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1 fwknop-1.9.9 (11/13/2008):
2     - Added support to fwknop for the Linux 'any' interface which allows SPA
3       packets to be received on multiple interfaces on a Linux system.  This
4       is useful for running fwknop on a dual-homed Linux host, and then
5       accepting SPA packets on either the internal or external interface so
6       that SPA packets can influence the packet filter from either network.
7     - Added support for interfacing fwknop with third party software through
8       the addition of three new variables in the access.conf file (or set
9       globally in the fwknop.conf file): EXTERNAL_CMD_OPEN,
10       EXTERNAL_CMD_CLOSE, and EXTERNAL_CMD_ALARM.
11             The "open" and "close" commands might be manually supplied firewall
12       commands, and both support variable substitution of any of the variables
13       in the access.conf file with "$VAR".  Also, three special variables are
14       supported: $SRC, $PORT, and $PROTO, which are derived from actual values
15       from within valid SPA packets (as opposed to $SOURCE from access.conf
16       which may contain a list of networks instead of a single IP address).
17         Here are some examples:
18         - Execute a specific iptables command on behalf of the source IP
19           in a valid SPA packet to add a new ACCEPT rule, and execute another
20           command (to delete the same rule after a timeout):
21                 EXTERNAL_CMD_OPEN       iptables -A INPUT -s $SRC -j ACCEPT
22                 EXTERNAL_CMD_CLOSE      iptables -D INPUT -s $SRC -j ACCEPT
23         - Execute a custom binary with the SOURCE and OPEN_PORTS variables from
24           the access.conf file as input on the command line, and after a
25           timeout execute a different program but use the real SPA source IP:
26                 EXTERNAL_CMD_OPEN       /path/someprog $SOURCE $OPEN_PORTS
27                 EXTERNAL_CMD_OPEN       /path/otherprog $SRC
28     - Added IPT_CMD_ALARM to control the number of seconds that the
29       IPTables::ChainMgr module uses to wrap alarm() calls around iptables
30       commands (for IPTables::ChainMgr 0.8 and later, although this does not
31       interfere with earlier versions of the module).
32     - Added IPT_EXEC_STYLE to control the execution method used for iptables
33       commands in the IPTables::ChainMgr module.  The default is "waitpid",
34       but "system", and "popen" are also supported.
35     - Added IPT_EXEC_SLEEP to control the number of seconds that the
36       IPTables::ChainMgr module uses to delay between each iptables command.
37       The default is zero (no delay), but this can be increased to ensure that
38       iptables commands are issued at a slower pace.
39     - Added IPT_EXEC_TRIES to allow critical iptables commands to be tried
40       multiple times (with a default of 1) in case there are any errors from
41       iptables execution.
42     - Added --Override-config to fwknopd (suggested by Franck Joncourt) to
43       allow config variables in the normal /etc/fwknop/fwknop.conf file to be
44       superseded by values from other specified files.  The --Override-config
45       command line argument accepts a comma-separated list of multiple files
46       from which to import configuration variables from.
47     - Added code to prefer the usage of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary to send
48       email alerts before falling back to the mail binary (suggested by
49       Alexander Perlis).
50     - Added --Dump-config to fwknopd (suggested by Franck Joncourt).
51     - Added execution of --Dump-config to the test suite to collect the
52       installed version of the fwknop.conf and access.conf files (personal
53       information is anonymized).
54     - Updated fwknopd to use the POSIX sys_wait_h API for SIGCHLD handling in
55       order to be more consistent with an example from the perlipc man page.
56     - Updated fwknopd to pass in a reference to the SIGCHLD signal handler to
57       the IPTables::ChainMgr module so that all command executions via fork()
58       and exec() are associated with the same signal handler.
59     - Updated to IPTables::ChainMgr version 0.8.
60     - Updated to IPTables::Parse version 0.7.
61     - (Test suite): Added time stamps to MSG and TEST lines for each test
62       (useful to see the relative time if an alarm expires).
63     - (Test suite): Added tests for fwknopd --Override-config, --Dump-config,
64       and writing SPA packets to disk with the --Save-packet functionality (in
65       the fwknop client).
66     - (Test suite): Added tests for IPT_EXEC_SLEEP delays for executing
67       iptables commands.
68     - (Test suite): Added tests for Linux 'any' interface capture of SPA
69       packets on all interfaces.
70     - (Test suite): Added the ability to collect output from knoptm to see
71       when requests are received from fwknopd and when rules are added and
72       removed.
73     - Added version information for fwknopd to syslog startup message.
74     - Bug fix for the fwknop client in symmetric key mode where the terminal
75       would not be taken out of 'noecho' mode if a password less than 8
76       characters long is provided.  Previous to this fix, it was necessary to
77       blindly type 'reset'.  (Reported by Alexander Perlis.)
78
79 fwknop-1.9.8 (09/30/2008):
80     - Added GPG_NO_REQUIRE_PREFIX to access.conf to control whether the GnuPG
81       'hQ' prefix is added before base64 decoding and decrypting.  Normally
82       this is not needed, but if there appear to be communications issues
83       between the fwknop client and the fwknopd server then this option can be
84       useful to ensure that encrypted SPA data is sent through the GnuPG
85       decryption routine.  The 'hQ' prefix is a heuristic derived from the
86       file 'magic' database for describing data encrypted with GnuPG, and the
87       fwknop client normally strips this data from outgoing SPA packets
88       (unless the --Include-gpg-prefix option is used).
89     - Added 'GPG_PATH <path>' to fwknopd (via access.conf) so that different
90       paths to the gpg binary can be specified on a per-SOURCE basis.  This
91       allows one SOURCE stanza to apply one gpg binary to decrypt incoming SPA
92       packets (say /usr/bin/gpg), and another SOURCE stanza to apply to another
93       gpg binary (say /usr/bin/gpg2).  In this way, fwknop/fwknopd now
94       supports gpg2 in addition to gpg.
95     - Bugfix to make sure that neither fwknop nor fwknopd reference any
96       options file in GnuPG mode, and this is now the default (which overrides
97       the now unnecessary --gpg-no-options arg).  There is a new option
98       --gpg-use-options and GPG_USE_OPTIONS to restore the usage of an options
99       file by GnuPG by fwknop and fwknopd (not normally needed).
100     - Added '--gpg-prefix <bytes>' to the fwknop client so that the
101       predictable prefix for GnuPG encrypted data can be changed.  Normally
102       this prefix is 'hQ' (base64 encoded), or the raw bytes 0x8502.
103     - Added the ability to control the path used for the gpg binary on the
104       client side with a new argument '--gpg-path <path>', and on the server
105       side with gpgCmd in the fwknop.conf file.  The GnuPG::Interface module
106       normally just takes the first instance of gpg that is the current path,
107       but this new feature allows the path to the binary to be explicitly set.
108     - Added --Save-packet-append to allow SPA packets to be appended to the
109       --Save-packet-file in --Save-packet mode.  This allows multiple SPA
110       packets to more easily be stored for closer examination (i.e. to make
111       sure randomness is high or to test encryption properties over large
112       sets of SPA packets).
