4 - Extended PTS Attestation IMC/IMV pair to provide full evidence of
5 the Linux IMA measurement process. All pertinent file information
6 of a Linux OS can be collected an stored in an SQL database.
8 - The PA-TNC and PB-TNC protocols can now process huge data payloads
9 >64 kB by distributing PA-TNC attributes over multiple PA-TNC messages
10 and these messages over several PB-TNC batches. As long as no
11 consolidated recommandation from all IMVs can be obtained the TNC
12 server requests more client data by sending an empty SDATA batch.
14 - The rightgroups2 ipsec.conf option can require group membership during
15 a second authentication round, for example during XAuth authentication
16 against a RADIUS server.
18 - The xauth-pam backend can authenticate IKEv1 XAuth and Hybrid authenticated
19 clients against any PAM service. The IKEv2 eap-gtc plugin does not use
20 PAM directly anymore, but can use any XAuth backend to verify credentials,
23 - The new left/rightdns options specify connection specific DNS servers to
24 request/respond in IKEv2 configuration payloads or IKEv2 mode config. leftdns
25 can be any (comma separated) combination of %config4 and %config6 to request
26 multiple servers, both for IPv4 and IPv6. rightdns takes a list of DNS server
27 IP addresses to return.
29 - The autotools build has been migrated to use a config.h header. strongSwan
30 development headers will get installed during "make install" if
31 --with-dev-headers has been passed to ./configure.
33 - All crypto primitives gained return values for most operations, allowing
34 crypto backends to fail, for example when using hardware accelerators.
39 - The charon IKE daemon gained experimental support for the IKEv1 protocol.
40 Pluto has been removed from the 5.x series, and unless strongSwan is
41 configured with --disable-ikev1 or --disable-ikev2, charon handles both
42 keying protocols. The feature-set of IKEv1 in charon is almost on par with
43 pluto, but currently does not support AH or bundled AH+ESP SAs. Beside
44 RSA/ECDSA, PSK and XAuth, charon also supports the Hybrid authentication
45 mode. Informations for interoperability and migration is available at
46 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CharonPlutoIKEv1.
48 - Charon's bus_t has been refactored so that loggers and other listeners are
49 now handled separately. The single lock was previously cause for deadlocks
50 if extensive listeners, such as the one provided by the updown plugin, wanted
51 to acquire locks that were held by other threads which in turn tried to log
52 messages, and thus were waiting to acquire the same lock currently held by
53 the thread calling the listener.
54 The implemented changes also allow the use of a read/write-lock for the
55 loggers which increases performance if multiple loggers are registered.
56 Besides several interface changes this last bit also changes the semantics
57 for loggers as these may now be called by multiple threads at the same time.
59 - Source routes are reinstalled if interfaces are reactivated or IP addresses
62 - The thread pool (processor_t) now has more control over the lifecycle of
63 a job (see job.h for details). In particular, it now controls the destruction
64 of jobs after execution and the cancellation of jobs during shutdown. Due to
65 these changes the requeueing feature, previously available to callback_job_t
66 only, is now available to all jobs (in addition to a new rescheduling
69 - In addition to trustchain key strength definitions for different public key
70 systems, the rightauth option now takes a list of signature hash algorithms
71 considered save for trustchain validation. For example, the setting
72 rightauth=rsa-2048-ecdsa-256-sha256-sha384-sha512 requires a trustchain
73 that uses at least RSA-2048 or ECDSA-256 keys and certificate signatures
74 using SHA-256 or better.
80 - Fixed a security vulnerability in the gmp plugin. If this plugin was used
81 for RSA signature verification an empty or zeroed signature was handled as
84 - Fixed several issues with reauthentication and address updates.
90 - The tnc-pdp plugin implements a RADIUS server interface allowing
91 a strongSwan TNC server to act as a Policy Decision Point.
93 - The eap-radius authentication backend enforces Session-Timeout attributes
94 using RFC4478 repeated authentication and acts upon RADIUS Dynamic
95 Authorization extensions, RFC 5176. Currently supported are disconnect
96 requests and CoA messages containing a Session-Timeout.
98 - The eap-radius plugin can forward arbitrary RADIUS attributes from and to
99 clients using custom IKEv2 notify payloads. The new radattr plugin reads
100 attributes to include from files and prints received attributes to the
103 - Added support for untruncated MD5 and SHA1 HMACs in ESP as used in
106 - The cmac plugin implements the AES-CMAC-96 and AES-CMAC-PRF-128 algorithms
107 as defined in RFC 4494 and RFC 4615, respectively.
109 - The resolve plugin automatically installs nameservers via resolvconf(8),
110 if it is installed, instead of modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
112 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports now raw RSA public keys in RFC 3110
113 DNSKEY and PKCS#1 file format.
119 - Upgraded the TCG IF-IMC and IF-IMV C API to the upcoming version 1.3
120 which supports IF-TNCCS 2.0 long message types, the exclusive flags
121 and multiple IMC/IMV IDs. Both the TNC Client and Server as well as
122 the "Test", "Scanner", and "Attestation" IMC/IMV pairs were updated.
124 - Fully implemented the "TCG Attestation PTS Protocol: Binding to IF-M"
125 standard (TLV-based messages only). TPM-based remote attestation of
126 Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) possible. Measurement
127 reference values are automatically stored in an SQLite database.
129 - The EAP-RADIUS authentication backend supports RADIUS accounting. It sends
130 start/stop messages containing Username, Framed-IP and Input/Output-Octets
131 attributes and has been tested against FreeRADIUS and Microsoft NPS.
133 - Added support for PKCS#8 encoded private keys via the libstrongswan
134 pkcs8 plugin. This is the default format used by some OpenSSL tools since
135 version 1.0.0 (e.g. openssl req with -keyout).
137 - Added session resumption support to the strongSwan TLS stack.
143 - Because of changing checksums before and after installation which caused
144 the integrity tests to fail we avoided directly linking libsimaka, libtls and
145 libtnccs to those libcharon plugins which make use of these dynamic libraries.
146 Instead we linked the libraries to the charon daemon. Unfortunately Ubuntu
147 11.10 activated the --as-needed ld option which discards explicit links
148 to dynamic libraries that are not actually used by the charon daemon itself,
149 thus causing failures during the loading of the plugins which depend on these
150 libraries for resolving external symbols.
152 - Therefore our approach of computing integrity checksums for plugins had to be
153 changed radically by moving the hash generation from the compilation to the
154 post-installation phase.
160 - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of
161 all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly
162 exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports.
164 - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name
165 resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with
166 connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey
167 for the initial patch.
169 - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and
170 provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat.
172 - Pluto and starter (plus stroke and whack) have been ported to Android.
174 - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the
175 pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can
176 use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key
177 operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled by their
178 option in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even
179 for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before.
181 - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies.
182 Many plugins have been extended to export its capabilities and requirements.
183 This allows the plugin loader to resolve plugin loading order automatically,
184 and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand.
185 Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they
186 properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL.
188 - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver
189 metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap
190 plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library.
196 - Our private libraries (e.g. libstrongswan) are not installed directly in
197 prefix/lib anymore. Instead a subdirectory is used (prefix/lib/ipsec/ by
198 default). The plugins directory is also moved from libexec/ipsec/ to that
201 - The dynamic IMC/IMV libraries were moved from the plugins directory to
202 a new imcvs directory in the prefix/lib/ipsec/ subdirectory.
204 - Job priorities were introduced to prevent thread starvation caused by too
205 many threads handling blocking operations (such as CRL fetching). Refer to
206 strongswan.conf(5) for details.
208 - Two new strongswan.conf options allow to fine-tune performance on IKEv2
209 gateways by dropping IKE_SA_INIT requests on high load.
211 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports start PASS and DROP shunt policies
212 preventing traffic to go through IPsec connections. Installation of the
213 shunt policies either via the XFRM netfilter or PFKEYv2 IPsec kernel
216 - The history of policies installed in the kernel is now tracked so that e.g.
217 trap policies are correctly updated when reauthenticated SAs are terminated.
219 - IMC/IMV Scanner pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
220 Using "netstat -l" the IMC scans open listening ports on the TNC client
221 and sends a port list to the IMV which based on a port policy decides if
222 the client is admitted to the network.
223 (--enable-imc-scanner/--enable-imv-scanner).
225 - IMC/IMV Test pair implementing the RFC 5792 PA-TNC (IF-M) protocol.
226 (--enable-imc-test/--enable-imv-test).
228 - The IKEv2 close action does not use the same value as the ipsec.conf dpdaction
229 setting, but the value defined by its own closeaction keyword. The action
230 is triggered if the remote peer closes a CHILD_SA unexpectedly.
236 - The whitelist plugin for the IKEv2 daemon maintains an in-memory identity
237 whitelist. Any connection attempt of peers not whitelisted will get rejected.
238 The 'ipsec whitelist' utility provides a simple command line frontend for
239 whitelist administration.
241 - The duplicheck plugin provides a specialized form of duplicate checking,
242 doing a liveness check on the old SA and optionally notify a third party
243 application about detected duplicates.
245 - The coupling plugin permanently couples two or more devices by limiting
246 authentication to previously used certificates.
248 - In the case that the peer config and child config don't have the same name
249 (usually in SQL database defined connections), ipsec up|route <peer config>
250 starts|routes all associated child configs and ipsec up|route <child config>
251 only starts|routes the specific child config.
253 - fixed the encoding and parsing of X.509 certificate policy statements (CPS).
255 - Duncan Salerno contributed the eap-sim-pcsc plugin implementing a
256 pcsc-lite based SIM card backend.
258 - The eap-peap plugin implements the EAP PEAP protocol. Interoperates
259 successfully with a FreeRADIUS server and Windows 7 Agile VPN clients.
261 - The IKEv2 daemon charon rereads strongswan.conf on SIGHUP and instructs
262 all plugins to reload. Currently only the eap-radius and the attr plugins
263 support configuration reloading.
265 - Added userland support to the IKEv2 daemon for Extended Sequence Numbers
266 support coming with Linux 2.6.39. To enable ESN on a connection, add
267 the 'esn' keyword to the proposal. The default proposal uses 32-bit sequence
268 numbers only ('noesn'), and the same value is used if no ESN mode is
269 specified. To negotiate ESN support with the peer, include both, e.g.
270 esp=aes128-sha1-esn-noesn.
272 - In addition to ESN, Linux 2.6.39 gained support for replay windows larger
273 than 32 packets. The new global strongswan.conf option 'charon.replay_window'
274 configures the size of the replay window, in packets.
