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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?
27 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
28 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sextions are now introduced
29 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
30 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
31 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
32 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
33 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
34 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
35 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
36 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
37 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
38 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
39 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
40 into the configured location.
41 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
42 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
43 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
44 openssl documentation).
45 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
46 and will be merged.
47 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
48 of the config file.
49 - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
50 a fully random IV.
51 - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
52 for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
53 take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
54 do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
55 (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
56 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
57 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
58
592.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
60 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
61 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
62 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
63 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
64 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
65 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
66 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
67 function which is now deprecated.
68 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
69 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
70 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
71 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
72 the protocol not being configured locally.
73 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
74 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
75 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
76 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
77 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
78 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
79 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
80 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
81 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
82 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
83 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
84 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
85 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
86 - new "include" directive for the config file.
87 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
88 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
89 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
90 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
91 but try to recover.
92 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
93 not rely on case.
94 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
95 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
96 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
97 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
98 needless packets.
99 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
100 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
101 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
102 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
103 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
104 doesn't generate them.
105 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
106 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
107 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
108 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
109
1102.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
111 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
112 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
113 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
114 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
115 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
116 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
117 - add nfmark support.
118 - add node-change script support.
119 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
120 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
121 - clarify compression docs.
122
1232.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
124 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
125 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
126 - updated copyright in program greetings.
127 - fix some configure messages.
128 - updated to libev 3.52.
129
1302.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
131 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
132 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
133 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
134 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
135
1362.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
137 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
138 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
139 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
140 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
141 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
142 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
143 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
144 new packets arrive for it.
145 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
146 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
147 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
148 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
149 should work).
150 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
151 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
152 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
153 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
154 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
155 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
156 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
157 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
158 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
159 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
160 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
161 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
162 - bugfixes.
163
1642.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
165 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
166 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
167 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
168 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
169 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
170 and throughput.
171 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
172
1732.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
174 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
175 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
176 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
177 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
178 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
179 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
180 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
181 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
182 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
183 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
184 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
185 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
186 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
187 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
188 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
189 more useful log messages.
190 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
191
1921.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
193 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
194 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
195 scripts and exits on failure.
196 - IMPORTANT: run if-up/node-up etc. scripts via /bin/sh.
197 - IMPORTANT: interface initialization (MAC, MTU) is now done
198 automatically in most configurations.
199 - options can now be specified on the gvpe command line, too.
200 - make some DNS transport values configurable and document them.
201 - improved OS specific information in gvpe.osdep(5).
202 - new tap device type "native/darwin", that supports the tap
203 driver available for darwin (thanks to matthew mead who tested
204 it out with me in a long session). tincd/darwin is still available.
205 - new device type "tincd/bsd", which is a newer version of the
206 *bsd-drivers taken from tinc.
207 - fixed a bug in relying on the order of global construction
208 when tcp transport was enabled. The fix makes it use no
209 cpu time unless it is in use, too.
210 - information about other nodes is now available to if-up etc. scripts.
211 - the value of the config variable if-up-data is passed to the if-up
212 etc. scripts.
213 - skip unparsable config lines with a warning instead of stopping
214 parsing and continuing with a certainly unusable config.
215
2161.8 Fri Mar 18 00:58:55 CET 2005
217 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
218 - enable-udp = yes is now default only when no other protocols
219 are enabled. otherwise it is disabled unless explicitly enabled.
220 - implemented dns tunneling (experimental now and in the future).
221 - remove support for pre-release version protocol.
222 - updated tincd drivers (rev 1433), added uml_socket driver, documented
223 tincd drivers a bit better.
224 - document icmp configuration values.
225 - document transport protocols in gvpe.protocol(7).
226 - remove unused ChangeLog file.
227 - created a mailinglist at gvpe@lists.schmorp.de.
228 - added an exemption to allow distribution of binaries linked against
229 OpenSSL, as suggested by Guus Sliepen (author of tinc). No
230 GNUTLS conversion in sight.
231 - some portability fixes with respect to --disable-nls.
