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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: http://incog-izick.blogspot.de/2011/08/using-openssl-aes-gcm.html
9TODO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12153009/openssl-c-example-of-aes-gcm-using-evp-interfaces
10
11TODO: verify
12TODO: make sense of overhead calculation
13TODO: if-up &c should not be scripts?
14TODO: ipv6
15TODO: gvpectrl should not use default privatekey,. or maybe document it better
16 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
17 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
18 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
19 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
20 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
21 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
22 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
23 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
24 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
25 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
26 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
27 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
28 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
29 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
30 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
31 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
32 into the configured location.
33 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
34 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
35 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
36 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
37 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
38 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
39 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
40 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
41 openssl documentation).
42 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
43 and will be merged.
44 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
45 of the config file.
46 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
47 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
48 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
49 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
50 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
51 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
52 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
53 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
54 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
55 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
56 gcc's -fsanitize=address.
57
582.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
59 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
60 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
61 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
62 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 63 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
64 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
65 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
66 function which is now deprecated.
67 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
68 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
69 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
70 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
71 the protocol not being configured locally.
72 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
73 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
74 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
75 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
76 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
77 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
78 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
79 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
80 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
81 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
82 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
83 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
84 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
85 - new "include" directive for the config file.
86 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
87 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
88 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
89 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
90 but try to recover.
91 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
92 not rely on case.
93 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
94 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
95 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
96 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
97 needless packets.
98 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
99 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
100 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
101 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
102 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
103 doesn't generate them.
104 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
105 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
106 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
107 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
108
1092.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
110 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
111 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
112 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
113 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
114 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
115 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
116 - add nfmark support.
117 - add node-change script support.
118 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
119 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
120 - clarify compression docs.
121
1222.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
123 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
124 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
125 - updated copyright in program greetings.
126 - fix some configure messages.
127 - updated to libev 3.52.
128
1292.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
130 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
131 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
132 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
133 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
134
1352.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
136 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
137 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
138 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
139 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
140 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
141 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
142 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
143 new packets arrive for it.
144 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
145 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
146 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
147 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
148 should work).
149 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
150 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
151 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
152 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
153 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
154 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
155 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
156 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
157 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
158 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
159 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
160 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
161 - bugfixes.
162
1632.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
164 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
165 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
166 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
167 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
168 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
169 and throughput.
170 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
171
1722.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
173 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
174 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 175 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 176 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 177 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only cuases problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 178 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 179 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
180 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
181 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
182 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
183 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
184 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
185 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
186 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
187 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
188 more useful log messages.
189 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
11 190
121.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 1911.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
13 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 192 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
14 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 193 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
15 scripts and exits on failure. 194 scripts and exits on failure.

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