280 - Sansar Choinyambuu implemented the RFC 5793 Posture Broker Protocol (BP)
281 compatible with Trusted Network Connect (TNC). The TNCCS 2.0 protocol
282 requires the tnccs_20, tnc_imc and tnc_imv plugins but does not depend
283 on the libtnc library. Any available IMV/IMC pairs conforming to the
284 Trusted Computing Group's TNC-IF-IMV/IMC 1.2 interface specification
285 can be loaded via /etc/tnc_config.
287 - Re-implemented the TNCCS 1.1 protocol by using the tnc_imc and tnc_imv
288 in place of the external libtnc library.
290 - The tnccs_dynamic plugin loaded on a TNC server in addition to the
291 tnccs_11 and tnccs_20 plugins, dynamically detects the IF-TNCCS
292 protocol version used by a TNC client and invokes an instance of
293 the corresponding protocol stack.
295 - IKE and ESP proposals can now be stored in an SQL database using a
296 new proposals table. The start_action field in the child_configs
297 tables allows the automatic starting or routing of connections stored
300 - The new certificate_authorities and certificate_distribution_points
301 tables make it possible to store CRL and OCSP Certificate Distribution
302 points in an SQL database.
304 - The new 'include' statement allows to recursively include other files in
305 strongswan.conf. Existing sections and values are thereby extended and
306 replaced, respectively.
308 - Due to the changes in the parser for strongswan.conf, the configuration
309 syntax for the attr plugin has changed. Previously, it was possible to
310 specify multiple values of a specific attribute type by adding multiple
311 key/value pairs with the same key (e.g. dns) to the plugins.attr section.
312 Because values with the same key now replace previously defined values
313 this is not possible anymore. As an alternative, multiple values can be
314 specified by separating them with a comma (e.g. dns = 1.2.3.4, 2.3.4.5).
316 - ipsec listalgs now appends (set in square brackets) to each crypto
317 algorithm listed the plugin that registered the function.
319 - Traffic Flow Confidentiality padding supported with Linux 2.6.38 can be used
320 by the IKEv2 daemon. The ipsec.conf 'tfc' keyword pads all packets to a given
321 boundary, the special value '%mtu' pads all packets to the path MTU.
323 - The new af-alg plugin can use various crypto primitives of the Linux Crypto
324 API using the AF_ALG interface introduced with 2.6.38. This removes the need
325 for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
328 - The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
329 responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
330 policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
332 - The conftest conformance testing framework enables the IKEv2 stack to perform
333 many tests using a distinct tool and configuration frontend. Various hooks
334 can alter reserved bits, flags, add custom notifies and proposals, reorder
335 or drop messages and much more. It is enabled using the --enable-conftest
338 - The new libstrongswan constraints plugin provides advanced X.509 constraint
339 checking. In additon to X.509 pathLen constraints, the plugin checks for
340 nameConstraints and certificatePolicies, including policyMappings and
341 policyConstraints. The x509 certificate plugin and the pki tool have been
342 enhanced to support these extensions. The new left/rightcertpolicy ipsec.conf
343 connection keywords take OIDs a peer certificate must have.
345 - The left/rightauth ipsec.conf keywords accept values with a minimum strength
346 for trustchain public keys in bits, such as rsa-2048 or ecdsa-256.
348 - The revocation and x509 libstrongswan plugins and the pki tool gained basic
349 support for delta CRLs.
355 - IMPORTANT: the default keyexchange mode 'ike' is changing with release 4.5
356 from 'ikev1' to 'ikev2', thus commemorating the five year anniversary of the
357 IKEv2 RFC 4306 and its mature successor RFC 5996. The time has definitively
358 come for IKEv1 to go into retirement and to cede its place to the much more
359 robust, powerful and versatile IKEv2 protocol!
361 - Added new ctr, ccm and gcm plugins providing Counter, Counter with CBC-MAC
362 and Galois/Counter Modes based on existing CBC implementations. These
363 new plugins bring support for AES and Camellia Counter and CCM algorithms
364 and the AES GCM algorithms for use in IKEv2.
366 - The new pkcs11 plugin brings full Smartcard support to the IKEv2 daemon and
367 the pki utility using one or more PKCS#11 libraries. It currently supports
368 RSA private and public key operations and loads X.509 certificates from
371 - Implemented a general purpose TLS stack based on crypto and credential
372 primitives of libstrongswan. libtls supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2,
373 ECDHE-ECDSA/RSA, DHE-RSA and RSA key exchange algorithms and RSA/ECDSA based
374 client authentication.
376 - Based on libtls, the eap-tls plugin brings certificate based EAP
377 authentication for client and server. It is compatible to Windows 7 IKEv2
378 Smartcard authentication and the OpenSSL based FreeRADIUS EAP-TLS backend.
380 - Implemented the TNCCS 1.1 Trusted Network Connect protocol using the
381 libtnc library on the strongSwan client and server side via the tnccs_11
382 plugin and optionally connecting to a TNC@FHH-enhanced FreeRADIUS AAA server.
383 Depending on the resulting TNC Recommendation, strongSwan clients are granted
384 access to a network behind a strongSwan gateway (allow), are put into a
385 remediation zone (isolate) or are blocked (none), respectively. Any number
386 of Integrity Measurement Collector/Verifier pairs can be attached
387 via the tnc-imc and tnc-imv charon plugins.
389 - The IKEv1 daemon pluto now uses the same kernel interfaces as the IKEv2
390 daemon charon. As a result of this, pluto now supports xfrm marks which
391 were introduced in charon with 4.4.1.
393 - Applets for Maemo 5 (Nokia) allow to easily configure and control IKEv2
394 based VPN connections with EAP authentication on supported devices.
396 - The RADIUS plugin eap-radius now supports multiple RADIUS servers for
397 redundant setups. Servers are selected by a defined priority, server load and
400 - The simple led plugin controls hardware LEDs through the Linux LED subsystem.
401 It currently shows activity of the IKE daemon and is a good example how to
402 implement a simple event listener.
404 - Improved MOBIKE behavior in several corner cases, for instance, if the
405 initial responder moves to a different address.
407 - Fixed left-/rightnexthop option, which was broken since 4.4.0.
409 - Fixed a bug not releasing a virtual IP address to a pool if the XAUTH
410 identity was different from the IKE identity.
412 - Fixed the alignment of ModeConfig messages on 4-byte boundaries in the
413 case where the attributes are not a multiple of 4 bytes (e.g. Cisco's
416 - Fixed the interoperability of the socket_raw and socket_default
419 - Added man page for strongswan.conf
425 - Support of xfrm marks in IPsec SAs and IPsec policies introduced
426 with the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. For details see the example scenarios
427 ikev2/nat-two-rw-mark, ikev2/rw-nat-mark-in-out and ikev2/net2net-psk-dscp.
429 - The PLUTO_MARK_IN and PLUTO_ESP_ENC environment variables can be used
430 in a user-specific updown script to set marks on inbound ESP or
433 - The openssl plugin now supports X.509 certificate and CRL functions.
435 - OCSP/CRL checking in IKEv2 has been moved to the revocation plugin, enabled
436 by default. Plase update manual load directives in strongswan.conf.
438 - RFC3779 ipAddrBlock constraint checking has been moved to the addrblock
439 plugin, disabled by default. Enable it and update manual load directives
440 in strongswan.conf, if required.
442 - The pki utility supports CRL generation using the --signcrl command.
444 - The ipsec pki --self, --issue and --req commands now support output in
445 PEM format using the --outform pem option.
447 - The major refactoring of the IKEv1 Mode Config functionality now allows
448 the transport and handling of any Mode Config attribute.
450 - The RADIUS proxy plugin eap-radius now supports multiple servers. Configured
451 servers are chosen randomly, with the option to prefer a specific server.
452 Non-responding servers are degraded by the selection process.
454 - The ipsec pool tool manages arbitrary configuration attributes stored
455 in an SQL database. ipsec pool --help gives the details.
457 - The new eap-simaka-sql plugin acts as a backend for EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA,
458 reading triplets/quintuplets from an SQL database.
460 - The High Availability plugin now supports a HA enabled in-memory address
461 pool and Node reintegration without IKE_SA rekeying. The latter allows
462 clients without IKE_SA rekeying support to keep connected during
463 reintegration. Additionally, many other issues have been fixed in the ha
466 - Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability resulting from
467 the misuse of snprintf(). The vulnerability is exploitable by
468 unauthenticated users.
474 - The IKEv2 High Availability plugin has been integrated. It provides
475 load sharing and failover capabilities in a cluster of currently two nodes,
476 based on an extend ClusterIP kernel module. More information is available at
477 http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/HighAvailability.
478 The development of the High Availability functionality was sponsored by
479 secunet Security Networks AG.
481 - Added IKEv1 and IKEv2 configuration support for the AES-GMAC
482 authentication-only ESP cipher. Our aes_gmac kernel patch or a Linux
483 2.6.34 kernel is required to make AES-GMAC available via the XFRM
486 - Added support for Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 to the gmp, gcrypt
487 and openssl plugins, usable by both pluto and charon. The new proposal
488 keywords are modp1024s160, modp2048s224 and modp2048s256. Thanks to Joy Latten
489 from IBM for his contribution.
491 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon supports RAM-based virtual IP pools using
492 the rightsourceip directive with a subnet from which addresses
495 - The ipsec pki --gen and --pub commands now allow the output of
496 private and public keys in PEM format using the --outform pem
499 - The new DHCP plugin queries virtual IP addresses for clients from a DHCP
500 server using broadcasts, or a defined server using the
501 charon.plugins.dhcp.server strongswan.conf option. DNS/WINS server information
502 is additionally served to clients if the DHCP server provides such
503 information. The plugin is used in ipsec.conf configurations having
504 rightsourceip set to %dhcp.
506 - A new plugin called farp fakes ARP responses for virtual IP addresses
507 handed out to clients from the IKEv2 daemon charon. The plugin lets a
508 road-warrior act as a client on the local LAN if it uses a virtual IP
509 from the responders subnet, e.g. acquired using the DHCP plugin.
511 - The existing IKEv2 socket implementations have been migrated to the
512 socket-default and the socket-raw plugins. The new socket-dynamic plugin
513 binds sockets dynamically to ports configured via the left-/rightikeport
514 ipsec.conf connection parameters.
516 - The android charon plugin stores received DNS server information as "net.dns"
517 system properties, as used by the Android platform.
