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1strongswan-5.1.3
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4- Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
5 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
6 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
7 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
8 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
9
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10- The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
11 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
12 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
13 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
14
15- The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
16 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
17 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
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19- The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
20 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
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23strongswan-5.1.2
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25
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26- A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
27 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
28 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
29 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
30 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
31 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
32 the current defaults.
33
34- As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
35 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
36 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
37 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
38 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
39 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
40
41- All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
42 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
43 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
44 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
45 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
46
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47- The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
48 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
49 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
50 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
51 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
52 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
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54- Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
55 Attestation IMV.
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57- Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
58 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
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60- When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
61 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
62 Andrea Bonomi.
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64- The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
65 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
66 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
67
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72- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
73 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
74 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
75 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
76
77- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
78 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
79 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
80
2b32884d 81- The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
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82 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
83 plugin.
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85- The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
86 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
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88- The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
89 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
90 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
91 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
92 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
93
94- charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
95 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
96 as pluto used it.
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98- Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
99 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
100 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
101 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
102
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103- The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
104 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
105 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
106
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107- The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
108 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
109 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
110 from a internal network.
111
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112- For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
113 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
114 more trustworthy alternative.
115
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116- The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
117 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
118
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119- With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
120 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
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122- load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
123 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
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125- The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
126 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
127
128- The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
129 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
130
131- Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
132 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
133
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134- libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
135 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
136 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
137 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
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143- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
144 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
145 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
146 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
147
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148- The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
149 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
150 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
151 few simple command line options.
152
153- The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
78e6f69e 154 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
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155 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
156
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157- The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
158 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
159
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160- The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
161 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
162 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
163 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
164 backend for IKEv1.
165
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167 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
168 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
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170- The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
171 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
172 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
173 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
174 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
175 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
176
177- Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
178 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
179 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
180
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181- IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
182
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184 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
185 between peers.
186
226f34e0 187- Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
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188 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
189 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
190 and/or device.
191
192- Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
193 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
194 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
195 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
196 production releases).
197
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198- The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
199 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
200 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
201
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202- chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
203 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
204 hashtables.
205
206- All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
207 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
208 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
209 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
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211- A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
212 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
213 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
214 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
215
216- Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
217 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
218 TCP connections from a different host.
219
78e6f69e 220- libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
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225
226- Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
227 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
228 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
229 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
230 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
231 legitimate one.
232
233- The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
234 was fixed as well.
235
236- The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
237 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
238
239- The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
240 requests.
241
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242- The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
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247
248- The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
249 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
250 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
251 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
252 created by Reto Guadagnini.
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254- Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
255 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
256 device ID in the attest database.
257
258- The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
259 if the hardware supports it.
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261- The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
262 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
263 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
264 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
265 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
266 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
267 to Accounting-Stops.
268
269- The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
270 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
271 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
272
273- The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
274 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
275
276- The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
277 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
278 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
279 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
280
281- The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
282 IKE packets.
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284- The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
285 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
286 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
287 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
288 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
289
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290- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
291 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
292 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
293 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
294 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
295 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
296 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
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300
301- Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
302 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
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304- The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
305 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
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307- A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
308 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
309 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
310 or receive notifications.
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312- The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
313 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
314
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315- IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
316 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
317 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
318 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
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320- The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
321 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
322 section.
323
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324- The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
325 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
326 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
327 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
328 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
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330- PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
331 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
332 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
333 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
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335- Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
336 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
337 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
338
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339- IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
340 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
341 Volker Rümelin.
342
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343- The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
344 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
345
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346- The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
347 guest images based on Debian.
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352
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353- Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
354 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
355
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356- Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
357 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6f93927b 358 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
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360- The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
361 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
362 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
6f93927b 363 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
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364 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
365
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366- The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
367 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
368 against a RADIUS server.
369
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370- The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
371 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
372 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
373 including xauth-pam.
374
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375- The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
376 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
377 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
378 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
379 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
380 aware clients.
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382- An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
383 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
384 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
385
386- The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
387 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
388 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
389 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
390
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391- The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
392 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
393 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
394 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
395 IP addresses to return.
396
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397- The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
398 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
399 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
400 specified or referenced named pools.
401
402- Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
403 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
404
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405- The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
406 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
407
408- The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
409 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
410 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
411 is preserved.
