1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o -n and -c options does not work.
6 o Switching servers while on channel is supposed to crash the client?
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 We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
18 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
21 o The QUIT command should wait for servers disconnection (at least for
22 a while) before exiting the application.
24 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
26 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
27 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
28 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
30 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
31 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
34 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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37 o The public key authentication is missing for example in OPER and SILCOPER
38 commands. See the XXX's in the lib/silcclient/command.c.
40 o The client library must manage somehow when receiving client that has
41 same nickname, same server, same username but different Client ID than
42 what we have in the cache. It is now assumed that they are different
43 client but it might not be. It should at least number the clients
44 using the client->num so that they can be accessed from the user
45 interface separately or it could just remove the old client unless
46 it is on some channels.
49 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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52 o Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server.
54 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
56 o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
58 o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
59 should be done at some point.
61 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
62 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
63 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
64 when adding the new config file format:
66 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
67 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
70 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
73 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
74 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
76 o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
77 serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
78 ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
81 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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84 o Some ./prepare problems with latest autoconf and automake.
86 o Remove the mlock() stuff from the lib/silcutil/silcmemory.c, they
89 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
90 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
91 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
92 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
93 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
95 o All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
96 and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
97 routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
98 The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
99 is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
100 routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
101 of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
102 should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
103 only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
104 payload interfaces consistent.
106 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
108 o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
110 o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
111 lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
113 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
114 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
118 TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
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121 o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
122 Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32.
125 TODO In SILC Protocol
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128 o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
129 then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
130 if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
131 channel wihtout being invited.
137 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
138 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
139 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
140 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
141 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
142 This should be looked at more closely.
144 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
145 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
146 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
147 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
148 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
149 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
152 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
154 o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
155 nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
156 supports SSH2 public keys.
158 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.