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Revision 1.73 by pcg, Tue Nov 13 02:12:38 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.116 by root, Thu Jul 18 13:35:19 2013 UTC

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: protocol magic fixen(!!!)
23TODO: "global"
24TODO: verify
25TODO: make sense of overhead calculation
26TODO: use aes in ctr mode for IV values
27 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
28 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
29 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
30 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
31 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
32 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
33 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
34 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
35 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
36 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
37 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
38 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
39 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
40 into the configured location.
41 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
42 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
43 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
44 openssl documentation).
45 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
46 and will be merged.
47 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
48 of the config file.
49 - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
50 a fully random IV.
51 - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
52 for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
53 take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
54 do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
55 (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
56 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
57
582.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
59 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
60 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
61 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
62 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
3 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 63 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
64 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
65 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
66 function which is now deprecated.
67 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
68 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
69 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
70 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
71 the protocol not being configured locally.
72 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
73 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
74 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
75 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
76 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
77 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
78 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
79 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
80 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
81 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
82 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
83 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
84 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
85 - new "include" directive for the config file.
86 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
87 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
88 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
89 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
90 but try to recover.
91 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
92 not rely on case.
93 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
94 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
95 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
96 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
97 needless packets.
98 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
99 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
100 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
101 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
102 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
103 doesn't generate them.
104 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
105 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
106 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
107 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
108
1092.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
110 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
111 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
112 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
113 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
114 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
115 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
116 - add nfmark support.
117 - add node-change script support.
118 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
119 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
120 - clarify compression docs.
121
1222.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
123 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
124 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
125 - updated copyright in program greetings.
126 - fix some configure messages.
127 - updated to libev 3.52.
128
1292.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
130 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
131 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
132 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
133 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
134
1352.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
136 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
137 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
138 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
4 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop 139 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
5 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). 140 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
6 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases. 141 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
142 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
143 new packets arrive for it.
144 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
145 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
146 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
147 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
148 should work).
149 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
150 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
151 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
152 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
153 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
154 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
155 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
156 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
157 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
158 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
159 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
160 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
7 - bugfixes. 161 - bugfixes.
8 162
92.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007 1632.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
10 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 164 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
11 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to 165 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to

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