412
413- The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
414 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
415
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416- The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
417 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
418 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
419
420- All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
421 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
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427- The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
428 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
429 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
430 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
431 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
432 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
433 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
434 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
435
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436- Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
437 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
438 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
439 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
440 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
441 the thread calling the listener.
442 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
443 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
444 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
445 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
446
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447- Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
448 reappear.
449
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450- The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
451 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
452 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
453 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
454 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
455 feature).
456
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457- In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
458 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
459 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
460 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
461 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
462 using SHA-256 or better.
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467
468- Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
469 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
470 a legitimate one.
471
472- Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
473
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477
478- The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
479 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
480
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481- The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
482 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
483 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
484 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
485
486- The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
487 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
488 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
489 console.
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491- Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
492 RFC 4595.
493
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494- The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
495 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
496
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a281494a 498 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
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500- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
501 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
502
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506
507- Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
508 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
509 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
510 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
511
512- Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
513 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
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514 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
515 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
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517- The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
518 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
519 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
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521- Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
522 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
523 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
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526
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530
531- Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
532 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
533 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
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535 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
536 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
537 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
538 libraries for resolving external symbols.
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540- Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
541 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
542 post-installation phase.
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547
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548- The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
549 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
550 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
551
552- starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
553 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
554 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
555 for the initial patch.
556
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557- The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
558 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
559
560- Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
561
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563 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
564 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
565 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
566 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
567 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
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570 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
571 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
572 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
573 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
574 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
575
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577 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
578 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
579
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583
a7edbd21 584- Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
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586 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
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588
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589- The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
590 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
591
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593 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
594 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
595
596- Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
597 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
598
f8799170 599- IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
b18a697a 600 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
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602 interfaces.
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605 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
606
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608 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
609 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
610 the client is admitted to the network.
611 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
612
613- IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
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616- The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
617 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
618 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
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624- The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
625 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
626 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
627 whitelist administration.
628
92ebb7c5 629- The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
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632
633- The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
634 authentication to previously used certificates.
635
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637 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
638 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
639 only starts|routes the specific child config.
640
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642
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643- Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
644 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
645
646- The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
2778b664 647 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
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649- The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
650 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
651 support configuration reloading.
652
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654 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
655 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
656 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
657 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
658 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
659
660- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
661 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
662 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
663
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667
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668- Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
669 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
5cdaafef 670 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
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671 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
672 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
e44817df 673 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
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675- Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
676 in place of the external libtnc library.
677
678- The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
679 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
680 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
681 the corresponding protocol stack.
682
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684 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
685 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
686 in an SQL database.
687
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688- The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
689 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
690 points in an SQL database.
691
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693 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
694 replaced, respectively.
695
696- Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
697 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
698 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
699 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
700 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
701 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
702 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
703
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704- ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
705 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
706
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707- Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
708 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
709 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
710
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711- The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
712 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
713 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
714 xcbc algorithms.
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717 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
718 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
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721 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
722 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
723 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
724 ./configure switch.
725
77eee25f 726- The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
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729 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
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730 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
731 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
732
733- The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
734 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
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737 support for delta CRLs.
738
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742
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744 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
ac544be2 745 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
b14923ec 746 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
ac544be2 747 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
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749- Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
750 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
751 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
752 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
753
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754- The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
755 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
61df42cc 756 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
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758
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759- Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
760 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
761 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
762 client authentication.
763
764- Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
765 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
61df42cc 766 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
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769 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
770 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
771 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
772 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
ac544be2 773 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
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774 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
775 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
776
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778 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
779 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
780
781- Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
782 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
783
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784- The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
785 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
786 availability.
787
788- The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
789 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
790 implement a simple event listener.
791
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793 initial responder moves to a different address.
794
795- Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
796
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797- Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
798 identity was different from the IKE identity.
799
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800- Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
801 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
802 UNITY_BANNER).
803
804- Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
805 charon plugins.
806
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808
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812
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814 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
815 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
ec40c02a 816
b22bb9f2 817- The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
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819 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
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821- The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
822
e9448cfc 823- OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
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826- RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
827 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
828 in strongswan.conf, if required.
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830- The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
831
832- The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
833 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
834
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836 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
837
e87b78c6 838- The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
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840 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
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842- The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
843 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
844
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845- The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
846 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
847
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848- The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
849 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
850 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
851 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
852 plugin.
