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4- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
5 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
6 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
7 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
8 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
9 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
10 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
11 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
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13- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
14 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
15 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
16 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
17 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
18 the thread calling the listener.
19 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
20 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
21 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
22 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
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24- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
25 reappear.
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27- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
28 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
29 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
30 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
31 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
32 using SHA-256 or better.
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35strongswan-4.6.4
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38- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
39 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
40 a legitimate one.
41
42- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
43
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45strongswan-4.6.3
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48- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
49 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
50
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51- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
52 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
53 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
54 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
55
56- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
57 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
58 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
59 console.
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61- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
62 RFC 4595.
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64- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
65 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
66
4e2e77d5 67- The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
a281494a 68 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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70- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
71 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
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76
77- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
78 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
79 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
80 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
81
82- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
83 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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84 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
85 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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87- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
88 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
89 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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91- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
92 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
93 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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95- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
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101- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
102 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
103 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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104 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
105 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
106 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
107 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
108 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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110- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
111 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
112 post-installation phase.
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118- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
119 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
120 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
121
122- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
123 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
124 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
125 for the initial patch.
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127- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
128 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
129
130- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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132- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
133 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
134 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
135 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
136 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
137 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
138
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139- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
140 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
141 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
142 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
143 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
144 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
145
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146- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
147 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
148 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
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a7edbd21 154- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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155 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
156 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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157 directory.
158
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159- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
160 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
161
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162- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
163 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
164 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
165
166- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
167 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
168
f8799170 169- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 170 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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171 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
172 interfaces.
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174- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
175 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
176
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177- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
178 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
179 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
180 the client is admitted to the network.
181 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
182
183- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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184 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
185
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186- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
187 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
188 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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194- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
195 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
196 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
197 whitelist administration.
198
92ebb7c5 199- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 200 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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201 application about detected duplicates.
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203- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
204 authentication to previously used certificates.
205
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206- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
207 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
208 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
209 only starts|routes the specific child config.
210
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211- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
212
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213- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
214 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
215
216- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 217 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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219- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
220 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
221 support configuration reloading.
222
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223- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
224 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
225 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
226 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
227 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
228 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
229
230- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
231 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
232 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
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238- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
239 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 240 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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241 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
242 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 243 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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245- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
246 in place of the external libtnc library.
247
248- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
249 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
250 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
251 the corresponding protocol stack.
252
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253- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
254 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
255 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
256 in an SQL database.
257
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258- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
259 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
260 points in an SQL database.
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262- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
263 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
264 replaced, respectively.
265
266- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
267 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
268 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
269 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
270 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
271 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
272 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
273
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274- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
275 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
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277- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
278 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
279 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
280
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281- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
282 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
283 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
284 xcbc algorithms.
44582075 285
41ed0294 286- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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287 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
288 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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290- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
291 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
292 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
293 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
294 ./configure switch.
295
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296- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
297 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
298 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
299 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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300 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
301 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
302
303- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
304 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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306- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
307 support for delta CRLs.
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312
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313- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
314 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 315 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 316 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 317 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
b14923ec 318
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319- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
320 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
321 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
322 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
323
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324- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
325 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 326 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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327 tokens.
328
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329- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
330 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
331 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
332 client authentication.
333
334- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
335 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 336 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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338- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
339 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
340 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
341 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
342 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 343 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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344 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
345 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
346
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347- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
348 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
349 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
350
351- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
352 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
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354- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
355 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
356 availability.
357
358- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
359 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
360 implement a simple event listener.
361
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362- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
363 initial responder moves to a different address.
364
365- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
366
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367- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
368 identity was different from the IKE identity.
369
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370- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
371 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
372 UNITY_BANNER).
373
374- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
375 charon plugins.
376
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377- Added man page for strongswan.conf
378
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382
ec40c02a 383- Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
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384 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
385 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 387- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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388 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
389 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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391- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
392
e9448cfc 393- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 394 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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396- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
397 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
398 in strongswan.conf, if required.
399
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400- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
401
402- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
403 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
404
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405- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
406 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
407
e87b78c6 408- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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409 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
410 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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412- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
413 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
414
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415- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
416 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
417
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418- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
419 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
420 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
421 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
422 plugin.
