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1- Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
2 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
3 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
4 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
5 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
6 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
7 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
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9- The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
10 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
11 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
12 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
13 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
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16strongswan-5.2.2
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19- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
20 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
21 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
22 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
23 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
24 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
25 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
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27- The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
28 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
29 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
30 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
31
30a90ccf 32- The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
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33 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
34 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
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36- Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
37 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
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43- The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
44 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
45 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
46 supports native systemd journal logging.
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48- Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
49 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
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51- Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
52 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
53 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
54 per segment basis.
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56- The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
57 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
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59- For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
60 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
61 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
62 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
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68- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
69 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
70 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
71 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
72 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
73 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
74 WinHTTP API.
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76- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
77 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
78 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
79 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
80 for more control and better reliability.
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82- Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
83 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
84 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
85 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
73303700 86 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
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88- The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
89 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
90
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92 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
93 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
94 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
95 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
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97- All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
98 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
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100- The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
101 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
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103- The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
104
03b5def0 105- Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
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108- The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
109 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
110 6Wind.
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113strongswan-5.1.3
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116- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
117 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
118 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
119 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
120 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
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122- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
123 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
124 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
125 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
126
127- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
128 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
129 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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131- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
132 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
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138- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
139 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
140 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
141 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
142 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
143 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
144 the current defaults.
145
146- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
147 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
148 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
149 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
150 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
151 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
152
153- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
154 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
155 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
156 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
157 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
158
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159- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
160 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
161 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
162 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
163 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
164 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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166- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
167 Attestation IMV.
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169- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
170 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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172- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
173 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
174 Andrea Bonomi.
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176- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
177 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
178 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
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184- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
185 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
186 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
187 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
188
189- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
190 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
191 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
192
2b32884d 193- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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194 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
195 plugin.
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197- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
198 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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200- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
201 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
202 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
203 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
204 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
205
206- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
207 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
208 as pluto used it.
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210- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
211 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
212 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
213 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
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215- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
216 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
217 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
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219- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
220 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
221 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
222 from a internal network.
223
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224- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
225 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
226 more trustworthy alternative.
227
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228- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
229 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
230
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231- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
232 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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234- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
235 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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237- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
238 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
239
240- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
241 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
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243- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
244 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
245
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246- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
247 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
248 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
249 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
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255- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
256 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
257 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
258 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
259
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260- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
261 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
262 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
263 few simple command line options.
264
265- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 266 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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267 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
268
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269- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
270 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
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272- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
273 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
274 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
275 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
276 backend for IKEv1.
277
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279 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
280 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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282- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
283 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
284 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
285 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
286 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
287 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
288
289- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
290 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
291 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
292
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293- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
294
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296 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
297 between peers.
298
226f34e0 299- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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300 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
301 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
302 and/or device.
303
304- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
305 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
306 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
307 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
308 production releases).
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310- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
311 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
312 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
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314- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
315 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
316 hashtables.
317
318- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
319 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
320 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
321 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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323- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
324 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
325 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
326 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
327
328- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
329 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
330 TCP connections from a different host.
331
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338- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
339 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
340 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
341 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
342 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
343 legitimate one.
344
345- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
346 was fixed as well.
347
348- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
349 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
350
351- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
352 requests.
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354- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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360- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
361 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
362 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
363 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
364 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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366- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
367 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
368 device ID in the attest database.
369
370- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
371 if the hardware supports it.
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373- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
374 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
375 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
376 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
377 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
378 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
379 to Accounting-Stops.
380
381- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
382 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
383 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
384
385- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
386 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
387
388- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
389 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
390 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
391 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
392
393- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
394 IKE packets.
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396- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
397 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
398 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
399 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
400 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
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402- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
403 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
404 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
405 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
406 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
407 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
408 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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413- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
414 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
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416- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
417 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
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419- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
420 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
421 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
422 or receive notifications.
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424- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
425 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
426
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427- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
428 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
429 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
430 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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432- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
433 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
434 section.
