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1 strongswan-5.7.0
2 ----------------
3
4 - The pki tool accepts a xmppAddr otherName as a subjectAlternativeName using
5 the syntax --san xmppaddr:<jid>.
6
7 - Implementation of RFC 8412 "Software Inventory Message and Attributes (SWIMA)
8 for PA-TNC"
9
10
11 strongswan-5.6.3
12 ----------------
13
14 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is
15 used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF.
16 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811.
17
18 - Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received
19 length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured,
20 root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default
21 configuration this shouldn't be an issue.
22 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-5388.
23
24 ⁻ CRLs that are not yet valid are now ignored to avoid problems in scenarios
25 where expired certificates are removed from CRLs and the clock on the host
26 doing the revocation check is trailing behind that of the host issuing CRLs.
27
28 - The issuer of fetched CRLs is now compared to the issuer of the checked
29 certificate.
30
31 - CRL validation results other than revocation (e.g. a skipped check because
32 the CRL couldn't be fetched) are now stored also for intermediate CA
33 certificates and not only for end-entity certificates, so a strict CRL policy
34 can be enforced in such cases.
35
36 - In compliance with RFC 4945, section 5.1.3.2, certificates used for IKE must
37 now either not contain a keyUsage extension (like the ones generated by pki)
38 or have at least one of the digitalSignature or nonRepudiation bits set.
39
40 - New options for vici/swanctl allow forcing the local termination of an IKE_SA.
41 This might be useful in situations where it's known the other end is not
42 reachable anymore, or that it already removed the IKE_SA, so retransmitting a
43 DELETE and waiting for a response would be pointless. Waiting only a certain
44 amount of time for a response before destroying the IKE_SA is also possible
45 by additionally specifying a timeout.
46
47 - When removing routes, the kernel-netlink plugin now checks if it tracks other
48 routes for the same destination and replaces the installed route instead of
49 just removing it. Same during installation, where existing routes previously
50 weren't replaced. This should allow using traps with virtual IPs on Linux.
51
52 - The dhcp plugin only sends the client identifier option if identity_lease is
53 enabled. It can also send identities of up to 255 bytes length, instead of
54 the previous 64 bytes. If a server address is configured, DHCP requests are
55 now sent from port 67 instead of 68 to avoid ICMP port unreachables.
56
57 - Roam events are now completely ignored for IKEv1 SAs.
58
59 - ChaCha20/Poly1305 is now correctly proposed without key length. For
60 compatibility with older releases the chacha20poly1305compat keyword may be
61 included in proposals to also propose the algorithm with a key length.
62
63 - Configuration of hardware offload of IPsec SAs is now more flexible and allows
64 a new mode, which automatically uses it if the kernel and device support it.
65
66 - SHA-2 based PRFs are supported in PKCS#8 files as generated by OpenSSL 1.1.
67
68 - The pki --verify tool may load CA certificates and CRLs from directories.
69
70 - Fixed an issue with DNS servers passed to NetworkManager in charon-nm.
71
72
73 strongswan-5.6.2
74 ----------------
75
76 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the parser for PKCS#1 RSASSA-PSS signatures that
77 was caused by insufficient input validation. One of the configurable
78 parameters in algorithm identifier structures for RSASSA-PSS signatures is the
79 mask generation function (MGF). Only MGF1 is currently specified for this
80 purpose. However, this in turn takes itself a parameter that specifies the
81 underlying hash function. strongSwan's parser did not correctly handle the
82 case of this parameter being absent, causing an undefined data read.
83 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-6459.
84
85 - The previously negotiated DH group is reused when rekeying an SA, instead of
86 using the first group in the configured proposals, which avoids an additional
87 exchange if the peer selected a different group via INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD when
88 the SA was created initially.
89 The selected DH group is also moved to the front of all sent proposals that
90 contain it and all proposals that don't are moved to the back in order to
91 convey the preference for this group to the peer.
92
93 - Handling of MOBIKE task queuing has been improved. In particular, the response
94 to an address update is not ignored anymore if only an address list update or
95 DPD is queued.
96
97 - The fallback drop policies installed to avoid traffic leaks when replacing
98 addresses in installed policies are now replaced by temporary drop policies,
99 which also prevent acquires because we currently delete and reinstall IPsec
100 SAs to update their addresses.
101
102 - Access X.509 certificates held in non-volatile storage of a TPM 2.0
103 referenced via the NV index.
104
105 - Adding the --keyid parameter to pki --print allows to print private keys
106 or certificates stored in a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
107
108 - Fixed proposal selection if a peer incorrectly sends DH groups in the ESP
109 proposals during IKE_AUTH and also if a DH group is configured in the local
110 ESP proposal and charon.prefer_configured_proposals is disabled.
111
112 - MSKs received via RADIUS are now padded to 64 bytes to avoid compatibility
113 issues with EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PRFs that have a block size < 64 bytes (e.g.
114 AES-XCBC-PRF-128).
115
116 - The tpm_extendpcr command line tool extends a digest into a TPM PCR.
117
118 - Ported the NetworkManager backend from the deprecated libnm-glib to libnm.
119
120 - The save-keys debugging/development plugin saves IKE and/or ESP keys to files
121 compatible with Wireshark.
122
123
124 strongswan-5.6.1
125 ----------------
126
127 - In compliance with RFCs 8221 and 8247 several algorithms were removed from the
128 default ESP/AH and IKEv2 proposals, respectively (3DES, Blowfish and MD5 from
129 ESP/AH, MD5 and MODP-1024 from IKEv2). These algorithms may still be used in
130 custom proposals.
131
132 - Added support for RSASSA-PSS signatures. For backwards compatibility they are
133 not used automatically by default, enable charon.rsa_pss to change that. To
134 explicitly use or require such signatures with IKEv2 signature authentication
135 (RFC 7427), regardless of whether that option is enabled, use ike:rsa/pss...
136 authentication constraints.
137
138 - The pki tool can optionally sign certificates/CRLs with RSASSA-PSS via the
139 `--rsa-padding pss` option.
140
141 - The sec-updater tool checks for security updates in dpkg-based repositories
142 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and sets the security flags in the IMV policy database
143 accordingly. Additionally for each new package version a SWID tag for the
144 given OS and HW architecture is created and stored in the database.
145 Using the sec-updater.sh script template the lookup can be automated
146 (e.g. via an hourly cron job).
147
148 - The introduction of file versions in the IMV database scheme broke file
149 reference hash measurements. This has been fixed by creating generic product
150 versions having an empty package name.
151
152 - A new timeout option for the systime-fix plugin stops periodic system time
153 checks after a while and enforces a certificate verification, closing or
154 reauthenticating all SAs with invalid certificates.
155
156 - The IKE event counters, previously only available via ipsec listcounters, may
157 now be queried/reset via vici and the new swanctl --counters command. They are
158 provided by the new optional counters plugin.
159
160 - Class attributes received in RADIUS Access-Accept messages may optionally be
161 added to RADIUS accounting messages.
162
163 - Inbound marks may optionally be installed on the SA again (was removed with
164 5.5.2) by enabling the mark_in_sa option in swanctl.conf.
165
166
167 strongswan-5.6.0
168 ----------------
169
170 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
171 input validation when verifying RSA signatures, which requires decryption
172 with the operation m^e mod n, where m is the signature, and e and n are the
173 exponent and modulus of the public key. The value m is an integer between
174 0 and n-1, however, the gmp plugin did not verify this. So if m equals n the
175 calculation results in 0, in which case mpz_export() returns NULL. This
176 result wasn't handled properly causing a null-pointer dereference.
177 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-11185.
178
179 - New SWIMA IMC/IMV pair implements the "draft-ietf-sacm-nea-swima-patnc"
180 Internet Draft and has been demonstrated at the IETF 99 Prague Hackathon.
181
182 - The IMV database template has been adapted to achieve full compliance
183 with the ISO 19770-2:2015 SWID tag standard.
184
185 - The sw-collector tool extracts software events from apt history logs
186 and stores them in an SQLite database to be used by the SWIMA IMC.
187 The tool can also generate SWID tags both for installed and removed
188 package versions.
189
190 - The pt-tls-client can attach and use TPM 2.0 protected private keys
191 via the --keyid parameter.
192
193 - libtpmtss supports Intel's TSS2 Architecture Broker and Resource
194 Manager interface (tcti-tabrmd).
195
196 - The new eap-aka-3gpp plugin implements the 3GPP MILENAGE algorithms
197 in software. K (optionally concatenated with OPc) may be configured as
198 binary EAP secret.
199
200 - CHILD_SA rekeying was fixed in charon-tkm and was slightly changed: The
201 switch to the new outbound IPsec SA now happens via SPI on the outbound
202 policy on Linux, and in case of lost rekey collisions no outbound SA/policy
203 is temporarily installed for the redundant CHILD_SA.
204
205 - The new %unique-dir value for mark* settings allocates separate unique marks
206 for each CHILD_SA direction (in/out).
207
208
209 strongswan-5.5.3
210 ----------------
211
212 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
213 input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
214 mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
215 that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
216 result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
217 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
218
219 - Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
220 parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
221 infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
222 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
223
224 - The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
225 traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
226 installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced
227 CHILD_SA. Similarly, the inbound SA of the replaced CHILD_SA is not removed
228 for a configurable amount of seconds (charon.delete_rekeyed_delay) after the
229 DELETE has been processed to reduce the chance of dropping delayed packets.
230
231 - The code base has been ported to Apple's ARM64 iOS platform, whose calling
232 conventions for variadic and regular functions are different. This means
233 assigning non-variadic functions to variadic function pointers does not work.
234 To avoid this issue the enumerator_t interface has been changed and the
235 signatures of the callback functions for enumerator_create_filter(), and the
236 invoke_function() and find_first() methods on linked_list_t have been changed.
