From d3d21c29db4592e8588bd3e73dfae2792bd393cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Willi Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:38 +0200 Subject: Add NEWS for ESN/custom replay window support --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 80b7125d1..af7ccf058 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ strongswan-4.5.2 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins support configuration reloading. +- Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers + support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add + the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence + numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is + specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g. + esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn. + +- In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger + than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window' + configures the size of the replay window, in packets. + strongswan-4.5.1 ---------------- -- cgit v1.2.3