523 - The IKEv2 daemon supports RFC 3779 IP address block constraints
524 carried as a critical X.509v3 extension in the peer certificate.
526 - The ipsec pool --add|del dns|nbns command manages DNS and NBNS name
527 server entries that are sent via the IKEv1 Mode Config or IKEv2
528 Configuration Payload to remote clients.
530 - The Camellia cipher can be used as an IKEv1 encryption algorithm.
532 - The IKEv1 and IKEV2 daemons now check certificate path length constraints.
534 - The new ipsec.conf conn option "inactivity" closes a CHILD_SA if no traffic
535 was sent or received within the given interval. To close the complete IKE_SA
536 if its only CHILD_SA was inactive, set the global strongswan.conf option
537 "charon.inactivity_close_ike" to yes.
539 - More detailed IKEv2 EAP payload information in debug output
541 - IKEv2 EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA share joint libsimaka library
543 - Added required userland changes for proper SHA256 and SHA384/512 in ESP that
544 will be introduced with Linux 2.6.33. The "sha256"/"sha2_256" keyword now
545 configures the kernel with 128 bit truncation, not the non-standard 96
546 bit truncation used by previous releases. To use the old 96 bit truncation
547 scheme, the new "sha256_96" proposal keyword has been introduced.
549 - Fixed IPComp in tunnel mode, stripping out the duplicated outer header. This
550 change makes IPcomp tunnel mode connections incompatible with previous
551 releases; disable compression on such tunnels.
553 - Fixed BEET mode connections on recent kernels by installing SAs with
554 appropriate traffic selectors, based on a patch by Michael Rossberg.
556 - Using extensions (such as BEET mode) and crypto algorithms (such as twofish,
557 serpent, sha256_96) allocated in the private use space now require that we
558 know its meaning, i.e. we are talking to strongSwan. Use the new
559 "charon.send_vendor_id" option in strongswan.conf to let the remote peer know
562 - Experimental support for draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth, where the
563 responder omits public key authentication in favor of a mutual authentication
564 method. To enable EAP-only authentication, set rightauth=eap on the responder
565 to rely only on the MSK constructed AUTH payload. This not-yet standardized
566 extension requires the strongSwan vendor ID introduced above.
568 - The IKEv1 daemon ignores the Juniper SRX notification type 40001, thus
569 allowing interoperability.
575 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon can now use SQL-based address pools to deal out
576 virtual IP addresses as a Mode Config server. The pool capability has been
577 migrated from charon's sql plugin to a new attr-sql plugin which is loaded
578 by libstrongswan and which can be used by both daemons either with a SQLite
579 or MySQL database and the corresponding plugin.
581 - Plugin names have been streamlined: EAP plugins now have a dash after eap
582 (e.g. eap-sim), as it is used with the --enable-eap-sim ./configure option.
583 Plugin configuration sections in strongswan.conf now use the same name as the
584 plugin itself (i.e. with a dash). Make sure to update "load" directives and
585 the affected plugin sections in existing strongswan.conf files.
587 - The private/public key parsing and encoding has been split up into
588 separate pkcs1, pgp, pem and dnskey plugins. The public key implementation
589 plugins gmp, gcrypt and openssl can all make use of them.
591 - The EAP-AKA plugin can use different backends for USIM/quintuplet
592 calculations, very similar to the EAP-SIM plugin. The existing 3GPP2 software
593 implementation has been migrated to a separate plugin.
595 - The IKEv2 daemon charon gained basic PGP support. It can use locally installed
596 peer certificates and can issue signatures based on RSA private keys.
598 - The new 'ipsec pki' tool provides a set of commands to maintain a public
599 key infrastructure. It currently supports operations to create RSA and ECDSA
600 private/public keys, calculate fingerprints and issue or verify certificates.
602 - Charon uses a monotonic time source for statistics and job queueing, behaving
603 correctly if the system time changes (e.g. when using NTP).
605 - In addition to time based rekeying, charon supports IPsec SA lifetimes based
606 on processed volume or number of packets. They new ipsec.conf paramaters
607 'lifetime' (an alias to 'keylife'), 'lifebytes' and 'lifepackets' handle
608 SA timeouts, while the parameters 'margintime' (an alias to rekeymargin),
609 'marginbytes' and 'marginpackets' trigger the rekeying before a SA expires.
610 The existing parameter 'rekeyfuzz' affects all margins.
612 - If no CA/Gateway certificate is specified in the NetworkManager plugin,
613 charon uses a set of trusted root certificates preinstalled by distributions.
614 The directory containing CA certificates can be specified using the
615 --with-nm-ca-dir=path configure option.
617 - Fixed the encoding of the Email relative distinguished name in left|rightid
620 - Fixed the broken parsing of PKCS#7 wrapped certificates by the pluto daemon.
622 - Fixed smartcard-based authentication in the pluto daemon which was broken by
623 the ECDSA support introduced with the 4.3.2 release.
625 - A patch contributed by Heiko Hund fixes mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa
626 tunnels established with the IKEv1 pluto daemon.
628 - The pluto daemon now uses the libstrongswan x509 plugin for certificates and
629 CRls and the struct id type was replaced by identification_t used by charon
630 and the libstrongswan library.
636 - IKEv2 charon daemon ported to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Installation details can
637 be found on wiki.strongswan.org.
639 - ipsec statusall shows the number of bytes transmitted and received over
640 ESP connections configured by the IKEv2 charon daemon.
642 - The IKEv2 charon daemon supports include files in ipsec.secrets.
648 - The configuration option --enable-integrity-test plus the strongswan.conf
649 option libstrongswan.integrity_test = yes activate integrity tests
650 of the IKE daemons charon and pluto, libstrongswan and all loaded
651 plugins. Thus dynamic library misconfigurations and non-malicious file
652 manipulations can be reliably detected.
654 - The new default setting libstrongswan.ecp_x_coordinate_only=yes allows
655 IKEv1 interoperability with MS Windows using the ECP DH groups 19 and 20.
657 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the AES-CCM and AES-GCM ESP
658 authenticated encryption algorithms.
660 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports V4 OpenPGP keys.
662 - The RDN parser vulnerability discovered by Orange Labs research team
663 was not completely fixed in version 4.3.2. Some more modifications
664 had to be applied to the asn1_length() function to make it robust.
670 - The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
671 and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
673 - libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
674 algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
675 allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
677 - pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
678 Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
679 26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
682 - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
683 another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
684 Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
685 and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.
691 - The nm plugin now passes DNS/NBNS server information to NetworkManager,
692 allowing a gateway administrator to set DNS/NBNS configuration on clients
695 - The nm plugin also accepts CA certificates for gateway authentication. If
696 a CA certificate is configured, strongSwan uses the entered gateway address
697 as its idenitity, requiring the gateways certificate to contain the same as
698 subjectAltName. This allows a gateway administrator to deploy the same
699 certificates to Windows 7 and NetworkManager clients.
701 - The command ipsec purgeike deletes IKEv2 SAs that don't have a CHILD SA.
702 The command ipsec down <conn>{n} deletes CHILD SA instance n of connection
703 <conn> whereas ipsec down <conn>{*} deletes all CHILD SA instances.
704 The command ipsec down <conn>[n] deletes IKE SA instance n of connection
705 <conn> plus dependent CHILD SAs whereas ipsec down <conn>[*] deletes all
706 IKE SA instances of connection <conn>.
708 - Fixed a regression introduced in 4.3.0 where EAP authentication calculated
709 the AUTH payload incorrectly. Further, the EAP-MSCHAPv2 MSK key derivation
710 has been updated to be compatible with the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
712 - Refactored installation of triggering policies. Routed policies are handled
713 outside of IKE_SAs to keep them installed in any case. A tunnel gets
714 established only once, even if initiation is delayed due network outages.
716 - Improved the handling of multiple acquire signals triggered by the kernel.
718 - Fixed two DoS vulnerabilities in the charon daemon that were discovered by
719 fuzzing techniques: 1) Sending a malformed IKE_SA_INIT request leaved an
720 incomplete state which caused a null pointer dereference if a subsequent
721 CREATE_CHILD_SA request was sent. 2) Sending an IKE_AUTH request with either
722 a missing TSi or TSr payload caused a null pointer derefence because the
723 checks for TSi and TSr were interchanged. The IKEv2 fuzzer used was
724 developed by the Orange Labs vulnerability research team. The tool was
725 initially written by Gabriel Campana and is now maintained by Laurent Butti.
727 - Added support for AES counter mode in ESP in IKEv2 using the proposal
728 keywords aes128ctr, aes192ctr and aes256ctr.
730 - Further progress in refactoring pluto: Use of the curl and ldap plugins
731 for fetching crls and OCSP. Use of the random plugin to get keying material
732 from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Use of the openssl plugin as an alternative
733 to the aes, des, sha1, sha2, and md5 plugins. The blowfish, twofish, and
734 serpent encryption plugins are now optional and are not enabled by default.
740 - Support for the IKEv2 Multiple Authentication Exchanges extension (RFC4739).
741 Initiators and responders can use several authentication rounds (e.g. RSA
742 followed by EAP) to authenticate. The new ipsec.conf leftauth/rightauth and
743 leftauth2/rightauth2 parameters define own authentication rounds or setup
744 constraints for the remote peer. See the ipsec.conf man page for more detials.
746 - If glibc printf hooks (register_printf_function) are not available,
747 strongSwan can use the vstr string library to run on non-glibc systems.
749 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC cipher
750 (esp=camellia128|192|256).
752 - Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions (memory
753 allocation, leak detective, chunk handling, printf_hooks, strongswan.conf
754 attributes, ASN.1 parser, etc.) from the libstrongswan library.
756 - Up to two DNS and WINS servers to be sent via IKEv1 ModeConfig can be
757 configured in the pluto section of strongswan.conf.
763 - The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
764 relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Successfully
765 tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
767 - A vulnerability in the Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706) code was found by
768 Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> of Intra2net AG affecting
769 all Openswan and strongSwan releases. A malicious (or expired ISAKMP)
770 R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet can cause the
771 pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart. No authentication or encryption
772 is required to trigger this bug. One spoofed UDP packet can cause the
773 pluto IKE daemon to restart and be unresponsive for a few seconds while
774 restarting. This DPD null state vulnerability has been officially
775 registered as CVE-2009-0790 and is fixed by this release.
777 - ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
778 dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
779 As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
780 time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
782 - Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
789 - Fixed a use-after-free bug in the DPD timeout section of the
790 IKEv1 pluto daemon which sporadically caused a segfault.
792 - Fixed a crash in the IKEv2 charon daemon occurring with
793 mixed RAM-based and SQL-based virtual IP address pools.
