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1strongswan-4.6.2
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4- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys. This is the default format
5 used by some OpenSSL tools since 1.0.0.
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7- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
8 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
9 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
10 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
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12- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
13 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
14 Linux IMA possible. Measurement reference values are automatically stored
15 in an SQLite database.
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17- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
18 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
19 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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21- Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
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23strongswan-4.6.1
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26- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
27 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
28 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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29 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
30 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
31 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
32 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
33 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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35- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
36 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
37 post-installation phase.
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42
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43- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
44 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
45 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
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47- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
48 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
49 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
50 for the initial patch.
51
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52- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
53 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
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55- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
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57- Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
58 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
59 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
60 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
61 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
62 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
63
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64- The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
65 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
66 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
67 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
68 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
69 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
70
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71- The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
72 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
73 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
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a7edbd21 79- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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80 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
81 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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82 directory.
83
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84- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
85 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
86
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87- Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
88 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
89 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
90
91- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
92 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
93
f8799170 94- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 95 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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96 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
97 interfaces.
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99- The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
100 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
101
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102- IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
103 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
104 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
105 the client is admitted to the network.
106 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
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108- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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109 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
110
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111- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
112 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
113 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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118
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119- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
120 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
121 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
122 whitelist administration.
123
92ebb7c5 124- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
5832d505 125 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
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126 application about detected duplicates.
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128- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
129 authentication to previously used certificates.
130
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131- In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
132 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
133 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
134 only starts|routes the specific child config.
135
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136- fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
137
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138- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
139 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
140
141- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 142 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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144- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
145 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
146 support configuration reloading.
147
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148- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
149 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
150 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
151 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
152 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
153 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
154
155- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
156 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
157 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
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162
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163- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
164 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 165 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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166 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
167 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 168 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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170- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
171 in place of the external libtnc library.
172
173- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
174 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
175 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
176 the corresponding protocol stack.
177
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178- IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
179 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
180 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
181 in an SQL database.
182
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183- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
184 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
185 points in an SQL database.
186
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187- The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
188 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
189 replaced, respectively.
190
191- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
192 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
193 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
194 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
195 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
196 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
197 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
198
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199- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
200 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
201
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202- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
203 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
204 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
205
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206- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
207 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
208 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
209 xcbc algorithms.
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41ed0294 211- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
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212 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
213 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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215- The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
216 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
217 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
218 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
219 ./configure switch.
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221- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
222 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
223 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
224 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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225 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
226 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
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228- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
229 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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231- The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
232 support for delta CRLs.
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238- IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
239 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 240 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 241 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 242 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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244- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
245 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
246 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
247 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
248
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249- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
250 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 251 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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252 tokens.
253
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254- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
255 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
256 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
257 client authentication.
258
259- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
260 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 261 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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263- Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
264 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
265 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
266 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
267 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 268 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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269 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
270 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
271
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272- The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
273 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
274 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
275
276- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
277 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
278
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279- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
280 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
281 availability.
282
283- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
284 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
285 implement a simple event listener.
286
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287- Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
288 initial responder moves to a different address.
289
290- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
291
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292- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
293 identity was different from the IKE identity.
294
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295- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
296 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
297 UNITY_BANNER).
298
299- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
300 charon plugins.
301
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302- Added man page for strongswan.conf
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307
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309 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
310 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
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b22bb9f2 312- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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313 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
314 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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316- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
317
e9448cfc 318- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
b59340a2 319 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
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321- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
322 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
323 in strongswan.conf, if required.
324
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325- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
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327- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
328 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
329
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330- The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
331 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
332
e87b78c6 333- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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334 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
335 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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337- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
338 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
339
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340- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
341 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
342
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343- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
344 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
345 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
346 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
347 plugin.
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349- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
350 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
351 unauthenticated users.
352
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357- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
358 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
359 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
360 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 361 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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362 secunet Security Networks AG.
363
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364- Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
365 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
366 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
367 kernel interface.
368
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369- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
370 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
371 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
372 from IBM for his contribution.
373
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374- The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
375 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
376 are allocated.
377
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378- The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
379 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
380 command line option.
