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1strongswan-5.1.2
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4- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
5 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
6 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
7 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
8 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
9 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
10 the current defaults.
11
12- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
13 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
14 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
15 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
16 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
17 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
18
19- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
20 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
21 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
22 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
23 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
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25- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
26 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
27 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
28 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
29 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
30 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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32- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
33 Attestation IMV.
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35- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
36 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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38- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
39 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
40 Andrea Bonomi.
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42- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
43 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
44 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
45
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50- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
51 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
52 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
53 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
54
55- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
56 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
57 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
58
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60 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
61 plugin.
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63- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
64 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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66- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
67 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
68 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
69 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
70 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
71
72- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
73 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
74 as pluto used it.
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76- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
77 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
78 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
79 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
80
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81- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
82 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
83 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
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85- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
86 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
87 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
88 from a internal network.
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90- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
91 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
92 more trustworthy alternative.
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94- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
95 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
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97- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
98 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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100- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
101 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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103- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
104 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
105
106- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
107 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
108
109- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
110 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
111
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112- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
113 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
114 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
115 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
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121- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
122 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
123 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
124 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
125
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126- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
127 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
128 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
129 few simple command line options.
130
131- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 132 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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133 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
134
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135- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
136 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
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138- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
139 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
140 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
141 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
142 backend for IKEv1.
143
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145 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
146 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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148- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
149 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
150 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
151 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
152 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
153 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
154
155- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
156 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
157 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
158
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159- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
160
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162 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
163 between peers.
164
226f34e0 165- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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166 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
167 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
168 and/or device.
169
170- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
171 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
172 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
173 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
174 production releases).
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176- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
177 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
178 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
179
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180- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
181 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
182 hashtables.
183
184- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
185 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
186 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
187 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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189- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
190 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
191 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
192 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
193
194- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
195 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
196 TCP connections from a different host.
197
78e6f69e 198- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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203
204- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
205 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
206 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
207 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
208 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
209 legitimate one.
210
211- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
212 was fixed as well.
213
214- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
215 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
216
217- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
218 requests.
219
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220- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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225
226- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
227 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
228 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
229 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
230 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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232- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
233 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
234 device ID in the attest database.
235
236- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
237 if the hardware supports it.
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239- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
240 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
241 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
242 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
243 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
244 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
245 to Accounting-Stops.
246
247- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
248 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
249 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
250
251- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
252 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
253
254- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
255 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
256 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
257 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
258
259- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
260 IKE packets.
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262- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
263 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
264 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
265 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
266 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
267
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268- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
269 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
270 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
271 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
272 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
273 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
274 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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279- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
280 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
281
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282- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
283 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
284
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285- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
286 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
287 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
288 or receive notifications.
289
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290- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
291 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
292
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293- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
294 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
295 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
296 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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298- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
299 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
300 section.
301
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302- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
303 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
304 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
305 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
306 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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308- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
309 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
310 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
311 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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313- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
314 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
315 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
316
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317- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
318 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
319 Volker Rümelin.
320
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321- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
322 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
323
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324- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
325 guest images based on Debian.
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330
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331- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
332 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
333
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334- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
335 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 336 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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338- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
339 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
340 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 341 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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342 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
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344- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
345 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
346 against a RADIUS server.
347
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348- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
349 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
350 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
351 including xauth-pam.
352
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353- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
354 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
355 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
356 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
357 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
358 aware clients.
359
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360- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
361 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
362 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
363
364- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
365 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
366 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
367 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
368
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369- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
370 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
371 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
372 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
373 IP addresses to return.
374
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375- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
376 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
377 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
378 specified or referenced named pools.
379
380- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
381 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
382
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383- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
384 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
385
386- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
387 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
388 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
389 is preserved.
390
391- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
392 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
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394- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
395 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
396 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
397
398- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
399 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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405- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
406 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
407 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
408 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
409 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
410 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
411 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
412 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
413
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414- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
415 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
416 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
417 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
418 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
419 the thread calling the listener.
420 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
421 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
422 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
423 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
424
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425- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
426 reappear.
427
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428- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
429 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
430 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
431 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
432 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
433 feature).
434
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435- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
436 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
437 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
438 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
439 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
440 using SHA-256 or better.
