Add NEWS about TKM separation

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Reto Buerki
2013-03-19 15:24:36 +01:00
committed by Tobias Brunner
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@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ strongswan-5.0.3
any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
(trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
strongswan-5.0.2
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