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436- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
437 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
438 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
439 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
440 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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442- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
443 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
444 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
445 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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447- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
448 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
449 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
450
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451- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
452 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
453 Volker Rümelin.
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455- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
456 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
457
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458- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
459 guest images based on Debian.
460
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465- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
466 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
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468- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
469 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 470 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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472- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
473 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
474 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 475 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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476 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
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478- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
479 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
480 against a RADIUS server.
481
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482- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
483 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
484 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
485 including xauth-pam.
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487- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
488 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
489 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
490 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
491 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
492 aware clients.
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494- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
495 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
496 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
497
498- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
499 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
500 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
501 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
502
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503- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
504 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
505 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
506 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
507 IP addresses to return.
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509- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
510 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
511 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
512 specified or referenced named pools.
513
514- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
515 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
516
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517- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
518 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
519
520- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
521 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
522 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
523 is preserved.
524
525- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
526 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
527
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528- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
529 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
530 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
531
532- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
533 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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538
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539- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
540 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
541 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
542 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
543 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
544 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
545 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
546 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
547
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548- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
549 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
550 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
551 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
552 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
553 the thread calling the listener.
554 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
555 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
556 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
557 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
558
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559- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
560 reappear.
561
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562- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
563 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
564 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
565 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
566 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
567 feature).
568
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570 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
571 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
572 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
573 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
574 using SHA-256 or better.
575
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578----------------
579
580- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
581 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
582 a legitimate one.
583
584- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
585
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588----------------
589
590- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
591 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
592
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593- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
594 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
595 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
596 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
597
598- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
599 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
600 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
601 console.
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603- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
604 RFC 4595.
605
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606- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
607 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
608
4e2e77d5 609- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 610 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
c224f765 611
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612- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
613 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
614
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617----------------
618
619- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
620 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
621 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
622 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
623
624- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
625 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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626 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
627 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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630 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
631 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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633- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
634 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
635 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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637- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
638
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641----------------
642
643- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
644 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
645 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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646 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
647 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
648 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
649 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
650 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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652- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
653 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
654 post-installation phase.
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659
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660- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
661 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
662 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
663
664- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
665 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
666 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
667 for the initial patch.
668
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670 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
671
672- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
673
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674- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
675 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
676 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
677 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
678 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
679 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
680
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681- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
682 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
683 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
684 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
685 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
686 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
687
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688- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
689 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
690 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
691
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694----------------
695
a7edbd21 696- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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697 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
698 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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699 directory.
700
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701- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
702 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
703
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704- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
705 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
706 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
707
708- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
709 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
710
f8799170 711- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 712 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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714 interfaces.
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716- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
717 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
718
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719- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
720 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
721 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
722 the client is admitted to the network.
723 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
724
725- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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726 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
727
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728- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
729 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
730 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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736- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
737 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
738 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
739 whitelist administration.
740
92ebb7c5 741- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 742 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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743 application about detected duplicates.
744
745- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
746 authentication to previously used certificates.
747
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748- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
749 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
750 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
751 only starts|routes the specific child config.
752
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754
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755- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
756 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
757
758- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 759 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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761- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
762 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
763 support configuration reloading.
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765- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
766 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
767 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
768 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
769 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
770 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
771
772- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
773 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
774 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
775
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778----------------
779
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780- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
781 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 782 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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783 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
784 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 785 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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787- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
788 in place of the external libtnc library.
789
790- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
791 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
792 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
793 the corresponding protocol stack.
794
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795- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
796 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
797 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
798 in an SQL database.
799
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800- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
801 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
802 points in an SQL database.
803
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805 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
806 replaced, respectively.
807
808- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
809 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
810 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
811 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
812 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
813 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
814 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
815
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817 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
818
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820 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
821 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
822
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823- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
824 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
825 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
826 xcbc algorithms.
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829 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
830 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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832- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
833 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
834 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
835 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
836 ./configure switch.