113     - Updated fwknopd to enforce the DIGEST_TYPE variable more strictly by not
114       accepting SPA packets that do not include digest of the specified type.
115       The DIGEST_TYPE default is 'ALL', so normally fwknopd accepts any
116       supported digest.
117     - Bugfix to make sure to apply BLACKLIST checks to IP addresses specified
118       with -a (or derived via -R) in addition to the source IP in the IP
119       header (which can be modified via --Spoof-src).  (Franck Joncourt
120       submitted a patch for this.)
121     - Bugfix to ensure that the permissions for the
122       /var/run/fwknop/knopwatchd.pid file are set to 0600 (noticed by Franck
123       Joncourt).
124     - Bugfix to remove the Net::IPv4Addr dependency in the fwknop client and
125       knoptm daemon (Franck Joncourt).
126     - (Test suite) Added the base64_byte_frequency.pl script to the test/
127       directory.  This script parses files that contain base64 encoded data
128       (one record per line), and produces data files that can be graphed with
129       Gnuplot in order to visualize SPA packets.  The new --Save-packet-append
130       argument makes it easy to generate large collections of SPA packets with
131       the fwknop client, and this data can then be parsed by
132       base64_byte_frequency.pl to look for features that are common across SPA
133       packets (this should be minimized because every fwknop SPA packet contains
134       16 bytes of random data).  Some analysis of randomness in SPA packets
135       generated by fwknop is presented in this blog post:
136
137       http://www.cipherdyne.org/blog/2008/09/visualizing-spa-packet-randomness.html
138
139     - (Test suite) Added tests for GPG_NO_REQUIRE_PREFIX functionality and for
140       the expected GnuPG prefix.
141     - (Test suite) Added tests for GnuPG version 2 (a check is made to see if
142       it is installed before these tests are run).
143
144 fwknop-1.9.7 (08/24/2008):
145     - Mirek Trmac from Red Hat contributed several patches so that fwknop can
146       be bundled within the Fedora Linux distribution.  These patches
147       implemented the following changes:
148
149         Updates to fwknopd to remove the NetPacket module as a dependency
150       (this is a particularly important update since it assists with getting
151       fwknop bundled with Debian as well).  The patch manually decodes the
152       network and transport layer headers.
153         A patch to make the fwknop init script not start fwknopd by default
154       on Red Hat systems.  This patch also supports Fedora init script
155       conventions better (i.e. fwknop instead of the fwknopd name for the lock
156       file in /var/lock/subsys).
157         Updated the fwknop Makefile to respect the OPTS variable which is used
158       in the RPM spec file.
159         Bugfix in fwknop_serv to support the variable expansion code from
160       fwknopd.  This was important for the TCPSERV_PID_FILE file which is
161       defined as $FWKNOP_RUN_DIR/fwknop_serv.pid.
162         Updated fwknopd to use the Net::Pcap API valid in Net::Pcap-0.14 for
163       the datalink() function (used to detect the datalink layer type).
164
165     - Updated fwknop, fwknopd, and knoptm to import perl modules out of the
166       /usr/lib/fwknop/ directory if it exists.  This allows the perl module
167       path to be manipulated via the --Lib-dir command line argument and
168       'require' statements instead of the old 'use module' strategy.
169     - Added module version output for each non-core perl module used by fwknop
170       and fwknopd in --debug mode.  This is mostly useful for the test suite
171       to see which versions of the modules are being used.
172     - Added the ability to ignore any local GnuPG 'options' file with a new
173       command line argument --gpg-no-options (for the fwknop client) and a new
174       access.conf config variable GPG_NO_OPTIONS (for the fwknopd daemon).
175       This fixes a problem reported by Mike Holzmann where the 'encrypt-to'
176       option in the default options file was causing SPA packets to exceed
177       1500 bytes when encrypted with a 2048-bit GnuPG key.  Also added the
178       MAX_SNIFF_BYTES to the fwknop.conf file and --Max-packet-size to the
179       fwknop command line to alter the default of 1500 bytes if needed (but
180       this shouldn't really be necessary).
181     - Bugfix for 'Premature end of base64 data' and 'Premature padding of
182       base64 data' warning messages from MIME::Base64 errors.  Now fwknopd
183       applies more rigorous checks for base64 encoded characters, and either
184       of these two messages above will result in the packet data being
185       discarded before it is sent through any decryption function.  Mike
186       Holzmann reported this issue.
187     - (Test suite) Added --test-system-fwknop to allow any installed version
188       of fwknop to be installed instead of the scripts bundled within the
189       local source distribution.
190
191 fwknop-1.9.6 (07/18/2008):
192     - SPA packets are base64-encoded by the fwknop client, and this encoding
193       pads data with '=' chars until the total length of the encoded data is a
194       multiple of four.  This characteristic can be used within a Snort rule
195       to assist in the detection of SPA communications.  The 1.9.6 release of
196       fwknop strips out these padding characters before the client sends an
197       SPA packet, and the fwknopd server adds them back in (to form a multiple
198       of four) before base64 decoding the packet data.  This reduces the level
199       of identifying information in SPA packets and therefore makes it more
200       difficult to detect the usage of SPA for service access.  For reference,
201       a Snort rule that would detect SPA packets via the trailing '=' chars
202       (previous to this release) would be:
203
204         alert udp any any -> any 62201 (msg:"fwknop SPA traffic"; \
205         dsize:>150; pcre:"/==$/"; sid:20080001; rev:1;)
206
207     - According to the 'file' command (via it's 'magic') database, files that
208       are encrypted with GnuPG begin with 0x8502, and this is true for SPA
209       packets generated by fwknop (previous to this release).  In
210       fwknop-1.9.6, the "hQ" prefix is removed by the fwknop client and added
211       back in by the fwknopd server if it doesn't exist.  This measure is
212       another effort to make SPA packets more difficult to detect on the wire,
213       such as with the following Snort rule:
214
215         alert udp any any -> any 62201 (msg:"fwknop GnuPG encrypted SPA
216         traffic"; content:"hQ"; depth:2; dsize:>1000; sid:20080003; rev:1;)
217
218     - Updated the fwknop client to randomize the UDP source port for default
219       SPA packet generation.  There is also a new command line argument
220       --Source-port <port> to allow the user to manually set the source port
221       on the fwknop client command line.  A lot more attention is given now to
222       source ports after the Dan Kaminsky DNS caching exploit, and it turns
223       out that even on Linux that the kernel did not randomize UDP source
224       ports until the 2.6.24 kernel.  Of course, any userspace process is free
225       to request a random port itself, but if a userspace application did not
226       build this in then it would be up to the kernel to assign a source port.
227       In the case of Linux, here are two links that show the change to the
228       kernel code as well as the ChangeLog entry for UDP source port
229       randomization:
230
231         http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;\
232         a=commit;h=32c1da70810017a98aa6c431a5494a302b6b9a30
233         http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24
234
235     - (Test suite): Added the ability to explicitly run major classes of tests
236       with two new command line arguments to the fwknop_test.pl script:
237       --test-include <test>, and --test-exclude <test>.  In each case the
238       <test> string is used as a sub-string match against the main identifying
239       string for the name of the test.  For example, to run all tests for
240       replay attacks, use "--test-include Replay", and for all port
241       randomization tests use "--test-include random".  To see all possible
242       classes of tests, run the test suite without any command line arguments
243       and examine the test.log file.
