1516- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1517 authentication types and EAP identities.
1518
1519- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1520 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1521
1522- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1523 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1524
1525
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1526strongswan-4.2.5
1527----------------
1528
b6b90b68 1529- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1530
1531- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1532 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1533 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1534 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1535 strongswan.conf.
1536
eb0cc338 1537- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1538 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1539
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1540- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1541 network interfaces have become possible.
1542
b6b90b68 1543- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1544 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1545
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1546- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1547
b6b90b68 1548
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1549strongswan-4.2.4
1550----------------
1551
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1552- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1553 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1554
73a8eed3 1555- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1556 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1557
1558- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1559 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1560
1561- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1562 X.509 certificates.
1563
1564- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1565 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1566
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1567- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1568 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1569
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1571strongswan-4.2.3
1572----------------
1573
b6b90b68 1574- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1575 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1576
1577- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1578 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1579
1580
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1581strongswan-4.2.2
1582----------------
1583
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1584- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1585 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1586 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1587 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1588 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1589
1590- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1591 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1592 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1593 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1594
1595- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1596 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1597 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1598
7f491111 1599
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1600strongswan-4.2.1
1601----------------
1602
c306dfb1 1603- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1604 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1605 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1606 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1607 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1608 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
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1610- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1611 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1612 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1613 connections.
b6b90b68 1614
f3bb1bd0 1615- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1616 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1617 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1618
b6b90b68 1619- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1620 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1621 re-implemented.
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1622
1623- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1624 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1625
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1626- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1627 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1628 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1629
466abb49 1630- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1631 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1632 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1633 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1634 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1635
c306dfb1 1636- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1637
c306dfb1 1638- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1639
1640- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1641 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1642 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1643
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1646----------------
1647
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1648- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1649 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1650 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1651 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1652 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1653 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1654 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1655
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1656- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1657 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1658
1659- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1660 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1661 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1662 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1663 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1664 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1665 The following new plugins are available:
1666 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1667 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1668 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1669
1670- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1671 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1672 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1673
b6b90b68 1674- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1675 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1676 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1677
a11ea97d 1678
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1679strongswan-4.1.11
1680-----------------
fb6d76cd 1681
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1682- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1683 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1684 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1685
1686- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1687 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1688
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1689- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1690 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1691 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1692
fb6d76cd 1693
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1694strongswan-4.1.10
1695-----------------
1696
1697- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1698 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1699
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1700- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1701 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1702 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1703 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1704
1705- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1706 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1707 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1708 before using it.
1709
1710- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1711 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1712 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1713
fb6d76cd 1714
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1715strongswan-4.1.9
1716----------------
1717
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1718- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1719 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1720 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1721 added.
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1723- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1724 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1725
1726- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1727 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1728
1729- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1730
8b678ad4 1731- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1732 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1733 loaded twice.
5076770c 1734
83e0d841 1735
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1736strongswan-4.1.8
1737----------------
1738
5076770c 1739- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1740
1741
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1742strongswan-4.1.7
1743----------------
1744
1745- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1746 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1747 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1748
6e193274 1749- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1750 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1751 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1752
1753- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1754 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1755 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1756
1757- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1758 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1759
1760- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1761
a4a3632c 1762
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1763strongswan-4.1.6
1764----------------
1765
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1766- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1767 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1768 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1769 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1770 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1771 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1772 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1773 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1774
1775- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1776 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1777 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1778 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1779
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1780- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1781 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1782 startup.
b6b90b68 1783
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1784- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1785 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1786 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1787 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1788 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1789
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1790- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1791 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1792
1793
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1794strongswan-4.1.5
1795----------------
1796
1797- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1798 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1799 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1800 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1801 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1802 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1803
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1804- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1805 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1806 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1807 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1808
7ad634a2 1809
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1810strongswan-4.1.4
1811----------------
1812
1813- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1814 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1815 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1816 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1817 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1818 parameter is not required any more.
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1819
1820- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1821 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1822 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1823
1824 right=peer.foo.bar
1825 rightallowany=yes
1826
1827 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1828 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1829 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1830 as
1831
1832 right=%any
1833
1834 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1835 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1836
1837 right=%peer.foo.bar
1838
1839 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1840
1841- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1842 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1843 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1844 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1845 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1847- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1848 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1849 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1850 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1851 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1852
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1853- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1854 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1855 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1856 by Robert Varga.