837
77eee25f 838- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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841 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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842 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
843 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
844
845- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
846 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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849 support for delta CRLs.
850
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854
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855- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
856 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 857 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 858 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 859 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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861- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
862 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
863 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
864 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
865
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866- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
867 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 868 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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870
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871- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
872 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
873 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
874 client authentication.
875
876- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
877 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 878 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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881 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
882 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
883 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
884 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 885 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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887 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
888
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889- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
890 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
891 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
892
893- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
894 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
895
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896- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
897 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
898 availability.
899
900- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
901 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
902 implement a simple event listener.
903
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905 initial responder moves to a different address.
906
907- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
908
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909- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
910 identity was different from the IKE identity.
911
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912- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
913 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
914 UNITY_BANNER).
915
916- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
917 charon plugins.
918
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920
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924
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926 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
927 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 928
b22bb9f2 929- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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930 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
931 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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934
e9448cfc 935- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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938- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
939 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
940 in strongswan.conf, if required.
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942- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
943
944- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
945 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
946
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948 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
949
e87b78c6 950- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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951 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
952 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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954- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
955 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
956
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957- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
958 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
959
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960- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
961 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
962 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
963 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
964 plugin.
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966- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
967 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
968 unauthenticated users.
969
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973
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974- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
975 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
976 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
977 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 978 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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979 secunet Security Networks AG.
980
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981- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
982 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
983 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
984 kernel interface.
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986- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
987 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
988 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
989 from IBM for his contribution.
990
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992 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
993 are allocated.
994
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996 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
997 command line option.
998
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999- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1000 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1001 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1002 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1003 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1004 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1005
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1006- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1007 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 1008 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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1009 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1010
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1011- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1012 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1013 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1014 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1015
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1016- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1017 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
00c60592 1018
d6457833 1019
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1020strongswan-4.3.6
1021----------------
1022
cdad91de 1023- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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1024 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1025
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1026- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1027 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1028 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1029
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1030- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1031
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1032- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1033
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1034- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1035 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1036 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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1037 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1038
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1039- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1040
2b2c69e9 1041- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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1043- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1044 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1045 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1046 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1047 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
4c68a85a 1048
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1049- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1050 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1051 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1052
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1053- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1054 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1055
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1056- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1057 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1058 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1059 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1060 this is the case.
1061
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1062- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1063 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1064 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1065 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1066 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1067
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1068- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1069 allowing interoperability.
1070
1071
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1072strongswan-4.3.5
1073----------------
1074
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1075- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1076 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1077 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 1078 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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1079 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1080
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1081- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1082 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1083 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1084 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1085 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1086
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1087- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1088 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1089 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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1091- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1092 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1093 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1094
d245f5cf 1095- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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1096 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1097
1098- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1099 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1100 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1101
1102- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1103 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1104
1105- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1106 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
1107 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1108 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1109 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1110 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1111
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1112- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1113 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1114 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1115 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1116
b80fa9ca 1117- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1118 statements.
b80fa9ca 1119
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1120- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1121
1122- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1123 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1124
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1125- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1126 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1127
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1128- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1129 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1130 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1131
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1133strongswan-4.3.4
1134----------------
1135
1136- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1137 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1138
1139- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1140 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1141
1142- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1143
1144
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1145strongswan-4.3.3
1146----------------
1147
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1148- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1149 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1150 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1151 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1152 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1153
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1154- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1155 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1156
1157- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1158 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1159
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1160- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1161
1162- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1163 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1164 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1165
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1168----------------
1169
1170- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1171 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1172
1173- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1174 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1175 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1176
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1177- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1178 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1179 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1180 with IKEv1.
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1181
1182- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1183 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1184 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1185 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1186
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1189----------------
1190
1191- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1192 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1193 dynamically.