441
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445
446- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
447 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
448 a legitimate one.
449
450- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
451
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456- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
457 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
458
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459- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
460 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
461 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
462 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
463
464- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
465 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
466 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
467 console.
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469- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
470 RFC 4595.
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472- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
473 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
474
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a281494a 476 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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478- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
479 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
480
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485- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
486 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
487 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
488 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
489
490- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
491 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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492 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
493 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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495- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
496 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
497 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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499- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
500 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
501 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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503- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
504
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509- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
510 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
511 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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512 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
513 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
514 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
515 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
516 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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518- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
519 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
520 post-installation phase.
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526- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
527 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
528 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
529
530- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
531 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
532 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
533 for the initial patch.
534
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535- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
536 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
537
538- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
539
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540- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
541 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
542 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
543 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
544 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
545 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
546
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547- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
548 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
549 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
550 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
551 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
552 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
553
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554- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
555 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
556 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
557
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561
a7edbd21 562- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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563 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
564 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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566
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567- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
568 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
569
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571 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
572 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
573
574- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
575 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
576
f8799170 577- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 578 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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579 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
580 interfaces.
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582- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
583 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
584
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585- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
586 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
587 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
588 the client is admitted to the network.
589 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
590
591- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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592 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
593
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594- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
595 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
596 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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602- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
603 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
604 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
605 whitelist administration.
606
92ebb7c5 607- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 608 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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609 application about detected duplicates.
610
611- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
612 authentication to previously used certificates.
613
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615 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
616 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
617 only starts|routes the specific child config.
618
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620
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622 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
623
624- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 625 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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627- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
628 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
629 support configuration reloading.
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631- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
632 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
633 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
634 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
635 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
636 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
637
638- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
639 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
640 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
641
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645
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646- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
647 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 648 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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649 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
650 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 651 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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653- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
654 in place of the external libtnc library.
655
656- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
657 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
658 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
659 the corresponding protocol stack.
660
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662 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
663 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
664 in an SQL database.
665
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666- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
667 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
668 points in an SQL database.
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671 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
672 replaced, respectively.
673
674- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
675 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
676 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
677 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
678 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
679 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
680 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
681
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682- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
683 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
684
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685- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
686 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
687 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
688
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689- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
690 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
691 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
692 xcbc algorithms.
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695 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
696 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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698- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
699 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
700 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
701 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
702 ./configure switch.
703
77eee25f 704- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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707 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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708 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
709 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
710
711- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
712 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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715 support for delta CRLs.
716
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721- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
722 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 723 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 724 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 725 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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727- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
728 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
729 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
730 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
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732- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
733 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 734 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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736
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737- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
738 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
739 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
740 client authentication.
741
742- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
743 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 744 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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747 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
748 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
749 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
750 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 751 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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753 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
754
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755- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
756 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
757 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
758
759- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
760 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
761
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762- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
763 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
764 availability.
765
766- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
767 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
768 implement a simple event listener.
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771 initial responder moves to a different address.
772
773- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
774
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775- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
776 identity was different from the IKE identity.
777
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778- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
779 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
780 UNITY_BANNER).
781
782- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
783 charon plugins.
784
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786
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790
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792 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
793 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 795- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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797 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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800
e9448cfc 801- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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804- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
805 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
806 in strongswan.conf, if required.
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808- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
809
810- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
811 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
812
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813- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
814 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
815
e87b78c6 816- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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817 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
818 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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820- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
821 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
822
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823- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
824 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
825
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826- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
827 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
828 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
829 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
830 plugin.
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833 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
834 unauthenticated users.
835
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840- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
841 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
842 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
843 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 844 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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846
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848 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
849 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
850 kernel interface.
851
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852- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
853 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
854 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
855 from IBM for his contribution.
856
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857- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
858 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
859 are allocated.
860
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862 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
863 command line option.
864
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866 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
867 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
868 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
869 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
870 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
871
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872- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
873 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 874 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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875 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
876
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877- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
878 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
879 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
880 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
881
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882- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
883 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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888
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890 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
891
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892- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
893 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
894 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
895
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896- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
897
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899
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900- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
901 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
902 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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904
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906
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910 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
911 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
912 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
913 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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915- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
916 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
917 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
918
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919- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
920 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
921
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923 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
924 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
925 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
926 this is the case.
