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GVPE NEWS

TODO: bridge mode, finally?
TODO: gcm mode?
TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash.
TODO: increase rsa size.
TODO: replace transport bits by transport endpoint structs?
TODO: http://incog-izick.blogspot.de/2011/08/using-openssl-aes-gcm.html
TODO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153009/openssl-c-example-of-aes-gcm-using-evp-interfaces

TODO: verify
TODO: make sense of overhead calculation
TODO: if-up &c should not be scripts?
TODO: ipv6
TODO: gvpectrl should not use default privatekey,. or maybe document it better
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
          with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
        - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
          could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
        - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
          adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
          forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
        - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
          correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
        - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
        - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
        - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
        - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
          only missing private keys. private keys are also put
          into the configured location.
        - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
        - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
          a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
          openssl documentation).
        - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
          and will be merged.
        - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
          of the config file.
        - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
          a fully random IV.
        - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
          for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
          take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
          do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
          (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
        - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
        - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
        - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
          (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
        - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
          errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
          authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
        - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
        - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
          
2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
          protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
          completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
        - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
          and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
          function which is now deprecated.
        - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
        - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
          efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
        - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
          the protocol not being configured locally.
        - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
          to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
        - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
          to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
          and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
        - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
          to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
        - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
          (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
        - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
          the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
        - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
        - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
        - new "include" directive for the config file.
        - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
        - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
        - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
           - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
             but try to recover.
           - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
             not rely on case.
           - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
             base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
           - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
             latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
             needless packets.
           - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
             second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
           - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
             messages (should help sack and ipv6).
        - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
          doesn't generate them.
        - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
        - upgrade to libev 4 API.
        - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
          earlier but COPYING was forgotten.

2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
          state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
          ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
        - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
        - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
        - add nfmark support.
        - add node-change script support.
        - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
        - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
        - clarify compression docs.

2.22 Sun Feb  1 17:25:28 CET 2009
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
        - updated copyright in program greetings.
        - fix some configure messages.
        - updated to libev 3.52.

2.21 Wed Sep  3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
          who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
          by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.

2.2  Mon Sep  1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
          but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
        - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
        - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
          (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
        - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
        - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
          new packets arrive for it.
        - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
        - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
        - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
          but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
          should work).
        - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
          packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
        - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
          not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
        - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
        - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
        - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
        - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
        - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
          and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
        - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
          and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
        - bugfixes.

2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
          be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
        - dns transport retries more aggressively.
        - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
          and throughput.
        - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.

2.0 Mon Dec  5 13:59:26 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
        - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
          gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
          even though it had received packets from it's new address.
          This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
          your ip address changed, which is *required*.
        - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
          where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
          connections to fail when only one side can connect.
        - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
          accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
        - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
          conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
        - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
          more useful log messages.
        - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.

1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
          scripts and exits on failure.
        - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
        - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
          automatically in most configurations.
        - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
        - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
        - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
        - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
          driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
          it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
        - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
          *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
        - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
          when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
          cpu time unless it is in use, too.
        - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
        - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
          etc. scripts.
        - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
          parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.

1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
          are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
        - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
        - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
        - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
          tincd drivers a bit better.
        - document icmp configuration values.
        - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
        - remove unused ChangeLog file.
        - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
        - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
          OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
          GNUTLS conversion in sight.
        - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.

1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - first gnu release.
        - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
        - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
          vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
        - new per-node option "max-retry".
        - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
        - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
        - fix configure --help output.
        - many documentation layout fixes.
        - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
        - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
        - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
        - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.

1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
          to option and config file parsing.

1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
        - various non-security-related bugfixes.
        - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
          it a little bit more standard c++).

1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
        - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
        - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
          to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
          will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
          adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
        - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
          this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
          unnecessary connectivity delays.

1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
        - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
        - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
        - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
        - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
        - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
          remotely POSIX-compatible.

1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
        - protocol version 0.1.
        - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
          (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
          native/cygwin).
        - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
          the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
          /* none yet tested */
        - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
        - very minor bugfixes
        - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
        - reduced default hmac length to 8.
        - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
        - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.

1.0 distant past
        - protocol version 0.1.
        - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
          machines or nets with many hosts.
        - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
          connecting through routers (not a fix).