1194
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1195- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1196 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1197 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1198 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1199 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1200
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1201- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1202 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1203 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1204 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1205 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1206 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1207
09dbca9f 1208- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1209 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1210 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1211
1212- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1213 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1214 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1215
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1216- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1217
1218- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1219 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1220 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1221 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1222 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1223 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1224 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1225 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1226
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1227- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1228 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1229
d44fd821 1230- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1231 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1232 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1233 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1234 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1235
1236
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1237strongswan-4.3.0
1238----------------
1239
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1240- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1241 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1242 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1243 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1244 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1245
1246- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1247 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1248
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1249- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1250 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1251
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1252- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1253 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1254 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1255
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1256- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1257 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1258
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1260strongswan-4.2.14
1261-----------------
1262
22180558 1263- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1264 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1265 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1266
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1267- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1268 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1269 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1270 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1271 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1272 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1273 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1274 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1275 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1276
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1277- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1278 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1279 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1280 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1281
1282- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1283 IDr payload anymore.
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1284
1285
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1286strongswan-4.2.13
1287-----------------
1288
1289- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1290 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1291
f3bb1bd0 1292- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1293 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1294
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1295- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1296 parameters field is optional.
1297
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1298- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1299
076e7853 1300
bfde75ee 1301strongswan-4.2.12
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1303
1304- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1305 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1306 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1307
1308- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1309 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1310 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1311
1312- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1313 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1314
b6b90b68 1315
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1316strongswan-4.2.11
1317-----------------
1318
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1319- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1320 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1321
1322- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1323 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1324
1325
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1326strongswan-4.2.10
1327-----------------
1328
1329- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1330 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1331 counterparts with better lookup times.
1332
1333- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1334 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1335 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1336
1337- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1338 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1339 on the fly.
1340
1341- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1342 command queries assigned leases.
1343
1344- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1345 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1346
1347- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1348 reliable source of randomness.
1349
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1351----------------
1352
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1353- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1354 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1355
1356- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1357 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1358 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1359
1360- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1361 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1362 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1363 parallelization to multiple cores.
1364
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1365- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1366 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1367
509e07c5 1368- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1369 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1370 memory or hardware.
1371
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1372- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1373 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1374 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1375 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1376
1377- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1378 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1379 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1380 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1381 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1382 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1383
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1384- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1385 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1386 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1387
73937bd8 1388
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1389strongswan-4.2.8
1390----------------
1391
5dadb16e 1392- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1393 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1394 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1395
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1396- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1397 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1398 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1399 long as possible and other fixes.
1400
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1401- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1402 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1403 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1404
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1407----------------
1408
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1409- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1410 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1411 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1412 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1413 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1414
b6b90b68 1415- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1416 ssh-agent.
1417
1418- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1419 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1420
1421- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1422 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1423 newer libcap2 library.
1424
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1425- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1426 charon keying daemon.
1427
1428
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1429strongswan-4.2.6
1430----------------
1431
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1432- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1433 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1434 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1435 in the Gnome Keyring.
1436
1437- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1438 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1439 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1440 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1441
1442- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1443 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1444 authentication.
1445
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1446- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1447 authentication types and EAP identities.
1448
1449- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1450 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1451
1452- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1453 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1454
1455
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1457----------------
1458
b6b90b68 1459- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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1460
1461- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1462 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1463 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1464 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1465 strongswan.conf.
1466
eb0cc338 1467- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1468 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1469
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1470- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1471 network interfaces have become possible.
1472
b6b90b68 1473- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1474 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1475
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1476- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1477
b6b90b68 1478
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1479strongswan-4.2.4
1480----------------
1481
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1482- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1483 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1484
73a8eed3 1485- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1486 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1487
1488- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1489 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1490
1491- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1492 X.509 certificates.
