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Revision 1.61 by pcg, Tue Jun 21 08:34:47 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.117 by root, Thu Jul 18 17:35:10 2013 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?
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.
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 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.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 176 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 177 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 178 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 179 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 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.
11 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow 186 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
12 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering. 187 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
13 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe 188 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
14 accept out-of-window packets in most cases. 189 more useful log messages.
190 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
15 191
161.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 1921.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
17 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 193 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
18 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 194 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
19 scripts and exits on failure. 195 scripts and exits on failure.

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