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Revision 1.118 by root, Fri Jul 19 21:01:16 2013 UTC

1GVPE NEWS 1GVPE NEWS
2 2
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: if-up &c should not be scripts?
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 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
58 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
59 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
60
612.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
62 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
63 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
64 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
65 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
66 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
67 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
68 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
69 function which is now deprecated.
70 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
71 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
72 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
73 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
74 the protocol not being configured locally.
75 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
76 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
77 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
78 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
79 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
80 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
81 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
82 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
83 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
84 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
85 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
86 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
87 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
88 - new "include" directive for the config file.
89 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
90 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
91 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
92 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
93 but try to recover.
94 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
95 not rely on case.
96 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
97 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
98 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
99 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
100 needless packets.
101 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
102 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
103 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
104 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
105 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
106 doesn't generate them.
107 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
108 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
109 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
110 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
111
1122.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
113 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
114 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
115 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
116 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
117 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
118 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
3 - add nfmark support. 119 - add nfmark support.
4 - add node-change script support. 120 - add node-change script support.
5 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts. 121 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
122 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
123 - clarify compression docs.
6 124
72.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009 1252.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
8 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases, 126 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
9 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default. 127 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
10 - updated copyright in program greetings. 128 - updated copyright in program greetings.
11 - fix some configure messages. 129 - fix some configure messages.
12 - updated to libev 3.52. 130 - updated to libev 3.52.
13 131
142.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008 1322.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
15 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases, 133 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
16 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody 134 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
17 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught 135 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
18 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong. 136 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
19 137
202.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008 1382.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
21 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases, 139 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
22 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour. 140 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
23 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue. 141 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
24 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop 142 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
25 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). 143 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
26 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases. 144 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.

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