237 The return type of find_first() also changed from status_t to bool.
238
239 - Added support for fuzzing the certificate parser provided by the default
240 plugins (x509, pem, gmp etc.) on Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure. Several
241 issues found while fuzzing these plugins were fixed.
242
243 - Two new options have been added to charon's retransmission settings:
244 retransmit_limit and retransmit_jitter. The former adds an upper limit to the
245 calculated retransmission timeout, the latter randomly reduces it.
246
247 - A bug in swanctl's --load-creds command was fixed that caused unencrypted
248 private keys to get unloaded if the command was called multiple times. The
249 load-key VICI command now returns the key ID of the loaded key on success.
250
251 - The credential manager now enumerates local credential sets before global
252 ones. This means certificates supplied by the peer will now be preferred over
253 certificates with the same identity that may be locally stored (e.g. in the
254 certificate cache).
255
256 - Added support for hardware offload of IPsec SAs as introduced by Linux 4.11
257 for hardware that supports this.
258
259 - When building the libraries monolithically and statically the plugin
260 constructors are now hard-coded in each library so the plugin code is not
261 removed by the linker because it thinks none of their symbols are ever
262 referenced.
263
264 - The pki tool loads the curve25519 plugin by default.
265
266
267 strongswan-5.5.2
268 ----------------
269
270 - Support of Diffie-Hellman group 31 using Curve25519 for IKE as defined
271 by RFC 8031.
272
273 - Support of Ed25519 digital signature algorithm for IKEv2 as defined by
274 draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa. Ed25519-based public key pairs, X.509 certificates
275 and CRLs can be generated and printed by the pki tool.
276
277 - The new "tpm" libtpmtss plugin allows to use persistent private RSA and ECDSA
278 keys bound to a TPM 2.0 for both IKE and TLS authentication. Using the
279 TPM 2.0 object handle as keyid parameter, the pki --pub tool can extract
280 the public key from the TPM thereby replacing the aikpub2 tool. In a similar
281 fashion pki --req can generate a PKCS#10 certificate request signed with
282 the TPM private key.
283
284 - The pki tool gained support for generating certificates with the RFC 3779
285 addrblock extension. The charon addrblock plugin now dynamically narrows
286 traffic selectors based on the certificate addrblocks instead of rejecting
287 non-matching selectors completely. This allows generic connections, where
288 the allowed selectors are defined by the used certificates only.
289
290 - In-place update of cached base and delta CRLs does not leave dozens
291 of stale copies in cache memory.
292
293 - Several new features for the VICI interface and the swanctl utility: Querying
294 specific pools, enumerating and unloading keys and shared secrets, loading
295 keys and certificates from PKCS#11 tokens, the ability to initiate, install
296 and uninstall connections and policies by their exact name (if multiple child
297 sections in different connections share the same name), a command to initiate
298 the rekeying of IKE and IPsec SAs, support for settings previously only
299 supported by the old config files (plain pubkeys, dscp, certificate policies,
300 IPv6 Transport Proxy Mode, NT Hash secrets, mediation extension).
301
302 Important: Due to issues with VICI bindings that map sub-sections to
303 dictionaries the CHILD_SA sections returned via list-sas now have a unique
304 name, the original name of a CHILD_SA is returned in the "name" key of its
305 section.
306
307
308 strongswan-5.5.1
309 ----------------
310
311 - The newhope plugin implements the post-quantum NewHope key exchange algorithm
312 proposed in their 2015 paper by Erdem Alkim, Léo Ducas, Thomas Pöppelmann and
313 Peter Schwabe.
314
315 - The libstrongswan crypto factory now offers the registration of Extended
316 Output Functions (XOFs). Currently supported XOFs are SHAKE128 and SHAKE256
317 implemented by the sha3 plugin, ChaCHa20 implemented by the chapoly plugin
318 and the more traditional MGF1 Mask Generation Functions based on the SHA-1,
319 SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms implemented by the new mgf1 plugin.
320
321 - The pki tool, with help of the pkcs1 or openssl plugins, can parse private
322 keys in any of the supported formats without having to know the exact type.
323 So instead of having to specify rsa or ecdsa explicitly the keyword priv may
324 be used to indicate a private key of any type. Similarly, swanctl can load
325 any type of private key from the swanctl/private directory.
326
327 - The pki tool can handle RSASSA-PKCS1v1.5-with-SHA-3 signatures using the
328 sha3 and gmp plugins.
329
330 - The VICI flush-certs command flushes certificates from the volatile
331 certificate cache. Optionally the type of the certificates to be
332 flushed (e.g. type = x509_crl) can be specified.
333
334 - Setting cache_crls = yes in strongswan.conf the vici plugin saves regular,
335 base and delta CRLs to disk.
336
337 - IKE fragmentation is now enabled by default with the default fragment size
338 set to 1280 bytes for both IP address families.
339
340 - libtpmtss: In the TSS2 API the function TeardownSocketTcti() was replaced by
341 tss2_tcti_finalize().
342
343
344 strongswan-5.5.0
345 ----------------
346
347 - The new libtpmtss library offers support for both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0
348 Trusted Platform Modules. This allows the Attestation IMC/IMV pair to
349 do TPM 2.0 based attestation.
350
351 - The behavior during IKEv2 exchange collisions has been improved/fixed in
352 several corner cases and support for TEMPORARY_FAILURE and CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
353 notifies, as defined by RFC 7296, has been added.
354
355 - IPsec policy priorities can be set manually (e.g. for high-priority drop
356 policies) and outbound policies may be restricted to a network interface.
357
358 - The scheme for the automatically calculated default priorities has been
359 changed and now also considers port masks, which were added with 5.4.0.
360
361 - FWD policies are now installed in both directions in regards to the traffic
362 selectors. Because such "outbound" FWD policies could conflict with "inbound"
363 FWD policies of other SAs they are installed with a lower priority and don't
364 have a reqid set, which allows kernel plugins to distinguish between the two
365 and prefer those with a reqid.
366
367 - For outbound IPsec SAs no replay window is configured anymore.
368
369 - Enhanced the functionality of the swanctl --list-conns command by listing
370 IKE_SA and CHILD_SA reauthentication and rekeying settings, and EAP/XAuth
371 identities and EAP types.
372
373 - DNS servers installed by the resolve plugin are now refcounted, which should
374 fix its use with make-before-break reauthentication. Any output written to
375 stderr/stdout by resolvconf is now logged.
376
377 - The methods in the kernel interfaces have been changed to take structs instead
378 of long lists of arguments. Similarly the constructors for peer_cfg_t and
379 child_cfg_t now take structs.
380
381
382 strongswan-5.4.0
383 ----------------
384
385 - Support for IKEv2 redirection (RFC 5685) has been added. Plugins may
386 implement the redirect_provider_t interface to decide if and when to redirect
387 connecting clients. It is also possible to redirect established IKE_SAs based
388 on different selectors via VICI/swanctl. Unless disabled in strongswan.conf
389 the charon daemon will follow redirect requests received from servers.
390
391 - The ike: prefix enables the explicit configuration of signature scheme
392 constraints against IKEv2 authentication in rightauth, which allows the use
393 of different signature schemes for trustchain verification and authentication.
394
395 - The initiator of an IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication now suspends
396 online certificate revocation checks (OCSP, CRLs) until the new IKE_SA and all
397 CHILD_SAs are established. This is required if the checks are done over the
398 CHILD_SA established with the new IKE_SA. This is not possible until the
399 initiator installs this SA and that only happens after the authentication is
400 completed successfully. So we suspend the checks during the reauthentication
401 and do them afterwards, if they fail the IKE_SA is closed. This change has no
402 effect on the behavior during the authentication of the initial IKE_SA.
403
404 - For the vici plugin a Vici:Session Perl CPAN module has been added to allow
405 Perl applications to control and/or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI
406 interface, similar to the existing Python egg or Ruby gem.
407
408 - Traffic selectors with port ranges can now be configured in the Linux kernel:
409 e.g. remote_ts = 10.1.0.0/16[tcp/20-23] local_ts = dynamic[tcp/32768-65535].
410 The port range must map to a port mask, though since the kernel does not
411 support arbitrary ranges.
412
413 - The vici plugin allows the configuration of IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges
414 in local and remote traffic selectors. Since both the Linux kernel and
415 iptables cannot handle arbitrary ranges, address ranges are mapped to the next
416 larger CIDR subnet by the kernel-netlink and updown plugins, respectively.
417
418 - Implemented IKEv1 IPv4/IPv6 address subnet and range identities that can be
419 used as owners of shared secrets.
420
421
422 strongswan-5.3.5
423 ----------------
424
425 - Properly handle potential EINTR errors in sigwaitinfo(2) calls that replaced
426 sigwait(3) calls with 5.3.4.
427
428 - RADIUS retransmission timeouts are now configurable, courtesy of Thom Troy.
429
430
431 strongswan-5.3.4
432 ----------------
433
434 - Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that
435 was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling
436 MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client.
437 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023.
438
439 - The sha3 plugin implements the SHA3 Keccak-F1600 hash algorithm family.
440 Within the strongSwan framework SHA3 is currently used for BLISS signatures
441 only because the OIDs for other signature algorithms haven't been defined
442 yet. Also the use of SHA3 for IKEv2 has not been standardized yet.
443
444
445 strongswan-5.3.3
446 ----------------
447
448 - Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 AEAD cipher specified in RFC 7539 and
449 RFC 7634 using the chacha20poly1305 ike/esp proposal keyword. The new chapoly
450 plugin implements the cipher, if possible SSE-accelerated on x86/x64
451 architectures. It is usable both in IKEv2 and the strongSwan libipsec ESP
452 backend. On Linux 4.2 or newer the kernel-netlink plugin can configure the
453 cipher for ESP SAs.
