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3TODO: libev update? 3TODO: bridge mode, finally?
42.22 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 sextions 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 - no longer use RAND_bytes to generate session keys - you NEED
34 a real source of entropy now (e.g. egd or /dev/random - see the
35 openssl documentation).
36 - multiple node statements for the same node are now supported
37 and will be merged.
38 - a new directive "global" switches back to the global section
39 of the config file.
40 - 12 random prefix bytes are now properly supported, leading to
41 a fully random IV.
42 - use aes with a random key in counter-mode to generate IVs,
43 for speed reasons (generating 12 random bytes with openssl can
44 take longer than encrypting and mac'ing a 1.5kb packet, and IVs
45 do not need to be cryptographically strong random numbers
46 (and in fact, shouldn't be)).
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
572.25 Sat Jul 13 06:42:33 CEST 2013
58 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no longer enable udp protocol if no other
59 protocols are enabled - this is necessary when you have nodes with
60 completely unknown protocols, to force mediated connection requests.
61 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: dns transport protocol bumped to version 2.
62 - core protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
63 - switch to using RSA_generate_key_ex, which is the badly documented
64 and needlessly more complicated replacement for the RSA_generate_key
65 function which is now deprecated.
66 - support additional hmac hashes: sha256 and sha512, usually truncated.
67 - change public exponent for rsa keys from 65535 to 65537, for
68 efficiency reasons - only affects new keys.
69 - nodes would sometimes declare transport endpoints valid despite
70 the protocol not being configured locally.
71 - new global configuration options: chroot, chuser, chuid, chgid,
72 to chroot to a specified or anonymous new root, and change user id.
73 - new global configuration options seed_device and seed_interval,
74 to configure another device than /dev/urandom for random seeds,
75 and to configure a regular interval to reseed the rng.
76 - prefer inet_aton over gethostbyname, as the latter is not guaranteed
77 to "resolve" literal ip addresses.
78 - configure didn't detect openssl 1.0 because SHA1_version became private
79 (patch by TANIGUCHI Takaki).
80 - fix a bug where nodes would tell the other side that it supports
81 the same protocols as that other side, instead of its own.
82 - add zlib when found, as openssl depends on it in newer versions.
83 - work around append-bugs in uclibc by using an extra seek.
84 - new "include" directive for the config file.
85 - gvpectrl no longer evaluates any "on" directives.
86 - icmp and rawip protocols weren't upgradable to each other.
87 - major, but incremental, dns transport improvements:
88 - do not simply abort in some error cases in the dns transport,
89 but try to recover.
90 - allow lowercase/uppercase aliases for base-n encodings that do
91 not rely on case.
92 - use base26 instead of base22 encoding for dns syn's, and
93 base36 instead of base22 for headers (saves one byte/packet).
94 - back off far quicker in dns tunnel when idling - increases
95 latency on an idle link somewhat, but avoids hundreds of
96 needless packets.
97 - poll more aggressively when idling in dns (poll once per
98 second as opposed to once per 5 seconds).
99 - reduce dns send payload size to allow greater rate of ack
100 messages (should help sack and ipv6).
101 - allow for ip options in rawip/icmp transports, even though gvpe
102 doesn't generate them.
103 - upgrade to autoconf 2.69, automake 1.11.
104 - upgrade to libev 4 API.
105 - replace COPYING file by actual GPLv3 - files were relicensed to GPLv3
106 earlier but COPYING was forgotten.
107
1082.24 Sat Feb 12 05:15:48 CET 2011
109 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
110 - due to a bug, when packets were lost, a connection could go into a
111 state where a ping/connection request from another node would be
112 ignored, leading to connections not being re-established.
113 - due to a bug, compression was almost always enabled.
114 - enable-max-mtu was actually enable-mtu, contrary to documentation.
115 - add nfmark support.
116 - add node-change script support.
117 - new DESTSI variable for node-xxx scripts.
118 - updated codingstyle a bit, declared truly static stuff as static.
119 - clarify compression docs.
120
1212.22 Sun Feb 1 17:25:28 CET 2009
122 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
5 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default. 123 - enabled icmp/tcp/http-proxy protocols by default.
6 - updated copyright in program greetings. 124 - updated copyright in program greetings.
7 - fix some configure messages. 125 - fix some configure messages.
8 - updated to libev 3.52. 126 - updated to libev 3.52.
9 127
102.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008 1282.21 Wed Sep 3 06:56:27 CEST 2008
129 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
11 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody 130 - add missing ev++.h include header to tarball, which everybody
12 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught 131 who tested it apparently had in their include path :(. Caught
13 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong. 132 by Karl Kleinpaste and Marcus Kong.
14 133
152.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008 1342.2 Mon Sep 1 06:28:09 CEST 2008
16 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases, 135 - protocol version 0.1, compatible with older releases.
17 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour. 136 but upgrade is recommended to due changed ondemand behaviour.
18 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue. 137 - new per-node options max-ttl and max-queue.
19 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop 138 - convert from iom.C to libev, a high-performance event loop
20 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). 139 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
21 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases. 140 - tcp connections were leaking in some cases.

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