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1strongswan-4.5.2
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4- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
5 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
6 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
7 whitelist administration.
8
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9- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
10 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
11 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
12 only starts|routes the specific child config.
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14- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
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16- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
17 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
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19- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
cf6ca6d7 20 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server but not yet with a Windows 7
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21 Agile VPN client.
22
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23- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
24 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
25 support configuration reloading.
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28strongswan-4.5.1
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30
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31- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
32 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 33 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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34 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
35 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 36 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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38- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
39 in place of the external libtnc library.
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41- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
42 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
43 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
44 the corresponding protocol stack.
45
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46- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
47 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
48 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
49 in an SQL database.
50
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51- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
52 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
53 points in an SQL database.
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55- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
56 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
57 replaced, respectively.
58
59- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
60 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
61 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
62 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
63 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
64 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
65 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
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67- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
68 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
69
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70- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
71 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
72 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
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74- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
75 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
76 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
77 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 79- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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80 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
81 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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83- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
84 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
85 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
86 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
87 ./configure switch.
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89- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
90 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
91 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
92 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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93 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
94 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
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96- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
97 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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99- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
100 support for delta CRLs.
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106- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
107 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 108 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 109 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 110 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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112- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
113 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
114 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
115 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
116
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117- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
118 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 119 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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120 tokens.
121
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122- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
123 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
124 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
125 client authentication.
126
127- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
128 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 129 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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131- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
132 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
133 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
134 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
135 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 136 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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137 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
138 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
139
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140- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
141 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
142 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
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144- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
145 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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147- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
148 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
149 availability.
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151- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
152 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
153 implement a simple event listener.
154
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155- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
156 initial responder moves to a different address.
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158- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
159
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160- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
161 identity was different from the IKE identity.
162
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163- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
164 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
165 UNITY_BANNER).
166
167- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
168 charon plugins.
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170- Added man page for strongswan.conf
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175
ec40c02a 176- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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177 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
178 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 180- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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181 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
182 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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184- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
185
e9448cfc 186- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 187 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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189- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
190 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
191 in strongswan.conf, if required.
192
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193- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
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195- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
196 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
197
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198- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
199 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
200
e87b78c6 201- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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202 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
203 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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205- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
206 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
207
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208- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
209 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
210
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211- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
212 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
213 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
214 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
215 plugin.
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217- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
218 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
219 unauthenticated users.
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225- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
226 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
227 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
228 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 229 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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230 secunet Security Networks AG.
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232- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
233 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
234 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
235 kernel interface.
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237- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
238 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
239 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
240 from IBM for his contribution.
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242- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
243 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
244 are allocated.
245
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246- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
247 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
248 command line option.
249
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250- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
251 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
252 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
253 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
254 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
255 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
256
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257- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
258 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 259 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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260 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
261
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262- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
263 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
264 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
265 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
266
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267- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
268 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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273
cdad91de 274- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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275 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
276
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277- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
278 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
279 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
280
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281- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
282
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283- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
284
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285- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
286 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
287 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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288 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
289
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290- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
291
2b2c69e9 292- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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294- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
295 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
296 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
297 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
298 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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300- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
301 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
302 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
303
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304- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
305 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
306
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307- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
308 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
309 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
310 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
311 this is the case.
312
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313- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
314 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
315 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
316 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
317 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
318
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319- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
320 allowing interoperability.
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325
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326- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
327 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
328 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 329 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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330 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
331
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332- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
333 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
334 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
335 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
336 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
337
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338- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
339 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
340 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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342- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
343 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
344 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
345
d245f5cf 346- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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347 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
348
349- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
350 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
351 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
352
353- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
354 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
355
356- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
357 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
358 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
359 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
360 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
361 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
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363- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
364 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
365 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
366 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
367
b80fa9ca 368- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 369 statements.
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371- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
372
373- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
374 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
375
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376- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
377 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
378
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379- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
380 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
381 and the libstrongswan library.
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387- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
388 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
389
390- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
391 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
392
393- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
394
395
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398
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399- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
400 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
401 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
402 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
403 manipulations can be reliably detected.
404
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405- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
406 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
407
408- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
409 authenticated encryption algorithms.
410
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411- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
412
413- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
414 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
415 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
416
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420
421- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
422 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
423
424- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
425 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
426 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
427
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428- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
429 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
430 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
431 with IKEv1.
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433- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
434 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
435 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
436 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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441
442- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 443 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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444 dynamically.