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854- Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
855 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
856 unauthenticated users.
857
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861
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862- The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
863 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
864 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
865 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
9235edc2 866 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
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868
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870 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
871 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
872 kernel interface.
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874- Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
875 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
876 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
877 from IBM for his contribution.
878
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880 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
881 are allocated.
882
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884 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
885 command line option.
886
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887- The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
888 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
889 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
890 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
891 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
892 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
893
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894- A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
895 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
89bf11d2 896 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
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898
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899- The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
900 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
901 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
902 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
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905 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
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910
cdad91de 911- The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
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912 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
913
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914- The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
915 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
916 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
917
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918- The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
919
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921
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923 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
924 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
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925 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
926
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928
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932 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
933 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
934 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
935 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
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937- Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
938 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
939 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
940
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941- Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
942 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
943
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945 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
946 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
947 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
948 this is the case.
949
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950- Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
951 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
952 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
953 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
954 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
955
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957 allowing interoperability.
958
959
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962
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963- The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
964 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
965 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
b42bfc79 966 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
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970 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
971 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
972 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
973 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
974
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975- The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
976 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
977 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
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980 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
981 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
982
d245f5cf 983- The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
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984 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
985
986- The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
987 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
988 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
989
990- Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
991 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
992
993- In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
994 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
995 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
996 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
997 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
998 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
999
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1000- If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1001 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1002 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1003 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1004
b80fa9ca 1005- Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
509f70c1 1006 statements.
b80fa9ca 1007
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1008- Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1009
1010- Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1011 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1012
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1013- A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1014 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1015
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1016- The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1017 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1018 and the libstrongswan library.
18060241 1019
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1021strongswan-4.3.4
1022----------------
1023
1024- IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1025 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1026
1027- ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1028 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1029
1030- The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1031
1032
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1033strongswan-4.3.3
1034----------------
1035
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1036- The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1037 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1038 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1039 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1040 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1041
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1042- The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1043 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1044
1045- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1046 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1047
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1048- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1049
1050- The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1051 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1052 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1053
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1055strongswan-4.3.2
1056----------------
1057
1058- The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1059 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1060
1061- libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1062 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1063 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1064
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1065- pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1066 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1067 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1068 with IKEv1.
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1069
1070- Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1071 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1072 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1073 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
b6b90b68 1074
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1076strongswan-4.3.1
1077----------------
1078
1079- The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
09dbca9f 1080 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
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1081 dynamically.
1082
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1083- The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1084 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1085 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1086 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1087 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
047b2e42 1088
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1089- The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1090 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1091 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1092 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1093 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1094 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1095
09dbca9f 1096- Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
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1097 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1098 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1099
1100- Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1101 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1102 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1103
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1104- Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1105
1106- Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1107 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1108 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1109 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1110 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
b6b90b68 1111 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
f3bb1bd0 1112 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
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1113 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1114
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1115- Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1116 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1117
d44fd821 1118- Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
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1119 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1120 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
d44fd821 1121 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
050cc582 1122 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
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1123
1124
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1125strongswan-4.3.0
1126----------------
1127
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1128- Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1129 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1130 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1131 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1132 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1133
1134- If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1135 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1136
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1137- The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1138 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
247e665a 1139
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1140- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1141 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1142 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
b752f873 1143
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1144- Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1145 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
dfd7ba80 1146
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1148strongswan-4.2.14
1149-----------------
1150
22180558 1151- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
f3bb1bd0 1152 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
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1153 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1154
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1155- A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1156 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1157 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1158 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1159 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1160 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1161 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1162 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1163 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1164
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1165- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1166 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1167 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1168 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1169
1170- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
b6b90b68 1171 IDr payload anymore.
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1172
1173
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1174strongswan-4.2.13
1175-----------------
1176
1177- Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1178 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1179
f3bb1bd0 1180- Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
b6b90b68 1181 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
076e7853 1182
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1183- Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1184 parameters field is optional.
1185
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1186- Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1187
076e7853 1188
bfde75ee 1189strongswan-4.2.12
076e7853 1190-----------------
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1191
1192- Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1193 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1194 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1195
1196- Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
b6b90b68 1197 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
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1198 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1199
1200- The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1201 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1202
b6b90b68 1203
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1204strongswan-4.2.11
1205-----------------
1206
ae1ae574
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1207- Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1208 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1209
1210- Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1211 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
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1212
1213
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1214strongswan-4.2.10
1215-----------------
1216
1217- Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1218 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1219 counterparts with better lookup times.