381
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382- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
383 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
384 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
385 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
386 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
387 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
388
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389- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
390 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 391 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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392 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
393
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394- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
395 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
396 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
397 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
398
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399- The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
400 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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407 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
408
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409- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
410 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
411 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
412
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413- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
414
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415- The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
416
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417- The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
418 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
419 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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420 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
421
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422- More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
423
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426- Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
427 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
428 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
429 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
430 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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432- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
433 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
434 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
435
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436- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
437 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
438
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439- Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
440 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
441 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
442 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
443 this is the case.
444
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445- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
446 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
447 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
448 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
449 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
450
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451- The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
452 allowing interoperability.
453
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458- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
459 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
460 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 461 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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462 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
463
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464- Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
465 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
466 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
467 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
468 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
469
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470- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
471 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
472 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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474- The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
475 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
476 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
477
d245f5cf 478- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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479 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
480
481- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
482 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
483 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
484
485- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
486 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
487
488- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
489 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
490 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
491 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
492 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
493 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
494
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496 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
497 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
498 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
499
b80fa9ca 500- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 501 statements.
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504
505- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
506 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
507
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508- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
509 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
510
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511- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
512 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
513 and the libstrongswan library.
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517----------------
518
519- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
520 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
521
522- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
523 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
524
525- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
526
527
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529----------------
530
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531- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
532 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
533 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
534 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
535 manipulations can be reliably detected.
536
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537- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
538 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
539
540- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
541 authenticated encryption algorithms.
542
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543- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
544
545- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
546 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
547 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
548
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551----------------
552
553- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
554 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
555
556- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
557 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
558 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
559
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560- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
561 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
562 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
563 with IKEv1.
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565- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
566 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
567 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
568 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 569
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572----------------
573
574- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 575 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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576 dynamically.
577
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578- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
579 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
580 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
581 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
582 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
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585 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
586 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
587 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
588 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
589 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
590
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592 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
593 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
594
595- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
596 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
597 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
598
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600
601- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
602 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
603 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
604 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
605 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 606 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 607 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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609
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610- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
611 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
612
d44fd821 613- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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614 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
615 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 616 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 617 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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619
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622
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623- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
624 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
625 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
626 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
627 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
628
629- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
630 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
631
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632- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
633 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
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635- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
636 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
637 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 638
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639- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
640 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
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643strongswan-4.2.14
644-----------------
645
22180558 646- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 647 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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648 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
649
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650- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
651 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
652 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
653 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
654 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
655 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
656 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
657 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
658 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
659
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660- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
661 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
662 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
663 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
664
665- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 666 IDr payload anymore.
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668
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669strongswan-4.2.13
670-----------------
671
672- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
673 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
674
f3bb1bd0 675- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 676 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 677
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678- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
679 parameters field is optional.
680
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682
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686
687- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
688 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
689 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
690
691- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 692 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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693 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
694
695- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
696 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
697
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699strongswan-4.2.11
700-----------------
701
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702- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
703 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
704
705- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
706 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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708
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710-----------------
711
712- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
713 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
714 counterparts with better lookup times.
715
716- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
717 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
718 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
719
720- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
721 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
722 on the fly.
723
724- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
725 command queries assigned leases.
726
727- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
728 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
729
730- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
731 reliable source of randomness.
732
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734----------------
735
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736- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
737 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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738
739- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
740 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
741 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
742
743- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 744 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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745 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
746 parallelization to multiple cores.
747
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748- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
749 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 750
509e07c5 751- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 752 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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753 memory or hardware.
754
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755- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
756 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
757 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
758 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
759
760- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
761 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
762 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
763 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
764 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 765 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 766
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767- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
768 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
769 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
770
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772strongswan-4.2.8
773----------------
774
5dadb16e 775- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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776 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
777 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
778
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779- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
780 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
781 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
782 long as possible and other fixes.
783
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784- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
785 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
786 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
787
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790----------------
791
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792- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
793 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
794 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
795 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 796 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 797
b6b90b68 798- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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799 ssh-agent.