244     - (Test suite): Added tests for the legacy shared and encrypted port
245       knocking modes.
246     - (Legacy port knocking mode): Updated to not require iptables log
247       messages to be written to the fwknopfifo named pipe and just parse the
248       /var/log/messages file directly by default.  This can be configured via
249       two new variables ENABLE_SYSLOG_FILE and IPT_SYSLOG_FILE (similarly to
250       the psad project).  In support of this feature, install.pl now does not
251       create the fwknopfifo or reconfigure the syslog daemon unless the
252       --install-syslog-fifo argument is used, and the knopmd does not have to
253       run.
254     - (Legacy port knocking mode): Added the ability to re-open the
255       /var/log/messages file if it is rotated by an external program such as
256       logrotate.
257     - (Test suite): Bugfix to use --fw-type argument on fwknopd command line.
258       This fixes various tests on Mac OS X and FreeBSD systems running ipfw.
259     - Minor bugfix to require a space character after variable names when
260       parsing the fwknop.conf file via knopmd and knopwatchd (implemented in
261       fwknop_funcs.c)
262
263 fwknop-1.9.5 (06/08/2008):
264     - Updated to Class::MethodMaker 2.11 from CPAN.  This helps with systems
265       running perl-5.10.0 and greater (such as Fedora 9).
266     - Added the LOCALE variable to fwknop.conf and made the "C" locale set by
267       default so that gpg process output would always be correctly
268       interpreted.
269     - Updated to Net::RawIP 0.23 from 0.21_03 and removed List::MoreUtils
270       since Net::RawIP no longer requires it
271     - Updated to Crypt::Rijndael 1.06 from 1.04.
272     - Updated to Crypt::CBC 2.29 from 2.19.
273     - Updated to GnuPG::Interface 0.36 from 0.34.
274     - Removed legacy knopmd.conf file since knopmd uses the fwknop.conf file
275       instead.  Also, note that knopmd only runs in the legacy port knocking
276       mode to collect iptables log information from syslog.  The default
277       authentication/authorization method used by fwknop is SPA which exhibits
278       far better security properties than port knocking (see
279       http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/docs/SPA.html).
280
281 fwknop-1.9.4 (06/01/2008):
282     - Added two new port randomization options.  The first instructs the
283       fwknop client to select a random port between 10,000 and 65,535 as the
284       destination port over which to send an SPA packet.  This feature is
285       enabled with a new command line argument "--rand-port" like so:
286
287       $ fwknop -A tcp/22 --rand-port -R -D 11.1.1.1
288
289       On the fwknopd server side, the default PCAP_FILTER setting of "udp port
290       62201" should be changed to "udp dst portrange 10000-65535" so that
291       fwknopd can sniff SPA packets that are sent over randomized destination
292       ports.  Randomizing the destination port makes it more difficult to
293       write IDS signatures to detect fwknop SPA communications.
294
295       The second port randomization technique uses a new SPA message type to
296       tell the fwknopd daemon to create a NAT rule for access to a local
297       socket via the iptables INPUT chain.  This allows an SSH client to meet
298       the local SSHD daemon running on the fwknopd server system by SSH'ing to
299       the random port.  This functionality is implemented via two new command
300       line arguments on the fwknop client command line: "--NAT-rand-port" to
301       instruct fwknop to select a random port over which the follow-on
302       connection will be made), and "--NAT-local" (to instruct the fwknopd
303       server that new firewall rules should NAT an incoming connection to the
304       randomly selected port).  Here is an example:
305
306       $ fwknop -A tcp/22 --NAT-rand-port --NAT-local -R -D 11.1.1.1
307
308       Now the fwknop client will select a random port to NAT the incoming
309       connection.  So say it selects port 31001 (as indicated by the output of
310       fwknop on the command line as displayed below) - then you would SSH to
311       this port to access the real SSH daemon on the system where fwknopd is
312       running:
313
314       [+] Sending 206 byte message to 127.0.0.1 over udp/46245...
315       Requesting NAT access to tcp/22 on 127.0.0.1 via port 31001
316
317       $ ssh -p 31001 <user>@11.1.1.1
318
319       Note that in this case it is not necessary to use --NAT-access since the
320       fwknopd daemon knows that access is requested to a local service (so an
321       internal IP address does not have to be specified).
322
323     - Added the ability to specify the port that SPA packets are sent over
324       with the fwknop client by using the syntax "<host|IP>:<port>".  So, for
325       example, to have the client send an SPA packet to 11.1.1.1 over UDP port
326       12345 (instead of the default of 62201), one could use the following
327       command:
328
329       $ fwknop -A tcp/22 -R -D 11.1.1.1:12345
330
331     - Bugfix to add a check for "keep-state" in ipfw policies in addition to
332       the existing "check-state" check (noticed by Sebastien Jeanquier).
333     - Updated the install.pl script to try to determine the OS type as early
334       as possible during the install process.
335     - Added the MIN_SPA_PKT_LEN variable with 150 (bytes) as the default.
336       This allows fwknopd to ignore packets that are not at least this many
337       bytes (including packet headers) before any decryption attempt is made.
338     - Added --time-offset-plus and --time-offset-minus args to the fwknop
339       client command line.  This allows the time stamp within an SPA packet to
340       be influenced without setting the system clock (which normal users
341       cannot usually do).  This is useful for when the client and server
342       systems have clocks that are out of sync.
343     - Bugfix on Ubuntu systems to make sure that the fwknop init script is
344       installed with a priority of 99 instead of 20 - this puts fwknop as late
345       as possible within the boot sequence so that the system is ready to run
346       fwknop.
347     - Bugfix to not open ports that are not specifically requested in an SPA
348       packet even if those ports are listed in the OPEN_PORTS variable in the
349       access.conf file.
350     - Updated to version 5.47 of the Digest::SHA module.
351     - Updated to version 0.7 of the IPTables::ChainMgr module (includes
352       perldoc documentation).
353     - Updated to version 0.6 of the IPTables::Parse module (includes perldoc
354       documentation).
355     - Added NAT, port randomization, and and time offset option discussions to
356       fwknop(8) man page.
357
358 fwknop-1.9.3 (04/05/2008):
359     - Added MASQUERADE and SNAT support to complement inbound DNAT connections
360       for SPA packets that request --Forward-access to internal systems.  This
361       functionality is only enabled when both ENABLE_IPT_FORWARDING and
362       ENABLE_IPT_SNAT are set, and is configured by two new variables
363       IPT_MASQUERADE_ACCESS and IPT_SNAT_ACCESS which define the iptables
364       interface to creating SNAT rules.  The SNAT supplements of DNAT rules
365       are not usually necessary because internal systems usually have a route
366       back out to the Internet, but this feature accommodates those systems
367       that do not have such a route.  By default, the MASQUERADE target is
368       used if ENABLE_IPT_SNAT is enabled because this means that the external
369       IP does not have to be manually defined.  However, the external IP can
370       be defined by the SNAT_TRANSLATE_IP variable.