795 - Fixed ASN.1 parsing of algorithmIdentifier objects where the
796 parameters field is optional.
798 - Ported nm plugin to NetworkManager 7.1.
804 - Support of the EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol enabled by the option
805 --enable-eap-mschapv2. Requires the MD4 hash algorithm enabled
806 either by --enable-md4 or --enable-openssl.
808 - Assignment of up to two DNS and up to two WINS servers to peers via
809 the IKEv2 Configuration Payload (CP). The IPv4 or IPv6 nameserver
810 addresses are defined in strongswan.conf.
812 - The strongSwan applet for the Gnome NetworkManager is now built and
813 distributed as a separate tarball under the name NetworkManager-strongswan.
819 - Fixed ESP NULL encryption broken by the refactoring of keymat.c.
820 Also introduced proper initialization and disposal of keying material.
822 - Fixed the missing listing of connection definitions in ipsec statusall
823 broken by an unfortunate local variable overload.
829 - Several performance improvements to handle thousands of tunnels with almost
830 linear upscaling. All relevant data structures have been replaced by faster
831 counterparts with better lookup times.
833 - Better parallelization to run charon on multiple cores. Due to improved
834 ressource locking and other optimizations the daemon can take full
835 advantage of 16 or even more cores.
837 - The load-tester plugin can use a NULL Diffie-Hellman group and simulate
838 unique identities and certificates by signing peer certificates using a CA
841 - The redesigned stroke in-memory IP pool handles leases. The "ipsec leases"
842 command queries assigned leases.
844 - Added support for smartcards in charon by using the ENGINE API provided by
845 OpenSSL, based on patches by Michael Roßberg.
847 - The Padlock plugin supports the hardware RNG found on VIA CPUs to provide a
848 reliable source of randomness.
853 - Flexible configuration of logging subsystem allowing to log to multiple
854 syslog facilities or to files using fine-grained log levels for each target.
856 - Load testing plugin to do stress testing of the IKEv2 daemon against self
857 or another host. Found and fixed issues during tests in the multi-threaded
858 use of the OpenSSL plugin.
860 - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if
861 running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the
862 Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves
863 parallelization to multiple cores.
865 - updown script invocation has been separated into a plugin of its own to
866 further slim down the daemon core.
868 - Separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system,
869 allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel
872 - The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. XFRM NETLINK (default)
873 and PFKEY (--enable-kernel-pfkey) interface plugins for the native IPsec
874 stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel as well as a PFKEY interface for the KLIPS
875 IPsec stack (--enable-kernel-klips) are provided.
877 - Basic Mobile IPv6 support has been introduced, securing Binding Update
878 messages as well as tunneled traffic between Mobile Node and Home Agent.
879 The installpolicy=no option allows peaceful cooperation with a dominant
880 mip6d daemon and the new type=transport_proxy implements the special MIPv6
881 IPsec transport proxy mode where the IKEv2 daemon uses the Care-of-Address
882 but the IPsec SA is set up for the Home Address.
884 - Implemented migration of Mobile IPv6 connections using the KMADDRESS
885 field contained in XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE messages sent by the mip6d daemon
886 via the Linux 2.6.28 (or appropriately patched) kernel.
892 - IKEv2 charon daemon supports authentication based on raw public keys
893 stored in the SQL database backend. The ipsec listpubkeys command
894 lists the available raw public keys via the stroke interface.
896 - Several MOBIKE improvements: Detect changes in NAT mappings in DPD exchanges,
897 handle events if kernel detects NAT mapping changes in UDP-encapsulated
898 ESP packets (requires kernel patch), reuse old addesses in MOBIKE updates as
899 long as possible and other fixes.
901 - Fixed a bug in addr_in_subnet() which caused insertion of wrong source
902 routes for destination subnets having netwmasks not being a multiple of 8 bits.
903 Thanks go to Wolfgang Steudel, TU Ilmenau for reporting this bug.
909 - Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
910 a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
911 daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
912 GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
913 for making us aware of this problem.
915 - The new agent plugin provides a private key implementation on top of an
918 - The NetworkManager plugin has been extended to support certificate client
919 authentication using RSA keys loaded from a file or using ssh-agent.
921 - Daemon capability dropping has been ported to libcap and must be enabled
922 explicitly --with-capabilities=libcap. Future version will support the
923 newer libcap2 library.
925 - ipsec listalgs lists the IKEv2 cryptografic algorithms registered with the
926 charon keying daemon.
932 - A NetworkManager plugin allows GUI-based configuration of road-warrior
933 clients in a simple way. It features X509 based gateway authentication
934 and EAP client authentication, tunnel setup/teardown and storing passwords
935 in the Gnome Keyring.
937 - A new EAP-GTC plugin implements draft-sheffer-ikev2-gtc-00.txt and allows
938 username/password authentication against any PAM service on the gateway.
939 The new EAP method interacts nicely with the NetworkManager plugin and allows
940 client authentication against e.g. LDAP.
942 - Improved support for the EAP-Identity method. The new ipsec.conf eap_identity
943 parameter defines an additional identity to pass to the server in EAP
946 - The "ipsec statusall" command now lists CA restrictions, EAP
947 authentication types and EAP identities.
949 - Fixed two multithreading deadlocks occurring when starting up
950 several hundred tunnels concurrently.
952 - Fixed the --enable-integrity-test configure option which
953 computes a SHA-1 checksum over the libstrongswan library.
959 - Consistent logging of IKE and CHILD SAs at the audit (AUD) level.
961 - Improved the performance of the SQL-based virtual IP address pool
962 by introducing an additional addresses table. The leases table
963 storing only history information has become optional and can be
964 disabled by setting charon.plugins.sql.lease_history = no in
967 - The XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag added to xfrm.h allows IPv4-over-IPv6
968 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels with the 2.6.26 and later Linux kernels.
970 - management of different virtual IP pools for different
971 network interfaces have become possible.
973 - fixed a bug which prevented the assignment of more than 256
974 virtual IP addresses from a pool managed by an sql database.
976 - fixed a bug which did not delete own IPCOMP SAs in the kernel.
982 - Added statistics functions to ipsec pool --status and ipsec pool --leases
983 and input validation checks to various ipsec pool commands.
985 - ipsec statusall now lists all loaded charon plugins and displays
986 the negotiated IKEv2 cipher suite proposals.
988 - The openssl plugin supports the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman groups
989 19, 20, 21, 25, and 26.
991 - The openssl plugin supports ECDSA authentication using elliptic curve
994 - Fixed a bug in stroke which caused multiple charon threads to close
995 the file descriptors during packet transfers over the stroke socket.
997 - ESP sequence numbers are now migrated in IPsec SA updates handled by
998 MOBIKE. Works only with Linux kernels >= 2.6.17.
1004 - Fixed the strongswan.conf path configuration problem that occurred when
1005 --sysconfig was not set explicitly in ./configure.
1007 - Fixed a number of minor bugs that where discovered during the 4th
1008 IKEv2 interoperability workshop in San Antonio, TX.
1014 - Plugins for libstrongswan and charon can optionally be loaded according
1015 to a configuration in strongswan.conf. Most components provide a
1016 "load = " option followed by a space separated list of plugins to load.
1017 This allows e.g. the fallback from a hardware crypto accelerator to
1018 to software-based crypto plugins.
1020 - Charons SQL plugin has been extended by a virtual IP address pool.
1021 Configurations with a rightsourceip=%poolname setting query a SQLite or
1022 MySQL database for leases. The "ipsec pool" command helps in administrating
1023 the pool database. See ipsec pool --help for the available options
1025 - The Authenticated Encryption Algorithms AES-CCM-8/12/16 and AES-GCM-8/12/16
1026 for ESP are now supported starting with the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The
1027 syntax is e.g. esp=aes128ccm12 or esp=aes256gcm16.
1033 - Support for "Hash and URL" encoded certificate payloads has been implemented
1034 in the IKEv2 daemon charon. Using the "certuribase" option of a CA section
1035 allows to assign a base URL to all certificates issued by the specified CA.
1036 The final URL is then built by concatenating that base and the hex encoded
1037 SHA1 hash of the DER encoded certificate. Note that this feature is disabled
1038 by default and must be enabled using the option "charon.hash_and_url".
1040 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports the "uniqueids" option to close multiple
1041 IKE_SAs with the same peer. The option value "keep" prefers existing
1042 connection setups over new ones, where the value "replace" replaces existing
1045 - The crypto factory in libstrongswan additionally supports random number
1046 generators, plugins may provide other sources of randomness. The default
1047 plugin reads raw random data from /dev/(u)random.
1049 - Extended the credential framework by a caching option to allow plugins
1050 persistent caching of fetched credentials. The "cachecrl" option has been
1053 - The new trustchain verification introduced in 4.2.0 has been parallelized.
1054 Threads fetching CRL or OCSP information no longer block other threads.
1056 - A new IKEv2 configuration attribute framework has been introduced allowing
1057 plugins to provide virtual IP addresses, and in the future, other
1058 configuration attribute services (e.g. DNS/WINS servers).
1060 - The stroke plugin has been extended to provide virtual IP addresses from
1061 a pool defined in ipsec.conf. The "rightsourceip" parameter now accepts
1062 address pools in CIDR notation (e.g. 10.1.1.0/24). The parameter also accepts
1063 the value "%poolname", where "poolname" identifies a pool provided by a
1066 - Fixed compilation on uClibc and a couple of other minor bugs.
1068 - Set DPD defaults in ipsec starter to dpd_delay=30s and dpd_timeout=150s.
1070 - The IKEv1 pluto daemon now supports the ESP encryption algorithm CAMELLIA
1071 with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits, as well as the authentication
1072 algorithm AES_XCBC_MAC. Configuration example: esp=camellia192-aesxcbc.
1078 - libstrongswan has been modularized to attach crypto algorithms,
1079 credential implementations (keys, certificates) and fetchers dynamically
1080 through plugins. Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1081 - RSA/Diffie-Hellman implementation using the GNU Multi Precision library
1082 - X509 certificate system supporting CRLs, OCSP and attribute certificates
1083 - Multiple plugins providing crypto algorithms in software
1084 - CURL and OpenLDAP fetcher
1086 - libstrongswan gained a relational database API which uses pluggable database
1087 providers. Plugins for MySQL and SQLite are available.