454
455 - The vici interface now supports the configuration of auxiliary certification
456 authority information as CRL and OCSP URIs.
457
458 - In the bliss plugin the c_indices derivation using a SHA-512 based random
459 oracle has been fixed, generalized and standardized by employing the MGF1 mask
460 generation function with SHA-512. As a consequence BLISS signatures unsing the
461 improved oracle are not compatible with the earlier implementation.
462
463 - Support for auto=route with right=%any for transport mode connections has
464 been added (the ikev2/trap-any scenario provides examples).
465
466 - The starter daemon does not flush IPsec policies and SAs anymore when it is
467 stopped. Already existing duplicate policies are now overwritten by the IKE
468 daemon when it installs its policies.
469
470 - Init limits (like charon.init_limit_half_open) can now optionally be enforced
471 when initiating SAs via VICI. For this, IKE_SAs initiated by the daemon are
472 now also counted as half-open SAs, which, as a side-effect, fixes the status
473 output while connecting (e.g. in ipsec status).
474
475 - Symmetric configuration of EAP methods in left|rightauth is now possible when
476 mutual EAP-only authentication is used (previously, the client had to
477 configure rightauth=eap or rightauth=any, which prevented it from using this
478 same config as responder).
479
480 - The initiator flag in the IKEv2 header is compared again (wasn't the case
481 since 5.0.0) and packets that have the flag set incorrectly are again ignored.
482
483 - Implemented a demo Hardcopy Device IMC/IMV pair based on the "Hardcopy
484 Device Health Assessment Trusted Network Connect Binding" (HCD-TNC)
485 document drafted by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG).
486
487 - Fixed IF-M segmentation which failed in the presence of multiple small
488 attributes in front of a huge attribute to be segmented.
489
490
491 strongswan-5.3.2
492 ----------------
493
494 - Fixed a vulnerability that allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate
495 accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing its username and even
496 password (if the client accepts EAP-GTC). This was caused because constraints
497 against the responder's authentication were enforced too late.
498 This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-4171.
499
500
501 strongswan-5.3.1
502 ----------------
503
504 - Fixed a denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability
505 triggered by IKEv1/IKEv2 messages that contain payloads for the respective
506 other IKE version. Such payload are treated specially since 5.2.2 but because
507 they were still identified by their original payload type they were used as
508 such in some places causing invalid function pointer dereferences.
509 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-3991.
510
511 - The new aesni plugin provides CBC, CTR, XCBC, CMAC, CCM and GCM crypto
512 primitives for AES-128/192/256. The plugin requires AES-NI and PCLMULQDQ
513 instructions and works on both x86 and x64 architectures. It provides
514 superior crypto performance in userland without any external libraries.
515
516
517 strongswan-5.3.0
518 ----------------
519
520 - Added support for IKEv2 make-before-break reauthentication. By using a global
521 CHILD_SA reqid allocation mechanism, charon supports overlapping CHILD_SAs.
522 This allows the use of make-before-break instead of the previously supported
523 break-before-make reauthentication, avoiding connectivity gaps during that
524 procedure. As the new mechanism may fail with peers not supporting it (such
525 as any previous strongSwan release) it must be explicitly enabled using
526 the charon.make_before_break strongswan.conf option.
527
528 - Support for "Signature Authentication in IKEv2" (RFC 7427) has been added.
529 This allows the use of stronger hash algorithms for public key authentication.
530 By default, signature schemes are chosen based on the strength of the
531 signature key, but specific hash algorithms may be configured in leftauth.
532
533 - Key types and hash algorithms specified in rightauth are now also checked
534 against IKEv2 signature schemes. If such constraints are used for certificate
535 chain validation in existing configurations, in particular with peers that
536 don't support RFC 7427, it may be necessary to disable this feature with the
537 charon.signature_authentication_constraints setting, because the signature
538 scheme used in classic IKEv2 public key authentication may not be strong
539 enough.
540
541 - The new connmark plugin allows a host to bind conntrack flows to a specific
542 CHILD_SA by applying and restoring the SA mark to conntrack entries. This
543 allows a peer to handle multiple transport mode connections coming over the
544 same NAT device for client-initiated flows. A common use case is to protect
545 L2TP/IPsec, as supported by some systems.
546
547 - The forecast plugin can forward broadcast and multicast messages between
548 connected clients and a LAN. For CHILD_SA using unique marks, it sets up
549 the required Netfilter rules and uses a multicast/broadcast listener that
550 forwards such messages to all connected clients. This plugin is designed for
551 Windows 7 IKEv2 clients, which announces its services over the tunnel if the
552 negotiated IPsec policy allows it.
553
554 - For the vici plugin a Python Egg has been added to allow Python applications
555 to control or monitor the IKE daemon using the VICI interface, similar to the
556 existing ruby gem. The Python library has been contributed by Björn Schuberg.
557
558 - EAP server methods now can fulfill public key constraints, such as rightcert
559 or rightca. Additionally, public key and signature constraints can be
560 specified for EAP methods in the rightauth keyword. Currently the EAP-TLS and
561 EAP-TTLS methods provide verification details to constraints checking.
562
563 - Upgrade of the BLISS post-quantum signature algorithm to the improved BLISS-B
564 variant. Can be used in conjunction with the SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 hash
565 algorithms with SHA512 being the default.
566
567 - The IF-IMV 1.4 interface now makes the IP address of the TNC access requestor
568 as seen by the TNC server available to all IMVs. This information can be
569 forwarded to policy enforcement points (e.g. firewalls or routers).
570
571 - The new mutual tnccs-20 plugin parameter activates mutual TNC measurements
572 in PB-TNC half-duplex mode between two endpoints over either a PT-EAP or
573 PT-TLS transport medium.
574
575
576 strongswan-5.2.2
577 ----------------
578
579 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange
580 payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was
581 used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because
582 these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload
583 an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash
584 the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE
585 payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221.
586
587 - The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan,
588 now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:.
589 Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to
590 ipsec.conf(5) for details.
591
592 - The post-quantum Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme (BLISS) can be used as
593 an IKEv2 public key authentication method. The pki tool offers full support
594 for the generation of BLISS key pairs and certificates.
595
596 - Fixed mapping of integrity algorithms negotiated for AH via IKEv1. This could
597 cause interoperability issues when connecting to older versions of charon.
598
599
600 strongswan-5.2.1
601 ----------------
602
603 - The new charon-systemd IKE daemon implements an IKE daemon tailored for use
604 with systemd. It avoids the dependency on ipsec starter and uses swanctl
605 as configuration backend, building a simple and lightweight solution. It
606 supports native systemd journal logging.
607
608 - Support for IKEv2 fragmentation as per RFC 7383 has been added. Like IKEv1
609 fragmentation it can be enabled by setting fragmentation=yes in ipsec.conf.
610
611 - Support of the TCG TNC IF-M Attribute Segmentation specification proposal.
612 All attributes can be segmented. Additionally TCG/SWID Tag, TCG/SWID Tag ID
613 and IETF/Installed Packages attributes can be processed incrementally on a
614 per segment basis.
615
616 - The new ext-auth plugin calls an external script to implement custom IKE_SA
617 authorization logic, courtesy of Vyronas Tsingaras.
618
619 - For the vici plugin a ruby gem has been added to allow ruby applications
620 to control or monitor the IKE daemon. The vici documentation has been updated
621 to include a description of the available operations and some simple examples
622 using both the libvici C interface and the ruby gem.
623
624
625 strongswan-5.2.0
626 ----------------
627
628 - strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
629 many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
630 and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
631 libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
632 backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
633 implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
634 WinHTTP API.
635
636 - The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
637 charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
638 control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool
639 and generating ipsec.conf, third party applications can use the new interface
640 for more control and better reliability.
641
642 - Built upon the libvici client library, swanctl implements the first user of
643 the VICI interface. Together with a swanctl.conf configuration file,
644 connections can be defined, loaded and managed. swanctl provides a portable,
645 complete IKE configuration and control interface for the command line.
646 The first six swanctl example scenarios have been added.
647
648 - The SWID IMV implements a JSON-based REST API which allows the exchange
649 of SWID tags and Software IDs with the strongTNC policy manager.
650
651 - The SWID IMC can extract all installed packages from the dpkg (Debian,
652 Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.), rpm (Fedora, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc.), or
653 pacman (Arch Linux, Manjaro, etc.) package managers, respectively, using the
654 swidGenerator (https://github.com/strongswan/swidGenerator) which generates
655 SWID tags according to the new ISO/IEC 19770-2:2014 standard.
656
657 - All IMVs now share the access requestor ID, device ID and product info
658 of an access requestor via a common imv_session object.
659
660 - The Attestation IMC/IMV pair supports the IMA-NG measurement format
661 introduced with the Linux 3.13 kernel.
662
663 - The aikgen tool generates an Attestation Identity Key bound to a TPM.
664
665 - Implemented the PT-EAP transport protocol (RFC 7171) for Trusted Network
666 Connect.
667
668 - The ipsec.conf replay_window option defines connection specific IPsec replay
669 windows. Original patch courtesy of Zheng Zhong and Christophe Gouault from
670 6Wind.
671
672
673 strongswan-5.1.3
674 ----------------
675
676 - Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability triggered by rekeying an
677 unestablished IKEv2 SA while it gets actively initiated. This allowed an
678 attacker to trick a peer's IKE_SA state to established, without the need to
679 provide any valid authentication credentials. The vulnerability has been
680 registered as CVE-2014-2338.
681
682 - The acert plugin evaluates X.509 Attribute Certificates. Group membership
683 information encoded as strings can be used to fulfill authorization checks
684 defined with the rightgroups option. Attribute Certificates can be loaded
685 locally or get exchanged in IKEv2 certificate payloads.
686
687 - The pki command gained support to generate X.509 Attribute Certificates
688 using the --acert subcommand, while the --print command supports the ac type.
