1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
5 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
8 o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
9 several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
10 keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
13 o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
14 that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
15 public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
17 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
19 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
20 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
21 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
23 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
24 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
27 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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30 o The public key authentication is missing for example in OPER and SILCOPER
31 commands. See the XXX's in the lib/silcclient/command.c.
33 o The client library must manage somehow when receiving client that has
34 same nickname, same server, same username but different Client ID than
35 what we have in the cache. It is now assumed that they are different
36 client but it might not be. It should at least number the clients
37 using the client->num so that they can be accessed from the user
38 interface separately or it could just remove the old client unless
39 it is on some channels.
41 o silc_client_close_connection leaks memory. Read the XXX from code.
44 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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47 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
49 o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
51 o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
52 should be done at some point.
54 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
55 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
56 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
57 when adding the new config file format:
59 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
60 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
63 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
66 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
67 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
69 o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
70 serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
71 ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
74 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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77 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
79 o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
81 o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
82 lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
84 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
85 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
86 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
87 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
88 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
90 o All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
91 and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
92 routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
93 The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
94 is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
95 routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
96 of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
97 should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
98 only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
99 payload interfaces consistent.
101 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
102 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
106 TODO In SILC Protocol
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109 o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
110 then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
111 if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
112 channel wihtout being invited.
118 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
119 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
120 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
121 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
122 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
123 This should be looked at more closely.
125 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
126 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
127 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
128 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
129 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
130 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
133 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
135 o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
136 nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
137 supports SSH2 public keys.
139 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.