TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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+ o XXXXXXXXX cannot join +a channel from other servers
+
o Implement the <founder auth> and founder privileges gaining to
the JOIN command. This will bypass invite-only mode as well for
the client who got the founder mode during JOIN.
- o After backup resume protocol the TOPIC_SET was not handled correctly
- by all (unknown Channel ID).
+ o Optimize the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands to check if the request
+ includes an ID or multiple IDs, then they are checked from local cache
+ first, and not sent directly to router. This is because if they
+ are found in the local cache there's no need to send them to the
+ router. Only if some ID is not found, or an found entry is
+ incomplete it can be queried from the router. This way these
+ commands become faster, and for example JOIN command becomes a lot
+ faster since the server ends up resolving the same information only
+ once, as opposed to resolve it everytime JOIN command is issued, like
+ it does now.
+
+ The same thing can be done with WHOWAS command as well.
+
+ It is important to send these requests to router only if they can be
+ expanded to many results (as when doing WHOIS for nickname). If
+ they are explicit (like requesting by ID) the local cache MUST be
+ searched before sending it to router.
- o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when switching
- to backup router on router crash.
+ o Announcements are incomplete: channel topics are not announced,
+ user modes (UMODE) are not announced.
o Change the server to connect to another server from low ports (706)
and not from high ports. Currently we cannot do incoming connection
checking by remote port because the port is not fixed.
- o Announcements are incomplete: channel topics are not announced,
- user modes (UMODE) are not announced.
+ o Backup router related issues
+
+ o After backup resume protocol the TOPIC_SET was not handled
+ correctly by all (unknown Channel ID).
+
+ o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
+ switching to backup router on router crash.
o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
to everybody on the channel.
- o Optimize the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands to somehow check whether the
- requested clients are on some channel that the server knows about. If
- this is the case then the request is not needed to be forwarded to the
- router. One specific optimization could be done with JOIN command.
- If the previous command to the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands are JOIN
- command (from the client) it can be expected (though it must be
- verified) that the client is resolving the users on the channel it just
- joined. If server has done this once there is really no reason to
- resolve it twice (from the router), it can reply directly back with
- the information it knows. This is because the server would (will)
- receive notifications from the router for users that are on a local
- channel.
-
- The same is with whowas command. Actually with all these commands
- it should be checked also whether the requested information is local.
- If it is, there is no reason to send it to the router, since the server
- knows it best.
-
- o Incomplete IPv6 support:
-
- o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
-
o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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- o Incomplete IPv6 support:
-
- o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
- support IPv6.
- o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
- lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
-
- o Add silc_net_gethostbyname, silc_net_gethostbyaddr,
- silc_net_gethostbyname_async and silc_net_gethostbyaddr_async functions.
-
-
-TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
-=============================================
-
- o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
- Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but is not
- actually async currently.
+ o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
+ than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
+ is not actually async currently.
TODO After 1.0
not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
+ o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
+ lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
+
o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
in separately.
to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
be checked.
- Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
+ Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
+ which I like more over OpenSSL package.
- o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
- nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
- supports SSH2 public keys.
+ o SSH2 public keys support.
o OpenPGP certificate support.
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