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Revision 1.60 by pcg, Fri Jun 3 05:10:16 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.121 by root, Thu Jan 16 07:53:44 2014 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
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.
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 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.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 187 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 188 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 189 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only cuases problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 190 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 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.
11 202
121.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 2031.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
13 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 204 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
14 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 205 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
15 scripts and exits on failure. 206 scripts and exits on failure.

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