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Revision 1.63 by pcg, Sat Jul 9 02:43:19 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.120 by root, Fri Oct 11 07:56:07 2013 UTC

1TODO: enable bridging (compile-time option? ignore fragmentation?) 1GVPE NEWS
2TODO: explore DTLS
3 2
42.0 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
682.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
69 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
70 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
71 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
72 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
5 - 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).
91 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
92 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
93 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
94 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
95 - new "include" directive for the config file.
96 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
97 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
98 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
99 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
100 but try to recover.
101 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
102 not rely on case.
103 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
104 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
105 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
106 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
107 needless packets.
108 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
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.
115 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
116 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
117 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
118
1192.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
120 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
121 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
122 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
123 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
124 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
125 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
126 - add nfmark support.
127 - add node-change script support.
128 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
129 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
130 - clarify compression docs.
131
1322.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
133 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
134 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
135 - updated copyright in program greetings.
136 - fix some configure messages.
137 - updated to libev 3.52.
138
1392.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
140 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
141 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
142 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
143 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
144
1452.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
146 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
147 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
148 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
149 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
150 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
151 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
152 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
153 new packets arrive for it.
154 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
155 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
156 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
157 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
158 should work).
159 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
160 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
161 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
162 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
163 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
164 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
165 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
166 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
167 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
168 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
169 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
170 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
171 - bugfixes.
172
1732.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
174 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
175 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
176 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
177 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
178 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
179 and throughput.
180 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
181
1822.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
183 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
184 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 185 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 186 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 187 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 188 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 189 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
190 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
191 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
192 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
193 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
194 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
11 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow 195 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
12 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering. 196 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
13 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
14 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
15 - replace some asserts that trapped config msimatches by 197 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
16 more useful log messages. 198 more useful log messages.
17 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections.
18 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages. 199 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
19 200
201.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 2011.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
21 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 202 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
22 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 203 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.

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