5 govpn is simple high-performance secure virtual private network daemon.
6 It uses DH-EKE for mutual zero-knowledge authentication and
7 authenticated encrypted transport. It runs under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
11 All packets captured on network interface are encrypted, authenticated
12 and sent to remote server, that writes them to his interface, and vice
13 versa. Client and server use pre-shared authentication key (PSK).
14 Because of stateless UDP nature, after some timeout of inactivity peers
15 forget about each other and have to retry handshake process again,
16 therefore background heartbeat process will be ran.
18 Handshake is used to mutually authenticate peers, exchange common secret
19 per-session encryption key and checks UDP transport availability.
21 Because of UDP and authentication overhead: each packet grows in size
22 during transmission, so you have to lower you maximum transmission unit
23 (MTU) on network interface.
25 High security and high performance are the goals for that daemon. It
26 uses fast cryptography algorithms with 128bit security margin, strong
27 mutual zero-knowledge authentication and perfect-forward secrecy
28 property. An attacker can not know anything from captured traffic, even
29 if pre-shared key is compromised.
31 Also you can provide up and down scripts that will be executed after
32 either connection is initiated (up-script in background), or is went
33 down. The first argument for them is an interface name.
38 * Perfect-forward secrecy (if long-term pre-shared keys are compromised,
39 no captured traffic can be decrypted anyway)
40 * Mutual two-side authentication (noone will send real network interface
41 data unless the other side is authenticated)
42 * Zero-knowledge authentication (pre-shared key is not transmitted in
43 any form between the peers, not even it's hash value)
44 * Higher performance in some cases
45 * Fully IPv6 compatible
49 B -- bad or timeouted UDP packet (maybe network is inactive)
50 T -- bad tag on packet (MiTM, unordered packet)
51 R -- invalid sequence number (MiTM, unordered packet)
52 [HS?] -- unknown handshake message
53 w -- successful write to remote peer
54 r -- successful read from remote peer
55 [HS1], [HS2], [HS3], [HS4] -- handshake packet stage
56 [rS?] -- invalid server's random authentication number received (MiTM, bad PSK)
57 [rC?] -- invalid client's random authentication number received (MiTM, bad PSK)
58 [S?] -- invalid handshake stage is trying to perform (MiTM, duplicate packet)
59 [OK] -- handshake's stage passed
63 Let's assume that there is some insecure link between your computer and
64 WiFi-reachable gateway. You have got preconfigured wlan0 network
65 interface with 192.168.0/24 network. You want to create virtual
66 encrypted and authenticated 172.16.0/24 network and use it as a default
67 transport. MTU for that wlan0 is 1500 bytes. GoVPN will say that maximum
68 MTU for the link is 1476, however it does not take in account TAP's
69 Ethernet frame header length, that in my case is 14 bytes long (1476 - 14).
72 common% echo MYLONG64HEXKEY > key.txt
74 GNU/Linux IPv4 client-server example:
76 server% ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev wlan0
77 server% tunctl -t tap10
78 server% ip link set mtu 1462 dev tap10
79 server% ip addr add 172.16.0.1/24 dev tap10
80 server% ip link set up dev tap10
81 server% govpn -key key.txt -iface tap10 -bind 192.168.0.1:1194
83 client% ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev wlan0
84 client% tunctl -t tap10
85 client% ip link set mtu 1462 dev tap10
86 client% ip addr add 172.16.0.2/24 dev tap10
87 client% ip link set up dev tap10
88 client% ip route add default via 172.16.0.1
89 client% while :; do govpn -key key.txt -iface tap10 -remote 192.168.0.1:1194; done
91 FreeBSD IPv6 client-server example:
93 server% ifconfig em0 inet6 fe80::1/64
94 server% ifconfig tap10 create
95 server% ifconfig tap10 inet6 fc00::1/96 mtu 1462 up
96 server% govpn -key key.txt -face tap10 -bind fe80::1%em0
98 client% ifconfig me0 inet6 -ifdisabled auto_linklocal
99 client% ifconfig tap10
100 client% ifconfig tap10 inet6 fc00::2/96 mtu 1462 up
101 client% route -6 add default fc00::1
102 client% while :; do govpn -key key.txt -iface tap10 -remote [fe80::1%me0]:1194; done
106 client% cat > up.sh <<EOF
111 client% chmod +x up.sh
112 client% govpn -key key.txt -iface tap10 -remote [fe80::1%me0]:1194 -up ./up.sh
114 If client won't finish handshake during -timeout, then it will exit.
115 If no packets are received from remote side during timeout, then daemon
116 will stop sending packets to the client and client will exit. In all
117 cases you have to rehandshake again.
