-TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
-==============================
+TODO for 1.2 And Beyond
+=======================
- o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
- several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
- keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
- user.
+NOTE: Any item that doesn't have (***DONE) in it, isn't done yet. The
+(***TESTING NEEDED) means that the item has been done but not yet properly
+tested.
- o JOINing to +a (requires passphrase to JOIN) does not work on autojoin.
- Seems the passwords in the .silc/config has no effect.
+NOTE: A TODO entry does not mean that it is ever going to be done. Some
+of the entries may be just ideas, good, bad or ugly. If you want to work
+on some of the TODO entries simply let us know about it by dropping a note
+to silc-devel mailing list or appear on 'silc' channel on SILCNet.
- o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
- that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
- public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
- o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
- cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
- file.
+lib/silccore
+============
- o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
+ o SILC_PACKET_FLAG_ACK support. Implement ACK packet and packet payload
+ to silcpacket.c.
- o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
- that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
- help of the mutual_authentication setting.
+ o All payload encoding routines should take SilcStack as argument.
- o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
- /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
+ o Remove SilcCommandCb from silccommand.h. (***DONE)
+ o All payload test routines into lib/silccore/tests/.
-TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
-================================
- o When changing own nickname and there exists a same nickname the library
- can give the client now nickname in format nick@host. This is new
- behaviour and maybe should be removed. The changer should always
- get the one it wants and not have the formatted nickname.
+lib/silcclient, The Client Library
+==================================
+ o LIST command should take server name as argument, a server name whose
+ channels to list. This way it is possible to list channels from
+ any server in internet, eg. /LIST example.com.
-TODO/bugs In SILC Server
-========================
+ o UDP SILC connection support to SILC server
- o Backup router related issues
+ o Giving WHOIS for nick that doesn't exist should remove any same
+ named entries from the client cache.
- o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
- switching to backup router on router crash.
+ o peer-to-peer private messages
- o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
- enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
- seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
- and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
- each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
- to everybody on the channel.
+ o Private message key request notification to application. See XXX in
+ client_prvmsg.c.
- 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
- when adding the new config file format:
+ o in JOIN notify handle resolving that timedout. Currently the user is
+ never joined the channel if this happens. What to do if message is
+ received from user that hasn't been resolved/joined?
- o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
- currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
- server.
+ o Connection option that attemps to connect to remot host with various
+ different mechanisms: UDP 706, TCP 706, TCP 80, TCP 443, UDP 7706 and
+ TCP 7706. This is the so called hole punching mechanism.
- o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
- configurable.
+ o Message ACKing support.
- o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
- format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
+ o in /cmode and /cumode with +r, maybe the public key and private key
+ could be just some "string", which would then match to "string.pub" and
+ "string.prv".
- o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
- authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
- be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
+ o If the SILC Events (see below) are implemented, perhaps client library
+ should provide events so that application developer has a choice of
+ developing the SILC app with callbacks or with events.
+ o Ability to recover from rekey errors, at least try to.
-TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
+ o Add the SilcStream (socket stream) from the SilcPacketStream and
+ SilcSocket from the socket stream to SilcClientConnection for easier
+ access to them for programmers. Currently these have to be digged up
+ from the packet stream. (***DONE)
+
+
+SFTP Library, lib/silcsftp/
===========================
- 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.
-
- o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be
- private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments.
-
-
-TODO in SILC Protocol
-=====================
-
- o Add "request parameters" or similar to the WHOIS command, which can
- be used to request various parameters (something not returned by
- standard WHOIS command) about clients (info that could be fetched
- even from clients). Additional specification (or appendix) should
- be done to define the payload and the parameters. It could be used
- to make the WHOIS command support various search conditions as well.
- This would be the way to extend the WHOIS command to support various
- new features without always making the command incompatible to previous
- version. To be included in protocol version 1.1.
-
- o Re-define the Status Payload: it is now 16 bits, split it into two
- 8 bits fields. First field includes status types from 0 - 9 and
- 10 - n *if* it is not an list of errors. If it is list of errors then
- the first field includes 1, 2 and/or 3, and the second field includes
- the error status 10 - n. This way it is possible to send multiple
- errors (list of errors) and we have a way to tell the receiver that
- there will be other errors as well. The second field is used only
- if there is list of errors. If normal status, or normal (single)
- error status the second field is set to zero, and must be ignored.
- Hence, the status works same way as now except for list of errors.
- To be included in protocol version 1.1.
-
- o Define that WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands must send list of errors
- if multiple Client ID (or Channel ID and Server ID for IDENTIFY) was
- requested and was not found. Each unfound entry must cause an error
- command reply to the sender. Also define that errors must be sent
- *after* sending successfully found entries (this way receiver may
- ignore them). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
-
-
-TODO After 1.0
+ o Read prefetch (read-ahead, reading ahead of time). Maybe if this can
+ be done easily.
+
+
+lib/silcske/silcske.[ch]
+========================
+
+ o Ratelimit to UDP/IP transport for incoming packets.