371     - Added hex_dump() feature for fwknop client so that raw encrypted SPA
372       packet data can be displayed in --verbose mode.
373     - When ENABLE_IPT_FORWARDING is set, added a check for the value of the
374       /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward file to ensure that the local system
375       allows packets to be forwarded.  Unless ENABLE_PROC_IP_FORWARD is
376       disabled, then fwknopd will automatically set the ip_forward file to "1"
377       if it is set to "0" (again, only if ENABLE_IPT_FORWARDING is enabled).
378     - Minor bugfix to remove sys_log() call in legacy port knocking mode.
379     - Minor bugfix to expand both the Id and Revision tags via the
380       svn:keywords directive.
381
382 fwknop-1.9.2 (03/12/2008):
383     - Crypt::CBC adds the string "Salted__" to the beginning of the encrypted
384       text (at least for how fwknop interfaces with Crypt::CBC), so the fwknop
385       client was updated to delete the encoded version of this string
386       "U2FsdGVkX1" before sending a Rijndael-encrypted SPA packet on the wire.
387       The fwknopd server will add this string back in before decrypting.  This
388       makes it harder to write an IDS signature that looks for fwknop traffic;
389       e.g. look for the default prefix string "U2FsdGVkX1" over UDP port 62201,
390       which would work for fwknop clients < 1.9.2 (as long as the port number
391       is not changed with --Server-port).
392     - Added more granular source IP and allowed IP tests so that access to
393       particular internal IP addresses can be excluded in --Forward-access
394       mode.  A new keyword "INTERNAL_NET_ACCESS" is now parsed from the
395       access.conf file in order to implemented these restrictions.
396     - (SPAPICT Group) Added BLACKLIST functionality to allow source IP
397       addresses to easily be excluded from the authentication process.
398     - (Grant Ferley) Submitted patch to handle SIGCHLD in IPTables::ChainMgr.
399     - (Grant Ferley) Submitted patch to handle Linux "cooked" interfaces for
400       packet capture (e.g. PPPoE interfaces).
401     - (SPAPICT Group) Applied modified version of the client-defined access
402       timeout patches submitted by the PICT SPA Group.  There are two new
403       message types to facilitate client timeouts; one for normal access mode,
404       and the other for the FORWARD access mode.  In the access.conf file,
405       there is also a new variable "PERMIT_CLIENT_TIMEOUT" to allow each
406       SOURCE stanza to allow client-defined timeouts or not.
407     - (SPAPICT Group) Submitted patches to include support for the SHA1 digest
408       algorithm for SPA packet replay attack detection.  I modified these
409       patches for maximum configurability (see the --digest-alg argument on
410       the fwknop command line), and the ability to use the SHA256 algorithm as
411       well.  The default path to the /var/log/fwknop/md5sums file has been
412       changed to /var/log/fwknop/digest.cache, and the default digest
413       algorithm is now SHA256 (but this is tunable via the DIGEST_TYPE
414       variable in the fwknop.conf file).
415     - Added the Digest::SHA perl module in support of the SHA1 and SHA256
416       digest algorithms for replay attack detection and SPA message integrity.
417     - Added full packet hex dumps (including packet headers) to fwknopd in
418       --debug --verbose mode.  This is to help diagnose packet sniffing issues
419       over the loopback interface on Mac OS X (first reported by Sebastien
420       Jeanquier).
421     - (Test suite) Bugfix to ensure that the FWKNOP_DIR variable is set to the
422       local output/ directory in several of the test config files in the
423       test/conf/ directory.
424     - (Test suite) Added several tests for configurable digest algorithms in
425       support for the SHA256, SHA1, and MD5 digest changes made by the SPAPICT
426       Group.
427     - Updated the fwknop client to always call encode_base64() with the string
428       to encode along with a second null-string argument to force all encoded
429       data to not include line breaks.
430     - Bugfix in install.pl to not test for the iptable command on non-Linux
431       systems, and to not test for the ipfw command on systems that are Linux.
432     - (Test suite) Updated to include the /proc/config.gz file so that the
433       kernel config can be reviewed (not all Netfilter hooks are necessarily
434       compiled in).
435
436 fwknop-1.9.1 (01/26/2008):
437     - Added ENABLE_OUTPUT_ACCESS keyword to access.conf file parsing. This
438       provides a similar configuration gate for the iptables OUTPUT chain to
439       the ENABLE_FORWARD_ACCESS keyword, and adds the abiliy to control which
440       access.conf SOURCE blocks interface to the OUTPUT chain.
441     - Better installation support for various Linux distributions including
442       Fedora 8 and Ubuntu.  The current runlevel is now acquired via the
443       "runlevel" command instead of attempting to read /etc/inittab (which
444       does not even exist on Ubuntu 7.10), and there are new command line
445       arguments --init-dir, --init-name, and --runlevel to allow the init
446       directory, init script name, and the runlevel to be manually specified
447       on the install.pl command line.
448     - Added command line argument display to fwknop client --verbose mode.
449     - Updated the test suite to include OUTPUT chain tests, reference
450       access.conf files in the test/conf/ directory, and perform SPA packet
451       format validation tests by parsing fwknopd output.
452     - Updated fwknopd to use always use the -c argument on the knoptm command
453       line (this makes sure that the test suite usage of fwknopd causes knoptm
454       to reference the correct configuration).
455     - Updated IPTables::ChainMgr to print iptables command output to stdout or
456       stderr if running in debug or verbose mode.
457     - Added --Exclude-mod-regex to install.pl so that the installation of
458       particular perl modules that match the supplied regex can be skipped.
459     - Added SIGALRM wrapper to the test suite since some libpcap and system
460       combinations break the ability of fwknopd to sniff packets.
461     - Added srand() call to the fwknop client (this is useful for older
462       versions of perl which do not automatically call srand() at the first
463       rand() call if srand() was not already called).
464     - Added a test to the test suite for sniffing packets over the loopback
465       interface.
466     - Added SPA packet aging test to the test suite to ensure that packet
467       expirations work properly (this feature protects against MITM attacks
468       where a valid SPA packet is stopped by an inline attacker and
469       retransmitted at a later time to acquire access).
470     - Added a file (test.log) to collect test suite console output.
471     - Added --Prepare-results argument to test suite to anonymize test results
472       and create a tarball that can be emailed to a third party to assist in
473     - Added full firewall policy dumps and the collection of system specifics
474       to the test suite. This makes it easy to send the output directory and
475       the test.log file to developers to assist in debugging (no information
476       is sent anywhere except as part of a manual process of course, and
477       addresses can be anonymized with --Prepare-results - loopback addresses
478       are not modified).
479     - Added --fw-del-ip <IP> argument to fwknopd so that a specific IP address
480       can be removed from the local firewall policy (this is used by the test
481       suite to ensure that if a test for removed firewall rules fails then
482       subsequent tests will not also fail because they are no longer tracked
483       by a running knoptm instance).
