strongswan-4.5.0 ---------------- - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2. - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from tokens. - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based client authentication. - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend. strongswan-4.4.1 ---------------- - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp. - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or ESP_IN_UDP packets. - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions. - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf. - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives in strongswan.conf, if required. - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command. - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in PEM format using the --outform pem option. - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute. - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server. Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process. - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details. - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA, reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database. - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha plugin. - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated users. strongswan-4.4.0 ---------------- - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes, based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability. The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by secunet Security Networks AG. - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM kernel interface. - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten from IBM for his contribution. - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses are allocated. - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem command line option. - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having rightsourceip set to %dhcp. - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin. - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport ipsec.conf connection parameters. - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns" system properties, as used by the Android platform. strongswan-4.3.6 ---------------- - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate. - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2 Configuration Payload to remote clients. - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm. - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints. - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes. - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced. - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous releases; disable compression on such tunnels. - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg. - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish, serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know this is the case. - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above. - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus allowing interoperability. strongswan-4.3.5 ---------------- - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin. - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option. Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files. - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them. - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin. - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys. - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates. - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP). - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin), 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires. The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins. - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin, charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions. The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option. - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid statements. - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon. - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release. - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon. - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon and the libstrongswan library. strongswan-4.3.4 ---------------- - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can be found on wiki.strongswan.org. - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon. - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets. strongswan-4.3.3 ---------------- - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file manipulations can be reliably detected. - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20. - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP authenticated encryption algorithms. - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys. - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust. strongswan-4.3.2 ---------------- - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library. - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms. - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc. Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used with IKEv1. - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value. strongswan-4.3.1 ---------------- - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager, allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients dynamically. - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients. - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA. The command ipsec down {n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection whereas ipsec down {*} deletes all CHILD SA instances. The command ipsec down [n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down [*] deletes all IKE SA instances of connection . - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate. - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages. - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel. - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was developped by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti. - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr. - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default. strongswan-4.3.0 ---------------- - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739). Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials. - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available, strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems. - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher (esp=camellia128|192|256). - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library. - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf. strongswan-4.2.14 ----------------- - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius) relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Succesfully tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM. - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by Gerd v. Egidy of Intra2net AG affecting all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP) R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release. - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms. As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038. - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the IDr payload anymore. strongswan-4.2.13 ----------------- - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault. - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occuring with mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools. - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the parameters field is optional. - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1. strongswan-4.2.12 ----------------- - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl. - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver addresses are defined in strongswan.conf. - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan. strongswan-4.2.11 ----------------- - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c. Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material. - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall broken by an unfortunate local variable overload. strongswan-4.2.10 ----------------- - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster counterparts with better lookup times. - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full advantage of 16 or even more cores. - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA on the fly. - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases" command queries assigned leases. - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg. - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a reliable source of randomness. strongswan-4.2.9 ---------------- - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target. - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded use of the OpenSSL plugin. - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves parallelization to multiple cores. - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to further slim down the daemon core. - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system, allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel memory or hardware. - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default) and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided. - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent. The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Adress. - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel. strongswan-4.2.8 ---------------- - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface. - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges, handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as long as possible and other fixes. - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits. Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug. strongswan-4.2.7 ---------------- - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs for making us aware of this problem. - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an ssh-agent. - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent. - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the newer libcap2 library. - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the charon keying daemon. strongswan-4.2.6 ---------------- - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords in the Gnome Keyring. - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway. The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows client authentication against e.g. LDAP. - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP authentication. - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP authentication types and EAP identities. - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up several hundred tunnels concurrently. - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library. strongswan-4.2.5 ---------------- - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level. - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table storing only history information has become optional and can be disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in strongswan.conf. - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels. - management of different virtual IP pools for different network interfaces have become possible. - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database. - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel. strongswan-4.2.4 ---------------- - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands. - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals. - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26. - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve X.509 certificates. - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket. - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17. strongswan-4.2.3 ---------------- - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure. - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX. strongswan-4.2.2 ---------------- - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load. This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to to software-based crypto plugins. - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool. Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16. strongswan-4.2.1 ---------------- - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA. The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url". - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing connections. - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionaly supports random number generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random. - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been re-implemented. - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized. Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads. - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers). - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a separate plugin. - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs. - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s. - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc. strongswan-4.2.0 ---------------- - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms, credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins: - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available. - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon. Existing code has been ported to plugins: - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto) - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon The following new plugins are available: - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on top of either MySQL or SQLite - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily refactored to support modular credential providers, proper CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules. - The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable by other applications. strongswan-4.1.11 ----------------- - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with the next CHILD_SA rekeying. - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms. - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'. strongswan-4.1.10 ----------------- - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created. - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK). - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM, but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h before using it. - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules. strongswan-4.1.9 ---------------- - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were added. - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe. - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination of IKE and CHILD_SAs. - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code. - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts. Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get loaded twice. strongswan-4.1.8 ---------------- - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them. strongswan-4.1.7 ---------------- - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes, those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted. - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only). - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager). - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases. - Further improvements to MOBIKE support. strongswan-4.1.6 ---------------- - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support MOBIKE acting as a responder. - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220. It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options. - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon startup. - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended AUTHentication having been configured. - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts, rereadacerts, and listacerts options. strongswan-4.1.5 ---------------- - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=% or right= combined with rightallowany=yes then the connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the corresponding connection definition is updated. - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated. strongswan-4.1.4 ---------------- - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop parameter is not required any more. - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration right=peer.foo.bar rightallowany=yes can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address. Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on as right=%any so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his IP address changes. An alternative notation is right=%peer.foo.bar which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes. - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive connections as a responder are still possible. - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize() function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga. - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed by Robert Varga. - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/ address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically. strongswan-4.1.3 ---------------- - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given certification authority using the rightca= statement. - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition in the case of a peer certificate renewal. - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the client enforces its leftsourceip parameter. - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager) or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial to implement. - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occuring with Linux kernel headers > 2.6.17. strongswan-4.1.2 ---------------- - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation is implemented properly for rekeying. - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc". - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21. - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK. - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution. - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the connection name. strongswan-4.1.1 ---------------- - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state, cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches). - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs enabled by cachecrls=yes. - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan vendor ID. - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification message. - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash. strongswan-4.1.0 ---------------- - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates. - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet]. - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2. - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP accessLocations. - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2. This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure option. - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better code reuse and separation. - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file. - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly specify it. - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines the EAP method to use for client authentication. A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication module using a third party card reader implementation are included. - Added client side support for cookies. - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations. strongswan-4.0.7 ---------------- - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client, the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both XAUTH and Mode Config. - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set to a default string. strongswan-4.0.6 ---------------- - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets. - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying - IKEv2: Support for transport mode - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order - various other bugfixes strongswan-4.0.5 ---------------- - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways. - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control. - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten. Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q), etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to: 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private) The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as config setup charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2" or changed at runtime via stroke as ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2 strongswan-4.0.4 ---------------- - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels. - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity. - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA. - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter. - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256 or 3DES are supported. - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to encrypt IKE traffic. - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates signed with such a hash algorithm. - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter. strongswan-4.0.3 ---------------- - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the kernel. - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter. As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later. - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp= algorithm configuration statements. strongswan-4.0.2 ---------------- - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented. End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls. - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple ipsec.conf rules for now. - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear, dpddelay=60s). - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically. - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission and a more extensible code base. - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer. strongswan-4.0.1 ---------------- - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported algorithms for IKE: Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac) DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192 and for ESP: Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128, blowfish192, blowfish256 Integrity: md5, sha1 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into libstrongswan. - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey, rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer. - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for configuration examples). - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using the ./configure script. Changing install directories is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details. - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall, listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections via ipsec starter. strongswan-4.0.0 ---------------- - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec status command). strongswan-2.7.0 ---------------- - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have been merged into the default _updown script. The existing left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively. left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16 in conjuction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword. - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host). This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its internal network interface which is part of the client subnet because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required. lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to be inserted. - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can be found. strongswan-2.6.4 ---------------- - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules are required any more. - added support of DPD restart mode - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf". Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas. - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates. strongswan-2.6.3 ---------------- - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec command and not of ipsec setup any more. - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf via the auth=ah parameter. - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt is now an alias for ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt . - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by the ipsec status command. strongswan-2.6.2 ---------------- - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA. - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent. - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName" in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible: rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe" rightid="UN=John Doe" - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret() if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example. conn rw right=%any rightid=@foo.bar authby=secret - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall). - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg. - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info. - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config servers. - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject. strongswan-2.6.1 ---------------- - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup". strongswan-2.6.0 ---------------- - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload, _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is accelerated tremedously. - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically reload pluto's connections. - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP, USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE. - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been documented yet. strongswan-2.5.7 ---------------- - CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts listing. strongswan-2.5.6 ---------------- - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt " with a PKCS#11 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in software using the public key fetched from the smartcard. - The scepclient function now allows to define the validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days, --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity has been changed from one year to five years. strongswan-2.5.5 ---------------- - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption via the whack interface. Notation: ipsec whack --scencrypt [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii] [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii] [--keyid ] ipsec whack --scdecrypt [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii] [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii] [--keyid ] The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex. The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot permanently. - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der is automatically generated by calling the function ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland. strongswan-2.5.4 ---------------- - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used. the parsing syntax has been fixed. - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS. strongswan-2.5.3 ---------------- - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault" in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively. - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values always|yes (the default, always send a cert) ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request) never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and self-signed certs) - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length attribute for AES encryption. - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches strongswan-2.5.2 ---------------- - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field. In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280. - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also multiple connections between two security gateways. strongswan-2.5.1 ---------------- - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection. - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using the command ipsec auto --listcards The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard) in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively: %smartcard (selects object #1) %smartcard#1 (selects object #1) %smartcard#3 (selects object #3) As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used: %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45) %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0) %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45) - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used to generate a signature. - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign() is now initialized to the actual size of the output buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using the OpenSC PKCS#11 module. - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }. - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step towards the release of the SCEP client. strongswan-2.5.0 ---------------- - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more because the corresponding code has been integrated into smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that no external include path has to be defined any longer. - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last: The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID in /etc/ipsec.d/crls. - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box. strongswan-2.4.4 ---------------- - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings. - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3 strongswan-2.4.3 ---------------- - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy. OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries. - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes. - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed. - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now included. strongswan-2.4.2 ---------------- - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark value of 50. - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11 session and login states are kept as long as possible during the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key pad has to be done only once. - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module to be used with smart cards. Example: pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad. - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel. - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only. - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp. strongswan-2.4.1 ---------------- - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side, contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and "left" be"local". strongswan-2.4.0a ----------------- - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and Michael Meier strongswan-2.4.0 ---------------- - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface. By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked. strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/ always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined protocol family field and the connection setup fails. As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed. - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used in a particular test. strongswan-2.3.2 ---------------- - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages. This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality. - fixed NCP Vendor ID. - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed Delete SA messages. - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively. strongswan-2.3.1 ---------------- - Added basic Mode Config functionality - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947. - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel module. - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and maximum udp size patches. - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default. strongswan-2.3.0 ---------------- - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing subdirectory. - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated using the openac facility. For more details see man ipsec_openac. The group attributes can be used in connection definitions in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups. This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in rightgroups="Research, Sales" giving access to users possessing the group attributes Research or Sales, only. - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP Secure Entry Clients. - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are now both set to 24 h. - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption. - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial number of a certificate is now shown by the command ipsec auto --listpubkeys strongswan-2.2.2 ---------------- - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6) and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4). - Fixed a bug occuring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching connection because of the floated IKE port 4500. - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf. - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project). strongswan-2.2.1 ---------------- - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms. - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occuring when the strict flag is set and the first proposed transform does not match. - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex, occuring when a smartcard is present. - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event. - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null) - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches. strongswan-2.2.0 ---------------- - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter dpdaction=clear|hold activates DPD for the given connection. - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf: include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert. - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated using the compile option VENDORID - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly. - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers. - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN. - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex. - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group connection. strongswan-2.1.5 ---------------- - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list. - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody. strongswan-2.1.4 ---------------- - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise) and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with an optional connection selector: ipsec auto --status[all] - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8) man page. - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing of malformed distinguished names. - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits. - Fixed the debug mode enumeration. strongswan-2.1.3 ---------------- - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain. strongswan-2.1.2 ---------------- - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain. strongswan-2.1.1 ---------------- - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS. strongswan-2.1.0 ---------------- - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters: ca kool cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2 auto=add # add, ignore The ca definitions can be monitored via the command ipsec auto --listcainfos - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes. strongswan-2.0.2 ---------------- - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode. - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources during kernel compilation - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int). Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform. - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf(). Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel. strongswan-2.0.1 ---------------- - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects. - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack. strongswan-2.0.0 ---------------- - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12