445
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446- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
447 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
448 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
449 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
450 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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452- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
453 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
454 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
455 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
456 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
457 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
458
09dbca9f 459- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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460 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
461 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
462
463- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
464 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
465 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
466
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467- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
468
469- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
470 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
471 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
472 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
473 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 474 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
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475 developped by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
476 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
477
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478- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
479 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
480
d44fd821 481- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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482 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
483 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 484 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 485 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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487
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489----------------
490
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491- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
492 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
493 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
494 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
495 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
496
497- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
498 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
499
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500- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
501 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 502
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503- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
504 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
505 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 506
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507- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
508 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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512-----------------
513
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514- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
515 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Succesfully
516 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
517
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518- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
519 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
520 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
521 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
522 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
523 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
524 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
525 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
526 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
527
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529 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
530 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
531 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
532
533- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 534 IDr payload anymore.
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536
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537strongswan-4.2.13
538-----------------
539
540- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
541 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
542
543- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occuring with
b6b90b68 544 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 545
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546- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
547 parameters field is optional.
548
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550
076e7853 551
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555- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
556 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
557 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
558
559- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 560 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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561 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
562
563- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
564 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
565
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567strongswan-4.2.11
568-----------------
569
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570- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
571 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
572
573- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
574 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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576
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578-----------------
579
580- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
581 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
582 counterparts with better lookup times.
583
584- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
585 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
586 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
587
588- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
589 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
590 on the fly.
591
592- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
593 command queries assigned leases.
594
595- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
596 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
597
598- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
599 reliable source of randomness.
600
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602----------------
603
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604- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
605 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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607- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
608 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
609 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
610
611- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 612 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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613 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
614 parallelization to multiple cores.
615
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617 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 618
509e07c5 619- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 620 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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621 memory or hardware.
622
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623- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
624 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
625 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
626 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
627
628- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
629 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
630 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
631 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
632 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
633 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Adress.
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635- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
636 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
637 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
638
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640strongswan-4.2.8
641----------------
642
5dadb16e 643- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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644 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
645 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
646
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647- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
648 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
649 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
650 long as possible and other fixes.
651
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652- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
653 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
654 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
655
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657strongswan-4.2.7
658----------------
659
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660- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
661 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
662 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
663 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 664 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 665
b6b90b68 666- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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667 ssh-agent.
668
669- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 670 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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671
672- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
673 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
674 newer libcap2 library.
675
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676- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
677 charon keying daemon.
678
679
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680strongswan-4.2.6
681----------------
682
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683- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
684 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
685 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
686 in the Gnome Keyring.
687
688- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
689 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 690 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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691 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
692
693- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
694 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
695 authentication.
696
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697- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
698 authentication types and EAP identities.
699
700- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
701 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
702
703- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
704 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
705
706
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707strongswan-4.2.5
708----------------
709
b6b90b68 710- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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712- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
713 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
714 storing only history information has become optional and can be
715 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
716 strongswan.conf.
717
eb0cc338 718- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 719 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 720
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721- management of different virtual IP pools for different
722 network interfaces have become possible.
723
b6b90b68 724- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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725 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
726
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727- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
728
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730strongswan-4.2.4
731----------------
732
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733- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
734 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 735
73a8eed3 736- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 737 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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738
739- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
740 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
741
742- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
743 X.509 certificates.
744
745- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
746 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 747
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748- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
749 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
750
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752strongswan-4.2.3
753----------------
754
b6b90b68 755- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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756 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
757
758- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
759 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
760
761
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762strongswan-4.2.2
763----------------
764
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765- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
766 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 767 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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768 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
769 to software-based crypto plugins.
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771- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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772 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
773 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
774 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
775
776- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 777 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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778 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
779
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782----------------
783
c306dfb1 784- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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785 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
786 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
787 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
788 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
789 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
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791- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
792 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
793 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
794 connections.
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796- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionaly supports random number
58caabf7 797 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 798 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 799
b6b90b68 800- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 801 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 802 re-implemented.
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804- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
805 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
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807- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
808 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
809 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 810
466abb49 811- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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812 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
813 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
814 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 815 separate plugin.
58caabf7 816
c306dfb1 817- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 818
c306dfb1 819- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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820
821- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 822 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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823 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
824
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827----------------
828
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829- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
830 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
831 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
832 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
833 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
834 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
835 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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837- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
838 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
839
840- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
841 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
842 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
843 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
844 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
845 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
846 The following new plugins are available:
847 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
848 top of either MySQL or SQLite
849 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
850
851- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
852 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
853 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
854
b6b90b68 855- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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856 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
857 by other applications.
b6b90b68 858
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860strongswan-4.1.11
861-----------------
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863- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
864 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
865 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
866
867- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 868 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 869
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870- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
871 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
872 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
873
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875strongswan-4.1.10
876-----------------
877
878- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 879 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
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881- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
882 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
883 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
884 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
885
886- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
887 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
888 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
889 before using it.