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424- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
425 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
426 unauthenticated users.
427
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431
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432- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
433 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
434 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
435 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 436 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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437 secunet Security Networks AG.
438
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439- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
440 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
441 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
442 kernel interface.
443
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444- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
445 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
446 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
447 from IBM for his contribution.
448
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449- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
450 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
451 are allocated.
452
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453- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
454 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
455 command line option.
456
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457- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
458 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
459 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
460 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
461 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
462 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
463
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464- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
465 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 466 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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467 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
468
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469- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
470 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
471 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
472 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
473
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474- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
475 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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480
cdad91de 481- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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482 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
483
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484- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
485 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
486 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
487
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488- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
489
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490- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
491
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492- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
493 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
494 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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495 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
496
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497- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
498
2b2c69e9 499- IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
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501- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
502 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
503 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
504 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
505 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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507- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
508 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
509 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
510
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511- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
512 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
513
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514- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
515 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
516 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
517 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
518 this is the case.
519
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520- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
521 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
522 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
523 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
524 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
525
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526- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
527 allowing interoperability.
528
529
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531----------------
532
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533- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
534 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
535 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 536 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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537 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
538
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539- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
540 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
541 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
542 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
543 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
544
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545- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
546 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
547 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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549- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
550 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
551 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
552
d245f5cf 553- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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554 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
555
556- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
557 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
558 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
559
560- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
561 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
562
563- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
564 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
565 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
566 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
567 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
568 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
569
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570- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
571 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
572 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
573 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
574
b80fa9ca 575- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 576 statements.
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578- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
579
580- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
581 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
582
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583- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
584 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
585
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586- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
587 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
588 and the libstrongswan library.
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592----------------
593
594- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
595 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
596
597- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
598 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
599
600- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
601
602
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604----------------
605
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606- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
607 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
608 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
609 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
610 manipulations can be reliably detected.
611
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612- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
613 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
614
615- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
616 authenticated encryption algorithms.
617
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618- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
619
620- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
621 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
622 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
623
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626----------------
627
628- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
629 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
630
631- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
632 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
633 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
634
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635- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
636 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
637 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
638 with IKEv1.
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640- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
641 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
642 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
643 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
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647----------------
648
649- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 650 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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651 dynamically.
652
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653- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
654 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
655 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
656 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
657 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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659- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
660 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
661 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
662 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
663 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
664 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
665
09dbca9f 666- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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667 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
668 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
669
670- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
671 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
672 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
673
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674- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
675
676- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
677 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
678 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
679 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
680 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 681 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 682 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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683 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
684
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685- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
686 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
687
d44fd821 688- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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689 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
690 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 691 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 692 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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694
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696----------------
697
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698- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
699 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
700 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
701 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
702 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
703
704- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
705 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
706
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707- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
708 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
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710- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
711 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
712 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 713
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714- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
715 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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719-----------------
720
22180558 721- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 722 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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723 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
724
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725- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
726 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
727 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
728 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
729 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
730 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
731 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
732 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
733 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
734
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735- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
736 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
737 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
738 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
739
740- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 741 IDr payload anymore.
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743
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744strongswan-4.2.13
745-----------------
746
747- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
748 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
749
f3bb1bd0 750- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 751 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 752
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753- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
754 parameters field is optional.
755
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757
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761
762- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
763 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
764 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
765
766- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 767 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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768 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
769
770- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
771 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
772
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774strongswan-4.2.11
775-----------------
776
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777- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
778 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
779
780- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
781 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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783
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785-----------------
786
787- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
788 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
789 counterparts with better lookup times.
790
791- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
792 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
793 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
794
795- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
796 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
797 on the fly.
798
799- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
800 command queries assigned leases.
801
802- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
803 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
804
805- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
806 reliable source of randomness.
807
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809----------------
810
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811- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
812 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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814- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
815 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
816 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
817
818- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 819 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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820 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
821 parallelization to multiple cores.
822
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823- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
824 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 825
509e07c5 826- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 827 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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828 memory or hardware.