1857
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1858- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1859 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1860
06651827 1861
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1862strongswan-4.1.3
1863----------------
1864
b6b90b68 1865- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1866 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1867
1868- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1869 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1870 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1871
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1872- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1873 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1874 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1875 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1876
1877- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1878 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1879 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1880 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1881
b6b90b68 1882- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1883 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1884 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1885 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1886 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1887 to implement.
a3354a69 1888
f3bb1bd0 1889 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1890 headers > 2.6.17.
1891
1892
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1893strongswan-4.1.2
1894----------------
1895
e23d98a7 1896- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1897 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1898 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1899 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1900
1901- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1902 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1903
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1904- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1905
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1906- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1907
dfbe2a0f 1908- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1909 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1910
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1911- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1912
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1913- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1914 connection name.
1915
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1917strongswan-4.1.1
1918----------------
1919
1920- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1921 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1922 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1923 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1924 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1925 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1926
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1927- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1928 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1929 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1930
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1931- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1932 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1933 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1934 vendor ID.
1935
1936- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1937 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1938 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1939 message.
1940
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1941- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1942 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1943
3b4f7d92 1944
34bbd0c3 1945strongswan-4.1.0
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1947
1948- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1949 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1950
1951- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1952 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1953 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1954 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1955
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1956- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1957
c5d0fbb6 1958- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1959 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1960 accessLocations.
1961
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1962- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1963 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1964 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1965 option.
1966
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1967- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1968 code reuse and separation.
1969
1970- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1971 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1972 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1973
1974- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1975 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1976 specify it.
1977
1978- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1979 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1980 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1981 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1982 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1983 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1984
1985- Added client side support for cookies.
1986
1987- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1988 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1989 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1990
e23d98a7 1991
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1992strongswan-4.0.7
1993----------------
1994
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1995- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1996 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1997 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1998
1999- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2000 to a default string.
2001
2002
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2004----------------
2005
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2006- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2007 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2008 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2009 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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2010 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2011
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2012- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2013
5903179b 2014- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 2015
5903179b 2016- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 2017
5903179b 2018- various other bugfixes
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2020
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2021strongswan-4.0.5
2022----------------
2023
2024- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2025 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2026
2027- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2028 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2029
2030- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2031 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2032 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2033 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 2034
0cd645d2 2035 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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2037 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2038
2039 config setup
03bf883d 2040 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
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03bf883d 2042 or changed at runtime via stroke as
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03bf883d 2044 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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2045
2046
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2048----------------
2049
2050- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2051
2052- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2053 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2054 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2055 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2056 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2057
2058- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2059 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2060 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2061
2062- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2063
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2064- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2065 or 3DES are supported.
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2066
2067- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2068 encrypt IKE traffic.
2069
2070- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2071 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2072
2073- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2074 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2075 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2076 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2077
2078
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2080----------------
2081
2082- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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2083 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2084 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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2085 kernel.
2086
2087- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2088 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2089 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2090 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2091
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2092- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2093 algorithm configuration statements.
2094
2095
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2097----------------
2098
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2099- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2100 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2101 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2102 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2103
b6b90b68 2104- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2105 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2106 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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2107 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2108
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2109- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2110 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2111 dpddelay=60s).
2112
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2113- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2114 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2115 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2116 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2117
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2118- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2119 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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2120 and a more extensible code base.
2121
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2122- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2123 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2124 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2125 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2126 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2127 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2128 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2129
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2132----------------
2133
b6b90b68 2134- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2135 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2136 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2137 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2138 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2139 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2140 algorithms for IKE:
2141 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2142 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2143 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2144 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2145 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2146 blowfish192, blowfish256
2147 Integrity: md5, sha1
2148 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2149 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 2150
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2151- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2152 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2153 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2154 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2155 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2156 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2157
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2158- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2159 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2160 configuration examples).
2161
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2162- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2163 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2164 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2165 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2166
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2167- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2168 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2169 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2170 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2171 via ipsec starter.
