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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 1.123 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
18 root 1.116 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
19 root 1.128 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
20 root 1.114 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
21     could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
22 root 1.126 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
23 root 1.114 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
24     adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
25     forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
26     - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
27     correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
28     - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
29 root 1.120 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
30 root 1.119 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
31 root 1.114 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
32     only missing private keys. private keys are also put
33     into the configured location.
34     - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
35 root 1.124 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
36     openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
37     is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
38     slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
39 root 1.125 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
40 root 1.115 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
41     a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
42     openssl documentation).
43 root 1.116 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
44     and will be merged.
45     - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
46     of the config file.
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 1.127 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
57     gcc's -fsanitize=address.
58 root 1.116
59 root 1.114 2.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
60 root 1.97 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
61     protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
62     completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
63 root 1.99 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
64 root 1.112 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
65 root 1.110 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
66 root 1.108 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
67     function which is now deprecated.
68 root 1.112 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
69 root 1.108 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
70 root 1.110 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
71 root 1.105 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
72     the protocol not being configured locally.
73 root 1.106 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
74     to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
75 root 1.112 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
76     to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
77 root 1.116 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
78 root 1.107 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
79     to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
80 root 1.102 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
81     (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
82 root 1.97 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
83     the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
84 root 1.98 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
85     - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
86 root 1.99 - new "include" directive for the config file.
87 root 1.100 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
88 root 1.102 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
89 root 1.99 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
90     - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
91     but try to recover.
92 root 1.116 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
93 root 1.99 not rely on case.
94     - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
95     base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
96     - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
97     latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
98     needless packets.
99     - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
100     second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
101 root 1.104 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
102     messages (should help sack and ipv6).
103 root 1.103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
104     doesn't generate them.
105 root 1.113 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
106 root 1.101 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
107 root 1.113 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
108     earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
109 root 1.97
110     2.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
111     - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
112 root 1.95 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
113 root 1.94 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
114 root 1.96 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
115 pcg 1.93 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
116 pcg 1.92 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
117 pcg 1.90 - add nfmark support.
118 pcg 1.91 - add node-change script support.
119     - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
120 root 1.95 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
121 root 1.96 - clarify compression docs.
122 pcg 1.90
123 pcg 1.89 2.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
124 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
125 pcg 1.86 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
126 pcg 1.85 - updated copyright in program greetings.
127 pcg 1.86 - fix some configure messages.
128 pcg 1.87 - updated to libev 3.52.
129 pcg 1.85
130 pcg 1.84 2.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
131 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
132 pcg 1.84 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
133     who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
134 pcg 1.85 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
135 pcg 1.84
136 pcg 1.83 2.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
137 root 1.97 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
138 pcg 1.78 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
139     - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
140 pcg 1.72 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
141 pcg 1.71 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
142 pcg 1.73 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
143 pcg 1.78 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
144     new packets arrive for it.
145 pcg 1.75 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
146 pcg 1.78 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
147 pcg 1.76 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
148     but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
149     should work).
150 pcg 1.80 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
151     packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
152     - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
153     not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
154 pcg 1.83 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
155 pcg 1.77 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
156 pcg 1.81 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
157     - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
158 pcg 1.82 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
159     and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
160 pcg 1.83 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
161     and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
162 pcg 1.71 - bugfixes.
163    
164 pcg 1.70 2.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
165 pcg 1.69 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
166 pcg 1.68 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
167     be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
168 pcg 1.69 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
169 pcg 1.70 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
170     and throughput.
171     - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
172 pcg 1.67
173 pcg 1.66 2.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
174 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
175 pcg 1.65 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
176 pcg 1.59 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
177     gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
178     even though it had received packets from it's new address.
179 pcg 1.61 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
180 pcg 1.59 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
181 pcg 1.64 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
182     where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
183     connections to fail when only one side can connect.
184     - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
185     accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
186 pcg 1.61 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
187     conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
188 pcg 1.66 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
189 pcg 1.62 more useful log messages.
190 pcg 1.63 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
191 pcg 1.56
192 pcg 1.55 1.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
193 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
194 pcg 1.49 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
195     scripts and exits on failure.
196 pcg 1.50 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
197     - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
198     automatically in most configurations.
199 pcg 1.54 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
200 pcg 1.49 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
201     - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
202 pcg 1.51 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
203 pcg 1.45 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
204 pcg 1.47 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
205 pcg 1.51 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
206     *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
207 pcg 1.46 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
208     when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
209     cpu time unless it is in use, too.
210 pcg 1.52 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
211     - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
212     etc. scripts.
213 pcg 1.49 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
214     parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
215 pcg 1.43
216 pcg 1.41 1.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
217 pcg 1.56 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
218 pcg 1.36 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
219     are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
220 pcg 1.40 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
221 pcg 1.39 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
222 pcg 1.41 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
223     tincd drivers a bit better.
224 pcg 1.40 - document icmp configuration values.
225     - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
226     - remove unused ChangeLog file.
227 pcg 1.41 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
228     - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
229     OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
230     GNUTLS conversion in sight.
231 pcg 1.42 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
232 pcg 1.36
233 pcg 1.35 1.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
234 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
235 pcg 1.26 - first gnu release.
236 pcg 1.27 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
237 pcg 1.26 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
238     vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
239 pcg 1.29 - new per-node option "max-retry".
240 pcg 1.22 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
241 pcg 1.24 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
242 pcg 1.23 - fix configure --help output.
243 pcg 1.26 - many documentation layout fixes.
244 pcg 1.28 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
245 pcg 1.34 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
246 pcg 1.30 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
247 pcg 1.32 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
248 pcg 1.22
249 pcg 1.21 1.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
250 pcg 1.32 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
251 pcg 1.22 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
252     to option and config file parsing.
253 pcg 1.21
254 pcg 1.20 1.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
255 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
256     - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
257     - various non-security-related bugfixes.
258     - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
259     it a little bit more standard c++).
260 pcg 1.19
261 pcg 1.18 1.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
262 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
263     - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
264     - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
265     - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
266     to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
267     will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
268     adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
269     - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
270     this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
271     unnecessary connectivity delays.
272 pcg 1.15
273 pcg 1.13 1.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
274 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
275     - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
276     - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
277     - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
278     - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
279     remotely POSIX-compatible.
280 pcg 1.11
281 pcg 1.10 1.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
282 pcg 1.22 - protocol version 0.1.
283     - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
284     (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
285     native/cygwin).
286     - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
287     the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
288     /* none yet tested */
289     - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
290     - very minor bugfixes
291     - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
292     - reduced default hmac length to 8.
293     - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
294     - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
295    
296     1.0 distant past
297     - protocol version 0.1.
298     - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
299     machines or nets with many hosts.
300     - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
301     connecting through routers (not a fix).
302 pcg 1.2