Revision:	1.122
Committed:	Fri Jan 17 19:47:08 2014 UTC (10 years, 3 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.121:	+1 -14 lines
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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: http://incog-izick.blogspot.de/2011/08/using-openssl-aes-gcm.html
9			TODO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153009/openssl-c-example-of-aes-gcm-using-evp-interfaces
10
11	root	1.116	TODO: verify
12			TODO: make sense of overhead calculation
13	root	1.117	TODO: if-up &c should not be scripts?
14	root	1.121	TODO: ipv6
15	root	1.122	TODO: gvpectrl should not use default privatekey,. or maybe document it better
16	root	1.114	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
17	root	1.116	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
18			with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
19	root	1.114	- while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
20			could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
21			- in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
22			adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
23			forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
24			- rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
25			correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
26			- fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
27	root	1.120	- new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
28	root	1.119	- router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
29	root	1.114	- gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
30			only missing private keys. private keys are also put
31			into the configured location.
32			- the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
33	root	1.115	- no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
34			a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
35			openssl documentation).
36	root	1.116	- multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
37			and will be merged.
38			- a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
39			of the config file.
40			- 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
41			a fully random IV.
42			- use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
43			for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
44			take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
45			do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
46			(and in fact, shouldn't be)).
47			- if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
48	root	1.117	- new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
49	root	1.118	- use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
50			(hint by Ilmari Karonen).
51	root	1.119	- during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
52			errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
53			authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
54			- log the reason for a conneciton loss.
55	root	1.121	- use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
56	root	1.116
57	root	1.114	2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
58	root	1.97	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
59			protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
60			completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
61	root	1.99	- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
62	root	1.112	- core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
63	root	1.110	- switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
64	root	1.108	and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
65			function which is now deprecated.
66	root	1.112	- support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
67	root	1.108	- change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
68	root	1.110	efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
69	root	1.105	- nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
70			the protocol not being configured locally.
71	root	1.106	- new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
72			to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
73	root	1.112	- new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
74			to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
75	root	1.116	and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
76	root	1.107	- prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
77			to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
78	root	1.102	- configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
79			(patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
80	root	1.97	- fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
81			the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
82	root	1.98	- add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
83			- work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
84	root	1.99	- new "include" directive for the config file.
85	root	1.100	- gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
86	root	1.102	- icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
87	root	1.99	- major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
88			- do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
89			but try to recover.
90	root	1.116	- allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
91	root	1.99	not rely on case.
92			- use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
93			base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
94			- back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
95			latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
96			needless packets.
97			- poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
98			second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
99	root	1.104	- reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
100			messages (should help sack and ipv6).
101	root	1.103	- allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
102			doesn't generate them.
103	root	1.113	- upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
104	root	1.101	- upgrade to libev 4 API.
105	root	1.113	- replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
106			earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
107	root	1.97
108			2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
109			- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
110	root	1.95	- due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
111	root	1.94	state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
112	root	1.96	ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
113	pcg	1.93	- due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
114	pcg	1.92	- enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
115	pcg	1.90	- add nfmark support.
116	pcg	1.91	- add node-change script support.
117			- new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
118	root	1.95	- updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
119	root	1.96	- clarify compression docs.
120	pcg	1.90
121	pcg	1.89	2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
122	root	1.97	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
123	pcg	1.86	- enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
124	pcg	1.85	- updated copyright in program greetings.
125	pcg	1.86	- fix some configure messages.
126	pcg	1.87	- updated to libev 3.52.
127	pcg	1.85
128	pcg	1.84	2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
129	root	1.97	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
130	pcg	1.84	- add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
131			who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
132	pcg	1.85	by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
133	pcg	1.84
134	pcg	1.83	2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
135	root	1.97	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
136	pcg	1.78	but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
137			- new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
138	pcg	1.72	- convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
139	pcg	1.71	(http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
140	pcg	1.73	- tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
141	pcg	1.78	- retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
142			new packets arrive for it.
143	pcg	1.75	- save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
144	pcg	1.78	- honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
145	pcg	1.76	- changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
146			but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
147			should work).
148	pcg	1.80	- increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
