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12.0 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
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.
2 - 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.
185 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
186 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
187 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
188 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
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.
195 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
196 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
197 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
198 more useful log messages.
199 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
3 200
41.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 2011.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 202 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
6 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 203 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
7 scripts and exits on failure. 204 scripts and exits on failure.

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