Hello, the major 4.6.0 strongSwan version has been released and offers the following new features:
Extended Android support ------------------------ - The android plugin can now be used without the Android frontend patch and provides DNS server registration and logging to logcat. - The IKEv1 pluto daemon and the starter process including the stroke and whack interfaces have been ported to Android. Automatic plugin dependency resolution -------------------------------------- - The libstrongswan plugin system now supports detailed plugin dependencies. Many plugins have been extended to export their capabilities and requirements. This allows the plugin loader to resolve the plugin loading order automatically, and in future releases, to dynamically load the required features on demand. - Existing third party plugins are source (but not binary) compatible if they properly initialize the new get_features() plugin function to NULL. Dynamic hostname resolution by the IKEv2 charon daemon ------------------------------------------------------ - starter passes unresolved hostnames to charon, allowing it to do name resolution not before the connection attempt. This is especially useful with connections between hosts using dynamic IP addresses. Thanks to Mirko Parthey for the initial patch. New libstrongswan certexpire plugin ----------------------------------- - The new libstrongswan certexpire plugin collects expiration information of all used certificates and exports them to CSV files. It either directly exports them or uses cron style scheduling for batch exports. For details consult the following HOWTO: http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/CertExpire PKCS #11 support for ECC smartcards ----------------------------------- - Support for ECDSA private and public key operations has been added to the pkcs11 plugin. The plugin now also provides DH and ECDH via PKCS#11 and can use tokens as random number generators (RNG). By default only private key operations are enabled, more advanced features have to be enabled through options in strongswan.conf. This also applies to public key operations (even for keys not stored on the token) which were enabled by default before. For details consult the following HOWTO: http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SmartCardsIKEv2 TCG TNC IF-MAP support ---------------------- - The tnc-ifmap plugin implements a TNC IF-MAP 2.0 client which can deliver metadata about IKE_SAs via a SOAP interface to a MAP server. The tnc-ifmap plugin requires the Apache Axis2/C library. - The strongSwan TNC MAP client can connect e.g. to the irond MAP Server from Fachhochschule Hannover and the metatdata can be visualized using the irongui client application. For details consult the following HOWTO: http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IfMap Remote Attestation using the TCG PTS Binding to the TNC IF-M protocol --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Remote attestation effected by the TCG Platform Trust Service (PTS) can be transferred via the TNC IF-M 1.0 protocol (RFC 5792 PA-TNC) to a strongSwan TNC server. Currently remote file measurements are supported with full TPM support expected for the 4.6.1 release. For details consult the following link: http://www.strongswan.org/uml/pts/ Best regards Andreas Steffen, Tobias Brunner, Martin Willi The strongSwan team ====================================================================== Andreas Steffen [email protected] strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution! www.strongswan.org Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland) ===========================================================[ITA-HSR]== _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users