1220
1221- Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1222 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1223 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1224
1225- The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1226 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1227 on the fly.
1228
1229- The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1230 command queries assigned leases.
1231
1232- Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1233 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1234
1235- The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1236 reliable source of randomness.
1237
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1239----------------
1240
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AS
1241- Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1242 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
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1243
1244- Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1245 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1246 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1247
1248- Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
7bdc931e 1249 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
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1250 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1251 parallelization to multiple cores.
1252
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1253- updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1254 further slim down the daemon core.
73937bd8 1255
509e07c5 1256- Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
7bdc931e 1257 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
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1258 memory or hardware.
1259
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AS
1260- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1261 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1262 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1263 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1264
1265- Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1266 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1267 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1268 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1269 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
f3bb1bd0 1270 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
7bdc931e 1271
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1272- Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1273 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1274 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1275
73937bd8 1276
e39b271b
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1277strongswan-4.2.8
1278----------------
1279
5dadb16e 1280- IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
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1281 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1282 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1283
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1284- Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1285 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1286 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
1287 long as possible and other fixes.
1288
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1289- Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1290 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1291 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1292
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1294strongswan-4.2.7
1295----------------
1296
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1297- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1298 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1299 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1300 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
b6b90b68 1301 for making us aware of this problem.
b37cda82 1302
b6b90b68 1303- The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
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1304 ssh-agent.
1305
1306- The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
b1f47854 1307 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
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1308
1309- Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1310 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1311 newer libcap2 library.
1312
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1313- ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1314 charon keying daemon.
1315
1316
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1317strongswan-4.2.6
1318----------------
1319
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1320- A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1321 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1322 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1323 in the Gnome Keyring.
1324
1325- A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1326 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
b6b90b68 1327 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
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1328 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
1329
1330- Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
1331 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
1332 authentication.
1333
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1334- The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
1335 authentication types and EAP identities.
1336
1337- Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
1338 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
1339
1340- Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
1341 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
1342
1343
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1345----------------
1346
b6b90b68 1347- Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
8124e491
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1348
1349- Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
1350 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
1351 storing only history information has become optional and can be
1352 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
1353 strongswan.conf.
1354
eb0cc338 1355- The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
de5f70e7 1356 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
eb0cc338 1357
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1358- management of different virtual IP pools for different
1359 network interfaces have become possible.
1360
b6b90b68 1361- fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
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1362 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
1363
8124e491
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1364- fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
1365
b6b90b68 1366
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1367strongswan-4.2.4
1368----------------
1369
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1370- Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
1371 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
179dd12c 1372
73a8eed3 1373- ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
9de95037 1374 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
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1375
1376- The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
1377 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
1378
1379- The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
1380 X.509 certificates.
1381
1382- Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
1383 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
b6b90b68 1384
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1385- ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
1386 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1387
179dd12c 1388
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1389strongswan-4.2.3
1390----------------
1391
b6b90b68 1392- Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
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1393 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1394
1395- Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1396 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1397
1398
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1399strongswan-4.2.2
1400----------------
1401
a57cd446
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1402- Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1403 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
7f491111 1404 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
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1405 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1406 to software-based crypto plugins.
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1407
1408- Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
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1409 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1410 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1411 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1412
1413- The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
b6b90b68 1414 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
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1415 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1416
7f491111 1417
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1418strongswan-4.2.1
1419----------------
1420
c306dfb1 1421- Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
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1422 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1423 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1424 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1425 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1426 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
5c5d67d6 1427
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1428- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1429 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1430 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1431 connections.
b6b90b68 1432
f3bb1bd0 1433- The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
58caabf7 1434 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
c306dfb1 1435 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
58caabf7 1436
b6b90b68 1437- Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
58caabf7 1438 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
c306dfb1 1439 re-implemented.
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1440
1441- The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1442 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
5c5d67d6 1443
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1444- A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1445 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1446 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
5c5d67d6 1447
466abb49 1448- The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
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1449 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1450 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1451 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
466abb49 1452 separate plugin.