927
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929 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
930 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
931 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
932 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
933
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935 allowing interoperability.
936
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941- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
942 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
943 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 944 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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946
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948 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
949 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
950 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
951 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
952
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953- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
954 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
955 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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957- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
958 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
959 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
960
d245f5cf 961- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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963
964- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
965 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
966 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
967
968- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
969 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
970
971- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
972 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
973 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
974 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
975 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
976 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
977
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978- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
979 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
980 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
981 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
982
b80fa9ca 983- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 984 statements.
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987
988- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
989 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
990
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991- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
992 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
993
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995 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
996 and the libstrongswan library.
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1000----------------
1001
1002- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1003 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1004
1005- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1006 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1007
1008- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1009
1010
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1011strongswan-4.3.3
1012----------------
1013
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1014- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1015 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1016 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1017 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1018 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1019
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1020- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1021 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1022
1023- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1024 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1025
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1026- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1027
1028- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1029 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1030 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1031
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1034----------------
1035
1036- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1037 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1038
1039- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1040 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1041 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1042
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1043- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1044 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1045 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1046 with IKEv1.
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1047
1048- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1049 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1050 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1051 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1052
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1054strongswan-4.3.1
1055----------------
1056
1057- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1058 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1059 dynamically.
1060
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1061- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1062 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1063 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1064 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1065 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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1067- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1068 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1069 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1070 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1071 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1072 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1073
09dbca9f 1074- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1075 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1076 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1077
1078- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1079 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1080 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1081
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1082- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1083
1084- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1085 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1086 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1087 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1088 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1089 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1090 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1091 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1092
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1093- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1094 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1095
d44fd821 1096- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1097 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1098 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1099 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1100 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1101
1102
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1103strongswan-4.3.0
1104----------------
1105
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1106- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1107 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1108 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1109 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1110 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1111
1112- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1113 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1114
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1115- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1116 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1117
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1118- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1119 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1120 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1121
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1122- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1123 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1124
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1126strongswan-4.2.14
1127-----------------
1128
22180558 1129- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1130 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1131 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1132
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1133- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1134 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1135 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1136 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1137 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1138 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1139 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1140 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1141 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1142
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1143- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1144 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1145 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1146 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1147
1148- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1149 IDr payload anymore.
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1150
1151
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1152strongswan-4.2.13
1153-----------------
1154
1155- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1156 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1157
f3bb1bd0 1158- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1159 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1160
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1161- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1162 parameters field is optional.
1163
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1164- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1165
076e7853 1166
bfde75ee 1167strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 1168-----------------
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1169
1170- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1171 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1172 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1173
1174- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1175 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1176 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1177
1178- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1179 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1180
b6b90b68 1181
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1182strongswan-4.2.11
1183-----------------
1184
ae1ae574
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1185- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1186 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1187
1188- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1189 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1190
1191
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1192strongswan-4.2.10
1193-----------------
1194
1195- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1196 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1197 counterparts with better lookup times.
1198
1199- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1200 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1201 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1202
1203- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1204 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1205 on the fly.
1206
1207- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1208 command queries assigned leases.
1209
1210- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1211 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1212
1213- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1214 reliable source of randomness.
1215
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1216strongswan-4.2.9
1217----------------
1218
509e07c5
AS
1219- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1220 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1221
1222- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1223 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1224 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1225
1226- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1227 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1228 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1229 parallelization to multiple cores.
1230
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1231- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1232 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1233
509e07c5 1234- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1235 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1236 memory or hardware.
1237
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1238- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1239 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1240 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1241 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1242
1243- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1244 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1245 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1246 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1247 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1248 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1249
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1250- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1251 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1252 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1253
73937bd8 1254
e39b271b
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1255strongswan-4.2.8
1256----------------
1257
5dadb16e 1258- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1259 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1260 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1261
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1262- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1263 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1264 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1265 long as possible and other fixes.
1266
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1267- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1268 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1269 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1270
e39b271b 1271
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1272strongswan-4.2.7
1273----------------
1274
b37cda82
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1275- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1276 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1277 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1278 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1279 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1280
b6b90b68 1281- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1282 ssh-agent.