829
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830- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
831 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
832 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
833 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
834
835- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
836 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
837 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
838 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
839 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 840 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 841
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842- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
843 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
844 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
845
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847strongswan-4.2.8
848----------------
849
5dadb16e 850- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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851 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
852 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
853
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854- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
855 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
856 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
857 long as possible and other fixes.
858
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859- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
860 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
861 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
862
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865----------------
866
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867- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
868 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
869 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
870 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 871 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 872
b6b90b68 873- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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874 ssh-agent.
875
876- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 877 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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878
879- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
880 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
881 newer libcap2 library.
882
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883- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
884 charon keying daemon.
885
886
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889
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890- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
891 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
892 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
893 in the Gnome Keyring.
894
895- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
896 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 897 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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899
900- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
901 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
902 authentication.
903
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904- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
905 authentication types and EAP identities.
906
907- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
908 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
909
910- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
911 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
912
913
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915----------------
916
b6b90b68 917- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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918
919- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
920 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
921 storing only history information has become optional and can be
922 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
923 strongswan.conf.
924
eb0cc338 925- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 926 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 927
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928- management of different virtual IP pools for different
929 network interfaces have become possible.
930
b6b90b68 931- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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932 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
933
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934- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
935
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937strongswan-4.2.4
938----------------
939
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940- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
941 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 942
73a8eed3 943- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 944 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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945
946- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
947 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
948
949- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
950 X.509 certificates.
951
952- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
953 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 954
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955- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
956 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
957
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959strongswan-4.2.3
960----------------
961
b6b90b68 962- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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963 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
964
965- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
966 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
967
968
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970----------------
971
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972- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
973 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 974 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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975 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
976 to software-based crypto plugins.
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978- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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979 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
980 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
981 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
982
983- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 984 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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985 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
986
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989----------------
990
c306dfb1 991- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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992 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
993 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
994 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
995 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
996 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
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999 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1000 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1001 connections.
b6b90b68 1002
f3bb1bd0 1003- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1004 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1005 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1006
b6b90b68 1007- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1008 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1009 re-implemented.
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1010
1011- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1012 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1013
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1014- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1015 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1016 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1017
466abb49 1018- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1019 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1020 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1021 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1022 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1023
c306dfb1 1024- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1025
c306dfb1 1026- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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1027
1028- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1029 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1030 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1031
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1034----------------
1035
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1036- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1037 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1038 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1039 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1040 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1041 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1042 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1043
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1044- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1045 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1046
1047- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1048 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1049 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1050 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1051 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1052 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1053 The following new plugins are available:
1054 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1055 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1056 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1057
1058- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1059 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1060 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1061
b6b90b68 1062- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1063 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1064 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1065
a11ea97d 1066
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1068-----------------
fb6d76cd 1069
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1070- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1071 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1072 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1073
1074- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1075 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1076
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1077- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1078 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1079 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1080
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1082strongswan-4.1.10
1083-----------------
1084
1085- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1086 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1087
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1088- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1089 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1090 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1091 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1092
1093- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1094 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1095 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1096 before using it.
1097
1098- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1099 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1100 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1101
fb6d76cd 1102
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1103strongswan-4.1.9
1104----------------
1105
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1106- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1107 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1108 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1109 added.
5076770c 1110
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1111- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1112 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1113
1114- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1115 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1116
1117- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1118
8b678ad4 1119- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1120 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1121 loaded twice.
5076770c 1122
83e0d841 1123
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1124strongswan-4.1.8
1125----------------
1126
5076770c 1127- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1128
1129
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1131----------------
1132
1133- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1134 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1135 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1136
6e193274 1137- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1138 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1139 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1140
1141- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1142 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1143 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1144
1145- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1146 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1147
1148- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1149
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1151strongswan-4.1.6
1152----------------
1153
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1154- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1155 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1156 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1157 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1158 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1159 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1160 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1161 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1162
1163- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1164 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1165 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1166 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1167
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1168- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1169 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1170 startup.
b6b90b68 1171
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1172- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1173 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1174 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1175 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1176 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1177
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1178- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1179 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1180
1181
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1183----------------
1184
1185- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1186 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1187 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1188 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1189 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1190 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1191
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1192- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1193 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1194 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1195 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1196
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1198strongswan-4.1.4
1199----------------
1200
1201- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1202 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1203 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1204 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1205 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1206 parameter is not required any more.
