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Revision 1.71 by pcg, Sat Nov 10 05:17:30 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.129 by root, Wed Mar 30 04:02:50 2016 UTC

1gvpe NEWS 1GVPE NEWS
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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 - add workaround for temporary/rare ENOBUFS condition.
20 - while individual packets couldn't be replayed, a whole session
21 could be replayed - this has been fixed by an extra key exchange.
22 - fix a delete vs. delete [] mismatch in the central logging function.
23 - in addition to rsa key exchange and authentication, the handshake now
24 adds a diffie-hellman key exchange (using curve25119) for perfect
25 forward secrecy. mac and cipher keys are derived using HKDF.
26 - rsa key sizes are now configurable and larger (default is 3072).
27 correspondingly, the minimum mtu is no longer 296 but 576.
28 - fixed a potential (unverified) buffer overrun on rsa decryption.
29 - new per-node low-power setting that tries to reduce cpu/network usage.
30 - router reconnects could cause excessive rekeying on other connections.
31 - gvpectrl no longer generates all missing public keys, but
32 only missing private keys. private keys are also put
33 into the configured location.
34 - the pid-file now accepts %s as nodename as elsewhere.
35 - switch to counter mode (only aes supported at the moment in
36 openssl). this gets rid of the need to generate a random iv,
37 is likely more secure (and, as a side effect, gets rid of
38 slow randomness generation. counter mode is often faster
39 then cbc mode as well, and packets are smaller).
40 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
41 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
42 openssl documentation).
43 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
44 and will be merged.
45 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
46 of the config file.
47 - if-up scripts can now be specified with absolute paths.
48 - new global option: serial, to detect configuration mismatches.
49 - use HKDF as authentication proof, not HMAC or a plain hash
50 (hint by Ilmari Karonen).
51 - during rekeying or conenction establishments, hmac authentication
52 errors could occur and reset the connection. Transient hmac
53 authentication errors are now being ignored for 3 seconds.
54 - log the reason for a conneciton loss.
55 - use a (hopefully) constant time memcmp to compare internal secrets.
56 - fix a (harmless) errornous out of bounds stack read that would trigger
57 gcc's -fsanitize=address.
58 - bump old packet window size from 512 to 65536.
59
602.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
61 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
62 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
63 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
64 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
3 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 65 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
4 - convert from iom.C to libev 66 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
67 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
68 function which is now deprecated.
69 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
70 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
71 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
72 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
73 the protocol not being configured locally.
74 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
75 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
76 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
77 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
78 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
79 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
80 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
81 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
82 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
83 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
84 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
85 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
86 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
87 - new "include" directive for the config file.
88 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
89 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
90 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
91 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
92 but try to recover.
93 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
94 not rely on case.
95 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
96 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
97 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
98 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
99 needless packets.
100 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
101 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
102 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
103 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
104 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
105 doesn't generate them.
106 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
107 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
108 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
109 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
110
1112.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
112 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
113 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
114 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
115 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
116 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
117 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
118 - add nfmark support.
119 - add node-change script support.
120 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
121 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
122 - clarify compression docs.
123
1242.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
125 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
126 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
127 - updated copyright in program greetings.
128 - fix some configure messages.
129 - updated to libev 3.52.
130
1312.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
132 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
133 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
134 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
135 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
136
1372.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
138 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
139 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
140 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
141 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
5 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). 142 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
143 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.
144 - retry more aggressively (once/s) to establish a connection if
145 new packets arrive for it.
146 - save a lot of setsockopt calls when the tos doesn't change.
147 - honor disabled even on initial connect attempt.
148 - changed callback mechanism to be slightly less portable
149 but more efficient mechanism (standards-compliant c++ compilers
150 should work).
151 - increased receive window positive size, to allow for massive
152 packet loss due to occasional longer drop-outs.
153 - send RST when a positive window size violation is detected, but
154 not in other cases, to reconnect more quickly.
155 - upgraded liblzf to version 3.4.
156 - dropped -fno-exceptions due to ev++.h using it.
157 - node-up/down scripts are now run in sequence.
158 - new -q switch for gvpectrl, for when you run it often.
159 - work around the horribly inconsistent, ad-hoc, ever-changing
160 and broken texinfo syntax. YMMV. avoid texinfo.
161 - keepalive is more aggressive now, sensding ping's every 3 seconds
162 and killing the conenction after 15 seconds.
6 - bugfixes. 163 - bugfixes.
7 164
82.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007 1652.01 Thu Mar 29 19:26:04 CEST 2007
9 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases. 166 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
10 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to 167 - bugfix of callback.h, might have cause callback return values to

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