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1GVPE NEWS 1GVPE NEWS
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3TODO: bridge mode, finally?
4TODO: gcm mode?
5TODO: replace ripemd160 as the only authentication hash.
6TODO: increase rsa size.
7TODO: replace transport bits by transport endpoint structs?
8TODO: ecdh to avoid session replay attacks
9TODO: http://incog-izick.blogspot.de/2011/08/using-openssl-aes-gcm.html
10TODO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153009/openssl-c-example-of-aes-gcm-using-evp-interfaces
11
12proposed: 3 types, req, resreq, res
13
14req (hmac1) rsa(seqno1 hmac1 aes1 seqno2 hmac2 aes2 auth) ecdh1
15res (hmac1) hash(rsa-contents) ecdh2
16
17req hmac0(*) rsa(seqno hmac0 hmac aes auth) hkdf-salt ecdh1
18res hmac0(rsa-contents ecdh2)
19 hmac_key = hkdf(hkdf-salt, hmac | ecdh)
20 aes_key = hkdf(hkdf-salt, aes | ecdh)
21
22TODO: very much larger intiial seed
23TODO: don't use RAND_pseudo_bytes :/
24 - 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 - 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
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3 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other 42 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
4 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with 43 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
5 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests. 44 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
45 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
46 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
47 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
48 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
49 function which is now deprecated.
50 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
51 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
52 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
53 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
54 the protocol not being configured locally.
55 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
56 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
57 - 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 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
61 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
62 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
63 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
6 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports 64 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
7 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own. 65 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
66 - 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 - new "include" directive for the config file.
69 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
70 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
71 - 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 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
84 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
85 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
86 doesn't generate them.
87 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
88 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
89 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
90 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
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10 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 93 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
11 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a 94 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
12 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be 95 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be

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