1089 - The IKEv2 keying daemon charon is more extensible. Generic plugins may provide
1090 connection configuration, credentials and EAP methods or control the daemon.
1091 Existing code has been ported to plugins:
1092 - EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-MD5 and EAP-Identity
1093 - stroke configuration, credential and control (compatible to pluto)
1094 - XML bases management protocol to control and query the daemon
1095 The following new plugins are available:
1096 - An experimental SQL configuration, credential and logging plugin on
1097 top of either MySQL or SQLite
1098 - A unit testing plugin to run tests at daemon startup
1100 - The authentication and credential framework in charon has been heavily
1101 refactored to support modular credential providers, proper
1102 CERTREQ/CERT payload exchanges and extensible authorization rules.
1104 - The framework of strongSwan Manager has envolved to the web application
1105 framework libfast (FastCGI Application Server w/ Templates) and is usable
1106 by other applications.
1112 - IKE rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions
1113 to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with
1114 the next CHILD_SA rekeying.
1116 - Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c
1117 caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms.
1119 - Implemented IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules that use
1120 triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration see
1121 the scenario 'ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa'.
1127 - Fixed error in the ordering of the certinfo_t records in the ocsp cache that
1128 caused multiple entries of the same serial number to be created.
1130 - Implementation of a simple EAP-MD5 module which provides CHAP
1131 authentication. This may be interesting in conjunction with certificate
1132 based server authentication, as weak passwords can't be brute forced
1133 (in contradiction to traditional IKEv2 PSK).
1135 - A complete software based implementation of EAP-AKA, using algorithms
1136 specified in 3GPP2 (S.S0055). This implementation does not use an USIM,
1137 but reads the secrets from ipsec.secrets. Make sure to read eap_aka.h
1140 - Support for vendor specific EAP methods using Expanded EAP types. The
1141 interface to EAP modules has been slightly changed, so make sure to
1142 check the changes if you're already rolling your own modules.
1148 - The default _updown script now dynamically inserts and removes ip6tables
1149 firewall rules if leftfirewall=yes is set in IPv6 connections. New IPv6
1150 net-net and roadwarrior (PSK/RSA) scenarios for both IKEv1 and IKEV2 were
1153 - Implemented RFC4478 repeated authentication to force EAP/Virtual-IP clients
1154 to reestablish an IKE_SA within a given timeframe.
1156 - strongSwan Manager supports configuration listing, initiation and termination
1157 of IKE and CHILD_SAs.
1159 - Fixes and improvements to multithreading code.
1161 - IKEv2 plugins have been renamed to libcharon-* to avoid naming conflicts.
1162 Make sure to remove the old plugins in $libexecdir/ipsec, otherwise they get
1169 - Removed recursive pthread mutexes since uClibc doesn't support them.
1175 - In NAT traversal situations and multiple queued Quick Modes,
1176 those pending connections inserted by auto=start after the
1177 port floating from 500 to 4500 were erronously deleted.
1179 - Added a "forceencaps" connection parameter to enforce UDP encapsulation
1180 to surmount restrictive firewalls. NAT detection payloads are faked to
1181 simulate a NAT situation and trick the other peer into NAT mode (IKEv2 only).
1183 - Preview of strongSwan Manager, a web based configuration and monitoring
1184 application. It uses a new XML control interface to query the IKEv2 daemon
1185 (see http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/Manager).
1187 - Experimental SQLite configuration backend which will provide the configuration
1188 interface for strongSwan Manager in future releases.
1190 - Further improvements to MOBIKE support.
1196 - Since some third party IKEv2 implementations run into
1197 problems with strongSwan announcing MOBIKE capability per
1198 default, MOBIKE can be disabled on a per-connection-basis
1199 using the mobike=no option. Whereas mobike=no disables the
1200 sending of the MOBIKE_SUPPORTED notification and the floating
1201 to UDP port 4500 with the IKE_AUTH request even if no NAT
1202 situation has been detected, strongSwan will still support
1203 MOBIKE acting as a responder.
1205 - the default ipsec routing table plus its corresponding priority
1206 used for inserting source routes has been changed from 100 to 220.
1207 It can be configured using the --with-ipsec-routing-table and
1208 --with-ipsec-routing-table-prio options.
1210 - the --enable-integrity-test configure option tests the
1211 integrity of the libstrongswan crypto code during the charon
1214 - the --disable-xauth-vid configure option disables the sending
1215 of the XAUTH vendor ID. This can be used as a workaround when
1216 interoperating with some Windows VPN clients that get into
1217 trouble upon reception of an XAUTH VID without eXtended
1218 AUTHentication having been configured.
1220 - ipsec stroke now supports the rereadsecrets, rereadaacerts,
1221 rereadacerts, and listacerts options.
1227 - If a DNS lookup failure occurs when resolving right=%<FQDN>
1228 or right=<FQDN> combined with rightallowany=yes then the
1229 connection is not updated by ipsec starter thus preventing
1230 the disruption of an active IPsec connection. Only if the DNS
1231 lookup successfully returns with a changed IP address the
1232 corresponding connection definition is updated.
1234 - Routes installed by the keying daemons are now in a separate
1235 routing table with the ID 100 to avoid conflicts with the main
1236 table. Route lookup for IKEv2 traffic is done in userspace to ignore
1237 routes installed for IPsec, as IKE traffic shouldn't get encapsulated.
1243 - The pluto IKEv1 daemon now exhibits the same behaviour as its
1244 IKEv2 companion charon by inserting an explicit route via the
1245 _updown script only if a sourceip exists. This is admissible
1246 since routing through the IPsec tunnel is handled automatically
1247 by NETKEY's IPsec policies. As a consequence the left|rightnexthop
1248 parameter is not required any more.
1250 - The new IKEv1 parameter right|leftallowany parameters helps to handle
1251 the case where both peers possess dynamic IP addresses that are
1252 usually resolved using DynDNS or a similar service. The configuration
1257 can be used by the initiator to start up a connection to a peer
1258 by resolving peer.foo.bar into the currently allocated IP address.
1259 Thanks to the rightallowany flag the connection behaves later on
1264 so that the peer can rekey the connection as an initiator when his
1265 IP address changes. An alternative notation is
1269 which will implicitly set rightallowany=yes.
1271 - ipsec starter now fails more gracefully in the presence of parsing
1272 errors. Flawed ca and conn section are discarded and pluto is started
1273 if non-fatal errors only were encountered. If right=%peer.foo.bar
1274 cannot be resolved by DNS then right=%any will be used so that passive
1275 connections as a responder are still possible.
1277 - The new pkcs11initargs parameter that can be placed in the
1278 setup config section of /etc/ipsec.conf allows the definition
1279 of an argument string that is used with the PKCS#11 C_Initialize()
1280 function. This non-standard feature is required by the NSS softoken
1281 library. This patch was contributed by Robert Varga.
1283 - Fixed a bug in ipsec starter introduced by strongswan-2.8.5
1284 which caused a segmentation fault in the presence of unknown
1285 or misspelt keywords in ipsec.conf. This bug fix was contributed
1288 - Partial support for MOBIKE in IKEv2. The initiator acts on interface/
1289 address configuration changes and updates IKE and IPsec SAs dynamically.
1295 - IKEv2 peer configuration selection now can be based on a given
1296 certification authority using the rightca= statement.
1298 - IKEv2 authentication based on RSA signatures now can handle multiple
1299 certificates issued for a given peer ID. This allows a smooth transition
1300 in the case of a peer certificate renewal.
1302 - IKEv2: Support for requesting a specific virtual IP using leftsourceip on the
1303 client and returning requested virtual IPs using rightsourceip=%config
1304 on the server. If the server does not support configuration payloads, the
1305 client enforces its leftsourceip parameter.
1307 - The ./configure options --with-uid/--with-gid allow pluto and charon
1308 to drop their privileges to a minimum and change to an other UID/GID. This
1309 improves the systems security, as a possible intruder may only get the
1310 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
1312 - Further modularization of charon: Pluggable control interface and
1313 configuration backend modules provide extensibility. The control interface
1314 for stroke is included, and further interfaces using DBUS (NetworkManager)
1315 or XML are on the way. A backend for storing configurations in the daemon
1316 is provided and more advanced backends (using e.g. a database) are trivial
1319 - Fixed a compilation failure in libfreeswan occurring with Linux kernel
1326 - Support for an additional Diffie-Hellman exchange when creating/rekeying
1327 a CHILD_SA in IKEv2 (PFS). PFS is enabled when the proposal contains a
1328 DH group (e.g. "esp=aes128-sha1-modp1536"). Further, DH group negotiation
1329 is implemented properly for rekeying.
1331 - Support for the AES-XCBC-96 MAC algorithm for IPsec SAs when using IKEv2
1332 (requires linux >= 2.6.20). It is enabled using e.g. "esp=aes256-aesxcbc".
1334 - Working IPv4-in-IPv6 and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels for linux >= 2.6.21.
1336 - Added support for EAP modules which do not establish an MSK.
1338 - Removed the dependencies from the /usr/include/linux/ headers by
1339 including xfrm.h, ipsec.h, and pfkeyv2.h in the distribution.
1341 - crlNumber is now listed by ipsec listcrls
1343 - The xauth_modules.verify_secret() function now passes the
1350 - Server side cookie support. If to may IKE_SAs are in CONNECTING state,
1351 cookies are enabled and protect against DoS attacks with faked source
1352 addresses. Number of IKE_SAs in CONNECTING state is also limited per
1353 peer address to avoid resource exhaustion. IKE_SA_INIT messages are
1354 compared to properly detect retransmissions and incoming retransmits are
1355 detected even if the IKE_SA is blocked (e.g. doing OCSP fetches).
1357 - The IKEv2 daemon charon now supports dynamic http- and ldap-based CRL
1358 fetching enabled by crlcheckinterval > 0 and caching fetched CRLs
1359 enabled by cachecrls=yes.
1361 - Added the configuration options --enable-nat-transport which enables
1362 the potentially insecure NAT traversal for IPsec transport mode and
1363 --disable-vendor-id which disables the sending of the strongSwan
1366 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the pluto IKEv1 daemon which caused
1367 a segmentation fault if a malformed payload was detected in the
1368 IKE MR2 message and pluto tried to send an encrypted notification
1371 - Added the NATT_IETF_02_N Vendor ID in order to support IKEv1 connections
1372 with Windows 2003 Server which uses a wrong VID hash.
1378 - Support of SHA2_384 hash function for protecting IKEv1
1379 negotiations and support of SHA2 signatures in X.509 certificates.