800
801- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 802 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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803
804- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
805 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
806 newer libcap2 library.
807
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808- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
809 charon keying daemon.
810
811
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814
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815- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
816 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
817 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
818 in the Gnome Keyring.
819
820- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
821 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 822 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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823 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
824
825- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
826 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
827 authentication.
828
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829- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
830 authentication types and EAP identities.
831
832- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
833 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
834
835- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
836 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
837
838
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840----------------
841
b6b90b68 842- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
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844- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
845 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
846 storing only history information has become optional and can be
847 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
848 strongswan.conf.
849
eb0cc338 850- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 851 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 852
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853- management of different virtual IP pools for different
854 network interfaces have become possible.
855
b6b90b68 856- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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857 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
858
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859- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
860
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862strongswan-4.2.4
863----------------
864
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865- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
866 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 867
73a8eed3 868- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 869 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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871- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
872 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
873
874- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
875 X.509 certificates.
876
877- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
878 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 879
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880- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
881 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
882
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884strongswan-4.2.3
885----------------
886
b6b90b68 887- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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888 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
889
890- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
891 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
892
893
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895----------------
896
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897- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
898 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 899 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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900 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
901 to software-based crypto plugins.
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903- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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904 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
905 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
906 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
907
908- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 909 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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910 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
911
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914----------------
915
c306dfb1 916- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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917 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
918 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
919 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
920 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
921 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 922
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924 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
925 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
926 connections.
b6b90b68 927
f3bb1bd0 928- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 929 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 930 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 931
b6b90b68 932- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 933 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 934 re-implemented.
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936- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
937 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
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940 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
941 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 942
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944 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
945 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
946 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 947 separate plugin.
58caabf7 948
c306dfb1 949- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 950
c306dfb1 951- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
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953- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 954 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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955 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
956
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960
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961- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
962 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
963 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
964 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
965 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
966 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
967 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
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969- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
970 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
971
972- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
973 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
974 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
975 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
976 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
977 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
978 The following new plugins are available:
979 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
980 top of either MySQL or SQLite
981 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
982
983- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
984 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
985 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
986
b6b90b68 987- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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988 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
989 by other applications.
b6b90b68 990
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995- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
996 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
997 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
998
999- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1000 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1001
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1002- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1003 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1004 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1005
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1008-----------------
1009
1010- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1011 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1012
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1013- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1014 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1015 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1016 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1017
1018- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1019 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1020 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1021 before using it.
1022
1023- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1024 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1025 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1026
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1029----------------
1030
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1031- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1032 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1033 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1034 added.
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1036- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1037 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1038
1039- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1040 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1041
1042- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1043
8b678ad4 1044- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1045 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1046 loaded twice.
5076770c 1047
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1050----------------
1051
5076770c 1052- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1053
1054
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1056----------------
1057
1058- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1059 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1060 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1061
6e193274 1062- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1063 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1064 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1065
1066- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1067 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1068 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1069
1070- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1071 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1072
1073- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1074
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1077----------------
1078
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1079- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1080 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1081 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1082 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1083 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1084 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1085 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1086 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1087
1088- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1089 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1090 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1091 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1092
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1093- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1094 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1095 startup.
b6b90b68 1096
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1097- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1098 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1099 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1100 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1101 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1102
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1103- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1104 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1106
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1108----------------
1109
1110- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1111 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1112 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1113 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1114 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1115 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1116
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1117- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1118 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1119 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1120 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1121
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1123strongswan-4.1.4
1124----------------
1125
1126- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1127 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1128 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1129 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1130 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1131 parameter is not required any more.
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1132
1133- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1134 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1135 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1136
1137 right=peer.foo.bar
1138 rightallowany=yes
1139
1140 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1141 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1142 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1143 as
1144
1145 right=%any
1146
1147 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1148 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1149
1150 right=%peer.foo.bar
1151
1152 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1153
1154- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1155 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1156 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1157 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1158 connections as a responder are still possible.
078ce348 1159
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1160- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1161 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1162 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1163 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1164 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1165
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1166- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1167 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1168 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1169 by Robert Varga.
