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Revision 1.124 by root, Thu Jan 29 00:21:38 2015 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: 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 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
22 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
23 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
24 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
25 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
26 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
27 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
28 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
29 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
30 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
31 into the configured location.
32 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
33 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
34 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
35 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
36 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
37 then cbc mode as well).
38 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
39 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
40 openssl documentation).
41 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
42 and will be merged.
43 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
44 of the config file.
45 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
46 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
47 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
48 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
49 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
50 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
51 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
52 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
53 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
54
552.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
56 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
57 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
58 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
59 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 60 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
61 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
62 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
63 function which is now deprecated.
64 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
65 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
66 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
67 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
68 the protocol not being configured locally.
69 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
70 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
71 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
72 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
73 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
74 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
75 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
76 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
77 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
78 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
79 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
80 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
81 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
82 - new "include" directive for the config file.
83 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
84 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
85 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
86 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
87 but try to recover.
88 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
89 not rely on case.
90 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
91 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
92 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
93 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
94 needless packets.
95 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
96 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
97 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
98 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
99 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
100 doesn't generate them.
101 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
102 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
103 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
104 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
105
1062.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
107 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
108 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
109 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
110 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
111 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
112 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
113 - add nfmark support.
114 - add node-change script support.
115 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
116 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
117 - clarify compression docs.
118
1192.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
120 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
121 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
122 - updated copyright in program greetings.
123 - fix some configure messages.
124 - updated to libev 3.52.
125
1262.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
127 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
128 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
129 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
130 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
131
1322.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
133 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
134 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
135 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
136 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
137 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
138 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
139 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
140 new packets arrive for it.
141 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
142 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
143 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
144 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
145 should work).
146 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
147 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
148 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
149 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
150 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
151 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
152 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
153 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
154 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
155 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
156 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
157 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
158 - bugfixes.
159
1602.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
161 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
162 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
163 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
164 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
165 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
166 and throughput.
167 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
168
1692.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
170 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
171 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 172 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 173 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 174 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 175 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 176 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
177 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
178 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
179 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
180 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
181 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
11 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow 182 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
12 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering. 183 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
13 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe 184 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
14 accept out-of-window packets in most cases. 185 more useful log messages.
186 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
15 187
161.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 1881.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
17 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 189 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
18 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 190 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
19 scripts and exits on failure. 191 scripts and exits on failure.

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