689 The openac utility has been removed in favor of the new pki functionality.
690
691 - The libtls TLS 1.2 implementation as used by EAP-(T)TLS and other protocols
692 has been extended by AEAD mode support, currently limited to AES-GCM.
693
694
695 strongswan-5.1.2
696 ----------------
697
698 - A new default configuration file layout is introduced. The new default
699 strongswan.conf file mainly includes config snippets from the strongswan.d
700 and strongswan.d/charon directories (the latter containing snippets for all
701 plugins). The snippets, with commented defaults, are automatically
702 generated and installed, if they don't exist yet. They are also installed
703 in $prefix/share/strongswan/templates so existing files can be compared to
704 the current defaults.
705
706 - As an alternative to the non-extensible charon.load setting, the plugins
707 to load in charon (and optionally other applications) can now be determined
708 via the charon.plugins.<name>.load setting for each plugin (enabled in the
709 new default strongswan.conf file via the charon.load_modular option).
710 The load setting optionally takes a numeric priority value that allows
711 reordering the plugins (otherwise the default plugin order is preserved).
712
713 - All strongswan.conf settings that were formerly defined in library specific
714 "global" sections are now application specific (e.g. settings for plugins in
715 libstrongswan.plugins can now be set only for charon in charon.plugins).
716 The old options are still supported, which now allows to define defaults for
717 all applications in the libstrongswan section.
718
719 - The ntru libstrongswan plugin supports NTRUEncrypt as a post-quantum
720 computer IKE key exchange mechanism. The implementation is based on the
721 ntru-crypto library from the NTRUOpenSourceProject. The supported security
722 strengths are ntru112, ntru128, ntru192, and ntru256. Since the private DH
723 group IDs 1030..1033 have been assigned, the strongSwan Vendor ID must be
724 sent (charon.send_vendor_id = yes) in order to use NTRU.
725
726 - Defined a TPMRA remote attestation workitem and added support for it to the
727 Attestation IMV.
728
729 - Compatibility issues between IPComp (compress=yes) and leftfirewall=yes as
730 well as multiple subnets in left|rightsubnet have been fixed.
731
732 - When enabling its "session" strongswan.conf option, the xauth-pam plugin opens
733 and closes a PAM session for each established IKE_SA. Patch courtesy of
734 Andrea Bonomi.
735
736 - The strongSwan unit testing framework has been rewritten without the "check"
737 dependency for improved flexibility and portability. It now properly supports
738 multi-threaded and memory leak testing and brings a bunch of new test cases.
739
740
741 strongswan-5.1.1
742 ----------------
743
744 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability and potential authorization bypass
745 triggered by a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload. The cause is an insufficient
746 length check when comparing such identities. The vulnerability has been
747 registered as CVE-2013-6075.
748
749 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by a crafted IKEv1
750 fragmentation payload. The cause is a NULL pointer dereference. The
751 vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-6076.
752
753 - The lean stand-alone pt-tls-client can set up a RFC 6876 PT-TLS session
754 with a strongSwan policy enforcement point which uses the tnc-pdp charon
755 plugin.
756
757 - The new TCG TNC SWID IMC/IMV pair supports targeted SWID requests for either
758 full SWID Tag or concise SWID Tag ID inventories.
759
760 - The XAuth backend in eap-radius now supports multiple XAuth exchanges for
761 different credential types and display messages. All user input gets
762 concatenated and verified with a single User-Password RADIUS attribute on
763 the AAA. With an AAA supporting it, one for example can implement
764 Password+Token authentication with proper dialogs on iOS and OS X clients.
765
766 - charon supports IKEv1 Mode Config exchange in push mode. The ipsec.conf
767 modeconfig=push option enables it for both client and server, the same way
768 as pluto used it.
769
770 - Using the "ah" ipsec.conf keyword on both IKEv1 and IKEv2 connections,
771 charon can negotiate and install Security Associations integrity-protected by
772 the Authentication Header protocol. Supported are plain AH(+IPComp) SAs only,
773 but not the deprecated RFC2401 style ESP+AH bundles.
774
775 - The generation of initialization vectors for IKE and ESP (when using libipsec)
776 is now modularized and IVs for e.g. AES-GCM are now correctly allocated
777 sequentially, while other algorithms like AES-CBC still use random IVs.
778
779 - The left and right options in ipsec.conf can take multiple address ranges
780 and subnets. This allows connection matching against a larger set of
781 addresses, for example to use a different connection for clients connecting
782 from a internal network.
783
784 - For all those who have a queasy feeling about the NIST elliptic curve set,
785 the Brainpool curves introduced for use with IKE by RFC 6932 might be a
786 more trustworthy alternative.
787
788 - The kernel-libipsec userland IPsec backend now supports usage statistics,
789 volume based rekeying and accepts ESPv3 style TFC padded packets.
790
791 - With two new strongswan.conf options fwmarks can be used to implement
792 host-to-host tunnels with kernel-libipsec.
793
794 - load-tester supports transport mode connections and more complex traffic
795 selectors, including such using unique ports for each tunnel.
796
797 - The new dnscert plugin provides support for authentication via CERT RRs that
798 are protected via DNSSEC. The plugin was created by Ruslan N. Marchenko.
799
800 - The eap-radius plugin supports forwarding of several Cisco Unity specific
801 RADIUS attributes in corresponding configuration payloads.
802
803 - Database transactions are now abstracted and implemented by the two backends.
804 If you use MySQL make sure all tables use the InnoDB engine.
805
806 - libstrongswan now can provide an experimental custom implementation of the
807 printf family functions based on klibc if neither Vstr nor glibc style printf
808 hooks are available. This can avoid the Vstr dependency on some systems at
809 the cost of slower and less complete printf functions.
810
811
812 strongswan-5.1.0
813 ----------------
814
815 - Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by specific XAuth usernames
816 and EAP identities (since 5.0.3), and PEM files (since 4.1.11). The crash
817 was caused by insufficient error handling in the is_asn1() function.
818 The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-5018.
819
820 - The new charon-cmd command line IKE client can establish road warrior
821 connections using IKEv1 or IKEv2 with different authentication profiles.
822 It does not depend on any configuration files and can be configured using a
823 few simple command line options.
824
825 - The kernel-pfroute networking backend has been greatly improved. It now
826 can install virtual IPs on TUN devices on OS X and FreeBSD, allowing these
827 systems to act as a client in common road warrior scenarios.
828
829 - The new kernel-libipsec plugin uses TUN devices and libipsec to provide IPsec
830 processing in userland on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
831
832 - The eap-radius plugin can now serve as an XAuth backend called xauth-radius,
833 directly verifying XAuth credentials using RADIUS User-Name/User-Password
834 attributes. This is more efficient than the existing xauth-eap+eap-radius
835 combination, and allows RADIUS servers without EAP support to act as AAA
836 backend for IKEv1.
837
838 - The new osx-attr plugin installs configuration attributes (currently DNS
839 servers) via SystemConfiguration on Mac OS X. The keychain plugin provides
840 certificates from the OS X keychain service.
841
842 - The sshkey plugin parses SSH public keys, which, together with the --agent
843 option for charon-cmd, allows the use of ssh-agent for authentication.
844 To configure SSH keys in ipsec.conf the left|rightrsasigkey options are
845 replaced with left|rightsigkey, which now take public keys in one of three
846 formats: SSH (RFC 4253, ssh: prefix), DNSKEY (RFC 3110, dns: prefix), and
847 PKCS#1 (the default, no prefix).
848
849 - Extraction of certificates and private keys from PKCS#12 files is now provided
850 by the new pkcs12 plugin or the openssl plugin. charon-cmd (--p12) as well
851 as charon (via P12 token in ipsec.secrets) can make use of this.
852
853 - IKEv2 can now negotiate transport mode and IPComp in NAT situations.
854
855 - IKEv2 exchange initiators now properly close an established IKE or CHILD_SA
856 on error conditions using an additional exchange, keeping state in sync
857 between peers.
858
859 - Using a SQL database interface a Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Policy Manager
860 can generate specific measurement workitems for an arbitrary number of
861 Integrity Measurement Verifiers (IMVs) based on the history of the VPN user
862 and/or device.
863
864 - Several core classes in libstrongswan are now tested with unit tests. These
865 can be enabled with --enable-unit-tests and run with 'make check'. Coverage
866 reports can be generated with --enable-coverage and 'make coverage' (this
867 disables any optimization, so it should not be enabled when building
868 production releases).
869
870 - The leak-detective developer tool has been greatly improved. It works much
871 faster/stabler with multiple threads, does not use deprecated malloc hooks
872 anymore and has been ported to OS X.
873
874 - chunk_hash() is now based on SipHash-2-4 with a random key. This provides
875 better distribution and prevents hash flooding attacks when used with
876 hashtables.
877
878 - All default plugins implement the get_features() method to define features
879 and their dependencies. The plugin loader has been improved, so that plugins
880 in a custom load statement can be ordered freely or to express preferences
881 without being affected by dependencies between plugin features.
882
883 - A centralized thread can take care for watching multiple file descriptors
884 concurrently. This removes the need for a dedicated listener threads in
885 various plugins. The number of "reserved" threads for such tasks has been
886 reduced to about five, depending on the plugin configuration.
887
888 - Plugins that can be controlled by a UNIX socket IPC mechanism gained network
889 transparency. Third party applications querying these plugins now can use
890 TCP connections from a different host.
891
892 - libipsec now supports AES-GCM.
893
894
895 strongswan-5.0.4
896 ----------------
897
898 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the openssl plugin which was reported by
899 Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2013-2944.
900 Before the fix, if the openssl plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
901 due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
902 ECDSA_verify() function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
903 legitimate one.
904
905 - The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant openssl return codes
906 was fixed as well.