890
891- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 892 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 893 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 894
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897----------------
898
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899- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
900 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
901 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
902 added.
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904- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
905 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
906
907- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
908 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
909
910- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
911
8b678ad4 912- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 913 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 914 loaded twice.
5076770c 915
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918----------------
919
5076770c 920- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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922
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924----------------
925
926- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
927 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
928 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
929
6e193274 930- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 931 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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932 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
933
934- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
935 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 936 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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937
938- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
939 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
940
941- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
942
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945----------------
946
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947- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
948 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
949 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
950 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
951 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
952 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
953 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
954 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
955
956- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
957 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
958 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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959 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
960
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961- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
962 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
963 startup.
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966 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
967 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
968 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
969 AUTHentication having been configured.
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972 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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974
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976----------------
977
978- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
979 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
980 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
981 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
982 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
983 corresponding connection definition is updated.
984
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986 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
987 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
988 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
989
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992----------------
993
994- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
995 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
996 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
997 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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998 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
999 parameter is not required any more.
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1001- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1002 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1003 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1004
1005 right=peer.foo.bar
1006 rightallowany=yes
1007
1008 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1009 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1010 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1011 as
1012
1013 right=%any
1014
1015 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1017
1018 right=%peer.foo.bar
1019
1020 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1021
1022- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1023 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1024 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1025 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1026 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1028- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1029 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1030 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1031 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1032 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1033
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1034- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1035 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1036 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1037 by Robert Varga.
1038
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1039- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1040 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1041
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1044----------------
1045
b6b90b68 1046- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1047 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1048
1049- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1050 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1051 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1052
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1053- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1054 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1055 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1056 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1057
1058- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1059 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1060 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1061 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1062
b6b90b68 1063- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1064 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1065 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1066 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1067 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1068 to implement.
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1070 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occuring with Linux kernel
1071 headers > 2.6.17.
1072
1073
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1075----------------
1076
e23d98a7 1077- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1078 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1079 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1080 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1081
1082- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1083 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1084
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1085- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1086
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1087- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1088
dfbe2a0f 1089- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1090 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1091
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1092- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1093
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1094- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1095 connection name.
1096
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1099----------------
1100
1101- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1102 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1103 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1104 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1105 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1106 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1107
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1108- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1109 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1110 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1111
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1112- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1113 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1114 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1115 vendor ID.
1116
1117- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1118 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1119 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1120 message.
1121
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1122- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1123 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1124
3b4f7d92 1125
34bbd0c3 1126strongswan-4.1.0
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1128
1129- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1130 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1131
1132- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1133 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1134 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1135 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1136
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1137- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1138
c5d0fbb6 1139- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1140 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1141 accessLocations.
1142
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1143- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1144 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1145 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1146 option.
1147
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1148- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1149 code reuse and separation.
1150
1151- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1152 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1153 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1154
1155- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1156 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1157 specify it.
1158
1159- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1160 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1161 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1162 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1163 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1164 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1165
1166- Added client side support for cookies.
1167
1168- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1169 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1170 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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e23d98a7 1172
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1174----------------
1175
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1176- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1177 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1178 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1179
1180- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1181 to a default string.
1182
1183
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1185----------------
1186
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1187- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1188 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1189 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1190 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1191 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1192
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1193- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1194
5903179b 1195- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1196
5903179b 1197- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1198
5903179b 1199- various other bugfixes
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1200
1201
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1202strongswan-4.0.5
1203----------------
1204
1205- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1206 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1207
1208- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1209 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1210
1211- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1212 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1213 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1214 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1215
0cd645d2 1216 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
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1218 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1219
1220 config setup
03bf883d 1221 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1222
03bf883d 1223 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1224
03bf883d 1225 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1227
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1229----------------
1230
1231- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1232
1233- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1234 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1235 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1236 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1237 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1238
1239- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1240 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1241 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1242
1243- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1244
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1245- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1246 or 3DES are supported.
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1247
1248- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1249 encrypt IKE traffic.
1250
1251- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1252 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1253
1254- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1255 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1256 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1257 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1258
1259
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1260strongswan-4.0.3
1261----------------
1262
1263- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1264 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1265 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1266 kernel.