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1207
1208- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1209 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1210 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1211
1212 right=peer.foo.bar
1213 rightallowany=yes
1214
1215 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1216 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1217 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1218 as
1219
1220 right=%any
1221
1222 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1223 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1224
1225 right=%peer.foo.bar
1226
1227 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1228
1229- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1230 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1231 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1232 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1233 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 1234
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1235- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1236 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1237 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1238 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1239 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1240
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1241- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1242 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1243 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1244 by Robert Varga.
1245
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1246- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1247 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1248
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1250strongswan-4.1.3
1251----------------
1252
b6b90b68 1253- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1254 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1255
1256- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1257 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1258 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1259
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1260- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1261 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1262 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1263 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1264
1265- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1266 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1267 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1268 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1269
b6b90b68 1270- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1271 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1272 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1273 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1274 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1275 to implement.
a3354a69 1276
f3bb1bd0 1277 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1278 headers > 2.6.17.
1279
1280
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1281strongswan-4.1.2
1282----------------
1283
e23d98a7 1284- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1285 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1286 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1287 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1288
1289- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1290 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1291
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1292- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1293
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1294- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1295
dfbe2a0f 1296- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1297 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1298
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1299- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1300
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1301- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1302 connection name.
1303
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1305strongswan-4.1.1
1306----------------
1307
1308- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1309 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1310 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1311 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1312 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1313 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1314
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1315- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1316 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1317 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1318
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1319- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1320 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1321 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1322 vendor ID.
1323
1324- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1325 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1326 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1327 message.
1328
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1329- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1330 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1331
3b4f7d92 1332
34bbd0c3 1333strongswan-4.1.0
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1335
1336- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1337 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1338
1339- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1340 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1341 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1342 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1343
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1344- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1345
c5d0fbb6 1346- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1347 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1348 accessLocations.
1349
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1350- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1351 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1352 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1353 option.
1354
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1355- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1356 code reuse and separation.
1357
1358- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1359 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1360 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1361
1362- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1363 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1364 specify it.
1365
1366- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1367 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1368 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1369 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1370 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1371 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1372
1373- Added client side support for cookies.
1374
1375- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1376 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1377 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1378
e23d98a7 1379
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1381----------------
1382
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1383- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1384 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1385 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1386
1387- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1388 to a default string.
1389
1390
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1391strongswan-4.0.6
1392----------------
1393
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1394- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1395 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1396 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1397 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1398 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1399
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1400- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1401
5903179b 1402- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1403
5903179b 1404- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1405
5903179b 1406- various other bugfixes
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1407
1408
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1409strongswan-4.0.5
1410----------------
1411
1412- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1413 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1414
1415- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1416 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1417
1418- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1419 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1420 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1421 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1422
0cd645d2 1423 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1424
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1425 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1426
1427 config setup
03bf883d 1428 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1429
03bf883d 1430 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1431
03bf883d 1432 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1434
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1435strongswan-4.0.4
1436----------------
1437
1438- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1439
1440- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1441 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1442 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1443 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1444 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1445
1446- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1447 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1448 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1449
1450- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1451
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1452- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1453 or 3DES are supported.
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1454
1455- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1456 encrypt IKE traffic.
1457
1458- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1459 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1460
1461- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1462 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1463 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1464 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1465
1466
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1467strongswan-4.0.3
1468----------------
1469
1470- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1471 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1472 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1473 kernel.
1474
1475- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1476 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1477 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1478 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1479
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1480- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1481 algorithm configuration statements.
1482
1483
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1484strongswan-4.0.2
1485----------------
1486
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1487- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1488 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1489 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1490 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1491
b6b90b68 1492- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1493 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1494 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1495 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1496
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1497- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1498 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1499 dpddelay=60s).
1500
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1501- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1502 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1503 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1504 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1505
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1506- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1507 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1508 and a more extensible code base.
1509
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1510- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1511 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1512 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1513 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1514 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1515 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1516 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1517
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1519strongswan-4.0.1
1520----------------
1521
b6b90b68 1522- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1523 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1524 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1525 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1526 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1527 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1528 algorithms for IKE:
1529 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1530 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1531 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1532 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1533 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1534 blowfish192, blowfish256
1535 Integrity: md5, sha1
1536 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1537 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1538
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1539- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1540 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1541 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1542 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1543 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1544 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1545
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1546- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1547 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1548 configuration examples).
