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Revision 1.120 by root, Fri Oct 11 07:56:07 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: if-up &c should not be scripts?
27TODO: low-power
28 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
29 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
30 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
31 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
32 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
33 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
34 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
35 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
36 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
37 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
38 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
39 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
40 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
41 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
42 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
43 into the configured location.
44 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
45 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
46 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
47 openssl documentation).
48 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
49 and will be merged.
50 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
51 of the config file.
52 - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
53 a fully random IV.
54 - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
55 for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
56 take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
57 do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
58 (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
59 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
60 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
61 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
62 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
63 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
64 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
65 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
66 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
67
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3 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other 69 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
4 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with 70 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
5 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests. 71 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
6 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2. 72 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
7 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 73 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
74 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
75 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
76 function which is now deprecated.
77 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
78 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
79 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
80 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
81 the protocol not being configured locally.
82 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
83 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
84 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
85 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
86 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
87 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
88 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
89 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
90 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
8 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports 91 - 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. 92 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
10 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions. 93 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
11 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek. 94 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
12 - new "include" directive for the config file. 95 - new "include" directive for the config file.
13 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives. 96 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
97 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
14 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements: 98 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
15 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport, 99 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
16 but try to recover. 100 but try to recover.
17 - allow lowercase/uppercase alises for base-n encodings that do 101 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
18 not rely on case. 102 not rely on case.
19 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and 103 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
20 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet). 104 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
21 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases 105 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
22 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of 106 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
23 needless packets. 107 needless packets.
24 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per 108 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
25 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds). 109 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
110 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
111 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
112 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
113 doesn't generate them.
114 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
26 - upgrade to libev 4 API. 115 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
116 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
117 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
27 118
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29 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 120 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
30 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a 121 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
31 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be 122 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be

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