907
908 - The tnc_ifmap plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
909 TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
910
911 - The charon.initiator_only option causes charon to ignore IKE initiation
912 requests.
913
914 - The openssl plugin can now use the openssl-fips library.
915
916
917 strongswan-5.0.3
918 ----------------
919
920 - The new ipseckey plugin enables authentication based on trustworthy public
921 keys stored as IPSECKEY resource records in the DNS and protected by DNSSEC.
922 To do so it uses a DNSSEC enabled resolver, like the one provided by the new
923 unbound plugin, which is based on libldns and libunbound. Both plugins were
924 created by Reto Guadagnini.
925
926 - Implemented the TCG TNC IF-IMV 1.4 draft making access requestor identities
927 available to an IMV. The OS IMV stores the AR identity together with the
928 device ID in the attest database.
929
930 - The openssl plugin now uses the AES-NI accelerated version of AES-GCM
931 if the hardware supports it.
932
933 - The eap-radius plugin can now assign virtual IPs to IKE clients using the
934 Framed-IP-Address attribute by using the "%radius" named pool in the
935 rightsourceip ipsec.conf option. Cisco Banner attributes are forwarded to
936 Unity-capable IKEv1 clients during mode config. charon now sends Interim
937 Accounting updates if requested by the RADIUS server, reports
938 sent/received packets in Accounting messages, and adds a Terminate-Cause
939 to Accounting-Stops.
940
941 - The recently introduced "ipsec listcounters" command can report connection
942 specific counters by passing a connection name, and global or connection
943 counters can be reset by the "ipsec resetcounters" command.
944
945 - The strongSwan libpttls library provides an experimental implementation of
946 PT-TLS (RFC 6876), a Posture Transport Protocol over TLS.
947
948 - The charon systime-fix plugin can disable certificate lifetime checks on
949 embedded systems if the system time is obviously out of sync after bootup.
950 Certificates lifetimes get checked once the system time gets sane, closing
951 or reauthenticating connections using expired certificates.
952
953 - The "ikedscp" ipsec.conf option can set DiffServ code points on outgoing
954 IKE packets.
955
956 - The new xauth-noauth plugin allows to use basic RSA or PSK authentication with
957 clients that cannot be configured without XAuth authentication. The plugin
958 simply concludes the XAuth exchange successfully without actually performing
959 any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
960 explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
961
962 - The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
963 separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
964 knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
965 charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
966 The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
967 (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
968 can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
969
970 strongswan-5.0.2
971 ----------------
972
973 - Implemented all IETF Standard PA-TNC attributes and an OS IMC/IMV
974 pair using them to transfer operating system information.
975
976 - The new "ipsec listcounters" command prints a list of global counter values
977 about received and sent IKE messages and rekeyings.
978
979 - A new lookip plugin can perform fast lookup of tunnel information using a
980 clients virtual IP and can send notifications about established or deleted
981 tunnels. The "ipsec lookip" command can be used to query such information
982 or receive notifications.
983
984 - The new error-notify plugin catches some common error conditions and allows
985 an external application to receive notifications for them over a UNIX socket.
986
987 - IKE proposals can now use a PRF algorithm different to that defined for
988 integrity protection. If an algorithm with a "prf" prefix is defined
989 explicitly (such as prfsha1 or prfsha256), no implicit PRF algorithm based on
990 the integrity algorithm is added to the proposal.
991
992 - The pkcs11 plugin can now load leftcert certificates from a smartcard for a
993 specific ipsec.conf conn section and cacert CA certificates for a specific ca
994 section.
995
996 - The load-tester plugin gained additional options for certificate generation
997 and can load keys and multiple CA certificates from external files. It can
998 install a dedicated outer IP address for each tunnel and tunnel initiation
999 batches can be triggered and monitored externally using the
1000 "ipsec load-tester" tool.
1001
1002 - PKCS#7 container parsing has been modularized, and the openssl plugin
1003 gained an alternative implementation to decrypt and verify such files.
1004 In contrast to our own DER parser, OpenSSL can handle BER files, which is
1005 required for interoperability of our scepclient with EJBCA.
1006
1007 - Support for the proprietary IKEv1 fragmentation extension has been added.
1008 Fragments are always handled on receipt but only sent if supported by the peer
1009 and if enabled with the new fragmentation ipsec.conf option.
1010
1011 - IKEv1 in charon can now parse certificates received in PKCS#7 containers and
1012 supports NAT traversal as used by Windows clients. Patches courtesy of
1013 Volker Rümelin.
1014
1015 - The new rdrand plugin provides a high quality / high performance random
1016 source using the Intel rdrand instruction found on Ivy Bridge processors.
1017
1018 - The integration test environment was updated and now uses KVM and reproducible
1019 guest images based on Debian.
1020
1021
1022 strongswan-5.0.1
1023 ----------------
1024
1025 - Introduced the sending of the standard IETF Assessment Result
1026 PA-TNC attribute by all strongSwan Integrity Measurement Verifiers.
1027
1028 - Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
1029 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
1030 of a Linux OS can be collected and stored in an SQL database.
1031
1032 - The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
1033 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
1034 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
1035 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained, the TNC
1036 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
1037
1038 - The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
1039 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
1040 against a RADIUS server.
1041
1042 - The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
1043 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
1044 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
1045 including xauth-pam.
1046
1047 - The new unity plugin brings support for some parts of the IKEv1 Cisco Unity
1048 Extension. As client, charon narrows traffic selectors to the received
1049 Split-Include attributes and automatically installs IPsec bypass policies
1050 for received Local-LAN attributes. As server, charon sends Split-Include
1051 attributes for leftsubnet definitions containing multiple subnets to Unity-
1052 aware clients.
1053
1054 - An EAP-Nak payload is returned by clients if the gateway requests an EAP
1055 method that the client does not support. Clients can also request a specific
1056 EAP method by configuring that method with leftauth.
1057
1058 - The eap-dynamic plugin handles EAP-Nak payloads returned by clients and uses
1059 these to select a different EAP method supported/requested by the client.
1060 The plugin initially requests the first registered method or the first method
1061 configured with charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred.
1062
1063 - The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
1064 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
1065 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
1066 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
1067 IP addresses to return.
1068
1069 - The left/rightsourceip options now accept multiple addresses or pools.
1070 leftsourceip can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4, %config6
1071 or fixed IP addresses to request. rightsourceip accepts multiple explicitly
1072 specified or referenced named pools.
1073
1074 - Multiple connections can now share a single address pool when they use the
1075 same definition in one of the rightsourceip pools.
1076
1077 - The options charon.interfaces_ignore and charon.interfaces_use allow one to
1078 configure the network interfaces used by the daemon.
1079
1080 - The kernel-netlink plugin supports the charon.install_virtual_ip_on option,
1081 which specifies the interface on which virtual IP addresses will be installed.
1082 If it is not specified the current behavior of using the outbound interface
1083 is preserved.
1084
1085 - The kernel-netlink plugin tries to keep the current source address when
1086 looking for valid routes to reach other hosts.
1087
1088 - The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
1089 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
1090 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
1091
1092 - All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
1093 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
1094
1095
1096 strongswan-5.0.0
1097 ----------------
1098
1099 - The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
1100 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
1101 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
1102 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
1103 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
1104 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
1105 mode. Information for interoperability and migration is available at
1106 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
1107
1108 - Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
1109 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
1110 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
1111 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
1112 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
1113 the thread calling the listener.
1114 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
1115 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
1116 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
1117 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
1118
1119 - Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
1120 reappear.
1121
1122 - The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
1123 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
1124 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
1125 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
1126 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
1127 feature).
1128
1129 - In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
1130 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
1131 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
1132 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
1133 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
1134 using SHA-256 or better.
1135
1136
1137 strongswan-4.6.4
1138 ----------------
1139
1140 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
1141 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
1142 a legitimate one.
1143
1144 - Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
1145
1146
1147 strongswan-4.6.3
1148 ----------------
1149
1150 - The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
1151 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
1152
1153 - The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
1154 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
1155 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
1156 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
1157
1158 - The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
1159 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
1160 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
1161 console.
1162
1163 - Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
1164 RFC 4595.
1165
1166 - The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
1167 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
1168
1169 - The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
1170 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
1171
1172 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
1173 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
1174
1175
1176 strongswan-4.6.2
1177 ----------------
1178
1179 - Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
1180 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
1181 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
1182 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
1183
1184 - Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
1185 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
1186 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
1187 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
1188
1189 - The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
1190 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
1191 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
1192
1193 - Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
1194 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
1195 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
1196
1197 - Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
1198
1199
1200 strongswan-4.6.1
1201 ----------------
1202
1203 - Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
1204 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
1205 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
1206 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
1207 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
1208 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
1209 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
1210 libraries for resolving external symbols.
1211
1212 - Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
1213 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
1214 post-installation phase.
1215
1216
1217 strongswan-4.6.0
1218 ----------------
1219
1220 - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
1221 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
1222 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
1223
1224 - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
1225 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
1226 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
1227 for the initial patch.
1228
1229 - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
1230 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
1231
1232 - Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
1233
1234 - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
1235 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
1236 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
1237 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
1238 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
1239 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
1240
1241 - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
1242 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
1243 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
1244 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
1245 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
1246 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
1247
1248 - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
1249 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
1250 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
1251
1252
1253 strongswan-4.5.3
1254 ----------------
1255
1256 - Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
1257 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
1258 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
1259 directory.
1260
1261 - The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
1262 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
1263
1264 - Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
1265 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
1266 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
1267
1268 - Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
1269 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
1270
1271 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
1272 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
1273 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
1274 interfaces.
1275
1276 - The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
1277 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
1278
1279 - IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1280 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
1281 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
1282 the client is admitted to the network.
1283 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
1284
1285 - IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
1286 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
1287
1288 - The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
1289 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
1290 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
1291
1292
1293 strongswan-4.5.2
1294 ----------------
1295
1296 - The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
1297 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
1298 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
1299 whitelist administration.
