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Version 2.0 (2016-04-11)

Improving TLS Security

  1. Added auth SHA256 so MACs on the individual packets are done with SHA256 instead of SHA1.

  2. Added tls-version-min 1.2 to drop SSL3 + TLS v1.0 support. This breaks older clients (2.3.2+), but those versions have been out for a while.

  3. Restricted the tls-ciphers allowed to a subset of Mozilla's modern cipher list + DHE for older clients. ECDSA support is included for when ECDSA keys can be used.

  4. New keys are 2048 bit by default, downgraded from 4096 bit. This is based on Mozilla's SSL guidance, combined with the expectation of being able to use ECDSA keys in a later revision of this playbook.

  5. As part of the move to 2048 bit keys, the 4096 bit DH parameters are no longer distributed. It was originally distributed since generating it took ~75 minutes, but the new 2048 bit parameters take considerably less time.

Points 2 & 3 are gated by the openvpn_use_modern_tls variable, which defaults to true.

Adding Cert Validations

OpenVPN has at least two kinds of certification validation available: (Extended) Key Usage checks, and certificate content validation.

EKU

Previously only the client was verifying that the server cert had the correct usage, now the verification is bi-directional.

Certificate content

Added the ability to verify the common name that is part of each certificate. This required changing the common names that each certificate is generated with, which means that the ability to wipe out the existing keys was added as well.

Again, both these changes are gated by a variable (openvpn_verify_cn). Because this requires rather large client changes, it is off by default.

Wiping out & reinstalling

Added the ability to wipe out & reinstall OpenVPN. Currently it leaves firewall rules behind, but other than that everything is removed.

Use ansible-playbook -v openvpn.yml --extra-vars="openvpn_uninstall=true" --tags uninstall to just run the uninstall portion.

Connect over IPv6

Previously, you had to explicitly use udp6 or tcp6 to use IPv6. OpenVPN isn't dual stacked if you use plain udp/tcp, which results in being unable to connect to the OpenVPN server if it has an AAAA record, on your device has a functional IPv6 connection, since the client will choose which stack to use if you just use plain udp/tcp.

Since this playbook is only on Linux, which supports IPv4 connections on IPv6 sockets, the server config is now IPv6 by default (https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/README.IPv6#L50), by means of using {{openvpn_proto}}6 in the server template. Specifying a *6 protocol for openvpn_proto is now an error, and will cause OpenVPN to fail to start.