484     - Added a test to the test suite to collect fwknopd syslog output.  This
485       is useful to see if a mechanism such as SELinux is deployed in a manner
486       that prevents normal fwknop communications.
487     - Bugfix to track MD5 digest for SPA command mode packets.
488     - Bugfix in fwknopd to not open ports listed in OPEN_PORTS in the absence
489       of the PERMIT_CLIENT_PORTS directive when an SPA packet contains a
490       request for access to a port not listed in OPEN_PORTS.
491       debugging fwknop if there are any issues.
492     - Added --verbose flag to fwknopd commands issued by the test suite so
493       that more data is collected for debugging analysis.
494     - Added GnuPG tests to the test suite with dedicated keys (for use only
495       with the test suite) in the test/conf/client-gpg and
496       test/conf/server-gpg directories.
497     - Added digest file validation to test suite to make sure that fwknopd
498       correctly tracks SPA packet MD5 digests.
499     - Updated to search state tracking rule in any iptables chain (many
500       iptables policies have user-defined chains that can be a bit complicated
501       to parse).
502     - Updated install.pl to be more strict in stopping any running fwknopd
503       processes.
504
505 fwknop-1.9.0 (12/15/2007):
506     - Added a test suite so that fwknop and fwknopd functionality can be
507       automatically tested over the loopback interface (see the fwknop_test.pl
508       script in the test/ directory).
509     - Major update to allow SPA packets to create DNAT connections to internal
510       systems through the FORWARD chain (iptables only).  This is useful to
511       connect through to internal systems (that may be running on non-routable
512       IP addresses) via a border firewall or router that is running fwknopd to
513       create inbound DNAT rules.
514     - Added support for the iptables OUTPUT chain via two new variable in the
515       fwknop.conf file: ENABLE_IPT_OUTPUT and IPT_OUTPUT_ACCESS. This is
516       useful for iptables firewalls that are not running the conntrack modules
517       and that have a restrictive OUTPUT chain (so SYN/ACK responses are not
518       allowed out without an explicit ACCEPT rule).
519     - Added the ability to force the fwknopd and knoptm daemons to restart
520       themselves (via knopwatchd) after a configurable timeout (see the
521       ENABLE_VOLUNTARY_EXITS and EXIT_INTERVAL variables in the
522       /etc/fwknop/fwknop.conf file). This feature is for those that want
523       fwknopd to go through its initialization routine periodically just in
524       case there is a logic (or other) bug that might result in fwknopd not
525       accepting a valid SPA packet. NOTE: This feature is disabled by default,
526       and is not normally needed since fwknopd is quite stable in most
527       deployments.
528     - Major update to perform all firewall rule expirations with knoptm, which
529       is now started in all data collection modes.  Older versions of fwknopd
530       maintained its own firewall rule expiration code for the FILE_PCAP,
531       ULOG_PCAP, and KNOCK modes, so two mechanisms were being maintained for
532       the same purpose.  The 1.9.0 release fixes this oversight.
533     - Minor bugfix to have knopwatchd generate syslog messages whenever an
534       fwknop daemon needs to be restarted.
535     - Added --interface command line argument to install.pl to allow the
536       sniffing interface to be specified from the command line. Also updated
537       install.pl to enforce a 10-try maximum for attempting to accept a valid
538       interface name from the command line (LANG env issues can exist
539       sometimes).
540     - Updated SPA packet format for server_auth and forward_info elements;
541       the internal MD5 sum is now always the last field in an SPA packet. This
542       makes extensions of the SPA protocol much easier, and the generation of
543       SPA packets more elegant. Also, SPA packet validation has been improved
544       to ensure that fields that are supposed to be digits really only contain
545       integer data.
546     - Added ENABLE_FORWARD_ACCESS variable to the access.conf file, and added
547       ENABLE_IPT_FORWARDING to the fwknop.conf file. These variables provide
548       the per-SOURCE ability to create DNAT connnections through the FORWARD
549       chain..
550     - Replaced the IPT_AUTO_CHAIN1 variable with IPT_INPUT_ACCESS and
551       IPT_FORWARD_ACCESS in fwknop.conf.
552     - Added --Forward-access argument to the fwknop client.
553     - Added client version number to syslog messages generated by fwknopd when
554       a valid SPA packet is received.
555     - Added human readable timestamp to MD5 cache. Here is an example of the
556       update format:
557         127.0.0.1 X6WF2C29kEgAv4aDJ8TDeQ [Wed Nov 28 09:24:46 2007]
558     - Added --Count argument to fwknopd so that it calls exit() when the
559       specified number of packets is monitored.
560     - Added --no-logs argument to knoptm in support of the test suite so that
561       no emails are generated.
562     - Bugfix in fwknopd to account for non-Ethernet link layer header over
563       *BSD loopback interfaces.
564     - Added --Save-dst argument to the fwknop client to add a priority file to
565       store client command line arguments (~/.fwknop.save). This file is only
566       overwritten when --Save-dst is used.
567     - Added fwknopd --fw-del-chains to allow the fwknopd iptables chains to
568       easily be deleted.
569     - Minor fwknopd bugfix to set process exit status to 0 when --Kill is
570       used.
571
572 fwknop-1.8.3 (11/17/2007):
573     - Updated external IP resolution to point to http://www.whatismyip.org,
574       and added http://www.cipherdyne.org/cgi/clientip.cgi as a backup site
575       for fwknop IP resolution.
576     - Added storage of source IP along with SPA MD5 sum. This allows the user
577       to infer which networks are more hostile if an SPA packet is replayed.
578     - Added SPA packet hex dumps in 'fwknopd --debug' mode so that the
579       integration of third-party encryption algorithms is easier to
580       troubleshoot. Sean Greven contributed a patch for this.
581     - Reinstated the legacy port knocking mode. It appears that all encrypted
582       output from the updated Crypt::Rijndael module is at least 32 bytes
583       long, so port knocking sequences are now 32 bytes long as well (they
584       were previously 16 bytes long in old versions of fwknop).
585     - Bugfix to ensure the key length is at least 8 chars in --get-key mode.
586     - Minor update to remove init message on OS X install.
587     - Updated install.pl to set the LANG environmental variable to
588       "en_US.UTF-8". This should fix the problem where the output of ifconfig
589       was not interpreted correctly if the locale LANG setting is not English.
590     - Implemented verbose email alerting by setting the ALERTING_METHODS
591       variable to "verbose". This instructs fwknopd to generate a new email
592       message for each message that it normally logs vis syslog (this feature
593       is not the default, and must be manually enabled).
594
595 fwknop-1.8.2 (09/15/2007):
596     - Added fwknopd server support for Mac OS X. The Darwin uname return
597       string is detected and this enables Darwin-specific installation code in
598       install.pl.
599     - Updated to not print sensitive key/password information in --debug mode
600       with fwknopd.
601     - Bugfix for install.pl on Windows 2003 Server running under Cygwin where
602       'uname -o' output is reported 'Gygwin' for some reason.