58caabf7 1453
c306dfb1 1454- Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
58caabf7 1455
c306dfb1 1456- Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
466abb49
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1457
1458- The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
c306dfb1 1459 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
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1460 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1461
5c5d67d6 1462
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1463strongswan-4.2.0
1464----------------
1465
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1466- libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1467 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1468 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1469 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1470 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1471 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1472 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
a11ea97d 1473
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1474- libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1475 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1476
1477- The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1478 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1479 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1480 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1481 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1482 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1483 The following new plugins are available:
1484 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1485 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1486 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1487
1488- The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1489 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1490 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1491
b6b90b68 1492- The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
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1493 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1494 by other applications.
b6b90b68 1495
a11ea97d 1496
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1497strongswan-4.1.11
1498-----------------
fb6d76cd 1499
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1500- IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1501 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1502 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1503
1504- Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
b6b90b68 1505 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
fb6d76cd 1506
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1507- Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1508 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1509 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1510
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1512strongswan-4.1.10
1513-----------------
1514
1515- Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
b6b90b68 1516 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
83e0d841 1517
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1518- Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1519 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1520 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1521 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1522
1523- A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1524 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1525 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1526 before using it.
1527
1528- Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
b6b90b68 1529 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
fdc7c943 1530 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
83e0d841 1531
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1534----------------
1535
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1536- The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1537 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1538 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1539 added.
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1541- Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1542 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1543
1544- strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1545 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1546
1547- Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1548
8b678ad4 1549- IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
b6b90b68 1550 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
8b678ad4 1551 loaded twice.
5076770c 1552
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1554strongswan-4.1.8
1555----------------
1556
5076770c 1557- Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
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1558
1559
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1560strongswan-4.1.7
1561----------------
1562
1563- In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1564 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1565 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1566
6e193274 1567- Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
078b6008 1568 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
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1569 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1570
1571- Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1572 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
64d24679 1573 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
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1574
1575- Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1576 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1577
1578- Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1579
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1582----------------
1583
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1584- Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1585 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1586 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1587 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1588 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1589 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1590 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1591 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1592
1593- the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1594 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1595 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
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1596 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1597
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1598- the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1599 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1600 startup.
b6b90b68 1601
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1602- the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1603 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1604 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1605 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1606 AUTHentication having been configured.
b6b90b68 1607
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1608- ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1609 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
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1610
1611
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1613----------------
1614
1615- If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1616 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1617 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1618 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1619 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1620 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1621
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1622- Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1623 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1624 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1625 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1626
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1628strongswan-4.1.4
1629----------------
1630
1631- The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1632 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1633 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1634 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
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1635 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1636 parameter is not required any more.
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1637
1638- The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1639 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1640 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1641
1642 right=peer.foo.bar
1643 rightallowany=yes
1644
1645 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1646 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1647 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1648 as
1649
1650 right=%any
1651
1652 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
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1653 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1654
1655 right=%peer.foo.bar
1656
1657 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1658
1659- ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1660 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1661 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1662 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1663 connections as a responder are still possible.
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1665- The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1666 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1667 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1668 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1669 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
b6b90b68 1670
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1671- Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1672 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1673 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1674 by Robert Varga.
1675
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1676- Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1677 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
e93c68ba 1678
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1680strongswan-4.1.3
1681----------------
1682
b6b90b68 1683- IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
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1684 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1685
1686- IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
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1687 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1688 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
a3354a69 1689
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1690- IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1691 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1692 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1693 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1694
1695- The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1696 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1697 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1698 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1699
b6b90b68 1700- Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
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1701 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1702 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1703 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
b6b90b68 1704 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
998ca0ea 1705 to implement.
a3354a69 1706
f3bb1bd0 1707 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
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1708 headers > 2.6.17.
1709
1710
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1712----------------
1713
e23d98a7 1714- Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
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1715 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1716 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1717 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1718
1719- Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1720 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1721
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1722- Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1723
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1724- Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1725
dfbe2a0f 1726- Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
9f78f957 1727 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
b6b90b68 1728
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1729- crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1730
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1731- The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1732 connection name.
1733
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1735strongswan-4.1.1
1736----------------
1737
1738- Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1739 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1740 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1741 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1742 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1743 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1744
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1745- The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1746 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1747 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1748
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1749- Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1750 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1751 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1752 vendor ID.
1753
1754- Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1755 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1756 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1757 message.