1170
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1171- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1172 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1173
06651827 1174
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1176----------------
1177
b6b90b68 1178- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1179 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1180
1181- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1182 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1183 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1184
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1185- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1186 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1187 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1188 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1189
1190- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1191 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1192 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1193 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1194
b6b90b68 1195- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1196 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1197 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1198 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1199 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1200 to implement.
a3354a69 1201
f3bb1bd0 1202 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1203 headers > 2.6.17.
1204
1205
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1206strongswan-4.1.2
1207----------------
1208
e23d98a7 1209- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1210 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1211 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1212 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1213
1214- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1215 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1216
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1217- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1218
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1219- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1220
dfbe2a0f 1221- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1222 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1223
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1224- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1225
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1226- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1227 connection name.
1228
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1230strongswan-4.1.1
1231----------------
1232
1233- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1234 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1235 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1236 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1237 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1238 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1239
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1240- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1241 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1242 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1243
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1244- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1245 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1246 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1247 vendor ID.
1248
1249- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1250 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1251 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1252 message.
1253
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1254- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1255 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1256
3b4f7d92 1257
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1260
1261- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1262 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1263
1264- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1265 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1266 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1267 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1268
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1269- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1270
c5d0fbb6 1271- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1272 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1273 accessLocations.
1274
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1275- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1276 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1277 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1278 option.
1279
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1280- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1281 code reuse and separation.
1282
1283- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1284 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1285 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1286
1287- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1288 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1289 specify it.
1290
1291- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1292 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1293 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1294 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1295 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1296 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1297
1298- Added client side support for cookies.
1299
1300- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1301 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1302 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
cd3958f8 1303
e23d98a7 1304
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1306----------------
1307
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1308- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1309 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1310 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1311
1312- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1313 to a default string.
1314
1315
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1317----------------
1318
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1319- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1320 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1321 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1322 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1323 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1324
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1325- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1326
5903179b 1327- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1328
5903179b 1329- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1330
5903179b 1331- various other bugfixes
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1332
1333
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1334strongswan-4.0.5
1335----------------
1336
1337- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1338 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1339
1340- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1341 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1342
1343- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1344 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1345 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1346 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1347
0cd645d2 1348 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1349
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1350 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1351
1352 config setup
03bf883d 1353 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1354
03bf883d 1355 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1356
03bf883d 1357 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1359
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1360strongswan-4.0.4
1361----------------
1362
1363- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1364
1365- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1366 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1367 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1368 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1369 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1370
1371- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1372 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1373 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1374
1375- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1376
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1377- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1378 or 3DES are supported.
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1379
1380- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1381 encrypt IKE traffic.
1382
1383- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1384 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1385
1386- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1387 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1388 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1389 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1390
1391
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1392strongswan-4.0.3
1393----------------
1394
1395- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1396 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1397 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1398 kernel.
1399
1400- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1401 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1402 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1403 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1404
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1405- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1406 algorithm configuration statements.
1407
1408
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1410----------------
1411
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1412- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1413 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1414 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1415 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1416
b6b90b68 1417- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1418 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1419 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1420 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1421
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1422- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1423 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1424 dpddelay=60s).
1425
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1426- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1427 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1428 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1429 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1430
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1431- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1432 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1433 and a more extensible code base.
1434
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1435- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1436 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1437 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1438 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1439 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1440 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1441 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1442
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1444strongswan-4.0.1
1445----------------
1446
b6b90b68 1447- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1448 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1449 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1450 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1451 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1452 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1453 algorithms for IKE:
1454 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1455 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1456 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1457 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1458 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1459 blowfish192, blowfish256
1460 Integrity: md5, sha1
1461 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1462 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1463
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1464- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1465 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1466 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1467 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1468 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1469 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1470
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1471- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1472 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1473 configuration examples).
1474
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1475- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1476 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1477 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1478 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1479
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1480- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1481 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1482 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1483 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1484 via ipsec starter.
1485
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1487strongswan-4.0.0
1488----------------
1489
1490- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1491 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1492 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1493 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1494 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1495 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1496 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1497 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1498 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1499 status command).