603     - Added --Cygwin-install command line argument to install.pl to force
604       client-only fwknop install on Cygwin systems.
605     - Added --OS-type command line argument to install.pl to allow the user to
606       force the installation type.
607     - Updated to version 1.04 of Crypt::Rijndael. This fixes incompatibilities
608       between SPA packets between 64-bit and 32-bit platorms.
609     - Bugfix to enforce a maximum of 20 tries to read a password from stdin.
610     - Applied TCP options parsing fix from psad for invalid zero or one length
611       fields that break TLV encoding (this is for fwknopd, and only applies to
612       the legacy port knocking mode).
613     - Added code to fwknopd to check to see if there are any state tracking
614       rules in place within the local iptables or ipfw policy.
615     - Made syslog identity, facility, and priority configurable (applied code
616       from the psad project).
617     - Implemented --fw-list for ipfw firewalls.
618     - Bugfix for knoptm removing ipfw rules too quickly after not timing out
619       previously instantiated rules properly.
620     - Implemented smarter cache removal strategy in knoptm so that rules that
621       are manually removed from the running iptables or ipfw policy are also
622       removed from the cache.
623     - Added /var/log/fwknop/errs/fwknopd.{warn,die} tracking to the fwknopd
624       daemon for the PCAP modes of collecting packet data. Added
625       knoptm{warn,die} files for knoptm as well.
626     - Bugfix to import the GnuPG::Interface module in --get-key mode.
627     - Bugfix to send source IP as a part of the command message in command
628       mode so that REQUIRE_SOURCE_ADDRESS controls can be applied.
629     - Added --Test-mode to fwknop client so that SPA packets can be built but
630       never sent over the network.
631
632 fwknop-1.8.1 (06/06/2007):
633     - Bugfix to ensure that the "keep-state" directive is added to firewall
634       rules on systems running the ipfw firewall.
635     - Added the --Save-packet and --Save-packet-file command line arguments
636       to the fwknop client. These options instruct fwknop to save a copy of
637       an encrypted SPA packet before it is sent across the network.
638     - Bugfix to find minimal unused ipfw rule number for ipfw firewalls. This
639       fixes an issue where ipfw rules added by fwknopd could be inserted at
640       the same position as rules from an existing ipfw policy. While ipfw
641       allows duplicate rules, whenever such a rule is deleted by its rule
642       number all matching rules are deleted.
643
644 fwknop-1.8 (06/03/2007):
645     - Added support for ipfw firewalls (found on *BSD systems).  The
646       IPTables::Parse and IPTables::ChainMgr modules are not installed on
647       such systems.
648     - Added gpg-agent support for both the fwknop client and fwknopd SPA
649       server.
650     - Updated client-only installation mode to restrict perl module
651       installation to those module that are actually required by the fwknop
652       client. This results in clean installs of the fwknop client on Windows
653       systems running Cygwin.
654     - Added --Defaults to install.pl so that fwknop can be installed without
655       prompting the user to answer any questions. This is to make it easier
656       to install fwknop on the Source Mage Linux distro.
657     - Consolidated daemon config files into the fwknop.conf file (except for
658       the access.conf file). This simplifies the configuration of fwknop.
659     - Added recursive variable resolution in the parsing routines for the
660       fwknop.conf file. This allows variable values to contain embedded
661       variables.
662     - Added init script for FreeBSD systems.
663     - Added --BSD-install command line argument to install.pl. This is not
664       normally necessary since the installer should detect installations on
665       *BSD systems, but this option can force this behavior.
666     - Updated knopmd and knopwatchd to use safe_malloc() instead of malloc().
667     - Bugfix to never time out rules from SOURCE blocks with FW_ACCESS_TIMEOUT
668       set to zero
669
670 fwknop-1.0.1 (01/09/2007):
671     - Updated fwknopd to allow the GPG_REMOTE_ID variable to have the value
672       "ANY" to allow a SOURCE block to match on arbitrary remote gpg signing
673       keys (Leland Weathers).
674     - Bugfix to allow OPEN_PORTS to be omitted in access.conf in favor of
675       having only PERMIT_CLIENT_PORTS enabled (reported by Raul Siles).
676     - Added the cd_rpmbuilder script to make it easy to build RPM's out of
677       CipherDyne projects by automatically downloading the project .tar.gz and
678       .spec files from http://www.cipherdyne.org/.
679
680 fwknop-1.0 (11/05/2006):
681     - Bugfix for OpenSSH-4.3p2 patch to make sure to include the spa.h header
682       file.
683     - Bugfix for access hashes accumluating when multiple ports are requested
684       to be opened by a client.
685     - Better validation of IPT_AUTO_CHAIN variable so that the from_chain
686       cannot be identical to the to_chain.
687     - Bugfix in RPM to install List::MoreUtils.
688     - Bugfix so that the MD5 sum for an SPA packet is not examined for each
689       SOURCE block.  This fixes a problem where an SPA packet could appear to
690       be replayed if multiple SOURCE blocks are defined in
691       /etc/fwknop/access.conf.
692     - Refactored main SPA access loop so that it is clearer how and when SPA
693       clients are granted access.
694     - Better handling of GnuPG key identifier strings (they can now contain
695       spaces, and syslog messages wrap the identifiers with double quotes).
696     - Added source IP address to command string in the SPA packet so that
697       the REQUIRE_SOURCE_ADDRESS criteria can be applied by the fwknopd
698       server.
699     - Added --Show-last-cmd and --Show-host-cmd args to fwknop so that the
700       last fwknop command and the last fwknop host commands can be viewed.
701     - Added the svn revision number to --Version and --help output.
702
703 fwknop-0.9.9 (10/15/2006):
704     - Added REQUIRE_SOURCE_ADDRESS (disabled by default) to force fwknop
705       clients to know their source IP address (i.e. -s cannot be used).  So,
706       either fwknop clients have to use -R to resolve their externally
707       routable address, or they must just know what it is.
708     - Updated to Net-RawIP-0.21_03 for compatibility with gcc-4.x compilers.
709     - Added List-MoreUtils-0.22 which is a dependency of the new Net::RawIP
710       module.
711     - Bugfix to restore "start" functionality in Gentoo init script.
712     - Bugfix to use the IPT_OUTPUT_FILE and IPT_ERROR_FILE configuration
713       variables in fwknopd.
714     - Added KNOPTM_IPT_OUTPUT_FILE and KNOPTM_IPT_ERROR_FILE variables
715       specifically for the knoptm daemon so that it can use IPTables::ChainMgr
716       completely independently of fwknopd (this removes a potential race
717       condition between fwknopd and knoptm).