1283
1284- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1285 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1286
1287- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1288 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1289 newer libcap2 library.
1290
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1291- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1292 charon keying daemon.
1293
1294
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1295strongswan-4.2.6
1296----------------
1297
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1298- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1299 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1300 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1301 in the Gnome Keyring.
1302
1303- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1304 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1305 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1306 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1307
1308- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1309 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1310 authentication.
1311
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1312- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1313 authentication types and EAP identities.
1314
1315- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1316 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1317
1318- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1319 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1320
1321
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1322strongswan-4.2.5
1323----------------
1324
b6b90b68 1325- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
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1326
1327- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1328 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1329 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1330 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1331 strongswan.conf.
1332
eb0cc338 1333- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1334 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1335
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1336- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1337 network interfaces have become possible.
1338
b6b90b68 1339- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1340 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1341
8124e491
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1342- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1343
b6b90b68 1344
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1345strongswan-4.2.4
1346----------------
1347
9de95037
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1348- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1349 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1350
73a8eed3 1351- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1352 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1353
1354- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1355 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1356
1357- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1358 X.509 certificates.
1359
1360- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1361 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1362
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1363- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1364 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1365
179dd12c 1366
83d9e870
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1367strongswan-4.2.3
1368----------------
1369
b6b90b68 1370- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1371 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1372
1373- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1374 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1375
1376
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1377strongswan-4.2.2
1378----------------
1379
a57cd446
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1380- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1381 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1382 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1383 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1384 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1385
1386- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
a57cd446
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1387 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1388 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1389 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1390
1391- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1392 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1393 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1394
7f491111 1395
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1396strongswan-4.2.1
1397----------------
1398
c306dfb1 1399- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1400 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1401 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1402 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1403 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1404 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1405
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1406- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1407 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1408 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1409 connections.
b6b90b68 1410
f3bb1bd0 1411- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1412 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1413 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1414
b6b90b68 1415- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1416 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1417 re-implemented.
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1418
1419- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1420 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1421
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1422- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1423 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1424 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1425
466abb49 1426- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1427 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1428 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1429 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1430 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1431
c306dfb1 1432- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1433
c306dfb1 1434- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
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1435
1436- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1437 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1438 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1439
5c5d67d6 1440
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1441strongswan-4.2.0
1442----------------
1443
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1444- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1445 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1446 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1447 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1448 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1449 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1450 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1451
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1452- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1453 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1454
1455- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1456 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1457 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1458 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1459 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1460 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1461 The following new plugins are available:
1462 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1463 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1464 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1465
1466- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1467 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1468 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1469
b6b90b68 1470- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1471 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1472 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1473
a11ea97d 1474
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1475strongswan-4.1.11
1476-----------------
fb6d76cd 1477
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1478- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1479 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1480 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1481
1482- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1483 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1484
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1485- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1486 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1487 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1488
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1490strongswan-4.1.10
1491-----------------
1492
1493- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1494 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1495
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1496- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1497 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1498 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1499 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1500
1501- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1502 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1503 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1504 before using it.
1505
1506- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1507 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1508 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1509
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1512----------------
1513
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1514- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1515 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1516 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1517 added.
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1519- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1520 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1521
1522- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1523 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1524
1525- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1526
8b678ad4 1527- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1528 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1529 loaded twice.
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1533----------------
1534
5076770c 1535- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1536
1537
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1539----------------
1540
1541- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1542 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1543 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1544
6e193274 1545- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1546 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1547 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1548
1549- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1550 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1551 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1552
1553- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1554 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1555
1556- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1557
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1560----------------
1561
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1562- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1563 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1564 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1565 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1566 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1567 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1568 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1569 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1570
1571- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1572 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1573 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1574 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1575
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1576- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1577 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1578 startup.
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1580- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1581 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1582 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1583 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1584 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1585
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1586- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1587 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1589
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1591----------------
1592
1593- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1594 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1595 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1596 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1597 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1598 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1599
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1600- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1601 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1602 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1603 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1604
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1607----------------
1608
1609- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1610 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1611 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1612 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1613 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1614 parameter is not required any more.