149			packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
150			- send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
151			not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
152	pcg	1.83	- upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
153	pcg	1.77	- dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
154	pcg	1.81	- node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
155			- new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
156	pcg	1.82	- work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
157			and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
158	pcg	1.83	- keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
159			and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
160	pcg	1.71	- bugfixes.
161
162	pcg	1.70	2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
163	pcg	1.69	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
164	pcg	1.68	- bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
165			be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
166	pcg	1.69	- dns transport retries more aggressively.
167	pcg	1.70	- updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
168			and throughput.
169			- added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
170	pcg	1.67
171	pcg	1.66	2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
172	pcg	1.56	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
173	pcg	1.65	- implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
174	pcg	1.59	- implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
175			gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
176			even though it had received packets from it's new address.
177	pcg	1.61	This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
178	pcg	1.59	your ip address changed, which is required.
179	pcg	1.64	- sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
180			where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
181			connections to fail when only one side can connect.
182			- fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
183			accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
184	pcg	1.61	- tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
185			conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
186	pcg	1.66	- replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
187	pcg	1.62	more useful log messages.
188	pcg	1.63	- fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
189	pcg	1.56
190	pcg	1.55	1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
191	pcg	1.56	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
192	pcg	1.49	- WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
193			scripts and exits on failure.
194	pcg	1.50	- IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
195			- IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
196			automatically in most configurations.
197	pcg	1.54	- options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
198	pcg	1.49	- make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
199			- improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
200	pcg	1.51	- new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
201	pcg	1.45	driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
202	pcg	1.47	it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
203	pcg	1.51	- new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
204			*bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
205	pcg	1.46	- fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
206			when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
207			cpu time unless it is in use, too.
208	pcg	1.52	- information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
209			- the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
210			etc. scripts.
211	pcg	1.49	- skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
212			parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
213	pcg	1.43
214	pcg	1.41	1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
215	pcg	1.56	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
216	pcg	1.36	- enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
217			are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
218	pcg	1.40	- implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
219	pcg	1.39	- remove support for pre-release version protocol.
220	pcg	1.41	- updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
221			tincd drivers a bit better.
222	pcg	1.40	- document icmp configuration values.
223			- document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
224			- remove unused ChangeLog file.
225	pcg	1.41	- created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
226			- added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
227			OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
228			GNUTLS conversion in sight.
229	pcg	1.42	- some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
230	pcg	1.36
231	pcg	1.35	1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
232	pcg	1.32	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
233	pcg	1.26	- first gnu release.
234	pcg	1.27	- documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
235	pcg	1.26	- renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
236			vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
237	pcg	1.29	- new per-node option "max-retry".
238	pcg	1.22	- asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
239	pcg	1.24	- new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
240	pcg	1.23	- fix configure --help output.
241	pcg	1.26	- many documentation layout fixes.
242	pcg	1.28	- synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
243	pcg	1.34	- try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
244	pcg	1.30	- revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
245	pcg	1.32	- considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
246	pcg	1.22
247	pcg	1.21	1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
248	pcg	1.32	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
249	pcg	1.22	- fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
250			to option and config file parsing.
251	pcg	1.21
252	pcg	1.20	1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
253	pcg	1.22	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
254			- do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
255			- various non-security-related bugfixes.
256			- c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
257			it a little bit more standard c++).
258	pcg	1.19
259	pcg	1.18	1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
260	pcg	1.22	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
261			- vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
262			- updated lzf code to version 1.2.
263			- better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
264			to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
265			will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
266			adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
267			- fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
268			this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
269			unnecessary connectivity delays.
270	pcg	1.15
271	pcg	1.13	1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
272	pcg	1.22	- protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
273			- better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
274			- use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
275			- share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
276			- sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
277			remotely POSIX-compatible.
278	pcg	1.11
279	pcg	1.10	1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
280	pcg	1.22	- protocol version 0.1.
281			- tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
282			(native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
283			native/cygwin).
284			- added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
285			the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
286			/* none yet tested */
287			- portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
288			- very minor bugfixes
289			- warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
290			- reduced default hmac length to 8.
291			- cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
292			- added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
293
294			1.0 distant past
295			- protocol version 0.1.
296			- tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
297			machines or nets with many hosts.
298			- tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
299			connecting through routers (not a fix).
300	pcg	1.2