1300
1301 - The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
1302 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
1303 application about detected duplicates.
1304
1305 - The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
1306 authentication to previously used certificates.
1307
1308 - In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
1309 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
1310 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
1311 only starts|routes the specific child config.
1312
1313 - fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
1314
1315 - Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
1316 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
1317
1318 - The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
1319 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
1320
1321 - The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
1322 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
1323 support configuration reloading.
1324
1325 - Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
1326 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
1327 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
1328 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
1329 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
1330 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
1331
1332 - In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
1333 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
1334 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
1335
1336
1337 strongswan-4.5.1
1338 ----------------
1339
1340 - Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
1341 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
1342 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
1343 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
1344 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
1345 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
1346
1347 - Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
1348 in place of the external libtnc library.
1349
1350 - The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
1351 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
1352 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
1353 the corresponding protocol stack.
1354
1355 - IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
1356 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
1357 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
1358 in an SQL database.
1359
1360 - The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
1361 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
1362 points in an SQL database.
1363
1364 - The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
1365 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
1366 replaced, respectively.
1367
1368 - Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
1369 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
1370 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
1371 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
1372 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
1373 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
1374 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
1375
1376 - ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
1377 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
1378
1379 - Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
1380 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
1381 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
1382
1383 - The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
1384 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
1385 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
1386 xcbc algorithms.
1387
1388 - The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
1389 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
1390 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
1391
1392 - The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
1393 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
1394 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
1395 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
1396 ./configure switch.
1397
1398 - The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
1399 checking. In addition to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
1400 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
1401 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
1402 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
1403 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
1404
1405 - The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
1406 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
1407
1408 - The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
1409 support for delta CRLs.
1410
1411
1412 strongswan-4.5.0
1413 ----------------
1414
1415 - IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
1416 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
1417 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
1418 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
1419 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
1420
1421 - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
1422 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
1423 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
1424 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
1425
1426 - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
1427 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
1428 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
1429 tokens.
1430
1431 - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
1432 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
1433 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
1434 client authentication.
1435
1436 - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
1437 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
1438 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
1439
1440 - Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
1441 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
1442 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
1443 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
1444 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
1445 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
1446 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
1447 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
1448
1449 - The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
1450 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
1451 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
1452
1453 - Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
1454 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
1455
1456 - The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
1457 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
1458 availability.
1459
1460 - The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
1461 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
1462 implement a simple event listener.
1463
1464 - Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
1465 initial responder moves to a different address.
1466
1467 - Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
1468
1469 - Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
1470 identity was different from the IKE identity.
1471
1472 - Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
1473 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
1474 UNITY_BANNER).
1475
1476 - Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
1477 charon plugins.
1478
1479 - Added man page for strongswan.conf
1480
1481
1482 strongswan-4.4.1
1483 ----------------
1484
1485 - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
1486 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
1487 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
1488
1489 - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
1490 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
1491 ESP_IN_UDP packets.
1492
1493 - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
1494
1495 - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
1496 by default. Please update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
1497
1498 - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
1499 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
1500 in strongswan.conf, if required.
1501
1502 - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
1503
1504 - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
1505 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
1506
1507 - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
1508 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
1509
1510 - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
1511 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
1512 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
1513
1514 - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
1515 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
1516
1517 - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
1518 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
1519
1520 - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
1521 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
1522 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
1523 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
1524 plugin.
1525
1526 - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
1527 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
1528 unauthenticated users.
1529
1530
1531 strongswan-4.4.0
1532 ----------------
1533
1534 - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
1535 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
1536 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
1537 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
1538 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
1539 secunet Security Networks AG.
1540
1541 - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
1542 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
1543 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
1544 kernel interface.
1545
1546 - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
1547 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
1548 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
1549 from IBM for his contribution.
1550
1551 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
1552 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
1553 are allocated.
1554
1555 - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
1556 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
1557 command line option.
1558
1559 - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
1560 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
1561 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
1562 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
1563 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
1564 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
1565
1566 - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
1567 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
1568 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
1569 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
1570
1571 - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
1572 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
1573 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
1574 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
1575
1576 - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
1577 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
1578
1579
1580 strongswan-4.3.6
1581 ----------------
1582
1583 - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
1584 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
1585
1586 - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
1587 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
1588 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
1589
1590 - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
1591
1592 - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
1593
1594 - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
1595 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
1596 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
1597 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
1598
1599 - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
1600
1601 - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
1602
1603 - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
1604 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
1605 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
1606 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
1607 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
1608
1609 - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
1610 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
1611 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
1612
1613 - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
1614 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
1615
1616 - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
1617 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
1618 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
1619 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
1620 this is the case.
1621
1622 - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
1623 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
1624 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
1625 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
1626 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
1627
1628 - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
1629 allowing interoperability.
1630
1631
1632 strongswan-4.3.5
1633 ----------------
1634
1635 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
1636 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
1637 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
1638 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
1639 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
1640
1641 - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
1642 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
1643 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
1644 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
1645 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
1646
1647 - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
1648 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
1649 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
1650
1651 - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
1652 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
1653 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
1654
1655 - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
1656 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
1657
1658 - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
1659 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
1660 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
1661
1662 - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
1663 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
1664
1665 - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
1666 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf parameters
1667 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
1668 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
1669 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
1670 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
1671
1672 - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
1673 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
1674 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
1675 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
1676
1677 - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
1678 statements.
1679
1680 - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
1681
1682 - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
1683 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
1684
1685 - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
1686 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
1687
1688 - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
1689 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
1690 and the libstrongswan library.
1691
1692
1693 strongswan-4.3.4
1694 ----------------
1695
1696 - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
1697 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
1698
1699 - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
1700 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
1701
1702 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
1703
1704
1705 strongswan-4.3.3
1706 ----------------
1707
1708 - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
1709 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
1710 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
1711 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
1712 manipulations can be reliably detected.
1713
1714 - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
1715 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
1716
1717 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
1718 authenticated encryption algorithms.
1719
1720 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
1721
1722 - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
1723 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
1724 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
1725
1726
1727 strongswan-4.3.2
1728 ----------------
1729
1730 - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
1731 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
1732
1733 - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
1734 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
1735 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
1736
1737 - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
1738 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
1739 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
1740 with IKEv1.
1741
1742 - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
1743 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
1744 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
1745 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
1746
1747
1748 strongswan-4.3.1
1749 ----------------
1750
1751 - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
1752 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
1753 dynamically.
1754
1755 - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
1756 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
1757 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
1758 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
1759 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
1760
1761 - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
1762 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
1763 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
1764 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
1765 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
1766 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
1767
1768 - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
1769 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
1770 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
1771
1772 - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
1773 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
1774 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
1775
1776 - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
1777
1778 - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
1779 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
1780 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
1781 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
1782 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
1783 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
1784 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
1785 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
1786
1787 - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
1788 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
1789
1790 - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
1791 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
1792 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
1793 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
1794 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
1795
1796
1797 strongswan-4.3.0
1798 ----------------
1799
1800 - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
1801 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
1802 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
1803 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
1804 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
1805
1806 - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
1807 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
1808
1809 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
1810 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
1811
1812 - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
1813 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
1814 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
1815
1816 - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
1817 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
1818
1819
1820 strongswan-4.2.14
1821 -----------------
1822
1823 - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
1824 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
1825 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
1826
1827 - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
1828 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
1829 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
1830 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
1831 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
1832 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
1833 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
1834 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
1835 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
1836
1837 - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
1838 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
1839 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
1840 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
1841
1842 - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
1843 IDr payload anymore.
1844
1845
1846 strongswan-4.2.13
1847 -----------------
1848
1849 - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
1850 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
1851
1852 - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
1853 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
1854
1855 - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
1856 parameters field is optional.
1857
1858 - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
1859
1860
1861 strongswan-4.2.12
1862 -----------------
1863
1864 - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
1865 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
1866 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
1867
1868 - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
1869 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
1870 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
1871
1872 - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
1873 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
1874
1875
1876 strongswan-4.2.11
1877 -----------------
1878
1879 - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
1880 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
1881
1882 - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
1883 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
1884
1885
1886 strongswan-4.2.10
1887 -----------------
1888
1889 - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
1890 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
1891 counterparts with better lookup times.
1892
1893 - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
1894 resource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
1895 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
1896
1897 - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
1898 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
1899 on the fly.
1900
1901 - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
1902 command queries assigned leases.
1903
1904 - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
1905 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
1906
1907 - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
1908 reliable source of randomness.
1909
1910 strongswan-4.2.9
1911 ----------------
1912
1913 - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
1914 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
1915
1916 - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
1917 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
1918 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
1919
1920 - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
1921 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
1922 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
1923 parallelization to multiple cores.
1924
1925 - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
1926 further slim down the daemon core.
1927
1928 - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
1929 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
1930 memory or hardware.
1931
1932 - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
1933 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
1934 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
1935 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
1936
1937 - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
1938 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
1939 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
1940 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
1941 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
1942 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
1943
1944 - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
1945 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
1946 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
1947
1948
1949 strongswan-4.2.8
1950 ----------------
1951
1952 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
1953 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
1954 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
1955
1956 - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
1957 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
1958 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addresses in MOBIKE updates as
1959 long as possible and other fixes.
1960
1961 - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
1962 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
1963 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
1964
1965
1966 strongswan-4.2.7
1967 ----------------
1968
1969 - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
1970 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
1971 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
1972 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
1973 for making us aware of this problem.
1974
1975 - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
1976 ssh-agent.
1977
1978 - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
1979 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
1980
1981 - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
1982 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
1983 newer libcap2 library.
1984
1985 - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
1986 charon keying daemon.
1987
1988
1989 strongswan-4.2.6
1990 ----------------
1991
1992 - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
1993 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
1994 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
1995 in the Gnome Keyring.