1381 - Fixed a serious bug in the computation of the SHA2-512 HMAC
1382 function. Introduced automatic self-test of all IKEv1 hash
1383 and hmac functions during pluto startup. Failure of a self-test
1384 currently issues a warning only but does not exit pluto [yet].
1386 - Support for SHA2-256/384/512 PRF and HMAC functions in IKEv2.
1388 - Full support of CA information sections. ipsec listcainfos
1389 now shows all collected crlDistributionPoints and OCSP
1392 - Support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for IKEv2.
1393 This feature requires the HTTP fetching capabilities of the libcurl
1394 library which must be enabled by setting the --enable-http configure
1397 - Refactored core of the IKEv2 message processing code, allowing better
1398 code reuse and separation.
1400 - Virtual IP support in IKEv2 using INTERNAL_IP4/6_ADDRESS configuration
1401 payload. Additionally, the INTERNAL_IP4/6_DNS attribute is interpreted
1402 by the requestor and installed in a resolv.conf file.
1404 - The IKEv2 daemon charon installs a route for each IPsec policy to use
1405 the correct source address even if an application does not explicitly
1408 - Integrated the EAP framework into charon which loads pluggable EAP library
1409 modules. The ipsec.conf parameter authby=eap initiates EAP authentication
1410 on the client side, while the "eap" parameter on the server side defines
1411 the EAP method to use for client authentication.
1412 A generic client side EAP-Identity module and an EAP-SIM authentication
1413 module using a third party card reader implementation are included.
1415 - Added client side support for cookies.
1417 - Integrated the fixes done at the IKEv2 interoperability bakeoff, including
1418 strict payload order, correct INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD rejection and other minor
1419 fixes to enhance interoperability with other implementations.
1425 - strongSwan now interoperates with the NCP Secure Entry Client,
1426 the Shrew Soft VPN Client, and the Cisco VPN client, doing both
1427 XAUTH and Mode Config.
1429 - UNITY attributes are now recognized and UNITY_BANNER is set
1430 to a default string.
1436 - IKEv1: Support for extended authentication (XAUTH) in combination
1437 with ISAKMP Main Mode RSA or PSK authentication. Both client and
1438 server side were implemented. Handling of user credentials can
1439 be done by a run-time loadable XAUTH module. By default user
1440 credentials are stored in ipsec.secrets.
1442 - IKEv2: Support for reauthentication when rekeying
1444 - IKEv2: Support for transport mode
1446 - fixed a lot of bugs related to byte order
1448 - various other bugfixes
1454 - IKEv1: Implementation of ModeConfig push mode via the new connection
1455 keyword modeconfig=push allows interoperability with Cisco VPN gateways.
1457 - IKEv1: The command ipsec statusall now shows "DPD active" for all
1458 ISAKMP SAs that are under active Dead Peer Detection control.
1460 - IKEv2: Charon's logging and debugging framework has been completely rewritten.
1461 Instead of logger, special printf() functions are used to directly
1462 print objects like hosts (%H) identifications (%D), certificates (%Q),
1463 etc. The number of debugging levels have been reduced to:
1465 0 (audit), 1 (control), 2 (controlmore), 3 (raw), 4 (private)
1467 The debugging levels can either be specified statically in ipsec.conf as
1470 charondebug="lib 1, cfg 3, net 2"
1472 or changed at runtime via stroke as
1474 ipsec stroke loglevel cfg 2
1480 - Implemented full support for IPv6-in-IPv6 tunnels.
1482 - Added configuration options for dead peer detection in IKEv2. dpd_action
1483 types "clear", "hold" and "restart" are supported. The dpd_timeout
1484 value is not used, as the normal retransmission policy applies to
1485 detect dead peers. The dpd_delay parameter enables sending of empty
1486 informational message to detect dead peers in case of inactivity.
1488 - Added support for preshared keys in IKEv2. PSK keys configured in
1489 ipsec.secrets are loaded. The authby parameter specifies the authentication
1490 method to authentificate ourself, the other peer may use PSK or RSA.
1492 - Changed retransmission policy to respect the keyingtries parameter.
1494 - Added private key decryption. PEM keys encrypted with AES-128/192/256
1495 or 3DES are supported.
1497 - Implemented DES/3DES algorithms in libstrongswan. 3DES can be used to
1498 encrypt IKE traffic.
1500 - Implemented SHA-256/384/512 in libstrongswan, allows usage of certificates
1501 signed with such a hash algorithm.
1503 - Added initial support for updown scripts. The actions up-host/client and
1504 down-host/client are executed. The leftfirewall=yes parameter
1505 uses the default updown script to insert dynamic firewall rules, a custom
1506 updown script may be specified with the leftupdown parameter.
1512 - Added support for the auto=route ipsec.conf parameter and the
1513 ipsec route/unroute commands for IKEv2. This allows to set up IKE_SAs and
1514 CHILD_SAs dynamically on demand when traffic is detected by the
1517 - Added support for rekeying IKE_SAs in IKEv2 using the ikelifetime parameter.
1518 As specified in IKEv2, no reauthentication is done (unlike in IKEv1), only
1519 new keys are generated using perfect forward secrecy. An optional flag
1520 which enforces reauthentication will be implemented later.
1522 - "sha" and "sha1" are now treated as synonyms in the ike= and esp=
1523 algorithm configuration statements.
1529 - Full X.509 certificate trust chain verification has been implemented.
1530 End entity certificates can be exchanged via CERT payloads. The current
1531 default is leftsendcert=always, since CERTREQ payloads are not supported
1532 yet. Optional CRLs must be imported locally into /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
1534 - Added support for leftprotoport/rightprotoport parameters in IKEv2. IKEv2
1535 would offer more possibilities for traffic selection, but the Linux kernel
1536 currently does not support it. That's why we stick with these simple
1537 ipsec.conf rules for now.
1539 - Added Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which checks liveliness of remote peer if no
1540 IKE or ESP traffic is received. DPD is currently hardcoded (dpdaction=clear,
1543 - Initial NAT traversal support in IKEv2. Charon includes NAT detection
1544 notify payloads to detect NAT routers between the peers. It switches
1545 to port 4500, uses UDP encapsulated ESP packets, handles peer address
1546 changes gracefully and sends keep alive message periodically.
1548 - Reimplemented IKE_SA state machine for charon, which allows simultaneous
1549 rekeying, more shared code, cleaner design, proper retransmission
1550 and a more extensible code base.
1552 - The mixed PSK/RSA roadwarrior detection capability introduced by the
1553 strongswan-2.7.0 release necessitated the pre-parsing of the IKE proposal
1554 payloads by the responder right before any defined IKE Main Mode state had
1555 been established. Although any form of bad proposal syntax was being correctly
1556 detected by the payload parser, the subsequent error handler didn't check
1557 the state pointer before logging current state information, causing an
1558 immediate crash of the pluto keying daemon due to a NULL pointer.
1564 - Added algorithm selection to charon: New default algorithms for
1565 ike=aes128-sha-modp2048, as both daemons support it. The default
1566 for IPsec SAs is now esp=aes128-sha,3des-md5. charon handles
1567 the ike/esp parameter the same way as pluto. As this syntax does
1568 not allow specification of a pseudo random function, the same
1569 algorithm as for integrity is used (currently sha/md5). Supported
1571 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256
1572 Integrity/PRF: md5, sha (using hmac)
1573 DH-Groups: modp768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 4096, 8192
1575 Encryption: aes128, aes192, aes256, 3des, blowfish128,
1576 blowfish192, blowfish256
1577 Integrity: md5, sha1
1578 More IKE encryption algorithms will come after porting libcrypto into
1581 - initial support for rekeying CHILD_SAs using IKEv2. Currently no
1582 perfect forward secrecy is used. The rekeying parameters rekey,
1583 rekeymargin, rekeyfuzz and keylife from ipsec.conf are now supported
1584 when using IKEv2. WARNING: charon currently is unable to handle
1585 simultaneous rekeying. To avoid such a situation, use a large
1586 rekeyfuzz, or even better, set rekey=no on one peer.
1588 - support for host2host, net2net, host2net (roadwarrior) tunnels
1589 using predefined RSA certificates (see uml scenarios for
1590 configuration examples).
1592 - new build environment featuring autotools. Features such
1593 as HTTP, LDAP and smartcard support may be enabled using
1594 the ./configure script. Changing install directories
1595 is possible, too. See ./configure --help for more details.
1597 - better integration of charon with ipsec starter, which allows
1598 (almost) transparent operation with both daemons. charon
1599 handles ipsec commands up, down, status, statusall, listall,
1600 listcerts and allows proper load, reload and delete of connections
1607 - initial support of the IKEv2 protocol. Connections in
1608 ipsec.conf designated by keyexchange=ikev2 are negotiated
1609 by the new IKEv2 charon keying daemon whereas those marked
1610 by keyexchange=ikev1 or the default keyexchange=ike are
1611 handled thy the IKEv1 pluto keying daemon. Currently only
1612 a limited subset of functions are available with IKEv2
1613 (Default AES encryption, authentication based on locally
1614 imported X.509 certificates, unencrypted private RSA keys
1615 in PKCS#1 file format, limited functionality of the ipsec
1622 - the dynamic iptables rules from the _updown_x509 template
1623 for KLIPS and the _updown_policy template for NETKEY have
1624 been merged into the default _updown script. The existing
1625 left|rightfirewall keyword causes the automatic insertion
1626 and deletion of ACCEPT rules for tunneled traffic upon
1627 the successful setup and teardown of an IPsec SA, respectively.
1628 left|rightfirwall can be used with KLIPS under any Linux 2.4
1629 kernel or with NETKEY under a Linux kernel version >= 2.6.16
1630 in conjunction with iptables >= 1.3.5. For NETKEY under a Linux
1631 kernel version < 2.6.16 which does not support IPsec policy
1632 matching yet, please continue to use a copy of the _updown_espmark
1633 template loaded via the left|rightupdown keyword.
1635 - a new left|righthostaccess keyword has been introduced which
1636 can be used in conjunction with left|rightfirewall and the
1637 default _updown script. By default leftfirewall=yes inserts
1638 a bi-directional iptables FORWARD rule for a local client network
1639 with a netmask different from 255.255.255.255 (single host).
1640 This does not allow to access the VPN gateway host via its
1641 internal network interface which is part of the client subnet
1642 because an iptables INPUT and OUTPUT rule would be required.
