rpki-client 8.5 has just been released and will be available in the
rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.
rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource
Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for Relying Parties (RP) to
facilitate validation of BGP announcements. The program queries the
global RPKI repository system and validates untrusted network inputs.
The program outputs validated ROA payloads, BGPsec Router keys, and
ASPA payloads in configuration formats suitable for OpenBGPD and BIRD,
and supports emitting CSV and JSON for consumption by other routing
stacks.
See RFC 6480 and RFC 6811 for a description of how RPKI and BGP Prefix
Origin Validation help secure the global Internet routing system.
rpki-client was primarily developed by Kristaps Dzonsons, Claudio
Jeker, Job Snijders, Theo Buehler, Theo de Raadt and Sebastian Benoit
as part of the OpenBSD Project.
This release includes the following changes to the previous release:
- ASPA support was updated to draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-16.
As part of supporting AFI-agnostic ASPAs, the JSON syntax for
Validated ASPA Payloads changed in both filemode and normal output.
- Support for gzip and deflate HTTP Content-Encoding compression was
added. This allows web servers to send RRDP XML in compressed form,
saving around 50% of bandwidth. Zlib was added as a dependency.
- File modification timestamps of objects retrieved via RRDP are now
deterministically set to prepare the on-disk cache for seamless
failovers from RRDP to RSYNC. See draft-ietf-sidrops-cms-signing-time
for more information.
- A 30%-50% performance improvement was achieved through libcrypto's
partial chains certificate validation feature. Already validated
non-inheriting CA certificates are now marked as trusted roots. This
way it can be ensured that a leaf's delegated resources are properly
covered, and at the same time most validation paths are significantly
shortened.
- Improved detection of RRDP session desynchronization: a check was
added to compare whether the delta hashes associated to previously
seen serials are different in newly fetched notification files.
- Improved handling of RRDP deltas in which objects are published,
withdrawn, and published again.
- A check to disallow duplicate X.509 certificate extensions was added.
- A check to disallow empty sets of IP Addresses or AS numbers in RFC
3779 extensions was added.
- A compliance check for the proper X.509 Certificate version and CRL
version was added.
- A warning is printed when the CMS signing-time attribute in a Signed
Object is missing.
- Warnings about unrecoverable message digest mismatches now include the
manifestNumber to aid debugging the cause.
- A check was added to disallow multiple RRDP publish elements for the
same file in RRDP snapshots. If this error condition is encountered,
the RRDP transfer is failed and the RP falls back to rsync.
- A compliance check was added to ensure CMS Signed Objects contain
SignedData, in accordance to RFC 6488 section 3 checklist item 1a.
- Compliance checks were added for the version, KeyUsage, and
ExtendedKeyUsage of EE certificates in Manifest, TAK, and GBR Signed
Objects.
- A CMS signing-time value being after the X.509 notAfter timestamp was
downgraded from an error to a warning.
- A bug was fixed in the handling of CA certificates which inherit IP
resources.
rpki-client works on all operating systems with a libcrypto library
based on OpenSSL 1.1 or LibreSSL 3.5, a libtls library compatible
with LibreSSL 3.5 or later, and zlib.
rpki-client is known to compile and run on at least the following
operating systems: Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Red Hat,
Rocky, Ubuntu, macOS, and of course OpenBSD!
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt
rpki-client-portable to more distributions.
The mirrors where rpki-client can be found are on
Reporting Bugs:
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General bugs may be reported to tech@openbsd.org
Portable bugs may be filed at
We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.
Assistance to coordinate security issues is available via