2172
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2174strongswan-4.0.0
2175----------------
2176
2177- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2178 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2179 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2180 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2181 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2182 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2183 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2184 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2185 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2186 status command).
2187
2188
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2189strongswan-2.7.0
2190----------------
2191
2192- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2193 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2194 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2195 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2196 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2197 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2198 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2199 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2200 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2201 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2202 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2203 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2204
2205- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2206 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2207 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2208 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2209 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2210 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2211 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2212 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2213 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2214 be inserted.
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2215
2216- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2217 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2218 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2219 be found.
2220
2221
2222strongswan-2.6.4
2223----------------
2224
2225- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2226 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2227 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2228 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2229 are required any more.
2230
2231- added support of DPD restart mode
2232
2233- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2234 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2235 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2236
2237- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2238 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2239
2240
2241strongswan-2.6.3
2242----------------
2243
b6b90b68 2244- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2245 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2246
2247- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2248 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2249 via the auth=ah parameter.
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2251- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2252 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2253
2254- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2255 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2256 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2257 the ipsec status command.
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2260strongswan-2.6.2
2261----------------
2262
2263- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2264 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2265 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2266
2267- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2268 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2269 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2270
2271- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2272 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2273
2274 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2275 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2276
2277- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2278 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2279 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2280
2281 conn rw
2282 right=%any
2283 rightid=@foo.bar
2284 authby=secret
2285
2286- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2287
2288- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2289
2290- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2291 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2292 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2293
2294- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2295 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2296 servers.
2297
2298- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2299 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2300
2301
2302strongswan-2.6.1
2303----------------
2304
2305- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2306 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2307 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2308
2309
2310strongswan-2.6.0
2311----------------
2312
2313- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2314 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2315 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2316 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2317 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2318 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2319 accelerated tremedously.
2320
2321- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2322 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2323 reload pluto's connections.
2324
2325- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2326 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2327 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2328
2329- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2330
2331- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2332
2333- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2334 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2335 documented yet.
2336
2337
2338strongswan-2.5.7
2339----------------
2340
2341- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2342 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2343 listing.
2344
2345
2346strongswan-2.5.6
2347----------------
2348
2349- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2350 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2351 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2352 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2353
b6b90b68 2354- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2355 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2356 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2357 has been changed from one year to five years.
2358
2359
2360strongswan-2.5.5
2361----------------
2362
2363- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2364 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2365 via the whack interface. Notation:
2366
2367 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2368 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2369 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2370 [--keyid <keyid>]
2371
2372 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2373 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2374 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2375 [--keyid <keyid>]
2376
b6b90b68 2377 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2378
2379 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2380 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2381 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2382 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2383 permanently.
2384
2385- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2386 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2387 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2388 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2389 is automatically generated by calling the function
2390
2391 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2392
2393 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2394 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2395
2396
2397strongswan-2.5.4
2398----------------
2399
2400- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2401 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2402 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2403 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2404
2405- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2406 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2407
2408
2409strongswan-2.5.3
2410----------------
2411
2412- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2413 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2414 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2415 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2416 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2417
2418- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2419
2420 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2421 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2422 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2423 self-signed certs)
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2424
2425- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2426 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2427 attribute for AES encryption.
2428
2429- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2430
2431- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2432
2433
2434strongswan-2.5.2
2435----------------
2436
2437- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2438 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2439 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2440 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2441 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2442
2443- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2444 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2445 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2446
2447
2448strongswan-2.5.1
2449----------------
2450
2451- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2452 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2453 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2454 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2455 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2456 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2457 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2458 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2459
2460- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2461 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2462 the command
2463
2464 ipsec auto --listcards
2465
2466 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2467 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2468 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2469 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2470
2471 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2472 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2473 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2474
2475 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2476
2477 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2478 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2479 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2480
2481- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2482 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2483 to generate a signature.
2484
2485- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2486 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2487 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2488 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2489 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2490
2491- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2492 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2493
2494- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2495 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2496 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2497
2498
2499strongswan-2.5.0
2500----------------
2501
2502- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2503 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2504 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2505 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2506 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2507 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2508
2509- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2510 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2511 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2512 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2513 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2514 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2517 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2518 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2519
2520
2521strongswan-2.4.4
2522----------------
2523
2524- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2525
2526- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2527
2528
2529strongswan-2.4.3
2530----------------
2531
2532- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2533 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2534
2535- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2536
2537- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2538 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2539 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2540
2541- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2542 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2543 included.
