X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=361ea7a895b88955b770e48dd91cc5e706ce3165;hb=6394d86063413bc1c473723f3ef971840195bcd3;hp=eb752293cf5555005046081d1e4c7cbc817c4718;hpb=4e64dd02ccecc9c497b8db8ecb09d017b9cef9a4;p=silc.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index eb752293..361ea7a8 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY... - 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. @@ -35,32 +30,16 @@ TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library ================================ - o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code. + o N/A TODO/bugs In SILC Server ======================== - o Implement the 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 Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when switching - to backup router on router crash. + o Backup router related issues - 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 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 Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when + switching to backup router on router crash. 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 @@ -69,28 +48,6 @@ TODO/bugs In SILC Server 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 @@ -106,31 +63,50 @@ TODO/bugs In SILC Server o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP. - o Connection classes should be actually implemented in - serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally - ignored currently. And they should be redefined also. + 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! TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries =========================== - 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 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 @@ -142,6 +118,9 @@ 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. @@ -161,11 +140,10 @@ TODO After 1.0 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.