1549
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1550- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1551 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1552 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1553 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1554
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1555- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1556 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1557 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1558 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1559 via ipsec starter.
1560
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1563----------------
1564
1565- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1566 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1568 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1569 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1570 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1571 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1572 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1573 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1574 status command).
1575
1576
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1578----------------
1579
1580- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1581 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1582 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1583 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1584 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1585 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1586 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1587 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
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1590 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1591 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1592
1593- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1594 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1595 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1596 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1597 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1598 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1599 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1600 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1601 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 1602 be inserted.
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1604- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1605 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1606 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1607 be found.
1608
1609
1610strongswan-2.6.4
1611----------------
1612
1613- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1614 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1615 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1616 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1618
1619- added support of DPD restart mode
1620
1621- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1622 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1623 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1624
1625- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1626 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1627
1628
1629strongswan-2.6.3
1630----------------
1631
b6b90b68 1632- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1634
1635- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1636 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1637 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1640 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1641
1642- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1643 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1644 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1645 the ipsec status command.
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1648strongswan-2.6.2
1649----------------
1650
1651- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1652 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1653 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1654
1655- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1656 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1657 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1658
1659- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1660 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1661
1662 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1663 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1664
1665- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1666 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1667 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1668
1669 conn rw
1670 right=%any
1671 rightid=@foo.bar
1672 authby=secret
1673
1674- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1675
1676- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1677
1678- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1679 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1680 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1681
1682- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1683 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1684 servers.
1685
1686- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1687 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1688
1689
1690strongswan-2.6.1
1691----------------
1692
1693- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1694 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1695 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1696
1697
1698strongswan-2.6.0
1699----------------
1700
1701- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1702 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1703 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1704 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1705 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1706 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1707 accelerated tremedously.
1708
1709- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1710 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1712
1713- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1714 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1715 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1716
1717- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1718
1719- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1720
1721- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1722 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1723 documented yet.
1724
1725
1726strongswan-2.5.7
1727----------------
1728
1729- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1730 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1731 listing.
1732
1733
1734strongswan-2.5.6
1735----------------
1736
1737- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1738 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1739 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1740 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1741
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1743 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1744 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1745 has been changed from one year to five years.
1746
1747
1748strongswan-2.5.5
1749----------------
1750
1751- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1752 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1753 via the whack interface. Notation:
1754
1755 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1756 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1757 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1758 [--keyid <keyid>]
1759
1760 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1761 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1762 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1763 [--keyid <keyid>]
1764
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1767 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1768 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1769 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1770 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1771 permanently.
1772
1773- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1774 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1775 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1776 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1777 is automatically generated by calling the function
1778
1779 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1780
1781 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1782 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1783
1784
1785strongswan-2.5.4
1786----------------
1787
1788- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1789 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1790 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1791 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1792
1793- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1794 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1795
1796
1797strongswan-2.5.3
1798----------------
1799
1800- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1801 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1802 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1803 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1804 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1805
1806- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1807
1808 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1809 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1810 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 1811 self-signed certs)
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1813- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1814 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1815 attribute for AES encryption.
1816
1817- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1818
1819- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1820
1821
1822strongswan-2.5.2
1823----------------
1824
1825- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1826 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1827 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1828 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1829 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1830
1831- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1832 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1833 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1834
1835
1836strongswan-2.5.1
1837----------------
1838
1839- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1840 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1841 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1842 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1843 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1844 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1845 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1846 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1847
1848- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1849 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1850 the command
1851
1852 ipsec auto --listcards
1853
1854 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1855 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1856 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1857 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1858
1859 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1860 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1861 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1862
1863 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1864
1865 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1866 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1867 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1868
1869- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1870 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1871 to generate a signature.
