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Revision 1.61 by pcg, Tue Jun 21 08:34:47 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.130 by root, Thu Jun 30 11:43:38 2016 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
16TODO: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828336
17 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: core protocol version 1.0.
18 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: node sections are now introduced
19 with "node nodename", not "node = nodename".
20 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
21 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
22 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
23 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
24 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
25 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
26 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
27 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
28 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
29 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
30 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
31 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
32 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
33 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
34 into the configured location.
35 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
36 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
37 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
38 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
39 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
40 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
41 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
42 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
43 openssl documentation).
44 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
45 and will be merged.
46 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
47 of the config file.
48 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
49 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
50 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
51 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
52 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
53 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
54 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
55 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
56 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
57 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
58 gcc's -fsanitize=address.
59 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
60 - update for big changes in openssl 1.1 API, wrap primitives
61 to make further changes easier.
62 - correctly check return values for openssl 1.0.0 and later.
63
642.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
65 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
66 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
67 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
68 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
5 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 69 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
70 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
71 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
72 function which is now deprecated.
73 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
74 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
75 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
76 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
77 the protocol not being configured locally.
78 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
79 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
80 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
81 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
82 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
83 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
84 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
85 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
86 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
87 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
88 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
89 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
90 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
91 - new "include" directive for the config file.
92 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
93 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
94 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
95 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
96 but try to recover.
97 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
98 not rely on case.
99 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
100 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
101 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
102 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
103 needless packets.
104 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
105 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
106 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
107 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
108 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
109 doesn't generate them.
110 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
111 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
112 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
113 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
114
1152.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
116 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
117 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
118 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
119 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
120 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
121 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
122 - add nfmark support.
123 - add node-change script support.
124 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
125 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
126 - clarify compression docs.
127
1282.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
129 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
130 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
131 - updated copyright in program greetings.
132 - fix some configure messages.
133 - updated to libev 3.52.
134
1352.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
136 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
137 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
138 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
139 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
140
1412.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
142 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
143 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
144 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
145 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
146 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
147 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
148 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
149 new packets arrive for it.
150 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
151 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
152 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
153 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
154 should work).
155 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
156 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
157 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
158 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
159 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
160 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
161 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
162 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
163 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
164 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
165 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
166 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
167 - bugfixes.
168
1692.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
170 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
171 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to
172 be corrupted on architectures like sparc before.
173 - dns transport retries more aggressively.
174 - updated documentation, improved dns transport reliability
175 and throughput.
176 - added experimental support for sha256 and sha512 digests.
177
1782.0 Mon Dec 5 13:59:26 CET 2005
179 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
180 - implement allow-direct, deny-direct node config statements.
6 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where 181 - implemented != for sockinfo. This fixes a bug where
7 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host 182 gvpe sent packets to the old ip address of another host
8 even though it had received packets from it's new address. 183 even though it had received packets from it's new address.
9 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after 184 This only causes problems if you forget to -HUP your gvpe after
10 your ip address changed, which is *required*. 185 your ip address changed, which is *required*.
186 - sets close-on-exec flag on tcp connections. This fixes a bug
187 where child processes kept tcp connections open and caused
188 connections to fail when only one side can connect.
189 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe
190 accept out-of-window packets in most cases.
11 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow 191 - tighter limit for the maximum sequence # to avoid overflow
12 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering. 192 conditions + allow more headroom for packet reordering.
13 - fixed a bug in receive sequence checking that made gvpe 193 - replace some asserts that trapped config mismatches by
14 accept out-of-window packets in most cases. 194 more useful log messages.
195 - fix spurious extra newline in some log messages.
15 196
161.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005 1971.9 Tue Apr 19 06:21:50 CEST 2005
17 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 198 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
18 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc. 199 - WARNING: this version checks the return value of if-up etc.
19 scripts and exits on failure. 200 scripts and exits on failure.

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