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1GVPE NEWS
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?
27TODO: low-power
28TODO: ipv6
29 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
30 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
31 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
32 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
33 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
34 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
35 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
36 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
37 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
38 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
39 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
40 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
41 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
42 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
43 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
44 into the configured location.
45 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
46 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
47 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
48 openssl documentation).
49 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
50 and will be merged.
51 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
52 of the config file.
53 - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
54 a fully random IV.
55 - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
56 for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
57 take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
58 do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
59 (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
60 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
61 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
62 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
63 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
64 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
65 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
66 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
67 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
68 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
69
702.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
71 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
72 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
73 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
74 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
75 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
76 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
77 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
78 function which is now deprecated.
79 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
80 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
81 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
82 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
83 the protocol not being configured locally.
84 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
85 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
86 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
87 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
88 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
89 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
90 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
91 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
92 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
93 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
94 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
95 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
96 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
97 - new "include" directive for the config file.
98 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
99 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
100 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
101 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
102 but try to recover.
103 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
104 not rely on case.
105 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
106 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
107 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
108 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
109 needless packets.
110 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
111 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
112 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
113 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
114 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
115 doesn't generate them.
116 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
117 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
118 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
119 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
120
1212.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
122 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
123 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
124 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
125 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
126 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
127 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
128 - add nfmark support.
129 - add node-change script support.
130 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
131 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
132 - clarify compression docs.
133
1342.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
135 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
136 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
137 - updated copyright in program greetings.
138 - fix some configure messages.
139 - updated to libev 3.52.
140
1412.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
142 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
143 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
144 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
145 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
146
1472.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
148 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
149 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
150 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
151 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
152 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
153 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
154 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
155 new packets arrive for it.
156 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
157 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
158 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
159 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
160 should work).
161 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
162 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
163 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
164 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
165 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
166 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
167 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
168 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
169 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
170 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
171 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
172 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
173 - bugfixes.
174
1752.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
176 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
177 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
178 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
179 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
180 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
181 and throughput.
182 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
183
1842.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
185 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
186 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
187 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
188 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
189 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
190 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
191 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
192 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
193 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
194 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
195 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
196 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
197 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
198 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
199 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
200 more useful log messages.
201 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
202
2031.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
204 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
205 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
206 scripts and exits on failure.
207 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
208 - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
209 automatically in most configurations.
210 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
211 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
212 - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
213 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
214 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
215 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
216 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
217 *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
218 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
219 when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
220 cpu time unless it is in use, too.
221 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
222 - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
223 etc. scripts.
224 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
225 parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
226
11.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005 2271.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
228 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
2 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols 229 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
3 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled. 230 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
4 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future). 231 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
5 - remove support for pre-release version protocol. 232 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
6 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented 233 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
10 - remove unused ChangeLog file. 237 - remove unused ChangeLog file.
11 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de. 238 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
12 - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against 239 - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
13 OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No 240 OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
14 GNUTLS conversion in sight. 241 GNUTLS conversion in sight.
242 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
15 243
161.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005 2441.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
17 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 245 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
18 - first gnu release. 246 - first gnu release.
19 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority. 247 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.

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