232
2331.7 Tue Feb 22 23:58:59 CET 2005
234 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
235 - first gnu release.
236 - documented the special value 1 for router-priority.
237 - renamed vped => gvpe and vpectrl => gvpectrl, as well as
238 vped.conf => gvpe.conf.
239 - new per-node option "max-retry".
240 - asymmetric rekeying behaviour, so hosts don't rekey simultaneously.
241 - new configure option --enable-static-daemon.
242 - fix configure --help output.
243 - many documentation layout fixes.
244 - synced iom.[Ch] from rxvt-unicode.
245 - try to cope with some non-monotonic time changes.
246 - revert to locale.h - a usual, clocale is nonfunctioning on macosx.
247 - considerably improved pod2texi and the resulting texi doc.
248
11.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004 2491.6.1 Wed May 12 14:48:20 CEST 2004
250 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
2 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix 251 - fix -c switch that has been broken due to a last-minute fix
3 to option and config file parsing. 252 to option and config file parsing.
4 253
51.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004 2541.6 Mon May 10 20:55:10 CEST 2004
6 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 255 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
7 - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless). 256 - do not RESET on out-of-sequence packets (good for wireless).
8 - various non-security-related bugfixes. 257 - various non-security-related bugfixes.
9 - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make 258 - c++ify (at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make
10 it a little bit more standard c++). 259 it a little bit more standard c++).
11 260
121.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004 2611.5 Fri Jan 30 00:50:04 CET 2004
13 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 262 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
14 - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match. 263 - vped will refuse to start when hostkey and public key do not match.
15 - updated lzf code to version 1.2. 264 - updated lzf code to version 1.2.
16 - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing 265 - better error reporting for "unusual" conditions, like failing
17 to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and 266 to allocate memory, that should not normally happen and
18 will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also 267 will otherwise result in spurious other error messages. Also
19 adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way. 268 adds paranoid checks in case openssl's API changes in a bad way.
20 - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while 269 - fix a bug where queued vpn packets were cleared to zero. while
21 this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and 270 this doesn't affect security, it did cause warning messages and
22 unnecessary connectivity delays. 271 unnecessary connectivity delays.
23 272
241.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004 2731.4 Sat Jan 17 15:49:21 CET 2004
25 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 274 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
26 - better retry behaviour on key mismatch. 275 - better retry behaviour on key mismatch.
27 - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one. 276 - use select-based io_manager instead of poll-based one.
28 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe. 277 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe.
29 - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even 278 - sooo many *BSD workarounds because no BSD I could find is even
30 remotely POSIX-compatible. 279 remotely POSIX-compatible.
31 280
321.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003 2811.2 Fri Oct 17 03:44:44 CEST 2003
33 - protocol version 0.1. 282 - protocol version 0.1.
34 - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms 283 - tincd kernel interface code imported, more supported platforms
35 (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd, 284 (native/linux (2.4), tincd/linux (2.2 and 2.4), tincd/freebsd,
36 native/cygwin). 285 native/cygwin).
37 - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows 286 - added primitive ethernet emulation (ipv4 only), which allows
38 the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work: 287 the following platforms that only have tun drivers to work:
39 /* none yet tested */ 288 /* none yet tested */
40 - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd 289 - portability workarounds, especially for unfriendly freebsd
41 - very minor bugfixes 290 - very minor bugfixes
42 - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes 291 - warnings when choosing insecure ciphers/hashes
43 - reduced default hmac length to 8. 292 - reduced default hmac length to 8.
44 - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files. 293 - cvs now contains configure, Makefile.in and other generated files.
45 - added doc/complex-example to the distribution. 294 - added doc/complex-example to the distribution.
46 295
471.0 2961.0 distant past
48 - protocol version 0.1. 297 - protocol version 0.1.
49 - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class 298 - tweaked various timeouts to help very slow (486) class
50 machines or nets with many hosts. 299 machines or nets with many hosts.
51 - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts 300 - tweaked rate-limiting to be more forgiving for hosts
52 connecting through routers (not a fix). 301 connecting through routers (not a fix).
53 302

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