718
719 fwknop-0.9.8 (09/17/2006):
720     - Added the ability to ignore old SPA packets through use of the
721       client-side time stamp.  This means that an attacker cannot intercept an
722       SPA packet, prevent it from being forwarded to its intended destination,
723       and then put the packet on the wire at some time outside of the allowed
724       time window.  There are two new configuration options in fwknop.conf
725       "ENABLE_SPA_PACKET_AGING" and "MAX_SPA_PACKET_AGE" that control the
726       length of the acceptable time window (2 minutes by default).  This
727       requires some level of synchronization between the fwknop client and the
728       fwknopd server, but this is not onerous through the use of NTP.  This
729       feature is enabled by default, and the idea for it was contributed by
730       Sebastien J.
731     - Completely re-worked IPTables::ChainMgr to support the return of
732       iptables error messages that are collected via stderr.  This is critical
733       to fixing any bugs where fwknopd could die as a result of a poorly
734       crafted iptables command.
735       but no information would be returned to the user.
736     - Added the ability to specify the position for both the jump rule into
737       the fwknopd chains as well as the position for new rules within the
738       fwknopd chains via the -I argument to iptables.  This fixes a bug where
739       the user was given the impression that the IPTABLES_AUTO_RULENUM would
740       accomplish this (IPTABLES_AUTO_RULENUM has been removed).
741     - Updated fwknopd to require < 1500 byte payload length before attempting
742       to decrypt.  Also, GnuPG decrypts are not attempted unless the encrypted
743       payload is at least 400 bytes long (this is conservative since even
744       encrypting a single byte with a 1024-bit key will result in about 340
745       bytes of encrypted data).
746     - Added the --gpg-default-key option to have fwknop use the default GnuPG
747       key that is defined in the ~/.gnupg/options file.
748     - Added the --URL command line argument so that a URL other than the
749       default http://www.whatismyip.com/ can be provided by the user for
750       external IP resolution (suggested by Sebastien J.).
751     - Updated to be more rigorous with md5 sums; we now require that the
752       md5_base64() function actually returns a non-null result.
753     - Bugfix to make sure that only the users associated with the a specific
754       REQUIRE_USERNAME value (in a specific SOURCE block in access.conf) are
755       granted the appropriate access even if a valid encrypted packet is
756       constructed from a different user name (by an fwknop client).
757     - Populated the _debug option in the IPTables::ChainMgr module, and also
758       added a _verbose option so that the specific iptables commands can
759       actually be seen as IPTables::ChainMgr functions are called.
760     - Added code to install.pl to update command paths in fwknop.conf and
761       knopwatchd.conf if any of the paths are broken (i.e. the local system
762       does not conform to the default paths).  By default this only happens if
763       the user does not want old configs to be merged, but to override this
764       use the new --path-update command line argument to install.pl.
765     - Added the --Skip-mod-install command line argument to install.pl to
766       allow all perl module installs to be skipped.
767     - Added the --force-mod-regex command line argument to install.pl to allow
768       a regex match on perl module names to force matching modules to be
769       installed.
770     - Minor bugfix to generate better (i.e. closer to those that Firefox
771       generates) http requests to http://www.whatismyip.com/).
772     - Adapted Mate Wierdl's RPM patch from the psad project so that the fwknop
773       RPM builds on x86_64 systems.
774     - Removed iptables requirement in RPM spec file because fwknop may be
775       installed on a system just to run the fwknop client.
776     - Updated to email username mismatch errors.
777
778 fwknop-0.9.7 (08/04/2006):
779     - Added fwknop_serv to function as minimal TCP server over which SPA
780       packets can be sent.  This allows SPA to be compatible with the Tor
781       network, which requires that a virtual circuit is established before
782       traffic can be sent.
783     - Updated to Crypt::CBC-2.18 after a vulnerability was discovered in
784       previous versions of Crypt::CBC that caused weak ciphertext to be
785       generated for algorithms that have blocksizes greater than 8 bytes (such
786       as Rijndael used by fwknop).  Manually specifying initialization vectors
787       is not necessary now.
788     - Updated SSH patch to support OpenSSH-4.3p2.
789     - Bugfix to make sure to create /var/* directories if they don't exist
790       (such as when /var is a tmpfs).
791     - Bugfix (Dwayne Rightler) to restore -w IP lookup functionality after
792       format change on data returned by whatismyip.com.
793     - Bugfix to wrap SPA Rijndael decryption with eval{} so that fwknopd does
794       not die if there are problems trying to decrypt data.  This is necessary
795       because of the security vulnerability fix in Crypt::CBC that creates
796       some incompatibilities in different versions of Crypt::CBC.
797     - Added "--L-host" command line argument so that the arguments used for
798       multiple hosts are preserved and can be recalled.
799     - Changed default user-agent setting for whatismyip.com lookups to
800       Firefox/1.0.5.4; there is no need to gratuitously advertise fwknop
801       traffic.
802     - Updated GunPG HOWTO to provide a step-by-step guide to getting fwknop
803       Single Packet Authorization working with GnuPG.
804     - Updated to derive perl module versions from the VERSION files within
805       each of the perl module source directories.
806
807 fwknop-0.9.6 (01/13/2006):
808     - Added GPG based authentication capability for SPA packets.  This new
809       mode can be configured to require that a GPG message be signed with a
810       particular key or set of keys.
811     - In GPG mode, the fwknop client now prints GPG errors to stdout if not
812       running with --gpg-no-batch-mode.
813     - Added the ability to require that the client know the UNIX crypt()
814       password associated with a username on the server side.  This
815       functionality is enabled on the fwknop client with the "--Server-auth
816       crypt" command line argument, and the REQUIRE_AUTH_METHOD variable in
817       /etc/fwknop/access.conf on the fwknopd server.
818     - Added patch against OpenSSH-4.2p1 to integrate SPA mode.  This patch
819       adds a "-K <fwknop cmd line>" argument to the SSH client so that
820       fwknop can be executed directly before an SSH connection is made.
821     - Separated server and client portions of fwknop into "fwknopd" and
822       fwknop repectively.  This will allow better portability to be
823       developed since the client and server pieces can be developed more
824       independently.  NOTE: With so many changes, it is probably a good idea
825       to not preserve old fwknop configs via install.pl.
826     - Renamed all relevant fwknopd command and file paths to support new
827       fwknopd server component.
828     - Added --quiet mode (this is used by default in the OpenSSH patch).
829     - Removed legacy port knocking installation in install.pl (fwknopfifo,
830       and fwdata file) unless the data collection mode is set to syslog or
831       syslog-ng for legacy iptables log messages.
832     - Added inode checking for PCAP_PKT_FILE. This helps to ensure that log
833       rotation schemes don't interfere with reading packets out of the file
834       since this check is size independent.
835     - Bugfix for Makefile debug mode.
836     - Added compilation check for perl programs in install.pl before
837       installation into the filesystem.
838     - Bugfix for knopwatchd to make sure it can actually restart all running
839       daemons properly.
840     - Added --force-mod command line argument to install.pl to allow the user
841       to force all perl modules to be be installed regardless of whether a
842       module exists in the system perl lib tree.
843     - Added --no-save-args to fwknop so that existing .fwknop.run file can
844       be preserved (helps to testing new features of fwknop client).
845     - Removed useless --encrypt command line argument (only the old shared
846       port knock sequences are not encrypted).
847
848 fwknop-0.9.5 (10/02/2005):
849     - Added the ability to resolve the external IP associated with the
850       local network via http://www.whatismyip.com.  This is a more secure
851       method of accomplishing what the -s option performs.  The new
852       command line option is --whatismyip (or just -w).