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1616- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1617 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1618 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1619
1620 right=peer.foo.bar
1621 rightallowany=yes
1622
1623 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1624 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1625 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1626 as
1627
1628 right=%any
1629
1630 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1631 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1632
1633 right=%peer.foo.bar
1634
1635 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1636
1637- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1638 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1639 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1640 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1641 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1643- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1644 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1645 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1646 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1647 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1648
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1649- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1650 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1651 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1652 by Robert Varga.
1653
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1654- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1655 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1656
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1659----------------
1660
b6b90b68 1661- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1662 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1663
1664- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1665 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1666 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
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1668- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1669 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1670 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1671 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1672
1673- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1674 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1675 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1676 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1677
b6b90b68 1678- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1679 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1680 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1681 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1682 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1683 to implement.
a3354a69 1684
f3bb1bd0 1685 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1686 headers > 2.6.17.
1687
1688
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1689strongswan-4.1.2
1690----------------
1691
e23d98a7 1692- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1693 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1694 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1695 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1696
1697- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1698 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1699
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1700- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1701
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1702- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1703
dfbe2a0f 1704- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1705 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1706
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1707- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1708
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1709- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1710 connection name.
1711
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1714----------------
1715
1716- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1717 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1718 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1719 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1720 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1721 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1722
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1723- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1724 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1725 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1726
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1727- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1728 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1729 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1730 vendor ID.
1731
1732- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1733 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1734 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1735 message.
1736
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1737- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1738 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1739
3b4f7d92 1740
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1743
1744- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1745 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1746
1747- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1748 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1749 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1750 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1751
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1752- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1753
c5d0fbb6 1754- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1755 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1756 accessLocations.
1757
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1758- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1759 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1760 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1761 option.
1762
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1763- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1764 code reuse and separation.
1765
1766- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1767 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1768 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1769
1770- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1771 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1772 specify it.
1773
1774- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1775 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1776 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1777 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1778 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1779 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1780
1781- Added client side support for cookies.
1782
1783- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1784 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1785 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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e23d98a7 1787
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1789----------------
1790
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1791- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1792 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1793 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1794
1795- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1796 to a default string.
1797
1798
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1800----------------
1801
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1802- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1803 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1804 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1805 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1806 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1807
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1808- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1809
5903179b 1810- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1811
5903179b 1812- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1813
5903179b 1814- various other bugfixes
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1815
1816
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1817strongswan-4.0.5
1818----------------
1819
1820- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1821 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1822
1823- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1824 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1825
1826- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1827 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1828 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1829 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1830
0cd645d2 1831 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1832
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1833 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1834
1835 config setup
03bf883d 1836 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1837
03bf883d 1838 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1839
03bf883d 1840 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1842
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1843strongswan-4.0.4
1844----------------
1845
1846- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1847
1848- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1849 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1850 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1851 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1852 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1853
1854- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1855 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1856 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1857
1858- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1859
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1860- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1861 or 3DES are supported.
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1862
1863- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1864 encrypt IKE traffic.
1865
1866- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1867 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1868
1869- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1870 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1871 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1872 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1873
1874
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1875strongswan-4.0.3
1876----------------
1877
1878- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1879 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1880 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1881 kernel.
1882
1883- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1884 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1885 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1886 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1887
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1888- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1889 algorithm configuration statements.
1890
1891
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1893----------------
1894
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1895- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1896 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1897 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1898 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1899
b6b90b68 1900- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1901 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1902 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1903 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1904
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1905- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1906 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1907 dpddelay=60s).
1908
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1909- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1910 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1911 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1912 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1913
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1914- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1915 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1916 and a more extensible code base.
1917
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1918- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1919 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1920 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1921 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1922 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1923 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1924 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1925
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1927strongswan-4.0.1
1928----------------
1929
b6b90b68 1930- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1931 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1932 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1933 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1934 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1935 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1936 algorithms for IKE:
1937 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1938 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1939 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1940 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1941 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1942 blowfish192, blowfish256
1943 Integrity: md5, sha1
1944 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1945 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1946
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1947- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1948 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1949 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1950 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1951 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1952 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1953
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1954- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1955 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1956 configuration examples).
1957
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1958- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1959 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1960 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1961 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1962
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1963- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1964 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1965 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1966 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1967 via ipsec starter.