1493
1494- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1495 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1496
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1497- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1498 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1499
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1501strongswan-4.2.3
1502----------------
1503
b6b90b68 1504- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1505 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1506
1507- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1508 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1509
1510
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1511strongswan-4.2.2
1512----------------
1513
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1514- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1515 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1516 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1517 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1518 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1519
1520- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1521 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1522 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1523 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1524
1525- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1526 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1527 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1528
7f491111 1529
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1530strongswan-4.2.1
1531----------------
1532
c306dfb1 1533- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1534 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1535 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1536 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1537 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1538 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1539
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1540- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1541 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1542 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1543 connections.
b6b90b68 1544
f3bb1bd0 1545- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1546 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1547 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1548
b6b90b68 1549- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1550 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1551 re-implemented.
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1552
1553- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1554 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1555
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1556- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1557 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1558 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1559
466abb49 1560- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1561 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1562 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1563 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1564 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1565
c306dfb1 1566- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1567
c306dfb1 1568- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1569
1570- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1571 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1572 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1573
5c5d67d6 1574
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1576----------------
1577
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1578- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1579 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1580 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1581 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1582 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1583 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1584 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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1586- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1587 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1588
1589- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1590 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1591 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1592 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1593 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1594 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1595 The following new plugins are available:
1596 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1597 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1598 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1599
1600- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1601 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1602 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1603
b6b90b68 1604- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1605 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1606 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1607
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1609strongswan-4.1.11
1610-----------------
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1612- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1613 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1614 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1615
1616- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1617 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1618
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1619- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1620 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1621 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1622
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1624strongswan-4.1.10
1625-----------------
1626
1627- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1628 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1629
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1630- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1631 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1632 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1633 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1634
1635- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1636 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1637 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1638 before using it.
1639
1640- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1641 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1642 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1643
fb6d76cd 1644
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1645strongswan-4.1.9
1646----------------
1647
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1648- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1649 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1650 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1651 added.
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1653- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1654 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1655
1656- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1657 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1658
1659- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1660
8b678ad4 1661- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1662 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1663 loaded twice.
5076770c 1664
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1666strongswan-4.1.8
1667----------------
1668
5076770c 1669- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1670
1671
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1672strongswan-4.1.7
1673----------------
1674
1675- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1676 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1677 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1678
6e193274 1679- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1680 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1681 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1682
1683- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1684 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1685 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1686
1687- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1688 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1689
1690- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1691
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1693strongswan-4.1.6
1694----------------
1695
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1696- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1697 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1698 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1699 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1700 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1701 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1702 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1703 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1704
1705- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1706 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1707 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1708 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1709
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1710- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1711 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1712 startup.
b6b90b68 1713
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1714- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1715 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1716 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1717 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1718 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1719
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1720- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1721 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1722
1723
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1724strongswan-4.1.5
1725----------------
1726
1727- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1728 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1729 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1730 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1731 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1732 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1733
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1734- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1735 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1736 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1737 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1738
7ad634a2 1739
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1740strongswan-4.1.4
1741----------------
1742
1743- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1744 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1745 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1746 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1747 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1748 parameter is not required any more.
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1749
1750- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1751 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1752 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1753
1754 right=peer.foo.bar
1755 rightallowany=yes
1756
1757 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1758 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1759 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1760 as
1761
1762 right=%any
1763
1764 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1765 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1766
1767 right=%peer.foo.bar
1768
1769 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1770
1771- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1772 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1773 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1774 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1775 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1777- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1778 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1779 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1780 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1781 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1782
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1783- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1784 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1785 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1786 by Robert Varga.
1787
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1788- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1789 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1790
06651827 1791
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1792strongswan-4.1.3
1793----------------
1794
b6b90b68 1795- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1796 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1797
1798- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1799 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1800 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1801
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1802- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1803 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1804 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1805 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1806
1807- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1808 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1809 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1810 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1811
b6b90b68 1812- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1813 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1814 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1815 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1816 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1817 to implement.
a3354a69 1818
f3bb1bd0 1819 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1820 headers > 2.6.17.