853     - Updated fwknop to communicate with knoptm via a UNIX domain socket
854       instead of the previous file-based communication.
855     - Updated to flush the fwknop iptables chains at start time.
856     - Bugfix for removing the wrong hash key in the knoptm IP cache.
857
858 fwknop-0.9.4 (09/17/2005):
859     - Bugfix for knoptm timing out new entries based on old time values
860       (this caused new rules to timed out too quickly).
861     - Added support for multiple users in REQUIRE_USERNAME keyword in
862       access.conf.
863     - Added the ability to display raw encrypted packet data in client
864       mode with --verbose.
865     - Created fwknop RPM for RPM-based Linux distributions.
866     - Bugfix for inappropriate redirects in command mode where the command
867       already contained a redirect.
868
869 fwknop-0.9.3 (08/27/2005):
870     - Added an on-disk cache of md5 sums so that the md5 sum check can
871       survive restarts of fwknop.
872     - Updated install.pl to be more friendly to Mac OS X (Blair Zajac).
873     - Updated to allow access.conf variables to have values instead of just
874       being defined.
875     - Started on additional server authentication mode code (re-worked MD5
876       sum calculation to allow packet format to be extended by taking into
877       account the fwknop version number).
878
879 fwknop-0.9.2 (08/06/2005):
880     - Added FILE_PCAP data collection method when running in server mode.
881       This is a more general way of getting packets than the ULOG_PCAP
882       mode since then a normal ethernet sniffer can be used to build the
883       file.
884     - Added the ability to re-open a pcap file if its size shrinks (i.e.
885       it gets rotated out or something).
886     - Bugfix for multiple rules with the same timestamp not being timed out
887       by knoptm.
888     - Integrated spoofing capability directly within fwknop (instead of
889       using the knopspoof command) through the use of "require Net::RawIP".
890     - Better multi-protocol support in server mode.  Tcp and icmp packets
891       are properly decoded now.
892
893 fwknop-0.9.1 (07/29/2005):
894     - Added the ability to specify multiple ports/protocols to access on a
895       server with the --Access command line option.
896     - Added the ability to spoof SPA packets over icmp and tcp protocols.
897     - Added the ability to restrict access at the server to only those
898       ports defined in the OPEN_PORTS keyword.  This option is controled by
899       a new keyword "PERMIT_CLIENT_PORTS".
900     - Bugfix for MD5 sum not being properly calculated over decrypted data.
901       This allowed old packets that contained additional garbage data to
902       be replayed against an fwknop server.
903     - Updated to fall back to getpwuid() if getlogin() fails (Blair Zajac).
904     - Added --ipt-list to list all current rules in the FWKNOP iptables
905       chains.
906     - Added --ipt-flush to flush all current rules in the FWKNOP iptables
907       chains.
908     - Bugfix for the installer dying if ~/lib already exists (Blair Zajac).
909     - Updated to delay the loading of server perl modules (Net::Pcap, etc.)
910       only if we are running in server mode.
911     - Bugfix for module directory paths in install.pl.
912
913 fwknop-0.9.0 (05/29/2005):
914     - Added new authorization mode that uses Net::Pcap to read packets
915       out of a file that is written to by the ulogd pcap writer (also
916       stubbed in code to sniff packets directly off the wire).  This
917       authorization mode only requires single packets, and has many
918       characteristics that are better than simple port knocking, including
919       being non-replayable, and much more data can be sent.  This mode
920       is now the default for both the server and the client.
921     - Made the execution of knopmd optional depending on whether AUTH_MODE
922       is a pcap mode (e.g. ULOG_PCAP or PCAP).
923     - Added --Spoof-src argument so that encrypted packets can be spoofed
924       via /usr/sbin/knopspoof.
925     - Added /usr/sbin/knoptm so that firewall rules can be timed-out when
926       the server is running in PCAP mode even if new packets don't appear
927       on the wire.
928     - Updated fwknop man page to talk about the new pcap-based
929       authorization mode.
930
931 fwknop-0.5.0 (03/19/2005):
932     - Added ALERTING_METHOD to allow syslog and/or email reporting to be
933       disabled (there is a dedicated file /etc/fwknop/alert.conf that
934       governs this behavior, and both fwknop and knopwatchd reference this
935       file).
936     - Bugfix for distinguishing OPT field associated with --log-tcp-options
937       vs. --log-ip-options.
938     - Added install_perl_module() install.pl from psad to provide a
939       consistent installation interface.
940     - Applied patch to only install perl modules that are not already
941       installed (Blair Zajac).
942     - Added --last-cmd option to allow fwknop to be executed with command
943       line arguments from the previous execution (they are saved in
944       ~/.fwknop.run).
945     - Added --Home-dir option to allow the home directory to be manually
946       specified.
947     - Re-worked get_homedir() to be more friendly to systems that do not
948       necessarily have /etc/passwd (e.g. OS X).
949     - Added configuration preservation and querying for which syslog
950       daemon is running to install.pl.  These features were adapted from the
951       psad installer (http://www.cipherdyne.org/psad).
952     - Added IPTables::ChainMgr.  Fwknop uses this module to maintain
953       dedicated chains to which access rules are added.
954     - Added IPTables::Parse, which is used internally by IPTables::ChainMgr.
955     - Added __WARN__ and __DIE__ handlers so errors can easily be collected.
956
957 fwknop-0.4.2 (09/27/2004):
958     - Added init script for Fedora systems.
959     - Added --Kill, --Restart, and --Status modes (this fixes the generic
960       init script which depends on these arguments).
961
962 fwknop-0.4.1 (09/14/2004):
963     - Bugfix for legacy posf code in fwknop and variable in fwknop.conf.
964
965 fwknop-0.4 (09/10/2004):
966     - Added ability to specify multiple IPs/networks in a single SOURCE
967       definition.
968     - Better examples section in the fwknop manpage.
969     - Bugfix to make sure EMAIL_ADDRESSES variable does not contain commas
970       (any commas are translated into spaces).
971     - Added LICENSE file.
972
973 fwknop-0.3 (08/21/2004):
974     - Bugfix for tracking knock sequences by source IP address.
975     - Bugfix for knock sequence timeouts.
976     - Removed old passive OS fingerprinting code in favor of the p0f
977       strategy.
978     - Added support for taking encryption keys from a file specified on
979       the command line.
980     - Update to send "sequence decrypt failed" email message only if
981       decryption failed for all encrypt sequence SOURCE blocks.
982
983 fwknop-0.2 (07/31/2004):
984     - Implemented remote username checking in encrypted sequences.
985     - Added support for icmp in knock sequences.
986     - Added protocol rotation option for encrypted sequences.
987     - Added code for multiple SOURCE access blocks with the same source
988       net/IP.
989     - Added KNOCK_LIMIT access control variable to limit the number of
990       times a particular knock sequence is honored.
991     - Added email alerts.
992
993 fwknop-0.1 (07/08/2004):
994     - Initial release.
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