1996
1997 - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
1998 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
1999 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
2000 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
2001
2002 - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
2003 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
2004 authentication.
2005
2006 - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
2007 authentication types and EAP identities.
2008
2009 - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
2010 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
2011
2012 - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
2013 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
2014
2015
2016 strongswan-4.2.5
2017 ----------------
2018
2019 - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
2020
2021 - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
2022 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
2023 storing only history information has become optional and can be
2024 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
2025 strongswan.conf.
2026
2027 - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
2028 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
2029
2030 - management of different virtual IP pools for different
2031 network interfaces have become possible.
2032
2033 - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
2034 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
2035
2036 - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
2037
2038
2039 strongswan-4.2.4
2040 ----------------
2041
2042 - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
2043 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
2044
2045 - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
2046 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
2047
2048 - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
2049 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
2050
2051 - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
2052 X.509 certificates.
2053
2054 - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
2055 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
2056
2057 - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
2058 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
2059
2060
2061 strongswan-4.2.3
2062 ----------------
2063
2064 - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
2065 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
2066
2067 - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
2068 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
2069
2070
2071 strongswan-4.2.2
2072 ----------------
2073
2074 - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
2075 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
2076 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
2077 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
2078 to software-based crypto plugins.
2079
2080 - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
2081 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
2082 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
2083 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
2084
2085 - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
2086 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
2087 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
2088
2089
2090 strongswan-4.2.1
2091 ----------------
2092
2093 - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
2094 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
2095 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
2096 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
2097 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
2098 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
2099
2100 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
2101 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
2102 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
2103 connections.
2104
2105 - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
2106 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
2107 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
2108
2109 - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
2110 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
2111 re-implemented.
2112
2113 - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
2114 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
2115
2116 - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
2117 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
2118 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
2119
2120 - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
2121 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
2122 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
2123 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
2124 separate plugin.
2125
2126 - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
2127
2128 - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
2129
2130 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
2131 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
2132 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
2133
2134
2135 strongswan-4.2.0
2136 ----------------
2137
2138 - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
2139 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
2140 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2141 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
2142 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
2143 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
2144 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
2145
2146 - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
2147 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
2148
2149 - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
2150 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
2151 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
2152 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
2153 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
2154 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
2155 The following new plugins are available:
2156 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
2157 top of either MySQL or SQLite
2158 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
2159
2160 - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
2161 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
2162 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
2163
2164 - The framework of strongSwan Manager has evolved to the web application
2165 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
2166 by other applications.
2167
2168
2169 strongswan-4.1.11
2170 -----------------
2171
2172 - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
2173 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
2174 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
2175
2176 - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
2177 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
2178
2179 - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
2180 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
2181 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
2182
2183
2184 strongswan-4.1.10
2185 -----------------
2186
2187 - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
2188 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
2189
2190 - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
2191 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
2192 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
2193 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
2194
2195 - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
2196 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
2197 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
2198 before using it.
2199
2200 - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
2201 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
2202 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
2203
2204
2205 strongswan-4.1.9
2206 ----------------
2207
2208 - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
2209 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
2210 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
2211 added.
2212
2213 - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
2214 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
2215
2216 - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
2217 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
2218
2219 - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
2220
2221 - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
2222 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
2223 loaded twice.
2224
2225
2226 strongswan-4.1.8
2227 ----------------
2228
2229 - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
2230
2231
2232 strongswan-4.1.7
2233 ----------------
2234
2235 - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
2236 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
2237 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erroneously deleted.
2238
2239 - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
2240 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
2241 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
2242
2243 - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
2244 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
2245 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
2246
2247 - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
2248 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
2249
2250 - Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
2251
2252
2253 strongswan-4.1.6
2254 ----------------
2255
2256 - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
2257 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
2258 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
2259 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
2260 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
2261 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
2262 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
2263 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
2264
2265 - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
2266 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
2267 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
2268 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
2269
2270 - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
2271 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
2272 startup.
2273
2274 - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
2275 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
2276 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
2277 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
2278 AUTHentication having been configured.
2279
2280 - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
2281 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
2282
2283
2284 strongswan-4.1.5
2285 ----------------
2286
2287 - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
2288 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
2289 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
2290 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
2291 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
2292 corresponding connection definition is updated.
2293
2294 - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
2295 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
2296 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
2297 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
2298
2299
2300 strongswan-4.1.4
2301 ----------------
2302
2303 - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
2304 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
2305 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
2306 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
2307 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
2308 parameter is not required any more.
2309
2310 - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
2311 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
2312 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
2313
2314 right=peer.foo.bar
2315 rightallowany=yes
2316
2317 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
2318 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
2319 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
2320 as
2321
2322 right=%any
2323
2324 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
2325 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
2326
2327 right=%peer.foo.bar
2328
2329 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
2330
2331 - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
2332 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
2333 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
2334 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
2335 connections as a responder are still possible.
2336
2337 - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
2338 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
2339 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
2340 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
2341 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
2342
2343 - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
2344 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
2345 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
2346 by Robert Varga.
2347
2348 - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
2349 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
2350
2351
2352 strongswan-4.1.3
2353 ----------------
2354
2355 - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
2356 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
2357
2358 - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
2359 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
2360 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
2361
2362 - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
2363 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
2364 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
2365 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
2366
2367 - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
2368 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
2369 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
2370 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
2371
2372 - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
2373 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
2374 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
2375 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
2376 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
2377 to implement.
2378
2379 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
2380 headers > 2.6.17.
2381
2382
2383 strongswan-4.1.2
2384 ----------------
2385
2386 - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
2387 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
2388 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
2389 is implemented properly for rekeying.
2390
2391 - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
2392 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
2393
2394 - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
2395
2396 - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
2397
2398 - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
2399 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
2400
2401 - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
2402
2403 - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
2404 connection name.
2405
2406
2407 strongswan-4.1.1
2408 ----------------
2409
2410 - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
2411 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
2412 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
2413 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
2414 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
2415 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
2416
2417 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
2418 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
2419 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
2420
2421 - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
2422 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
2423 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
2424 vendor ID.
2425
2426 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
2427 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
2428 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
2429 message.
2430
2431 - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
2432 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
2433
2434
2435 strongswan-4.1.0
2436 ----------------
2437
2438 - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
2439 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
2440
2441 - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
2442 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
2443 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
2444 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
2445
2446 - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
2447
2448 - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
2449 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
2450 accessLocations.
2451
2452 - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
2453 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
2454 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
2455 option.
2456
2457 - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
2458 code reuse and separation.
2459
2460 - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
2461 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
2462 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
2463
2464 - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
2465 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
2466 specify it.
2467
2468 - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
2469 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
2470 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
2471 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
2472 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
2473 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
2474
2475 - Added client side support for cookies.
2476
2477 - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
2478 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
2479 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
2480
2481
2482 strongswan-4.0.7
2483 ----------------
2484
2485 - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
2486 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
2487 XAUTH and Mode Config.
2488
2489 - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
2490 to a default string.
2491
2492
2493 strongswan-4.0.6
2494 ----------------
2495
2496 - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
2497 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
2498 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
2499 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
2500 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
2501
2502 - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
2503
2504 - IKEv2: Support for transport mode
2505
2506 - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
2507
2508 - various other bugfixes
2509
2510
2511 strongswan-4.0.5
2512 ----------------
2513
2514 - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
2515 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
2516
2517 - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
2518 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
2519
2520 - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
2521 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
2522 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
2523 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
2524
2525 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
2526
2527 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
2528
2529 config setup
2530 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
2531
2532 or changed at runtime via stroke as
2533
2534 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
2535
2536
2537 strongswan-4.0.4
2538 ----------------
2539
2540 - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
2541
2542 - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
2543 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
2544 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
2545 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
2546 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
2547
2548 - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
2549 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
2550 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
2551
2552 - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
2553
2554 - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
2555 or 3DES are supported.
2556
2557 - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
2558 encrypt IKE traffic.
2559
2560 - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
2561 signed with such a hash algorithm.
2562
2563 - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
2564 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
2565 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
2566 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
2567
2568
2569 strongswan-4.0.3
2570 ----------------
2571
2572 - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
2573 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
2574 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
2575 kernel.
2576
2577 - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
2578 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
2579 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
2580 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
2581
2582 - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
2583 algorithm configuration statements.
2584
2585
2586 strongswan-4.0.2
2587 ----------------
2588
2589 - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
2590 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
2591 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
2592 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
2593
2594 - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
2595 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
2596 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
2597 ipsec.conf rules for now.
2598
2599 - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
2600 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
2601 dpddelay=60s).
2602
2603 - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
2604 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
2605 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
2606 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
2607
2608 - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
2609 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
2610 and a more extensible code base.
2611
2612 - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
2613 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
2614 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
2615 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
2616 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
2617 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
2618 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
2619
2620
2621 strongswan-4.0.1
2622 ----------------
2623
2624 - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
2625 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
2626 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
2627 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
2628 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
2629 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
2630 algorithms for IKE:
2631 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
2632 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
2633 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
2634 and for ESP:
2635 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
2636 blowfish192, blowfish256
2637 Integrity: md5, sha1
2638 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
2639 libstrongswan.
2640
2641 - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
2642 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
2643 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
2644 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
2645 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
2646 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
2647
2648 - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
2649 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
2650 configuration examples).
2651
2652 - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
2653 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
2654 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
2655 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
2656
2657 - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
2658 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
2659 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
2660 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
2661 via ipsec starter.
2662
2663
2664 strongswan-4.0.0
2665 ----------------
2666
2667 - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
2668 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
2669 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
2670 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
2671 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
2672 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
2673 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
2674 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
2675 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
2676 status command).
