1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
5 several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
6 keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
9 o JOINing to +a (requires passphrase to JOIN) does not work on autojoin.
10 Seems the passwords in the .silc/config has no effect.
12 o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
13 that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
14 public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
16 o The QUIT command should wait for server's disconnection (at least for
17 a while) before exiting the application.
19 o The JOIN command's HELP is generated from Irssi IRCs JOIN help and
20 the syntax is not same in SILC. This must be fixed. Most likely
21 we must forget the Irssi's JOIN command and mimic it to get our
22 required syntax for it too.
24 o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
25 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
28 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
30 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
31 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
32 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
34 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
35 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
38 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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41 o Someone changing nickname on the channel from nick to Nick will cause
42 that the new nick becomes Nick@host, because the old nick is not
43 removed from the cache before adding the new one. This is because
44 of the way NICK_CHANGE notify is handled. This should be fixed so
45 that if the old nick is to be removed the new nick will *replace*
48 o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code.
51 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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54 o Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server.
56 o Update idle times only for private/channel messaegs.
58 o Add a timeout to handling incmoing JOIN commands. It should be
59 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
60 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
61 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
62 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
63 to everybody on the channel.
65 o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
66 should be done at some point.
68 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
70 o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
72 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
73 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
74 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
75 when adding the new config file format:
77 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
78 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
81 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
84 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
85 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
87 o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
88 serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
89 ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
92 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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95 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
96 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
97 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
98 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
99 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
101 o All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
102 and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
103 routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
104 The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
105 is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
106 routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
107 of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
108 should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
109 only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
110 payload interfaces consistent.
112 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
114 o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
116 o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
117 lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
119 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
120 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
124 TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
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127 o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
128 Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but is not
129 actually async currently.
132 TODO In SILC Protocol
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135 o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
136 then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
137 if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
138 channel wihtout being invited.
144 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
145 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
146 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
147 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
148 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
149 This should be looked at more closely.
151 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
152 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
153 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
154 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
155 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
156 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
159 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
161 o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
162 nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
163 supports SSH2 public keys.
165 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.