1758
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1759- Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1760 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1761
3b4f7d92 1762
34bbd0c3 1763strongswan-4.1.0
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1765
1766- Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1767 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1768
1769- Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1770 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1771 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1772 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1773
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1774- Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1775
c5d0fbb6 1776- Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
b6b90b68 1777 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
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1778 accessLocations.
1779
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1780- Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1781 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1782 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1783 option.
1784
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1785- Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1786 code reuse and separation.
1787
1788- Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1789 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1790 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1791
1792- The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1793 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1794 specify it.
1795
1796- Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1797 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1798 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1799 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1800 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1801 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1802
1803- Added client side support for cookies.
1804
1805- Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1806 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1807 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
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1811----------------
1812
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1813- strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1814 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1815 XAUTH and Mode Config.
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1816
1817- UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1818 to a default string.
1819
1820
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1821strongswan-4.0.6
1822----------------
1823
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1824- IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1825 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1826 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1827 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
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1828 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1829
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1830- IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1831
5903179b 1832- IKEv2: Support for transport mode
af87afed 1833
5903179b 1834- fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2b4405a3 1835
5903179b 1836- various other bugfixes
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1837
1838
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1839strongswan-4.0.5
1840----------------
1841
1842- IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1843 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1844
1845- IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1846 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1847
1848- IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1849 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1850 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1851 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
03bf883d 1852
0cd645d2 1853 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
03bf883d 1854
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1855 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1856
1857 config setup
03bf883d 1858 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
0cd645d2 1859
03bf883d 1860 or changed at runtime via stroke as
0cd645d2 1861
03bf883d 1862 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
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1864
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1865strongswan-4.0.4
1866----------------
1867
1868- Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1869
1870- Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1871 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1872 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1873 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1874 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1875
1876- Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1877 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1878 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1879
1880- Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1881
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1882- Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1883 or 3DES are supported.
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1884
1885- Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1886 encrypt IKE traffic.
1887
1888- Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1889 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1890
1891- Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1892 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1893 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1894 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1895
1896
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1897strongswan-4.0.3
1898----------------
1899
1900- Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
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1901 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1902 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
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1903 kernel.
1904
1905- Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1906 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1907 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1908 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1909
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1910- "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1911 algorithm configuration statements.
1912
1913
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1915----------------
1916
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1917- Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1918 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1919 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1920 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
efa40c11 1921
b6b90b68 1922- Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
efa40c11 1923 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
b6b90b68 1924 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
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1925 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1926
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1927- Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1928 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1929 dpddelay=60s).
1930
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1931- Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1932 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1933 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1934 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1935
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1936- Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1937 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
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1938 and a more extensible code base.
1939
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1940- The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1941 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1942 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1943 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1944 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1945 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1946 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1947
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1950----------------
1951
b6b90b68 1952- Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
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1953 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1954 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1955 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
b6b90b68 1956 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
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1957 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1958 algorithms for IKE:
1959 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1960 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1961 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1962 and for ESP:
b6b90b68 1963 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
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1964 blowfish192, blowfish256
1965 Integrity: md5, sha1
1966 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
b6b90b68 1967 libstrongswan.
f2c2d395 1968
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1969- initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1970 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
22ff6f57 1971 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
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1972 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1973 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1974 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
22ff6f57 1975
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1976- support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1977 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1978 configuration examples).
1979
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1980- new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1981 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
b6b90b68 1982 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
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1983 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1984
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1985- better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1986 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1987 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1988 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1989 via ipsec starter.
1990
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1992strongswan-4.0.0
1993----------------
1994
1995- initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
b6b90b68 1996 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
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1997 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1998 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1999 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2000 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2001 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2002 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2003 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2004 status command).
2005
2006
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2008----------------
2009
2010- the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2011 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2012 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2013 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2014 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2015 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2016 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2017 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
f3bb1bd0 2018 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
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2020 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2021 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2022
2023- a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2024 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2025 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2026 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2027 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2028 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2029 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2030 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2031 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
b6b90b68 2032 be inserted.
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2033
2034- mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2035 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2036 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2037 be found.
2038
2039
2040strongswan-2.6.4
2041----------------
2042
2043- the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2044 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2045 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
b6b90b68 2046 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
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2047 are required any more.
2048
2049- added support of DPD restart mode
2050
2051- ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2052 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2053 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2054
2055- the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2056 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2057
2058
2059strongswan-2.6.3
2060----------------
2061
b6b90b68 2062- /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
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2063 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2064
2065- ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2066 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2067 via the auth=ah parameter.
b6b90b68 2068
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2069- The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2070 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2071
2072- get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2073 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2074 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2075 the ipsec status command.