1968
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1970strongswan-4.0.0
1971----------------
1972
1973- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1974 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1975 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1976 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1977 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1978 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1979 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1980 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1981 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1982 status command).
1983
1984
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1986----------------
1987
1988- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1989 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1990 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1991 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1992 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1993 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1994 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1995 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 1996 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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1997 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1998 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1999 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2000
2001- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2002 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2003 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2004 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2005 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2006 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2007 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2008 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2009 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2010 be inserted.
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2012- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2013 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2014 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2015 be found.
2016
2017
2018strongswan-2.6.4
2019----------------
2020
2021- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2022 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2023 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2024 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2025 are required any more.
2026
2027- added support of DPD restart mode
2028
2029- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2030 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2031 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2032
2033- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2034 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2035
2036
2037strongswan-2.6.3
2038----------------
2039
b6b90b68 2040- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2041 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2042
2043- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2044 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2045 via the auth=ah parameter.
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2047- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2048 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2049
2050- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2051 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2052 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2053 the ipsec status command.
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2056strongswan-2.6.2
2057----------------
2058
2059- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2060 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2061 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2062
2063- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2064 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2065 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2066
2067- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2068 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2069
2070 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2071 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2072
2073- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2074 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2075 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2076
2077 conn rw
2078 right=%any
2079 rightid=@foo.bar
2080 authby=secret
2081
2082- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2083
2084- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2085
2086- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2087 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2088 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2089
2090- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2091 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2092 servers.
2093
2094- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2095 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2096
2097
2098strongswan-2.6.1
2099----------------
2100
2101- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2102 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2103 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2104
2105
2106strongswan-2.6.0
2107----------------
2108
2109- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2110 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2111 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2112 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2113 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2114 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2115 accelerated tremedously.
2116
2117- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2118 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2119 reload pluto's connections.
2120
2121- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2122 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2123 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2124
2125- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2126
2127- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2128
2129- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2130 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2131 documented yet.
2132
2133
2134strongswan-2.5.7
2135----------------
2136
2137- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2138 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2139 listing.
2140
2141
2142strongswan-2.5.6
2143----------------
2144
2145- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2146 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2147 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2148 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2149
b6b90b68 2150- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2151 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2152 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2153 has been changed from one year to five years.
2154
2155
2156strongswan-2.5.5
2157----------------
2158
2159- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2160 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2161 via the whack interface. Notation:
2162
2163 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2164 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2165 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2166 [--keyid <keyid>]
2167
2168 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2169 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2170 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2171 [--keyid <keyid>]
2172
b6b90b68 2173 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2174
2175 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2176 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2177 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2178 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2179 permanently.
2180
2181- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2182 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2183 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2184 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2185 is automatically generated by calling the function
2186
2187 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2188
2189 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2190 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2191
2192
2193strongswan-2.5.4
2194----------------
2195
2196- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2197 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2198 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2199 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2200
2201- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2202 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2203
2204
2205strongswan-2.5.3
2206----------------
2207
2208- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2209 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2210 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2211 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2212 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2213
2214- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2215
2216 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2217 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2218 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2219 self-signed certs)
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2220
2221- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2222 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2223 attribute for AES encryption.
2224
2225- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2226
2227- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2228
2229
2230strongswan-2.5.2
2231----------------
2232
2233- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2234 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2235 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2236 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2237 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2238
2239- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2240 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2241 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2242
2243
2244strongswan-2.5.1
2245----------------
2246
2247- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2248 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2249 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2250 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2251 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2252 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2253 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2254 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2255
2256- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2257 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2258 the command
2259
2260 ipsec auto --listcards
2261
2262 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2263 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2264 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2265 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2266
2267 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2268 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2269 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2270
2271 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2272
2273 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2274 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2275 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2276
2277- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2278 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2279 to generate a signature.
2280
2281- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2282 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2283 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2284 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2285 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2286
2287- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2288 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2289
2290- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2291 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2292 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2293
2294
2295strongswan-2.5.0
2296----------------
2297
2298- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2299 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2300 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2301 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2302 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2303 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2304
2305- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2306 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2307 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2308 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2309 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2310 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2312- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2313 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2314 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2315
2316
2317strongswan-2.4.4
2318----------------
2319
2320- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2321
2322- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2323
2324
2325strongswan-2.4.3
2326----------------
2327
2328- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2329 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2330
2331- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2332
2333- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2334 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2335 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2336
2337- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2338 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2339 included.