+
+
+apps/silcd
+==========
+
+ o Deprecate the old server. Write interface for the new lib/silcserver
+ server library. The interface should work on Unix/Linux systems.
+
+ o Consider deprecating also the old config file format and use XML
+ istead. This should require SILC XML API implementation first.
+
+ o The configuration must support dynamic router and server connections.
+ The silcd must work without specifying any servers or routers to
+ connect to.
+
+ o The configuration must support specifying whether the server is
+ SILC Server or SILC Router. This should not be deduced from the
+ configuration as it was in < 1.2.
+
+ o The configuration must support specifying the ciphers and hmacs and
+ their order so that user can specify which algorithms take preference.
+
+
+lib/silcserver
==============
- o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
- compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
- defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
- not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
- tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
+ o Rewrite the entire server. Deprecate apps/silcd as the main server
+ implementation and create lib/silcserver/. It is a platform
+ independent server library. The apps/silcd will merely provide a
+ a simple interface for the library.
- o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
- lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
+ o Write the SILC Server library extensively using SILC FSM.
- 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.
+ o Server library must support multiple networks. This means that one
+ server must be able to create multiple connections that each reach
+ different SILC network. This means also that all cache's etc. must
+ be either connection-specific or network-specific.
- o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
- it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
- support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
- package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
- The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
- This should be looked at more closely.
+ o Library must support dynamic router and server connections. This means
+ that connections are create only when they are needed, like when someone
+ says JOIN foo@foo.bar.com or WHOIS foobar@silcnet.org.
- Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
- the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
- choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
- I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
- someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
- to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
- be checked.
+ o Library must support server-to-server connections even though protocol
+ prohibits that. The responder of the connection should automatically
+ act as a router. The two servers create an own, isolated, SILC network.
+ To be used specifically with dynamic connections.
- Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
- which I like more over OpenSSL package.
+ o Library must support multiple threads and must be entirely thread safe.
- o SSH2 public keys support.
+ o Library must have support for SERVICE command.
- o OpenPGP certificate support.
+ o Both UDP and TCP support for incoming connecetions. Maintaining long
+ term UDP sessions.
+
+ o The server must be able to run behind NAT device. This means that
+ Server ID must be based on public IP instead of private IP (See
+ also NAT detection protocol in SILC protocol specification).
+
+ o The following data must be in per-connection context: client id cache,
+ server id cache, channel id cache, all statistics must be
+ per-connection.
+
+ o The following data must be in per-thread context: command context
+ freelist/pool, pending commands, random number generator.
+
+ o Do inccoming packet processing in an own FSM thread in the
+ server-threads FSM. Same as in client library.
+
+ o Binding to other ports than 706 too. To allow easier traversing
+ through NATs and firewalls server should also bind to 80, 443 and 7706
+ by default (at least try to bind). Connections must work normally
+ even if they were established to some other port other than 706.
+
+ Connection option that attemps to connect to remot server with various
+ different mechanisms: UDP 706, TCP 706, TCP 80, TCP 443, UDP 7706 and
+ TCP 7706. This is the so called hole punching mechanism.
+
+ o Ability to recover from rekey errors, at least try to.
+
+ o Reference count all Silc*Entry structures.
+
+ o All channel names in any command (where appropriate) must be allowed to
+ be in format channel@server so that the server can be connected to do
+ the command for the channel. Change protocol if it doesn't allow it.
+
+ o All nicknames in any command (where appropriate) must be allowed to be
+ in format nick@server so that the server can be connected to do the
+ command for the nickname. Change protocol if it doesn't allow it.
+
+ Some issues that must be kept in mind from 1.0 and 1.1 silcd's:
+
+ o The server and router software MUST work out of the box. After
+ installation the server must not require any configuration to run the
+ most basic working configuration. No defining IP addresses, etc.
+ The server must work just by running it.
+
+ o The SERVER_SIGNOFF notify handing is not optimal, because it'll
+ cause sending of multiple SIGNOFF notify's instead of the one
+ SERVER_SIGNOFF notify that the server received. This should be
+ optimized so that the only SERVER_SIGNOFF is sent and not
+ SIGNOFF of notify at all (using SIGNOFF takes the idea about
+ SERVER_SIGNOFF away entirely).
+
+ o Another SERVER_SIGNOFF opt/bugfix: Currently the signoff is
+ sent to a client if it is on same channel as the client that
+ signoffed. However, the entire SERVER_SIGNOFF list is sent to
+ the client, ie. it may receive clients that was not on the
+ same channel. This is actually against the specs. It must be
+ done per channel. It shouldn't receive the whole list just
+ because one client happened to be on same channel.
+
+ o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
+ authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
+ be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
+
+ o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
+ enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
+ seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
+ and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
+ each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
+ to everybody on the channel.
- o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.
+ o Related to above. If multiple JOINs are received in sequence perhaps
+ new key should be created only once, if the JOINs are handeled at the same
+ time. Now we create multiple keys and never end up using them because
+ many JOINs are processed at the same time in sequence. Only the last
+ key ends up being used.
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