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2078strongswan-2.6.2
2079----------------
2080
2081- running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2082 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2083 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2084
2085- get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2086 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2087 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2088
2089- strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2090 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2091
2092 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2093 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2094
2095- fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2096 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2097 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2098
2099 conn rw
2100 right=%any
2101 rightid=@foo.bar
2102 authby=secret
2103
2104- the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2105
2106- ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2107
2108- in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2109 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2110 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2111
2112- The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2113 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2114 servers.
2115
2116- the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2117 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2118
2119
2120strongswan-2.6.1
2121----------------
2122
2123- ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2124 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2125 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2126
2127
2128strongswan-2.6.0
2129----------------
2130
2131- Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2132 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2133 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2134 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2135 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2136 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2137 accelerated tremedously.
2138
2139- Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
b6b90b68 2140 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
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2141 reload pluto's connections.
2142
2143- moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2144 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2145 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2146
2147- removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2148
2149- fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2150
2151- The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2152 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2153 documented yet.
2154
2155
2156strongswan-2.5.7
2157----------------
2158
2159- CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2160 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2161 listing.
2162
2163
2164strongswan-2.5.6
2165----------------
2166
2167- when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2168 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2169 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2170 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2171
b6b90b68 2172- The scepclient function now allows to define the
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2173 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2174 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2175 has been changed from one year to five years.
2176
2177
2178strongswan-2.5.5
2179----------------
2180
2181- the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2182 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2183 via the whack interface. Notation:
2184
2185 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2186 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2187 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2188 [--keyid <keyid>]
2189
2190 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2191 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2192 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2193 [--keyid <keyid>]
2194
b6b90b68 2195 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
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2196
2197 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2198 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2199 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2200 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2201 permanently.
2202
2203- if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2204 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2205 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2206 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2207 is automatically generated by calling the function
2208
2209 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2210
2211 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2212 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2213
2214
2215strongswan-2.5.4
2216----------------
2217
2218- the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2219 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2220 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2221 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2222
2223- added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2224 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2225
2226
2227strongswan-2.5.3
2228----------------
2229
2230- with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2231 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2232 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2233 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2234 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2235
2236- introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2237
2238 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2239 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2240 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
b6b90b68 2241 self-signed certs)
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2242
2243- fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2244 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2245 attribute for AES encryption.
2246
2247- applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2248
2249- applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2250
2251
2252strongswan-2.5.2
2253----------------
2254
2255- CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2256 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2257 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2258 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2259 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2260
2261- Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2262 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2263 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2264
2265
2266strongswan-2.5.1
2267----------------
2268
2269- Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2270 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2271 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2272 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
2273 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2274 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2275 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2276 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2277
2278- Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2279 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2280 the command
2281
2282 ipsec auto --listcards
2283
2284 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2285 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2286 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2287 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2288
2289 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2290 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2291 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2292
2293 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2294
2295 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2296 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2297 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2298
2299- Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2300 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2301 to generate a signature.
2302
2303- The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2304 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2305 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2306 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2307 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2308
2309- Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2310 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2311
2312- Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2313 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2314 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2315
2316
2317strongswan-2.5.0
2318----------------
2319
2320- The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2321 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2322 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2323 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2324 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2325 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2326
2327- A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
2328 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
2329 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
2330 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
2331 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
2332 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
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2334- Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
2335 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
2336 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
2337
2338
2339strongswan-2.4.4
2340----------------
2341
2342- Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
2343
2344- Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
2345
2346
2347strongswan-2.4.3
2348----------------
2349
2350- Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
2351 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
2352
2353- Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
2354
2355- Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
2356 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
2357 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
2358
2359- When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
2360 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
2361 included.
2362
2363
2364strongswan-2.4.2
2365----------------
2366
2367- Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
2368 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
2369 value of 50.
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2371- Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
2372 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
b6b90b68 2373 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
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2374 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
2375 pad has to be done only once.
2376
2377- Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
2378 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
2379 to be used with smart cards. Example:
b6b90b68 2380
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b6b90b68 2382
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2383- Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
2384
2385- Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
2386 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2387
2388- Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2389 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2390 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
b6b90b68 2391
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2392- Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2393 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2394 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2395
2396
2397strongswan-2.4.1
2398----------------
2399
2400- Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2401 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2402 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2403 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2404 "left" be"local".