1267
1268- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1269 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1270 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1271 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1272
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1273- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1274 algorithm configuration statements.
1275
1276
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1278----------------
1279
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1280- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1281 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1282 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1283 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1284
b6b90b68 1285- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1286 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1287 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1288 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1289
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1290- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1291 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1292 dpddelay=60s).
1293
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1294- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1295 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1296 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1297 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1298
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1299- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1300 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1301 and a more extensible code base.
1302
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1303- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1304 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1305 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1306 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1307 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1308 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1309 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1310
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1312strongswan-4.0.1
1313----------------
1314
b6b90b68 1315- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1316 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1317 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1318 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1319 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1320 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1321 algorithms for IKE:
1322 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1323 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1324 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1325 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1326 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1327 blowfish192, blowfish256
1328 Integrity: md5, sha1
1329 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1330 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1331
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1332- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1333 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1334 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1335 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1336 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1337 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1338
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1339- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1340 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1341 configuration examples).
1342
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1343- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1344 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1345 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1346 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1347
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1348- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1349 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1350 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1351 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1352 via ipsec starter.
1353
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1355strongswan-4.0.0
1356----------------
1357
1358- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1359 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1360 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1361 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1362 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1363 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1364 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1365 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1366 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1367 status command).
1368
1369
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1371----------------
1372
1373- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1374 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1375 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1376 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1377 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1378 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1379 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1380 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1381 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1382 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1383 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1384 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1385
1386- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1387 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1388 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1389 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1390 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1391 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1392 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1393 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1394 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 1395 be inserted.
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1397- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1398 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1399 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1400 be found.
1401
1402
1403strongswan-2.6.4
1404----------------
1405
1406- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1407 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1408 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1409 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1411
1412- added support of DPD restart mode
1413
1414- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1415 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1416 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1417
1418- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1419 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1420
1421
1422strongswan-2.6.3
1423----------------
1424
b6b90b68 1425- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1427
1428- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1429 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1430 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1433 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1434
1435- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1436 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1437 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1438 the ipsec status command.
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1441strongswan-2.6.2
1442----------------
1443
1444- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1445 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1446 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1447
1448- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1449 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1450 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1451
1452- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1453 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1454
1455 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1456 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1457
1458- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1459 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1460 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1461
1462 conn rw
1463 right=%any
1464 rightid=@foo.bar
1465 authby=secret
1466
1467- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1468
1469- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1470
1471- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1472 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1473 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1474
1475- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1476 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1477 servers.
1478
1479- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1480 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1481
1482
1483strongswan-2.6.1
1484----------------
1485
1486- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1487 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1488 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1489
1490
1491strongswan-2.6.0
1492----------------
1493
1494- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1495 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1496 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1497 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1498 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1499 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1500 accelerated tremedously.
1501
1502- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1503 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1504 reload pluto's connections.
1505
1506- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1507 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1508 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1509
1510- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1511
1512- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1513
1514- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1515 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1516 documented yet.
1517
1518
1519strongswan-2.5.7
1520----------------
1521
1522- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1523 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1524 listing.
1525
1526
1527strongswan-2.5.6
1528----------------
1529
1530- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1531 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1532 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1533 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1534
b6b90b68 1535- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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1537 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1538 has been changed from one year to five years.
1539
1540
1541strongswan-2.5.5
1542----------------
1543
1544- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1545 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1546 via the whack interface. Notation:
1547
1548 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1549 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1550 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1551 [--keyid <keyid>]
1552
1553 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1554 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1555 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1556 [--keyid <keyid>]
1557
b6b90b68 1558 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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1560 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1561 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1562 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1563 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1564 permanently.
1565
1566- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1567 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1568 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1569 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1570 is automatically generated by calling the function
1571
1572 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1573
1574 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1575 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1576
1577
1578strongswan-2.5.4
1579----------------
1580
1581- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1582 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1583 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1584 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1585
1586- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1587 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1588
1589
1590strongswan-2.5.3
1591----------------
1592
1593- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1594 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1595 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1596 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1597 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1598
1599- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1600
1601 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1602 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1603 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
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1606- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1607 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1608 attribute for AES encryption.
1609
1610- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1611
1612- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1613
1614
1615strongswan-2.5.2
1616----------------
1617
1618- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1619 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1620 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1621 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1622 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1623
1624- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1625 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1626 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1627
1628
1629strongswan-2.5.1
1630----------------
1631
1632- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1633 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1634 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1635 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1636 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1637 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1638 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1639 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1640
1641- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1642 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1643 the command
1644
1645 ipsec auto --listcards
1646
1647 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1648 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1649 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1650 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1651
1652 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1653 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1654 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1655
1656 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1657
1658 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1659 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1660 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1661
1662- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1663 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1664 to generate a signature.
