TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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- o The input line parser in client (librarys) doesn't like extra spaces
- at the end of line (like after commands).
-
- o /KICK does not remove the client from Irssi's NAMES list.
-
- o Giving KILL command crashes the client.
-
- o Waiting the answer for accepting new key after the protocol has
- timeout and then ansering Y will crash the client.
-
- o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
+ 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 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.
+ 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
o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
/set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
- o Add KNOCKOUT local command. It should kick an client from channel and
- set a ban for it for number of seconds.
-
- o Add KICKBAN local command. Kicks and bans the specified client.
-
- o Do some /set show_mail_notification that would show a notification
- on screen when new email is received.
-
TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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- o If the silc_client_channel_message does not find the client entry
- then it should attempt to resolve it at least once and no return
- NULL entry to the application.
-
o All protocol execution timeouts are hard coded. They should be
configurable and the Irssi SILC client should be able to set them
with for example /set key_exchange_timeout etc. The silc_client_alloc
should take a Params structure or something as argument.
- o silc_client_close_connection leaks memory. Read the XXX from code.
-
- o Some of the ops->say's should be removed and moved to the application
- from the library. Go through these.
-
o The client library must manage somehow when receiving client that has
same nickname, same server, same username but different Client ID than
what we have in the cache. It is now assumed that they are different
interface separately or it could just remove the old client unless
it is on some channels.
- 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 silc_client_close_connection leaks memory. Read the XXX from code.
TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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- o Seems that router does not announce its client to the connecting
- server when server announces its clients on the channel.
-
- 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 Incomplete IPv6 support:
- 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.
-
o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
should be done at some point.
TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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- o The timeout calculation can go negative at least on BSD, so rewrite
- in in lib/silcutil/silcschdule.c.
-
o Incomplete IPv6 support:
o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
- o The CAST cipher is not compiled currently due to compilation errors;
- check those. Cast is in lib/silccrypt/cast.c.
-
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.
TODO In SILC Protocol
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- o pp-03 draft:
-
- o Add SILC_MESSAGE_FLAG_SIGNED flag that indicates that the
- messages is signed with the senders private key and thus can
- be verified with its public key. This is especially handy
- feature when sending privat messages without having negotiated
- private keys, thus the servers decrypts and re-ecnrypts the
- messages. Other applications exists as well.
+ 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.
TODO After 1.0
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- 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.
-
- 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...
-
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
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.
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