2405
2406
2407strongswan-2.4.0a
2408-----------------
2409
2410- updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2411
2412- updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2413 Michael Meier
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2414
2415
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2416strongswan-2.4.0
2417----------------
2418
2419- strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2420 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2421 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2422 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2423 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2424 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2425 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2426
2427- When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2428 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2429 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2430 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2431 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
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2432
2433- the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
997358a6 2434 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
b6b90b68 2435 in a particular test.
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2436
2437
2438strongswan-2.3.2
2439----------------
2440
2441- fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2442 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
b6b90b68 2443
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2444- fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2445
2446- undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2447 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2448 Delete SA messages.
b6b90b68 2449
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2450- added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2451 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2452 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2453 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2454
2455
2456strongswan-2.3.1
2457----------------
2458
2459- Added basic Mode Config functionality
2460
2461- Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2462 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
b6b90b68 2463
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2464- The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2465 module.
b6b90b68 2466
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2467- Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2468 maximum udp size patches.
2469
2470- UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
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2472
2473strongswan-2.3.0
2474----------------
2475
2476- Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2477 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2478 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2479 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2480 subdirectory.
2481
2482- Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
b6b90b68 2483 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
997358a6 2484 using the openac facility. For more details see
b6b90b68 2485
997358a6 2486 man ipsec_openac.
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2488 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2489 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2490 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
b6b90b68 2491
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2492 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2493
2494 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2495 Research or Sales, only.
2496
2497- In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
b6b90b68 2498 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
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2499 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2500 Secure Entry Clients.
2501
2502- Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2503 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2504 now both set to 24 h.
2505
2506- Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2507 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2508
2509- Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2510 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2511 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
b6b90b68 2512
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2513 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2514
2515
2516strongswan-2.2.2
2517----------------
2518
2519- Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2520 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2521 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2522 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2523
f3bb1bd0 2524- Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
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2525 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2526 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
b6b90b68 2527
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2528- Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2529
2530- Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2531 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2532
2533
2534strongswan-2.2.1
2535----------------
2536
2537- Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2538 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2539
f3bb1bd0 2540- Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
997358a6 2541 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
b6b90b68 2542
997358a6 2543- Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
f3bb1bd0 2544 occurring when a smartcard is present.
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2545
2546- Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
b6b90b68 2547
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2548- Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2549
2550- Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2551
2552
2553strongswan-2.2.0
2554----------------
2555
2556- Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2557
2558 dpdaction=clear|hold
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2561
2562- The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2563 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2564 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
b6b90b68 2565
997358a6 2566 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
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2568 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2569
2570- strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2571 using the compile option VENDORID
2572
2573- Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2574
2575- Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2576
2577- Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2578
2579- Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2580 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
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2582- Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2583
2584- Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2585 connection.
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2588strongswan-2.1.5
2589----------------
2590
2591- Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2592 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2593 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2594 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2595 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2596
2597- replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2598 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2599
2600
2601strongswan-2.1.4
2602----------------
2603
2604- Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2605 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2606 an optional connection selector:
2607
2608 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2609
2610- Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2611 man page.
2612
2613- Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2614 of malformed distinguished names.
2615
2616- The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2617
2618 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2619
2620- Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2621
2622
2623strongswan-2.1.3
2624----------------
2625
2626- Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2627 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
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2630strongswan-2.1.2
2631----------------
2632
2633- Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2634 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2635 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
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2638strongswan-2.1.1
2639----------------
2640
2641- Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2642
2643
2644strongswan-2.1.0
2645----------------
2646
2647- The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2648
2649 ca kool
2650 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2651 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2652 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2653 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2654 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2655 auto=add # add, ignore
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2659 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2660
2661- Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2662 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2663
2664
2665strongswan-2.0.2
2666----------------
2667
2668- Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2669 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
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2670
2671- A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
997358a6 2672 during kernel compilation
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2674- Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2675 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2676
2677- Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2678 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2679 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2680
2681
2682strongswan-2.0.1
2683----------------
2684
2685- an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2686 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2687 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2688 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2689
2690- applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2691 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
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2692
2693
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2694strongswan-2.0.0
2695----------------
2696
2697- based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12