TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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- o GETKEY server will save the serverkey to the same filename as the
- connected server and thus destroys the key.
+ o When autoconnect="yes" is set in silc.conf the irssi complains about
+ unknown chat protocol.
- o GETKEY server will show first, "there is no such nickname".
+ o Rewrite the notify handling in the new Irssi SILC client.
+
+ o /cumode for unknown nick does not give any error message.
o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
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.
-
- o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
-
- 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 Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
- /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
-
TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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should be added to notify application that it was received and
set the key only if application wishes to set (accept the key) it.
- o should /nick nick and /nick Nick cause the Nick to be Nick@host becase
- it used to be nick??
-
- 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.
-
- o Remove the command destructor all together from the client, it is
- not needed and its usage is buggy when the context is registered
- to multiple pending commands.
-
o Additions to do after protocol version 1.1:
o Fix the NICK_CHANGE notify handling not to create new entry
TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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- o Topic notifications seem to go double times occasionally to a channel.
+ o Configuration file additions:
- o Backup router related issues
+ o Allow configuration of protocol execution timeouts. This
+ includes SKE, CONN_AUTH and REKEY timeouts. Check all
+ "XXX hardcoded" from the code for these.
- o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
- switching to backup router on router crash.
+ o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
+ format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP. This would
+ allow subnet filtering etc.
+
+ o Add channel key rekey default timeout.
+
+ o Add (advanced options in General) to set how often certain ID
+ caches are purged (could be used to optimize the server's
+ behaviour).
+
+ o Add hashed passwords to config file.
+
+ o Add rehashing support.
+
+ o Assure that server is allowed to connect only once to router. Meaning
+ if server connection is established already, same connection cannot be
+ established again.
+
+ o If server send CUMODE_CHANGE notify (like setting founder) to router
+ and router does not have founder on channel (founder is left or there's
+ no founder on channel at all), the router will accept the server's
+ founder mode change, even though it perhaps should not do that.
+
+ o Make the normal server save user counts with LIST command reply.
+
+ o The router should check for validity of received notify packets from
+ servers (after all buggy servers may send notify that is actually
+ something that should have not been sent).
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
each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
to everybody on the channel.
- 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 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 Backup router related issues
- o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
- configurable.
+ o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
+ switching to backup router on router crash.
- o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
- format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
+ o Lots of statistics updating is missing around the server.
o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be
private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments.
+ o lib/silcsftp/sftp_fs_memory.c use directly open(), close() etc.
+ routines. Change to use silc_file_* routines.
+
+ o SILC RNG does not implement random seed files, and they should be
+ implemented.
+
+
+TODO in Toolkit Documentation
+=============================
+
+Stuff that needs to be done in order to complete the Tooolkit Reference
+Manual.
+
+ o Lots of ROBOdoc header formatting is undone in lib/silcske,
+ lib/silcutil, and lib/silccrypt.
+
+ o Write "Programming with Toolkit" document, describing how to build
+ Toolkit, how the build system works, where is everything, how
+ new (external) projects can be glued into Toolkit (use irssi as an
+ example), and how external projects can use Toolkit without gluing into
+ it (how to link etc).
+
+ o Write "Programming conventions" document to describe the coding
+ and naming conventions used in the Toolkit (should not be
+ actually the CodingStyle document, but something more general).
+
+ o Move the lib/silccrypt/silcrng.h's "how the RNG works" documentation
+ to its own html file and link it to the reference manual.
+
TODO in SILC Protocol
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payload MAC and not alone by packet MAC. To be included in protocol
version 1.1.
+ 8. Remove the administrative commands from the protocol all together.
+ It does not make sense for the protocol to define how a server is
+ reconnected or shutdown, since they are implementation and
+ configuration issues. Besides protocol provides only limited set of
+ administrative commands and cannot define all that one could imagine.
+ To be included in protocol version 1.1.
+
+ 9. Add SILC_MESAGE_FLAG_REPLY for being other side to the
+ SILC_MESSAGE_FLAG_REQUEST. Add generic SILC_MESSAGE_FLAG_DATA, which
+ can include generic payload, which can include generic data. The
+ payload definition is left out for now. To be included in protocol
+ version 1.1.
+
+ 10. Check command reply error status types in various commands,
+ specifically NO_FOPRIV is missing from many commands. To be
+ included in protocol version 1.1.
+
TODO After 1.0
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and thus not require any memory allocation. Same will happen
with silc_id_payload_* functions.
+ o Remove the `truelen' field from SilcBuffer as it is entirely
+ redundant since we can get the true length of the buffer by
+ doing buffer->end - buffer->header. Add SILC_BUFFER_TRUELEN
+ macro instead. Consider also removing `len' field too since
+ it effectively is buffer->tail - buffer->data, and adding
+ SILC_BUFFER_LEN macro can do the same. These would save
+ totally 8 bytes of memory per buffer.
+
+ Add also perhaps function silc_buffer_alloc_size that would
+ effectively do:
+
+ return silc_buffer_pull_tail(silc_buffer_alloc(size),
+ size);
+
+ to not require the user to give the pull_tail anymore.
+
o Optimizations in Server
o Remove the big switch statement from the function
should be analyzed too how slow the task registering process
actually is, and find out ways to optimize 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 Add SilcAsyncOperation to utility library. Any function that takes
+ callback as an argument must return SilcAsyncOperation.
+
+ o Add DSS support.
+
o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.
o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
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