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Revision: 1.115
Committed: Wed Jul 17 04:36:09 2013 UTC (10 years, 9 months ago) by root
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.83 GVPE NEWS
2 pcg 1.57
3 root 1.106 TODO: bridge mode, finally?
4 root 1.112 TODO: gcm mode?
5     TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash.
6     TODO: increase rsa size.
7 root 1.114 TODO: replace transport bits by transport endpoint structs?
8     TODO: ecdh to avoid session replay attacks
9     TODO: http://incog-izick.blogspot.de/2011/08/using-openssl-aes-gcm.html
10     TODO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153009/openssl-c-example-of-aes-gcm-using-evp-interfaces
11    
12     proposed: 3 types, req, resreq, res
13    
14     req (hmac1) rsa(seqno1 hmac1 aes1 seqno2 hmac2 aes2 auth) ecdh1
15     res (hmac1) hash(rsa-contents) ecdh2
16    
17     req hmac0(*) rsa(seqno hmac0 hmac aes auth) hkdf-salt ecdh1
18     res hmac0(rsa-contents ecdh2)
19     hmac_key = hkdf(hkdf-salt, hmac | ecdh)
20     aes_key = hkdf(hkdf-salt, aes | ecdh)
21    
22 root 1.115 TODO: very much larger intiial seed
23     TODO: don't use RAND_pseudo_bytes :/
24 root 1.114 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
25     - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
26     could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
27     - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
28     adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
29     forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
30     - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
31     correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
32     - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
33     - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
34     only missing private keys. private keys are also put
35     into the configured location.
36     - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
37 root 1.115 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
38     a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
39     openssl documentation).
40 root 1.106
41 root 1.114 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
42 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
43     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
44     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
45 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
46 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
47 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
48 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
49     function which is now deprecated.
50 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
51 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
52 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
53 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
54     the protocol not being configured locally.
55 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
56     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
57 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
58     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
59     and to configure a regular imterval to reseed the rng.
60 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
61     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
62 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
63     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
64 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
65     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
66 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
67     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
68 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
69 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
70 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
71 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
72     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
73     but try to recover.
74     - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do
75     not rely on case.
76     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
77     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
78     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
79     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
80     needless packets.
81     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
82     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
83 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
84     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
85 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
86     doesn't generate them.
87 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
88 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
89 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
90     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
91 root 1.97
92     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
93     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
94 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
95 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
96 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
97 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
98 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
99 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
100 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
101     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
102 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
103 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
104 pcg 1.90
105 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
106 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
107 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
108 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
109 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
110 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
111 pcg 1.85
112 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
113 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
114 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
115     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
116 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
117 pcg 1.84
118 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
119 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
120 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
121     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
122 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
123 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
124 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
125 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
126     new packets arrive for it.
127 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
128 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
129 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
130     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
131     should work).
132 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
133     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
134     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
135     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
136 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
137 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
138 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
139     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
140 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
141     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
142 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
143     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
144 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
145    
146 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
147 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
148 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
149     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
150 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
151 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
152     and throughput.
153     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
154 pcg 1.67
155 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
156 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
157 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
158 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
159     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
160     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
161 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
162 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
163 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
164     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
165     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
166     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
167     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
168 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
169     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
170 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
171 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
172 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
173 pcg 1.56
174 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
175 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
176 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
177     scripts and exits on failure.
178 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
179     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
180     automatically in most configurations.
181 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
182 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
183     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
184 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
185 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
186 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
187 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
188     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
189 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
190     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
191     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
192 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
193     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
194     etc. scripts.
195 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
196     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
197 pcg 1.43
198 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
199 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
200 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
201     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
202 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
203 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
204 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
205     tincd drivers a bit better.
206 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
207     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
208     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
209 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
210     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
211     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
212     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
213 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
214 pcg 1.36
215 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
216 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
217 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
218 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
219 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
220     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
221 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
222 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
223 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
224 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
225 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
226 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
227 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
228 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
229 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
230 pcg 1.22
231 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
232 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
233 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
234     to option and config file parsing.
235 pcg 1.21
236 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
237 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
238     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
239     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
240     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
241     it a little bit more standard c++).
242 pcg 1.19
243 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
244 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
245     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
246     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
247     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
248     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
249     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
250     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
251     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
252     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
253     unnecessary connectivity delays.
254 pcg 1.15
255 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
256 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
257     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
258     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
259     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
260     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
261     remotely POSIX-compatible.
262 pcg 1.11
263 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
264 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
265     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
266     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
267     native/cygwin).
268     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
269     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
270     /* none yet tested */
271     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
272     - very minor bugfixes
273     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
274     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
275     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
276     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
277    
278     1.0 distant past
279     - protocol version 0.1.
280     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
281     machines or nets with many hosts.
282     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
283     connecting through routers (not a fix).
284 pcg 1.2