122 Message authentication: Poly1305
123 Password authenticated key agreement: Curve25519 based DH-EKE
124 Packet overhead: 24 bytes per packet
125 Handshake overhead: 4 UDP (2 from client, 2 from server) packets,
126 232 bytes total payload
130 SERIAL + ENC(KEY, SERIAL, DATA) + AUTH(SERIAL + ENC_DATA)
132 where SERIAL is message serial number. Odds are reserved for
133 client->server, evens are for server->client. SERIAL is used as a nonce
134 for DATA encryption: encryption key is different during each handshake,
135 so (key, nonce) pair is always used once.
137 We generate Salsa20's output using this key and nonce for each message:
138 * first 256 bits are used as a one-time key for Poly1305 authentication
139 * next 256 bits of output are ignored
140 * and all remaining ones XORed with the data, encrypting it
147 │ │ R=rand(64bit); CPrivKey=rand(256bit)
150 │ R, enc(PSK, R, CPubKey) │
151 │ ────────────────────────────────────────>
154 │ │ │ SPrivKey=rand(256bit)
158 │ │ │ K=DH(SPrivKey, CPubKey)
162 │ │ │ RS=rand(64bit); SS=rand(256bit)
165 │ enc(PSK, R+1, SPubKey); enc(K, R, RS+SS)│
166 │ <────────────────────────────────────────
169 │ │ K=DH(CPrivKey, SPubKey) │
173 │ │ RC=rand(64bit); SC=rand(256bit) │
176 │ enc(K, R+1, RS+RC+SC) │
177 │ ────────────────────────────────────────>
184 │ │ │ MasterKey=SS XOR SC
188 │ <────────────────────────────────────────
195 │ │ MasterKey=SS XOR SC │
201 * client generates CPubKey, random 64bit R that is used as a nonce
203 * R + enc(PSK, R, CPubKey) + NULLs -> Server [56 bytes]
204 * server remembers clients address, decrypt CPubKey, generates
205 SPrivKey/SPubKey, computes common shared key K (based on
206 CPubKey and SPrivKey), generates 64bit random number RS and
207 256bit random SS. PSK-encryption uses incremented R (from previous
209 * enc(PSK, SPubKey) + enc(K, RS + SS) + NULLs -> Client [88 bytes]
210 * client decrypt SPubKey, computes K, decrypts RS, SS with key K,
211 remembers SS, generates 64bit random number RC and 256bit random SC,
212 * enc(K, RS + RC + SC) + NULLs -> Server [64 bytes]
213 * server decrypt RS, RC, SC with key K, compares RS with it's own one
214 send before, computes final main encryption key S = SS XOR SC
215 * ENC(K, RC) + NULLs -> Client [24 bytes]
216 * server switches to the new client
217 * client decrypts RC and compares with it's own generated one, computes
218 final main encryption key S
220 Where PSK is 256bit pre-shared key, NULLs are 16 null-bytes. R* are
221 required for handshake randomization and two-way authentication. K key
222 is used only during handshake. NULLs are required to differentiate
223 common transport protocol messages from handshake ones. DH public keys
224 can be trivially derived from private ones.
229 * http://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html
230 * http://cr.yp.to/snuffle.html
231 * http://cr.yp.to/mac.html
232 * http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/passwdPK/contributions/jablon.pdf
233 * Applied Cryptography (C) 1996 Bruce Schneier
237 * Move decryption and encryption processes into goroutines
238 * Add identity management (client can send it's identification, server has
239 on-disk id↔key plaintext database)
240 * Implement alternative Secure Remote Password protocol (it is much slower,
241 technically has more code, but human memorized passwords can be used
246 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
247 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
248 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
251 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
252 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
253 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
254 GNU General Public License for more details.