1872
1873- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1874 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1875 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1876 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1877 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1878
1879- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1880 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1881
1882- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1883 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1884 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1885
1886
1887strongswan-2.5.0
1888----------------
1889
1890- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1891 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1892 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1893 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1894 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1895 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1896
1897- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1898 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1899 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1900 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1901 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1902 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1905 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1906 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1907
1908
1909strongswan-2.4.4
1910----------------
1911
1912- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1913
1914- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1915
1916
1917strongswan-2.4.3
1918----------------
1919
1920- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1921 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1922
1923- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1924
1925- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1926 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1927 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1928
1929- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1930 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1931 included.
1932
1933
1934strongswan-2.4.2
1935----------------
1936
1937- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1938 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1939 value of 50.
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1942 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 1943 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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1944 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
1945 pad has to be done only once.
1946
1947- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1948 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1949 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 1950
997358a6 1951 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
b6b90b68 1952
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1953- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
1954
1955- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1956 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1957
1958- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1959 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1960 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 1961
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1963 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1964 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1965
1966
1967strongswan-2.4.1
1968----------------
1969
1970- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1971 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1972 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1973 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1974 "left" be"local".
1975
1976
1977strongswan-2.4.0a
1978-----------------
1979
1980- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1981
1982- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1983 Michael Meier
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1985
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1987----------------
1988
1989- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1990 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1991 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1992 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1993 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1994 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1995 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1996
1997- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1998 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1999 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2000 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2001 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2003- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
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b6b90b68 2005 in a particular test.
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2007
2008strongswan-2.3.2
2009----------------
2010
2011- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2012 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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2015
2016- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2017 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2018 Delete SA messages.
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2021 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2022 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2023 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2024
2025
2026strongswan-2.3.1
2027----------------
2028
2029- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2030
2031- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2032 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2033
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2034- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2035 module.
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2038 maximum udp size patches.
2039
2040- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2043strongswan-2.3.0
2044----------------
2045
2046- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2047 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2048 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2049 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2050 subdirectory.
2051
2052- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2053 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
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b6b90b68 2055
997358a6 2056 man ipsec_openac.
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2059 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2060 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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2063
2064 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2065 Research or Sales, only.
2066
2067- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2068 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2069 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2070 Secure Entry Clients.
2071
2072- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2073 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2074 now both set to 24 h.
2075
2076- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2077 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2078
2079- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2080 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2081 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2083 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2084
2085
2086strongswan-2.2.2
2087----------------
2088
2089- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2090 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2091 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2092 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2093
f3bb1bd0 2094- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2096 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2097
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2099
2100- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2101 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2102
2103
2104strongswan-2.2.1
2105----------------
2106
2107- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2108 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2109
f3bb1bd0 2110- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2111 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2112
997358a6 2113- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2114 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2116- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2117
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2119
2120- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2121
2122
2123strongswan-2.2.0
2124----------------
2125
2126- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2127
2128 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2131
2132- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2133 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2134 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
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2138 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2139
2140- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2141 using the compile option VENDORID
2142
2143- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2144
2145- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2146
2147- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2148
2149- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2150 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2152- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2153
2154- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2155 connection.
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2158strongswan-2.1.5
2159----------------
2160
2161- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2162 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2163 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2164 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2165 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2166
2167- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2168 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2169
2170
2171strongswan-2.1.4
2172----------------
2173
2174- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2175 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2176 an optional connection selector:
2177
2178 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2179
2180- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2181 man page.
2182
2183- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2184 of malformed distinguished names.
2185
2186- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2187
2188 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2189
2190- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2191
2192
2193strongswan-2.1.3
2194----------------
2195
2196- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2197 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2200strongswan-2.1.2
2201----------------
2202
2203- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2204 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2205 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2208strongswan-2.1.1
2209----------------
2210
2211- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2212
2213
2214strongswan-2.1.0
2215----------------
2216
2217- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2218
2219 ca kool
2220 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2221 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2222 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2223 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2224 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2225 auto=add # add, ignore
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2229 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2230
2231- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2232 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2233
2234
2235strongswan-2.0.2
2236----------------
2237
2238- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2239 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2241- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2242 during kernel compilation
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2245 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2246
2247- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2248 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2249 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2250
2251
2252strongswan-2.0.1
2253----------------
2254
2255- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2256 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2257 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2258 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2259
2260- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2261 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2263
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2265----------------
2266
2267- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12