1665
1666- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1667 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1668 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1669 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1670 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1671
1672- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1673 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1674
1675- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1676 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1677 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1678
1679
1680strongswan-2.5.0
1681----------------
1682
1683- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1684 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1685 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1686 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1687 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1688 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1689
1690- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1691 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1692 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1693 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1694 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1695 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1698 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1699 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1700
1701
1702strongswan-2.4.4
1703----------------
1704
1705- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1706
1707- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1708
1709
1710strongswan-2.4.3
1711----------------
1712
1713- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1714 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1715
1716- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1717
1718- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1719 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1720 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1721
1722- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1723 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1724 included.
1725
1726
1727strongswan-2.4.2
1728----------------
1729
1730- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1731 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1732 value of 50.
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1735 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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1738 pad has to be done only once.
1739
1740- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1741 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1742 to be used with smart cards. Example:
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1747
1748- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1749 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1750
1751- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1752 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1753 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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1756 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1757 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1758
1759
1760strongswan-2.4.1
1761----------------
1762
1763- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1764 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1765 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1766 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1767 "left" be"local".
1768
1769
1770strongswan-2.4.0a
1771-----------------
1772
1773- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1774
1775- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1776 Michael Meier
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1778
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1780----------------
1781
1782- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1783 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1784 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1785 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1786 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1787 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1788 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1789
1790- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1791 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1792 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
1793 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
1794 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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1796- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
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1800
1801strongswan-2.3.2
1802----------------
1803
1804- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
1805 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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1808
1809- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
1810 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
1811 Delete SA messages.
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1814 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
1815 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
1816 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
1817
1818
1819strongswan-2.3.1
1820----------------
1821
1822- Added basic Mode Config functionality
1823
1824- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
1825 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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1828 module.
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1831 maximum udp size patches.
1832
1833- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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1836strongswan-2.3.0
1837----------------
1838
1839- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
1840 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
1841 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
1842 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
1843 subdirectory.
1844
1845- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 1846 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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997358a6 1849 man ipsec_openac.
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1852 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
1853 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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1856
1857 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
1858 Research or Sales, only.
1859
1860- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
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1863 Secure Entry Clients.
1864
1865- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
1866 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
1867 now both set to 24 h.
1868
1869- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
1870 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
1871
1872- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
1873 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
1874 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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1877
1878
1879strongswan-2.2.2
1880----------------
1881
1882- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
1883 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
1884 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
1885 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
1886
1887- Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
1888 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
1889 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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1892
1893- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
1894 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
1895
1896
1897strongswan-2.2.1
1898----------------
1899
1900- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
1901 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
1902
1903- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag
1904 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
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1907 occuring when a smartcard is present.
1908
1909- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
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1912
1913- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
1914
1915
1916strongswan-2.2.0
1917----------------
1918
1919- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
1920
1921 dpdaction=clear|hold
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1924
1925- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
1926 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
1927 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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1932
1933- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
1934 using the compile option VENDORID
1935
1936- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
1937
1938- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
1939
1940- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
1941
1942- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
1943 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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1946
1947- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
1948 connection.
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1951strongswan-2.1.5
1952----------------
1953
1954- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
1955 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
1956 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
1957 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
1958 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
1959
1960- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
1961 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
1962
1963
1964strongswan-2.1.4
1965----------------
1966
1967- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
1968 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
1969 an optional connection selector:
1970
1971 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
1972
1973- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
1974 man page.
1975
1976- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
1977 of malformed distinguished names.
1978
1979- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
1980
1981 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
1982
1983- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
1984
1985
1986strongswan-2.1.3
1987----------------
1988
1989- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
1990 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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1993strongswan-2.1.2
1994----------------
1995
1996- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
1997 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
1998 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2001strongswan-2.1.1
2002----------------
2003
2004- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2005
2006
2007strongswan-2.1.0
2008----------------
2009
2010- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2011
2012 ca kool
2013 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2014 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2015 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2016 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2017 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2018 auto=add # add, ignore
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2023
2024- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2025 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2026
2027
2028strongswan-2.0.2
2029----------------
2030
2031- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2032 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2034- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
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2038 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2039
2040- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2041 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2042 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2043
2044
2045strongswan-2.0.1
2046----------------
2047
2048- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2049 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2050 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2051 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2052
2053- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2054 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2056
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2058----------------
2059
2060- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12