1821
1822
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1823strongswan-4.1.2
1824----------------
1825
e23d98a7 1826- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1827 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1828 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1829 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1830
1831- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1832 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1833
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1834- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1835
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1836- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1837
dfbe2a0f 1838- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1839 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1840
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1841- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1842
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1843- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1844 connection name.
1845
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1847strongswan-4.1.1
1848----------------
1849
1850- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1851 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1852 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1853 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1854 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1855 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1856
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1857- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1858 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1859 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1860
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1861- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1862 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1863 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1864 vendor ID.
1865
1866- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1867 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1868 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1869 message.
1870
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1871- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1872 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1873
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34bbd0c3 1875strongswan-4.1.0
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1877
1878- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1879 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1880
1881- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1882 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1883 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1884 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1885
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1886- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1887
c5d0fbb6 1888- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1889 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1890 accessLocations.
1891
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1892- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1893 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1894 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1895 option.
1896
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1897- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1898 code reuse and separation.
1899
1900- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1901 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1902 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1903
1904- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1905 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1906 specify it.
1907
1908- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1909 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1910 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1911 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1912 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1913 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1914
1915- Added client side support for cookies.
1916
1917- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1918 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1919 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1920
e23d98a7 1921
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1923----------------
1924
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1925- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1926 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1927 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1929- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1930 to a default string.
1931
1932
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1934----------------
1935
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1936- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1937 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1938 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1939 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1940 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1941
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1942- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1943
5903179b 1944- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1945
5903179b 1946- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1947
5903179b 1948- various other bugfixes
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1950
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1951strongswan-4.0.5
1952----------------
1953
1954- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1955 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1956
1957- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1958 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1959
1960- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1961 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1962 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1963 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1964
0cd645d2 1965 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1966
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1967 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1968
1969 config setup
03bf883d 1970 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1971
03bf883d 1972 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1973
03bf883d 1974 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1976
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1978----------------
1979
1980- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1981
1982- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1983 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1984 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1985 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1986 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1987
1988- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1989 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1990 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1991
1992- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1993
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1994- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1995 or 3DES are supported.
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1997- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1998 encrypt IKE traffic.
1999
2000- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2001 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2002
2003- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2004 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2005 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2006 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2007
2008
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2010----------------
2011
2012- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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2013 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2014 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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2015 kernel.
2016
2017- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2018 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2019 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2020 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2021
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2022- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2023 algorithm configuration statements.
2024
2025
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2026strongswan-4.0.2
2027----------------
2028
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2029- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2030 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2031 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2032 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 2033
b6b90b68 2034- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 2035 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 2036 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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2037 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2038
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2039- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2040 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2041 dpddelay=60s).
2042
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2043- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2044 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2045 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2046 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2047
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2048- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2049 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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2050 and a more extensible code base.
2051
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2052- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2053 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2054 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2055 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2056 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2057 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2058 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2059
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2061strongswan-4.0.1
2062----------------
2063
b6b90b68 2064- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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2065 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2066 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2067 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 2068 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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2069 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2070 algorithms for IKE:
2071 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2072 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2073 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2074 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 2075 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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2076 blowfish192, blowfish256
2077 Integrity: md5, sha1
2078 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 2079 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 2080
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2081- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2082 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 2083 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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2084 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2085 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2086 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 2087
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2088- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2089 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2090 configuration examples).
2091
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2092- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2093 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 2094 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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2095 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2096
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2097- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2098 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2099 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2100 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2101 via ipsec starter.
2102
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2104strongswan-4.0.0
2105----------------
2106
2107- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 2108 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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2109 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2110 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2111 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2112 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2113 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2114 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2115 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2116 status command).
2117
2118
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2119strongswan-2.7.0
2120----------------
2121
2122- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2123 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2124 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2125 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2126 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2127 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2128 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2129 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2130 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2131 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2132 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2133 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2134
2135- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2136 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2137 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2138 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2139 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2140 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2141 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2142 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2143 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2144 be inserted.
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2145
2146- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2147 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2148 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2149 be found.
