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3TODO: gvpectrl should not use default privatekey,. or maybe document it better
4 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
5 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
6 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
7 - openssl 1.0.2 is the latest supported openssl release,
8 openssl 1.1.0 is not supported at the moment as the work to
9 make it compatible to both versions is just too much. a switch
10 to openssl 1.1 or another library will be done in a future release.
11 - gvpectrl -g will now generate a single keypair, while -G
12 will try to generate all keypairs as before.
13 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
14 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
15 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
16 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
17 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
18 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
19 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
20 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
21 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
22 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
23 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
24 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
25 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
26 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
27 into the configured location.
28 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
29 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
30 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
31 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
32 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
33 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
34 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
35 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
36 openssl documentation).
37 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
38 and will be merged.
39 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
40 of the config file.
41 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
42 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
43 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
44 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
45 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
46 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
47 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
48 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
49 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
50 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
51 gcc's -fsanitize=address.
52 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
53 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
54 to make further changes easier.
55 - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
56 - check for both public and private key file when deciding whether
57 to skip generating a key to avoid accidental overwrites.
58
592.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
3 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other 60 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
4 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with 61 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
5 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests. 62 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
6 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2. 63 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
7 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 64 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
65 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
66 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
67 function which is now deprecated.
68 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
69 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
70 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
71 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
72 the protocol not being configured locally.
73 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
74 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
75 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
76 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
77 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
78 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
79 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
80 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
81 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
8 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports 82 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
9 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own. 83 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
10 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions. 84 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
11 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek. 85 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
12 - new "include" directive for the config file. 86 - new "include" directive for the config file.
13 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives. 87 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
88 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
14 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements: 89 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
15 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport, 90 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
16 but try to recover. 91 but try to recover.
17 - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do 92 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
18 not rely on case. 93 not rely on case.
19 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and 94 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
20 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet). 95 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
21 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases 96 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
22 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of 97 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
23 needless packets. 98 needless packets.
24 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per 99 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
25 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds). 100 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
101 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
102 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
104 doesn't generate them.
105 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
106 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
107 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
108 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
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28 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 111 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
29 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a 112 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
30 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be 113 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be

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