1643 lefthostaccess=yes will cause this additional ACCEPT rules to
1646 - mixed PSK|RSA roadwarriors are now supported. The ISAKMP proposal
1647 payload is preparsed in order to find out whether the roadwarrior
1648 requests PSK or RSA so that a matching connection candidate can
1655 - the new _updown_policy template allows ipsec policy based
1656 iptables firewall rules. Required are iptables version
1657 >= 1.3.5 and linux kernel >= 2.6.16. This script obsoletes
1658 the _updown_espmark template, so that no INPUT mangle rules
1659 are required any more.
1661 - added support of DPD restart mode
1663 - ipsec starter now allows the use of wildcards in include
1664 statements as e.g. in "include /etc/my_ipsec/*.conf".
1665 Patch courtesy of Matthias Haas.
1667 - the Netscape OID 'employeeNumber' is now recognized and can be
1668 used as a Relative Distinguished Name in certificates.
1674 - /etc/init.d/ipsec or /etc/rc.d/ipsec is now a copy of the ipsec
1675 command and not of ipsec setup any more.
1677 - ipsec starter now supports AH authentication in conjunction with
1678 ESP encryption. AH authentication is configured in ipsec.conf
1679 via the auth=ah parameter.
1681 - The command ipsec scencrypt|scdecrypt <args> is now an alias for
1682 ipsec whack --scencrypt|scdecrypt <args>.
1684 - get_sa_info() now determines for the native netkey IPsec stack
1685 the exact time of the last use of an active eroute. This information
1686 is used by the Dead Peer Detection algorithm and is also displayed by
1687 the ipsec status command.
1693 - running under the native Linux 2.6 IPsec stack, the function
1694 get_sa_info() is called by ipsec auto --status to display the current
1695 number of transmitted bytes per IPsec SA.
1697 - get_sa_info() is also used by the Dead Peer Detection process to detect
1698 recent ESP activity. If ESP traffic was received from the peer within
1699 the last dpd_delay interval then no R_Y_THERE notification must be sent.
1701 - strongSwan now supports the Relative Distinguished Name "unstructuredName"
1702 in ID_DER_ASN1_DN identities. The following notations are possible:
1704 rightid="unstructuredName=John Doe"
1705 rightid="UN=John Doe"
1707 - fixed a long-standing bug which caused PSK-based roadwarrior connections
1708 to segfault in the function id.c:same_id() called by keys.c:get_secret()
1709 if an FQDN, USER_FQDN, or Key ID was defined, as in the following example.
1716 - the ipsec command now supports most ipsec auto commands (e.g. ipsec listall).
1718 - ipsec starter didn't set host_addr and client.addr ports in whack msg.
1720 - in order to guarantee backwards-compatibility with the script-based
1721 auto function (e.g. auto --replace), the ipsec starter scripts stores
1722 the defaultroute information in the temporary file /var/run/ipsec.info.
1724 - The compile-time option USE_XAUTH_VID enables the sending of the XAUTH
1725 Vendor ID which is expected by Cisco PIX 7 boxes that act as IKE Mode Config
1728 - the ipsec starter now also recognizes the parameters authby=never and
1729 type=passthrough|pass|drop|reject.
1735 - ipsec starter now supports the also parameter which allows
1736 a modular structure of the connection definitions. Thus
1737 "ipsec start" is now ready to replace "ipsec setup".
1743 - Mathieu Lafon's popular ipsec starter tool has been added to the
1744 strongSwan distribution. Many thanks go to Stephan Scholz from astaro
1745 for his integration work. ipsec starter is a C program which is going
1746 to replace the various shell and awk starter scripts (setup, _plutoload,
1747 _plutostart, _realsetup, _startklips, _confread, and auto). Since
1748 ipsec.conf is now parsed only once, the starting of multiple tunnels is
1749 accelerated tremedously.
1751 - Added support of %defaultroute to the ipsec starter. If the IP address
1752 changes, a HUP signal to the ipsec starter will automatically
1753 reload pluto's connections.
1755 - moved most compile time configurations from pluto/Makefile to
1756 Makefile.inc by defining the options USE_LIBCURL, USE_LDAP,
1757 USE_SMARTCARD, and USE_NAT_TRAVERSAL_TRANSPORT_MODE.
1759 - removed the ipsec verify and ipsec newhostkey commands
1761 - fixed some 64-bit issues in formatted print statements
1763 - The scepclient functionality implementing the Simple Certificate
1764 Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is nearly complete but hasn't been
1771 - CA certicates are now automatically loaded from a smartcard
1772 or USB crypto token and appear in the ipsec auto --listcacerts
1779 - when using "ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>" with a PKCS#11
1780 library that does not support the C_Encrypt() Cryptoki
1781 function (e.g. OpenSC), the RSA encryption is done in
1782 software using the public key fetched from the smartcard.
1784 - The scepclient function now allows to define the
1785 validity of a self-signed certificate using the --days,
1786 --startdate, and --enddate options. The default validity
1787 has been changed from one year to five years.
1793 - the config setup parameter pkcs11proxy=yes opens pluto's PKCS#11
1794 interface to other applications for RSA encryption and decryption
1795 via the whack interface. Notation:
1797 ipsec whack --scencrypt <data>
1798 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1799 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1802 ipsec whack --scdecrypt <data>
1803 [--inbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1804 [--outbase 16|hex|64|base64|256|text|ascii]
1807 The default setting for inbase and outbase is hex.
1809 The new proxy interface can be used for securing symmetric
1810 encryption keys required by the cryptoloop or dm-crypt
1811 disk encryption schemes, especially in the case when
1812 pkcs11keepstate=yes causes pluto to lock the pkcs11 slot
1815 - if the file /etc/ipsec.secrets is lacking during the startup of
1816 pluto then the root-readable file /etc/ipsec.d/private/myKey.der
1817 containing a 2048 bit RSA private key and a matching self-signed
1818 certificate stored in the file /etc/ipsec.d/certs/selfCert.der
1819 is automatically generated by calling the function
1821 ipsec scepclient --out pkcs1 --out cert-self
1823 scepclient was written by Jan Hutter and Martin Willi, students
1824 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
1830 - the current extension of the PKCS#7 framework introduced
1831 a parsing error in PKCS#7 wrapped X.509 certificates that are
1832 e.g. transmitted by Windows XP when multi-level CAs are used.
1833 the parsing syntax has been fixed.
1835 - added a patch by Gerald Richter which tolerates multiple occurrences
1836 of the ipsec0 interface when using KLIPS.
1842 - with gawk-3.1.4 the word "default2 has become a protected
1843 keyword for use in switch statements and cannot be used any
1844 more in the strongSwan scripts. This problem has been
1845 solved by renaming "default" to "defaults" and "setdefault"
1846 in the scripts _confread and auto, respectively.
1848 - introduced the parameter leftsendcert with the values
1850 always|yes (the default, always send a cert)
1851 ifasked (send the cert only upon a cert request)
1852 never|no (never send a cert, used for raw RSA keys and
1855 - fixed the initialization of the ESP key length to a default of
1856 128 bits in the case that the peer does not send a key length
1857 attribute for AES encryption.
1859 - applied Herbert Xu's uniqueIDs patch
1861 - applied Herbert Xu's CLOEXEC patches
1867 - CRLs can now be cached also in the case when the issuer's
1868 certificate does not contain a subjectKeyIdentifier field.
1869 In that case the subjectKeyIdentifier is computed by pluto as the
1870 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the issuer's public key in compliance
1871 with section 4.2.1.2 of RFC 3280.
1873 - Fixed a bug introduced by strongswan-2.5.1 which eliminated
1874 not only multiple Quick Modes of a given connection but also
1875 multiple connections between two security gateways.
1881 - Under the native IPsec of the Linux 2.6 kernel, a %trap eroute
1882 installed either by setting auto=route in ipsec.conf or by
1883 a connection put into hold, generates an XFRM_AQUIRE event
1884 for each packet that wants to use the not-yet exisiting
1885 tunnel. Up to now each XFRM_AQUIRE event led to an entry in
1886 the Quick Mode queue, causing multiple IPsec SA to be
1887 established in rapid succession. Starting with strongswan-2.5.1
1888 only a single IPsec SA is established per host-pair connection.
1890 - Right after loading the PKCS#11 module, all smartcard slots are
1891 searched for certificates. The result can be viewed using
1894 ipsec auto --listcards
1896 The certificate objects found in the slots are numbered
1897 starting with #1, #2, etc. This position number can be used to address
1898 certificates (leftcert=%smartcard) and keys (: PIN %smartcard)
1899 in ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets, respectively:
1901 %smartcard (selects object #1)
1902 %smartcard#1 (selects object #1)
1903 %smartcard#3 (selects object #3)
1905 As an alternative the existing retrieval scheme can be used:
1907 %smartcard:45 (selects object with id=45)
1908 %smartcard0 (selects first object in slot 0)
1909 %smartcard4:45 (selects object in slot 4 with id=45)
1911 - Depending on the settings of CKA_SIGN and CKA_DECRYPT
1912 private key flags either C_Sign() or C_Decrypt() is used
1913 to generate a signature.
1915 - The output buffer length parameter siglen in C_Sign()
1916 is now initialized to the actual size of the output
1917 buffer prior to the function call. This fixes the
1918 CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error that could occur when using
1919 the OpenSC PKCS#11 module.
1921 - Changed the initialization of the PKCS#11 CK_MECHANISM in
1922 C_SignInit() to mech = { CKM_RSA_PKCS, NULL_PTR, 0 }.
1924 - Refactored the RSA public/private key code and transferred it
1925 from keys.c to the new pkcs1.c file as a preparatory step
1926 towards the release of the SCEP client.
1932 - The loading of a PKCS#11 smartcard library module during
1933 runtime does not require OpenSC library functions any more
1934 because the corresponding code has been integrated into
1935 smartcard.c. Also the RSAREF pkcs11 header files have been
1936 included in a newly created pluto/rsaref directory so that
1937 no external include path has to be defined any longer.
1939 - A long-awaited feature has been implemented at last:
1940 The local caching of CRLs fetched via HTTP or LDAP, activated
1941 by the parameter cachecrls=yes in the config setup section
1942 of ipsec.conf. The dynamically fetched CRLs are stored under
1943 a unique file name containing the issuer's subjectKeyID
1944 in /etc/ipsec.d/crls.
1946 - Applied a one-line patch courtesy of Michael Richardson
1947 from the Openswan project which fixes the kernel-oops
1948 in KLIPS when an snmp daemon is running on the same box.
1954 - Eliminated null length CRL distribution point strings.