1500
1501
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1502strongswan-2.7.0
1503----------------
1504
1505- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1506 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1507 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1508 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1509 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1510 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1511 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1512 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 1513 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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1515 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1516 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1517
1518- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1519 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1520 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1521 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1522 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1523 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1524 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1525 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1526 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
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1529- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1530 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1531 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1532 be found.
1533
1534
1535strongswan-2.6.4
1536----------------
1537
1538- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1539 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1540 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 1541 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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1542 are required any more.
1543
1544- added support of DPD restart mode
1545
1546- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1547 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1548 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1549
1550- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1551 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1552
1553
1554strongswan-2.6.3
1555----------------
1556
b6b90b68 1557- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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1559
1560- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1561 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1562 via the auth=ah parameter.
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1564- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
1565 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1566
1567- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1568 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1569 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1570 the ipsec status command.
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1573strongswan-2.6.2
1574----------------
1575
1576- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1577 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1578 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1579
1580- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1581 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1582 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1583
1584- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1585 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1586
1587 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1588 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1589
1590- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1591 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1592 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1593
1594 conn rw
1595 right=%any
1596 rightid=@foo.bar
1597 authby=secret
1598
1599- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1600
1601- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1602
1603- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1604 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1605 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1606
1607- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1608 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1609 servers.
1610
1611- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1612 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1613
1614
1615strongswan-2.6.1
1616----------------
1617
1618- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1619 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1620 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1621
1622
1623strongswan-2.6.0
1624----------------
1625
1626- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1627 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1628 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1629 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1630 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1631 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1632 accelerated tremedously.
1633
1634- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 1635 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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1637
1638- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1639 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1640 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1641
1642- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1643
1644- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1645
1646- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1647 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1648 documented yet.
1649
1650
1651strongswan-2.5.7
1652----------------
1653
1654- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1655 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1656 listing.
1657
1658
1659strongswan-2.5.6
1660----------------
1661
1662- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1663 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1664 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1665 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1666
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1668 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1669 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1670 has been changed from one year to five years.
1671
1672
1673strongswan-2.5.5
1674----------------
1675
1676- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1677 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1678 via the whack interface. Notation:
1679
1680 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1681 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1682 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1683 [--keyid <keyid>]
1684
1685 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1686 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1687 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1688 [--keyid <keyid>]
1689
b6b90b68 1690 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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1692 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1693 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1694 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1695 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1696 permanently.
1697
1698- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1699 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1700 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1701 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1702 is automatically generated by calling the function
1703
1704 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1705
1706 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1707 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1708
1709
1710strongswan-2.5.4
1711----------------
1712
1713- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1714 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1715 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1716 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1717
1718- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1719 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1720
1721
1722strongswan-2.5.3
1723----------------
1724
1725- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1726 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1727 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1728 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1729 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1730
1731- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1732
1733 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1734 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1735 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 1736 self-signed certs)
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1738- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1739 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1740 attribute for AES encryption.
1741
1742- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1743
1744- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1745
1746
1747strongswan-2.5.2
1748----------------
1749
1750- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1751 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1752 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1753 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1754 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1755
1756- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1757 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1758 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1759
1760
1761strongswan-2.5.1
1762----------------
1763
1764- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1765 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1766 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1767 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1768 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1769 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1770 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1771 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1772
1773- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1774 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1775 the command
1776
1777 ipsec auto --listcards
1778
1779 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1780 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1781 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1782 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1783
1784 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1785 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1786 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1787
1788 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1789
1790 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1791 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1792 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1793
1794- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1795 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1796 to generate a signature.
1797
1798- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1799 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1800 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1801 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1802 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1803
1804- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1805 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1806
1807- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1808 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1809 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1810
1811
1812strongswan-2.5.0
1813----------------
1814
1815- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1816 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1817 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1818 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1819 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1820 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1821
1822- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1823 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1824 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1825 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1826 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1827 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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1830 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1831 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1832
1833
1834strongswan-2.4.4
1835----------------
1836
1837- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1838
1839- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1840
1841
1842strongswan-2.4.3
1843----------------
1844
1845- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1846 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1847
1848- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1849
1850- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1851 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1852 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1853
1854- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1855 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1856 included.