2150
2151
2152strongswan-2.6.4
2153----------------
2154
2155- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2156 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2157 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2158 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2159 are required any more.
2160
2161- added support of DPD restart mode
2162
2163- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2164 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2165 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2166
2167- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2168 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2169
2170
2171strongswan-2.6.3
2172----------------
2173
b6b90b68 2174- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2175 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2176
2177- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2178 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2179 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2180
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2181- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2182 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2183
2184- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2185 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2186 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2187 the ipsec status command.
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2189
2190strongswan-2.6.2
2191----------------
2192
2193- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2194 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2195 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2196
2197- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2198 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2199 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2200
2201- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2202 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2203
2204 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2205 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2206
2207- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2208 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2209 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2210
2211 conn rw
2212 right=%any
2213 rightid=@foo.bar
2214 authby=secret
2215
2216- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2217
2218- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2219
2220- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2221 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2222 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2223
2224- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2225 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2226 servers.
2227
2228- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2229 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2230
2231
2232strongswan-2.6.1
2233----------------
2234
2235- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2236 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2237 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2238
2239
2240strongswan-2.6.0
2241----------------
2242
2243- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2244 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2245 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2246 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2247 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2248 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2249 accelerated tremedously.
2250
2251- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2252 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2253 reload pluto's connections.
2254
2255- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2256 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2257 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2258
2259- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2260
2261- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2262
2263- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2264 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2265 documented yet.
2266
2267
2268strongswan-2.5.7
2269----------------
2270
2271- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2272 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2273 listing.
2274
2275
2276strongswan-2.5.6
2277----------------
2278
2279- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2280 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2281 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2282 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2283
b6b90b68 2284- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2285 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2286 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2287 has been changed from one year to five years.
2288
2289
2290strongswan-2.5.5
2291----------------
2292
2293- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2294 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2295 via the whack interface. Notation:
2296
2297 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2298 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2299 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2300 [--keyid <keyid>]
2301
2302 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2303 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2304 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2305 [--keyid <keyid>]
2306
b6b90b68 2307 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2308
2309 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2310 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2311 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2312 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2313 permanently.
2314
2315- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2316 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2317 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2318 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2319 is automatically generated by calling the function
2320
2321 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2322
2323 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2324 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2325
2326
2327strongswan-2.5.4
2328----------------
2329
2330- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2331 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2332 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2333 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2334
2335- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2336 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2337
2338
2339strongswan-2.5.3
2340----------------
2341
2342- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2343 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2344 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2345 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2346 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2347
2348- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2349
2350 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2351 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2352 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2353 self-signed certs)
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2354
2355- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2356 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2357 attribute for AES encryption.
2358
2359- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2360
2361- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2362
2363
2364strongswan-2.5.2
2365----------------
2366
2367- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2368 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2369 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2370 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2371 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2372
2373- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2374 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2375 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2376
2377
2378strongswan-2.5.1
2379----------------
2380
2381- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2382 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2383 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2384 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2385 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2386 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2387 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2388 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2389
2390- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2391 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2392 the command
2393
2394 ipsec auto --listcards
2395
2396 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2397 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2398 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2399 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2400
2401 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2402 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2403 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2404
2405 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2406
2407 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2408 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2409 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2410
2411- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2412 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2413 to generate a signature.
2414
2415- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2416 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2417 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2418 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2419 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2420
2421- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2422 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2423
2424- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2425 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2426 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2427
2428
2429strongswan-2.5.0
2430----------------
2431
2432- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2433 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2434 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2435 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2436 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2437 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2438
2439- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2440 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2441 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2442 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2443 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2444 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2446- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2447 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2448 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2449
2450
2451strongswan-2.4.4
2452----------------
2453
2454- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2455
2456- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2457
2458
2459strongswan-2.4.3
2460----------------
2461
2462- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2463 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2464
2465- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2466
2467- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2468 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2469 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2470
2471- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2472 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2473 included.