1956 - Fixed a trust path evaluation bug introduced with 2.4.3
1962 - Improved the joint OCSP / CRL revocation policy.
1963 OCSP responses have precedence over CRL entries.
1965 - Introduced support of CRLv2 reason codes.
1967 - Fixed a bug with key-pad equipped readers which caused
1968 pluto to prompt for the pin via the console when the first
1969 occasion to enter the pin via the key-pad was missed.
1971 - When pluto is built with LDAP_V3 enabled, the library
1972 liblber required by newer versions of openldap is now
1979 - Added the _updown_espmark template which requires all
1980 incoming ESP traffic to be marked with a default mark
1983 - Introduced the pkcs11keepstate parameter in the config setup
1984 section of ipsec.conf. With pkcs11keepstate=yes the PKCS#11
1985 session and login states are kept as long as possible during
1986 the lifetime of pluto. This means that a PIN entry via a key
1987 pad has to be done only once.
1989 - Introduced the pkcs11module parameter in the config setup
1990 section of ipsec.conf which specifies the PKCS#11 module
1991 to be used with smart cards. Example:
1993 pkcs11module=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.lo
1995 - Added support of smartcard readers equipped with a PIN pad.
1997 - Added patch by Jay Pfeifer which detects when netkey
1998 modules have been statically built into the Linux 2.6 kernel.
2000 - Added two patches by Herbert Xu. The first uses ip xfrm
2001 instead of setkey to flush the IPsec policy database. The
2002 second sets the optional flag in inbound IPComp SAs only.
2004 - Applied Ulrich Weber's patch which fixes an interoperability
2005 problem between native IPsec and KLIPS systems caused by
2006 setting the replay window to 32 instead of 0 for ipcomp.
2012 - Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted Mode Config request
2013 to be initiated in the case where "right" was used to denote
2014 the local side in ipsec.conf and "left" the remote side,
2015 contrary to the recommendation that "right" be remote and
2022 - updated Vendor ID to strongSwan-2.4.0
2024 - updated copyright statement to include David Buechi and
2031 - strongSwan now communicates with attached smartcards and
2032 USB crypto tokens via the standardized PKCS #11 interface.
2033 By default the OpenSC library from www.opensc.org is used
2034 but any other PKCS#11 library could be dynamically linked.
2035 strongSwan's PKCS#11 API was implemented by David Buechi
2036 and Michael Meier, both graduates of the Zurich University
2037 of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland.
2039 - When a %trap eroute is triggered by an outgoing IP packet
2040 then the native IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel [often/
2041 always?] returns an XFRM_ACQUIRE message with an undefined
2042 protocol family field and the connection setup fails.
2043 As a workaround IPv4 (AF_INET) is now assumed.
2045 - the results of the UML test scenarios are now enhanced
2046 with block diagrams of the virtual network topology used
2047 in a particular test.
2053 - fixed IV used to decrypt informational messages.
2054 This bug was introduced with Mode Config functionality.
2056 - fixed NCP Vendor ID.
2058 - undid one of Ulrich Weber's maximum udp size patches
2059 because it caused a segmentation fault with NAT-ed
2062 - added UML scenarios wildcards and attr-cert which
2063 demonstrate the implementation of IPsec policies based
2064 on wildcard parameters contained in Distinguished Names and
2065 on X.509 attribute certificates, respectively.
2071 - Added basic Mode Config functionality
2073 - Added Mathieu Lafon's patch which upgrades the status of
2074 the NAT-Traversal implementation to RFC 3947.
2076 - The _startklips script now also loads the xfrm4_tunnel
2079 - Added Ulrich Weber's netlink replay window size and
2080 maximum udp size patches.
2082 - UML testing now uses the Linux 2.6.10 UML kernel by default.
2088 - Eric Marchionni and Patrik Rayo, both recent graduates from
2089 the Zuercher Hochschule Winterthur in Switzerland, created a
2090 User-Mode-Linux test setup for strongSwan. For more details
2091 please read the INSTALL and README documents in the testing
2094 - Full support of group attributes based on X.509 attribute
2095 certificates. Attribute certificates can be generated
2096 using the openac facility. For more details see
2100 The group attributes can be used in connection definitions
2101 in order to give IPsec access to specific user groups.
2102 This is done with the new parameter left|rightgroups as in
2104 rightgroups="Research, Sales"
2106 giving access to users possessing the group attributes
2107 Research or Sales, only.
2109 - In Quick Mode clients with subnet mask /32 are now
2110 coded as IP_V4_ADDRESS or IP_V6_ADDRESS. This should
2111 fix rekeying problems with the SafeNet/SoftRemote and NCP
2112 Secure Entry Clients.
2114 - Changed the defaults of the ikelifetime and keylife parameters
2115 to 3h and 1h, respectively. The maximum allowable values are
2116 now both set to 24 h.
2118 - Suppressed notification wars between two IPsec peers that
2119 could e.g. be triggered by incorrect ISAKMP encryption.
2121 - Public RSA keys can now have identical IDs if either the
2122 issuing CA or the serial number is different. The serial
2123 number of a certificate is now shown by the command
2125 ipsec auto --listpubkeys
2131 - Added Tuomo Soini's sourceip feature which allows a strongSwan
2132 roadwarrior to use a fixed Virtual IP (see README section 2.6)
2133 and reduces the well-known four tunnel case on VPN gateways to
2134 a single tunnel definition (see README section 2.4).
2136 - Fixed a bug occurring with NAT-Traversal enabled when the responder
2137 suddenly turns initiator and the initiator cannot find a matching
2138 connection because of the floated IKE port 4500.
2140 - Removed misleading ipsec verify command from barf.
2142 - Running under the native IP stack, ipsec --version now shows
2143 the Linux kernel version (courtesy to the Openswan project).
2149 - Introduced the ipsec auto --listalgs monitoring command which lists
2150 all currently registered IKE and ESP algorithms.
2152 - Fixed a bug in the ESP algorithm selection occurring when the strict flag
2153 is set and the first proposed transform does not match.
2155 - Fixed another deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex,
2156 occurring when a smartcard is present.
2158 - Prevented that a superseded Phase1 state can trigger a DPD_TIMEOUT event.
2160 - Fixed the printing of the notification names (null)
2162 - Applied another of Herbert Xu's Netlink patches.
2168 - Support of Dead Peer Detection. The connection parameter
2170 dpdaction=clear|hold
2172 activates DPD for the given connection.
2174 - The default Opportunistic Encryption (OE) policy groups are not
2175 automatically included anymore. Those wishing to activate OE can include
2176 the policy group with the following statement in ipsec.conf:
2178 include /etc/ipsec.d/examples/oe.conf
2180 The default for [right|left]rsasigkey is now set to %cert.
2182 - strongSwan now has a Vendor ID of its own which can be activated
2183 using the compile option VENDORID
2185 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch which sets the compression algorithm correctly.
2187 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch fixing an ESPINUDP problem
2189 - Applied Herbert Xu's patch setting source/destination port numbers.
2191 - Reapplied one of Herbert Xu's NAT-Traversal patches which got
2192 lost during the migration from SuperFreeS/WAN.
2194 - Fixed a deadlock in the use of the lock_certs_and_keys() mutex.
2196 - Fixed the unsharing of alg parameters when instantiating group
2203 - Thomas Walpuski made me aware of a potential DoS attack via
2204 a PKCS#7-wrapped certificate bundle which could overwrite valid CA
2205 certificates in Pluto's authority certificate store. This vulnerability
2206 was fixed by establishing trust in CA candidate certificates up to a
2207 trusted root CA prior to insertion into Pluto's chained list.
2209 - replaced the --assign option by the -v option in the auto awk script
2210 in order to make it run with mawk under debian/woody.
2216 - Split of the status information between ipsec auto --status (concise)
2217 and ipsec auto --statusall (verbose). Both commands can be used with
2218 an optional connection selector:
2220 ipsec auto --status[all] <connection_name>
2222 - Added the description of X.509 related features to the ipsec_auto(8)
2225 - Hardened the ASN.1 parser in debug mode, especially the printing
2226 of malformed distinguished names.
2228 - The size of an RSA public key received in a certificate is now restricted to
2230 512 bits <= modulus length <= 8192 bits.
2232 - Fixed the debug mode enumeration.
2238 - Fixed another PKCS#7 vulnerability which could lead to an
2239 endless loop while following the X.509 trust chain.
2245 - Fixed the PKCS#7 vulnerability discovered by Thomas Walpuski
2246 that accepted end certificates having identical issuer and subject
2247 distinguished names in a multi-tier X.509 trust chain.
2253 - Removed all remaining references to ipsec_netlink.h in KLIPS.
2259 - The new "ca" section allows to define the following parameters:
2262 cacert=koolCA.pem # cacert of kool CA
2263 ocspuri=http://ocsp.kool.net:8001 # ocsp server
2264 ldapserver=ldap.kool.net # default ldap server
2265 crluri=http://www.kool.net/kool.crl # crl distribution point
2266 crluri2="ldap:///O=Kool, C= .." # crl distribution point #2
2267 auto=add # add, ignore
2269 The ca definitions can be monitored via the command
2271 ipsec auto --listcainfos
2273 - Fixed cosmetic corruption of /proc filesystem by integrating
2274 D. Hugh Redelmeier's freeswan-2.06 kernel fixes.
2280 - Added support for the 818043 NAT-Traversal update of Microsoft's
2281 Windows 2000/XP IPsec client which sends an ID_FQDN during Quick Mode.
2283 - A symbolic link to libcrypto is now added in the kernel sources
2284 during kernel compilation
2286 - Fixed a couple of 64 bit issues (mostly casts to int).
2287 Thanks to Ken Bantoft who checked my sources on a 64 bit platform.
2289 - Replaced s[n]printf() statements in the kernel by ipsec_snprintf().
2290 Credits go to D. Hugh Redelmeier, Michael Richardson, and Sam Sgro
2291 of the FreeS/WAN team who solved this problem with the 2.4.25 kernel.
2297 - an empty ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF or SET OF object (e.g. a subjectAltName
2298 certificate extension which contains no generalName item) can cause
2299 a pluto crash. This bug has been fixed. Additionally the ASN.1 parser has
2300 been hardened to make it more robust against malformed ASN.1 objects.
2302 - applied Herbert Xu's NAT-T patches which fixes NAT-T under the native
2303 Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.
2309 - based on freeswan-2.04, x509-1.5.3, nat-0.6c, alg-0.8.1rc12
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