1857
1858
1859strongswan-2.4.2
1860----------------
1861
1862- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1863 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1864 value of 50.
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1867 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 1868 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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1869 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
1870 pad has to be done only once.
1871
1872- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1873 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1874 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 1875
997358a6 1876 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
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1879
1880- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1881 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
1882
1883- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
1884 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
1885 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
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1887- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
1888 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
1889 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
1890
1891
1892strongswan-2.4.1
1893----------------
1894
1895- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
1896 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
1897 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
1898 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
1899 "left" be"local".
1900
1901
1902strongswan-2.4.0a
1903-----------------
1904
1905- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
1906
1907- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
1908 Michael Meier
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1910
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1912----------------
1913
1914- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
1915 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
1916 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
1917 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
1918 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
1919 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
1920 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1921
1922- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
1923 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
1924 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
1925 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
1926 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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1928- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 1929 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 1930 in a particular test.
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1932
1933strongswan-2.3.2
1934----------------
1935
1936- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
1937 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
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1940
1941- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
1942 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
1943 Delete SA messages.
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1946 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
1947 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
1948 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
1949
1950
1951strongswan-2.3.1
1952----------------
1953
1954- Added basic Mode Config functionality
1955
1956- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
1957 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
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1959- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
1960 module.
b6b90b68 1961
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1963 maximum udp size patches.
1964
1965- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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1968strongswan-2.3.0
1969----------------
1970
1971- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
1972 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
1973 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
1974 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
1975 subdirectory.
1976
1977- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 1978 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 1979 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 1980
997358a6 1981 man ipsec_openac.
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1983 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
1984 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
1985 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
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1988
1989 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
1990 Research or Sales, only.
1991
1992- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 1993 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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1995 Secure Entry Clients.
1996
1997- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
1998 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
1999 now both set to 24 h.
2000
2001- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2002 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2003
2004- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2005 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2006 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
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2008 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2009
2010
2011strongswan-2.2.2
2012----------------
2013
2014- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2015 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2016 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2017 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2018
f3bb1bd0 2019- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2021 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
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2024
2025- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2026 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2027
2028
2029strongswan-2.2.1
2030----------------
2031
2032- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2033 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2034
f3bb1bd0 2035- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2036 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2037
997358a6 2038- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2039 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2041- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2042
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2044
2045- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2046
2047
2048strongswan-2.2.0
2049----------------
2050
2051- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2052
2053 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2056
2057- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2058 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2059 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2060
997358a6 2061 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2064
2065- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2066 using the compile option VENDORID
2067
2068- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2069
2070- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2071
2072- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2073
2074- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2075 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2077- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2078
2079- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2080 connection.
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2083strongswan-2.1.5
2084----------------
2085
2086- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2087 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2088 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2089 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2090 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2091
2092- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2093 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2094
2095
2096strongswan-2.1.4
2097----------------
2098
2099- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2100 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2101 an optional connection selector:
2102
2103 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2104
2105- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2106 man page.
2107
2108- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2109 of malformed distinguished names.
2110
2111- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2112
2113 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2114
2115- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2116
2117
2118strongswan-2.1.3
2119----------------
2120
2121- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2122 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2125strongswan-2.1.2
2126----------------
2127
2128- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2129 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2130 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2133strongswan-2.1.1
2134----------------
2135
2136- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2137
2138
2139strongswan-2.1.0
2140----------------
2141
2142- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2143
2144 ca kool
2145 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2146 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2147 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2148 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2149 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2150 auto=add # add, ignore
b6b90b68 2151
997358a6 2152 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
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2155
2156- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2157 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2158
2159
2160strongswan-2.0.2
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2162
2163- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2164 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2166- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
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2169- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2170 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2171
2172- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2173 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2174 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2175
2176
2177strongswan-2.0.1
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2179
2180- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2181 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2182 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2183 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2184
2185- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2186 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2187
2188
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2189strongswan-2.0.0
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2191
2192- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12