2340
2341
2342strongswan-2.4.2
2343----------------
2344
2345- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2346 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2347 value of 50.
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2349- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2350 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
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2352 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2353 pad has to be done only once.
2354
2355- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2356 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2357 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2358
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2361- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2362
2363- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2364 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2365
2366- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2367 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2368 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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2370- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2371 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2372 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2373
2374
2375strongswan-2.4.1
2376----------------
2377
2378- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2379 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2380 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2381 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2382 "left" be"local".
2383
2384
2385strongswan-2.4.0a
2386-----------------
2387
2388- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2389
2390- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2391 Michael Meier
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2392
2393
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2395----------------
2396
2397- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2398 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2399 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2400 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2401 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2402 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2403 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2404
2405- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2406 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2407 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2408 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2409 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2410
2411- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2412 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2413 in a particular test.
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2414
2415
2416strongswan-2.3.2
2417----------------
2418
2419- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2420 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2421
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2422- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2423
2424- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2425 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2426 Delete SA messages.
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2428- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2429 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2430 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2431 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2432
2433
2434strongswan-2.3.1
2435----------------
2436
2437- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2438
2439- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2440 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2441
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2442- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2443 module.
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2445- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2446 maximum udp size patches.
2447
2448- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2451strongswan-2.3.0
2452----------------
2453
2454- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2455 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2456 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2457 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2458 subdirectory.
2459
2460- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2461 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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b6b90b68 2463
997358a6 2464 man ipsec_openac.
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2466 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2467 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2468 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2470 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2471
2472 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2473 Research or Sales, only.
2474
2475- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2476 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2477 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2478 Secure Entry Clients.
2479
2480- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2481 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2482 now both set to 24 h.
2483
2484- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2485 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2486
2487- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2488 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2489 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2490
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2491 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2492
2493
2494strongswan-2.2.2
2495----------------
2496
2497- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2498 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2499 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2500 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2501
f3bb1bd0 2502- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2503 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2504 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2506- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2507
2508- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2509 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2510
2511
2512strongswan-2.2.1
2513----------------
2514
2515- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2516 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2517
f3bb1bd0 2518- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2519 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2520
997358a6 2521- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2522 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2523
2524- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2525
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2526- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2527
2528- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2529
2530
2531strongswan-2.2.0
2532----------------
2533
2534- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2535
2536 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2539
2540- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2541 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2542 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2543
997358a6 2544 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2546 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2547
2548- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2549 using the compile option VENDORID
2550
2551- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2552
2553- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2554
2555- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2556
2557- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2558 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2560- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2561
2562- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2563 connection.
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2566strongswan-2.1.5
2567----------------
2568
2569- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2570 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2571 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2572 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2573 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2574
2575- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2576 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2577
2578
2579strongswan-2.1.4
2580----------------
2581
2582- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2583 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2584 an optional connection selector:
2585
2586 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2587
2588- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2589 man page.
2590
2591- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2592 of malformed distinguished names.
2593
2594- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2595
2596 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2597
2598- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2599
2600
2601strongswan-2.1.3
2602----------------
2603
2604- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2605 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2608strongswan-2.1.2
2609----------------
2610
2611- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2612 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2613 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2616strongswan-2.1.1
2617----------------
2618
2619- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2620
2621
2622strongswan-2.1.0
2623----------------
2624
2625- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2626
2627 ca kool
2628 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2629 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2630 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2631 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2632 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2633 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 2634
997358a6 2635 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2637 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2638
2639- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2640 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2641
2642
2643strongswan-2.0.2
2644----------------
2645
2646- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2647 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2649- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2650 during kernel compilation
b6b90b68 2651
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2652- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2653 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2654
2655- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2656 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2657 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2658
2659
2660strongswan-2.0.1
2661----------------
2662
2663- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2664 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2665 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2666 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2667
2668- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2669 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
b6b90b68
MW
2670
2671
997358a6
MW
2672strongswan-2.0.0
2673----------------
2674
2675- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12