2474
2475
2476strongswan-2.4.2
2477----------------
2478
2479- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2480 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2481 value of 50.
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2483- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2484 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2485 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2486 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2487 pad has to be done only once.
2488
2489- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2490 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2491 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2492
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b6b90b68 2494
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2495- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2496
2497- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2498 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2499
2500- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2501 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2502 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2504- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2505 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2506 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2507
2508
2509strongswan-2.4.1
2510----------------
2511
2512- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2513 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2514 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2515 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2516 "left" be"local".
2517
2518
2519strongswan-2.4.0a
2520-----------------
2521
2522- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2523
2524- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2525 Michael Meier
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2526
2527
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2528strongswan-2.4.0
2529----------------
2530
2531- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2532 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2533 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2534 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2535 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2536 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2537 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2538
2539- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2540 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2541 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2542 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2543 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2544
2545- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2546 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2547 in a particular test.
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2549
2550strongswan-2.3.2
2551----------------
2552
2553- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2554 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2555
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2556- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2557
2558- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2559 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2560 Delete SA messages.
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2562- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2563 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2564 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2565 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2566
2567
2568strongswan-2.3.1
2569----------------
2570
2571- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2572
2573- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2574 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2575
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2576- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2577 module.
b6b90b68 2578
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2579- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2580 maximum udp size patches.
2581
2582- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2585strongswan-2.3.0
2586----------------
2587
2588- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2589 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2590 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2591 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2592 subdirectory.
2593
2594- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2595 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2596 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2597
997358a6 2598 man ipsec_openac.
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2600 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2601 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2602 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2604 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2605
2606 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2607 Research or Sales, only.
2608
2609- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2610 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2611 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2612 Secure Entry Clients.
2613
2614- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2615 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2616 now both set to 24 h.
2617
2618- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2619 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2620
2621- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2622 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2623 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2624
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2625 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2626
2627
2628strongswan-2.2.2
2629----------------
2630
2631- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2632 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2633 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2634 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2635
f3bb1bd0 2636- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2637 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2638 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2639
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2640- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2641
2642- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2643 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2644
2645
2646strongswan-2.2.1
2647----------------
2648
2649- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2650 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2651
f3bb1bd0 2652- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2653 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2654
997358a6 2655- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2656 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2658- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2659
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2660- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2661
2662- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2663
2664
2665strongswan-2.2.0
2666----------------
2667
2668- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2669
2670 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2673
2674- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2675 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2676 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2677
997358a6 2678 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2680 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2681
2682- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2683 using the compile option VENDORID
2684
2685- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2686
2687- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2688
2689- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2690
2691- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2692 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2694- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2695
2696- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2697 connection.
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2699
2700strongswan-2.1.5
2701----------------
2702
2703- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2704 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2705 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2706 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2707 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2708
2709- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2710 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2711
2712
2713strongswan-2.1.4
2714----------------
2715
2716- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2717 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2718 an optional connection selector:
2719
2720 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2721
2722- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2723 man page.
2724
2725- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2726 of malformed distinguished names.
2727
2728- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2729
2730 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2731
2732- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2733
2734
2735strongswan-2.1.3
2736----------------
2737
2738- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2739 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2742strongswan-2.1.2
2743----------------
2744
2745- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2746 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2747 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2750strongswan-2.1.1
2751----------------
2752
2753- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2754
2755
2756strongswan-2.1.0
2757----------------
2758
2759- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2760
2761 ca kool
2762 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2763 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2764 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2765 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2766 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2767 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 2768
997358a6 2769 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2771 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2772
2773- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2774 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2775
2776
2777strongswan-2.0.2
2778----------------
2779
2780- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2781 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2783- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2784 during kernel compilation
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2786- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2787 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2788
2789- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2790 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2791 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2792
2793
2794strongswan-2.0.1
2795----------------
2796
2797- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2798 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2799 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2800 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2801
2802- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2803 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2805
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2807----------------
2808
2809- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12