-TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
-================================
+TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
+==============================
+
+ 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.
+
+ o JOINing to +a (requires passphrase to JOIN) does not work on autojoin.
+ Seems the passwords in the .silc/config has no effect.
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.
+ public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
- o Add client library parameters or options that handle what kind of
- messages the library should print out (using `say' client operation,
- for example) and what is left for the application to print. The
- appliation could for example set that it handles all command printing
- but all error printing should be handled by the library, etc...
- This is not a showstopper.
+ o The QUIT command should wait for server's disconnection (at least for
+ a while) before exiting the application.
- o Input line on UI is buggy. Cursor movement etc bugs. Too lazy to
- fix it.
+ o The JOIN command's HELP is generated from Irssi IRCs JOIN help and
+ the syntax is not same in SILC. This must be fixed. Most likely
+ we must forget the Irssi's JOIN command and mimic it to get our
+ required syntax for it too.
+ 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.
-TODO/bugs In SILC Server
-========================
+ o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
- o When server quits and all clients of that server are removed from all
- channels the channel keys are re-generated for all clients. This is
- a bug and should be done only once per channel after all clients of
- the server has been removed.
+ 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 Incomplete IPv6 support:
+ o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
+ /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
- o silc_server_get_users_on_channel does not support IPv6 based
- Client ID's.
- o silc_server_route_get and the route code in general supports
- only IPv4.
- o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
- o DNS/IP lookup blocks the server. This must be fixed. Check the
- resolver stuff (resolver(3), resolver(5)). Either we have to do the
- own resolver stuff (through scheduler, if possible without writing
- too much own stuff) or use threads.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
+================================
- o The ID List must be optimized. When the lists grow the searching
- becomes a lot slower and is some cases the lists are searched many
- times, like with channel messages (twice at least). Some sort of
- hash tables should replace the lists. Thus, the ID cache should be
- rewritten to use hash tables internally.
+ o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code.
+
+
+TODO/bugs In SILC Server
+========================
+
+ o Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server.
+
+ o Add a timeout to handling incmoing 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 The backup router support described in the protocol specification
should be done at some point.
+ 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
===========================
+ o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
+ compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp 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 All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
+ and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
+ routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
+ The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
+ is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
+ routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
+ of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
+ should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
+ only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
+ payload interfaces consistent.
+
o Incomplete IPv6 support:
o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
- o Hash tables must be implemented. The requirement for this is that
- the hash table is collision resistant so that it can be used in
- critical positions as well. It probably works the 95% of the time
- fine without collisions but the last 5% of the cases must be
- handled. Maybe two interfaces could be done, one for normal static
- hash tables and one for collision resistant hash table.
+ 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 All the ID Cache routines has not been implemented in
- lib/silccore/idcache.c.
- o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
- compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp 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).
+TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
+=============================================
- o The CAST cipher is not compiled currently due to compilation errors;
- check those. Cast is in lib/silccrypt/cast.c.
+ 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.
-TODO After 1.0
-==============
+TODO In SILC Protocol
+=====================
- o Pthreads support. A lot of problems are solved with server (and with
- client as well) if we add pthread support. We can forget things such
- as non-blocking connecting etc, and we can do things such as DNS/IP
- lookups async. The server itself also benefits great deal from
- threads, especially from performance point of view.
+ o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
+ then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
+ if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
+ channel wihtout being invited.
- But, this is not a small task and almost entire SILC Library has to
- be made re-entrant. Own API is probably added for the threads support
- to make changes in the future as painless as possible. So the API
- would have things like silc_mutex_lock, silc_mutex_unlock and
- friends...
+
+TODO After 1.0
+==============
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
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.
+
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.