2677
2678
2679 strongswan-2.7.0
2680 ----------------
2681
2682 - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
2683 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
2684 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
2685 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
2686 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
2687 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
2688 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
2689 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
2690 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
2691 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
2692 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
2693 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
2694
2695 - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
2696 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
2697 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
2698 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
2699 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
2700 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
2701 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
2702 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
2703 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
2704 be inserted.
2705
2706 - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
2707 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
2708 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
2709 be found.
2710
2711
2712 strongswan-2.6.4
2713 ----------------
2714
2715 - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
2716 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
2717 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
2718 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
2719 are required any more.
2720
2721 - added support of DPD restart mode
2722
2723 - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
2724 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
2725 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
2726
2727 - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
2728 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
2729
2730
2731 strongswan-2.6.3
2732 ----------------
2733
2734 - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
2735 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
2736
2737 - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
2738 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
2739 via the auth=ah parameter.
2740
2741 - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
2742 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
2743
2744 - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
2745 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
2746 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
2747 the ipsec status command.
2748
2749
2750 strongswan-2.6.2
2751 ----------------
2752
2753 - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
2754 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
2755 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
2756
2757 - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
2758 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
2759 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
2760
2761 - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
2762 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
2763
2764 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
2765 rightid="UN=John Doe"
2766
2767 - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
2768 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
2769 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
2770
2771 conn rw
2772 right=%any
2773 rightid=@foo.bar
2774 authby=secret
2775
2776 - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
2777
2778 - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
2779
2780 - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
2781 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
2782 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
2783
2784 - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
2785 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
2786 servers.
2787
2788 - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
2789 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
2790
2791
2792 strongswan-2.6.1
2793 ----------------
2794
2795 - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
2796 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
2797 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
2798
2799
2800 strongswan-2.6.0
2801 ----------------
2802
2803 - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
2804 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
2805 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
2806 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
2807 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
2808 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
2809 accelerated tremedously.
2810
2811 - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
2812 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
2813 reload pluto's connections.
2814
2815 - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
2816 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
2817 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
2818
2819 - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
2820
2821 - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
2822
2823 - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
2824 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
2825 documented yet.
2826
2827
2828 strongswan-2.5.7
2829 ----------------
2830
2831 - CA certificates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
2832 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
2833 listing.
2834
2835
2836 strongswan-2.5.6
2837 ----------------
2838
2839 - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
2840 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
2841 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
2842 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
2843
2844 - The scepclient function now allows to define the
2845 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
2846 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
2847 has been changed from one year to five years.
2848
2849
2850 strongswan-2.5.5
2851 ----------------
2852
2853 - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
2854 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
2855 via the whack interface. Notation:
2856
2857 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
2858 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2859 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2860 [--keyid <keyid>]
2861
2862 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
2863 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2864 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
2865 [--keyid <keyid>]
2866
2867 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
2868
2869 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
2870 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
2871 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
2872 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
2873 permanently.
2874
2875 - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
2876 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
2877 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
2878 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
2879 is automatically generated by calling the function
2880
2881 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
2882
2883 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
2884 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
2885
2886
2887 strongswan-2.5.4
2888 ----------------
2889
2890 - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
2891 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
2892 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
2893 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
2894
2895 - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
2896 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
2897
2898
2899 strongswan-2.5.3
2900 ----------------
2901
2902 - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
2903 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
2904 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
2905 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
2906 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
2907
2908 - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
2909
2910 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
2911 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
2912 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
2913 self-signed certs)
2914
2915 - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
2916 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
2917 attribute for AES encryption.
2918
2919 - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
2920
2921 - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
2922
2923
2924 strongswan-2.5.2
2925 ----------------
2926
2927 - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
2928 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
2929 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
2930 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
2931 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
2932
2933 - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
2934 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
2935 multiple connections between two security gateways.
2936
2937
2938 strongswan-2.5.1
2939 ----------------
2940
2941 - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
2942 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
2943 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
2944 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet existing
2945 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
2946 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
2947 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
2948 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
2949
2950 - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
2951 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
2952 the command
2953
2954 ipsec auto --listcards
2955
2956 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
2957 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
2958 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
2959 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
2960
2961 %smartcard (selects object #1)
2962 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
2963 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
2964
2965 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
2966
2967 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
2968 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
2969 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
2970
2971 - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
2972 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
2973 to generate a signature.
2974
2975 - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
2976 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
2977 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
2978 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
2979 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
2980
2981 - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
2982 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
2983
2984 - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
2985 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
2986 towards the release of the SCEP client.
2987
2988
2989 strongswan-2.5.0
2990 ----------------
2991
2992 - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
2993 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
2994 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
2995 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
2996 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
2997 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
2998
2999 - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
3000 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
3001 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
3002 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
3003 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
3004 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
3005
3006 - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
3007 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
3008 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
3009
3010
3011 strongswan-2.4.4
3012 ----------------
3013
3014 - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
3015
3016 - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
3017
3018
3019 strongswan-2.4.3
3020 ----------------
3021
3022 - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
3023 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
3024
3025 - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
3026
3027 - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
3028 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
3029 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
3030
3031 - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
3032 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
3033 included.
3034
3035
3036 strongswan-2.4.2
3037 ----------------
3038
3039 - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
3040 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
3041 value of 50.
3042
3043 - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
3044 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
3045 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
3046 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
3047 pad has to be done only once.
3048
3049 - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
3050 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
3051 to be used with smart cards. Example:
3052
3053 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
3054
3055 - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
3056
3057 - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
3058 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
3059
3060 - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
3061 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
3062 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
3063
3064 - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
3065 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
3066 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
3067
3068
3069 strongswan-2.4.1
3070 ----------------
3071
3072 - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
3073 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
3074 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
3075 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
3076 "left" be"local".
3077
3078
3079 strongswan-2.4.0a
3080 -----------------
3081
3082 - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
3083
3084 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
3085 Michael Meier
3086
3087
3088 strongswan-2.4.0
3089 ----------------
3090
3091 - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
3092 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
3093 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
3094 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
3095 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
3096 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
3097 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
3098
3099 - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
3100 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
3101 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
3102 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
3103 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
3104
3105 - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
3106 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
3107 in a particular test.
3108
3109
3110 strongswan-2.3.2
3111 ----------------
3112
3113 - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
3114 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
3115
3116 - fixed NCP Vendor ID.
3117
3118 - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
3119 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
3120 Delete SA messages.
3121
3122 - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
3123 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
3124 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
3125 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
3126
3127
3128 strongswan-2.3.1
3129 ----------------
3130
3131 - Added basic Mode Config functionality
3132
3133 - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
3134 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
3135
3136 - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
3137 module.
3138
3139 - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
3140 maximum udp size patches.
3141
3142 - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
3143
3144
3145 strongswan-2.3.0
3146 ----------------
3147
3148 - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
3149 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
3150 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
3151 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
3152 subdirectory.
3153
3154 - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
3155 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
3156 using the openac facility. For more details see
3157
3158 man ipsec_openac.
3159
3160 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
3161 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
3162 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
3163
3164 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
3165
3166 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
3167 Research or Sales, only.
3168
3169 - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
3170 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
3171 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
3172 Secure Entry Clients.
3173
3174 - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
3175 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
3176 now both set to 24 h.
3177
3178 - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
3179 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
3180
3181 - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
3182 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
3183 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
3184
3185 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
3186
3187
3188 strongswan-2.2.2
3189 ----------------
3190
3191 - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
3192 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
3193 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
3194 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
3195
3196 - Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
3197 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
3198 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
3199
3200 - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
3201
3202 - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
3203 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
3204
3205
3206 strongswan-2.2.1
3207 ----------------
3208
3209 - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
3210 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
3211
3212 - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
3213 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
3214
3215 - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
3216 occurring when a smartcard is present.
3217
3218 - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
3219
3220 - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
3221
3222 - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
3223
3224
3225 strongswan-2.2.0
3226 ----------------
3227
3228 - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
3229
3230 dpdaction=clear|hold
3231
3232 activates DPD for the given connection.
3233
3234 - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
3235 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
3236 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
3237
3238 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
3239
3240 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
3241
3242 - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
3243 using the compile option VENDORID
3244
3245 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
3246
3247 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
3248
3249 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
3250
3251 - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
3252 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
3253
3254 - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
3255
3256 - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
3257 connection.
3258
3259
3260 strongswan-2.1.5
3261 ----------------
3262
3263 - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
3264 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
3265 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
3266 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
3267 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
3268
3269 - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
3270 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
3271
3272
3273 strongswan-2.1.4
3274 ----------------
3275
3276 - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
3277 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
3278 an optional connection selector:
3279
3280 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
3281
3282 - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
3283 man page.
3284
3285 - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
3286 of malformed distinguished names.
3287
3288 - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
3289
3290 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
3291
3292 - Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
3293
3294
3295 strongswan-2.1.3
3296 ----------------
3297
3298 - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
3299 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
3300
3301
3302 strongswan-2.1.2
3303 ----------------
3304
3305 - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
3306 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
3307 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
3308
3309
3310 strongswan-2.1.1
3311 ----------------
3312
3313 - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
3314
3315
3316 strongswan-2.1.0
3317 ----------------
3318
3319 - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
3320
3321 ca kool
3322 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
3323 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
3324 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
3325 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
3326 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
3327 auto=add # add, ignore
3328
3329 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
3330
3331 ipsec auto --listcainfos
3332
3333 - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
3334 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
3335
3336
3337 strongswan-2.0.2
3338 ----------------
3339
3340 - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
3341 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
3342
3343 - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
3344 during kernel compilation
3345
3346 - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
3347 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
3348
3349 - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
3350 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
3351 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
3352
3353
3354 strongswan-2.0.1
3355 ----------------
3356
3357 - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
3358 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
3359 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
3360 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
3361
3362 - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
3363 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
3364
3365
3366 strongswan-2.0.0
3367 ----------------
3368
3369 - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12