2544
2545
2546strongswan-2.4.2
2547----------------
2548
2549- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2550 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2551 value of 50.
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2553- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2554 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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2556 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2557 pad has to be done only once.
2558
2559- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2560 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2561 to be used with smart cards. Example:
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2565- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2566
2567- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2568 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2569
2570- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2571 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2572 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2574- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2575 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2576 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2577
2578
2579strongswan-2.4.1
2580----------------
2581
2582- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2583 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2584 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2585 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2586 "left" be"local".
2587
2588
2589strongswan-2.4.0a
2590-----------------
2591
2592- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2593
2594- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2595 Michael Meier
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2596
2597
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2598strongswan-2.4.0
2599----------------
2600
2601- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2602 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2603 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2604 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2605 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2606 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2607 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2608
2609- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2610 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2611 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2612 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2613 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2614
2615- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2616 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2617 in a particular test.
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2619
2620strongswan-2.3.2
2621----------------
2622
2623- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2624 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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2626- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2627
2628- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2629 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2630 Delete SA messages.
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2632- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2633 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2634 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2635 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2636
2637
2638strongswan-2.3.1
2639----------------
2640
2641- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2642
2643- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2644 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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2646- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2647 module.
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2649- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2650 maximum udp size patches.
2651
2652- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2655strongswan-2.3.0
2656----------------
2657
2658- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2659 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2660 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2661 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2662 subdirectory.
2663
2664- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2665 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2666 using the openac facility. For more details see
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997358a6 2668 man ipsec_openac.
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2670 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2671 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2672 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2674 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2675
2676 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2677 Research or Sales, only.
2678
2679- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2680 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2681 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2682 Secure Entry Clients.
2683
2684- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2685 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2686 now both set to 24 h.
2687
2688- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2689 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2690
2691- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2692 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2693 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2695 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2696
2697
2698strongswan-2.2.2
2699----------------
2700
2701- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2702 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2703 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2704 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2705
f3bb1bd0 2706- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2707 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2708 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2710- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2711
2712- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2713 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2714
2715
2716strongswan-2.2.1
2717----------------
2718
2719- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2720 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2721
f3bb1bd0 2722- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2723 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2724
997358a6 2725- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2726 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2727
2728- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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2730- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2731
2732- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2733
2734
2735strongswan-2.2.0
2736----------------
2737
2738- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2739
2740 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2742 activates DPD for the given connection.
2743
2744- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2745 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2746 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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997358a6 2748 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2750 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2751
2752- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2753 using the compile option VENDORID
2754
2755- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2756
2757- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2758
2759- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2760
2761- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2762 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2764- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2765
2766- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2767 connection.
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2770strongswan-2.1.5
2771----------------
2772
2773- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2774 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2775 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2776 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2777 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2778
2779- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2780 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2781
2782
2783strongswan-2.1.4
2784----------------
2785
2786- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2787 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2788 an optional connection selector:
2789
2790 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2791
2792- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2793 man page.
2794
2795- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2796 of malformed distinguished names.
2797
2798- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2799
2800 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2801
2802- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2803
2804
2805strongswan-2.1.3
2806----------------
2807
2808- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2809 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2812strongswan-2.1.2
2813----------------
2814
2815- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2816 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2817 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2820strongswan-2.1.1
2821----------------
2822
2823- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2824
2825
2826strongswan-2.1.0
2827----------------
2828
2829- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2830
2831 ca kool
2832 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2833 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2834 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2835 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2836 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2837 auto=add # add, ignore
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997358a6 2839 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2841 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2842
2843- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2844 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2845
2846
2847strongswan-2.0.2
2848----------------
2849
2850- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2851 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2853- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2854 during kernel compilation
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2856- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2857 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2858
2859- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2860 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2861 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2862
2863
2864strongswan-2.0.1
2865----------------
2866
2867- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2868 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2869 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2870 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2871
2872- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2873 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2875
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2877----------------
2878
2879- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12