X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7af043baa6ad6314d21a3fa5b9d829fccf1d863f;hb=3d61cdca00bf9d465a9a82024e9e991cc93f94fb;hp=5e818544b7e4ab7c1f566d6733f0cd8e6df848ca;hpb=7f16072a5661f2e78d5d9db890f7664af3495450;p=silc.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 5e818544..7af043ba 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -13,14 +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 QUIT command should wait for server's disconnection (at least for - a while) before exiting the application. - - 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. @@ -38,35 +30,31 @@ TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library ================================ - o Someone changing nickname on the channel from nick to Nick will cause - that the new nick becomes Nick@host, because the old nick is not - removed from the cache before adding the new one. This is because - of the way NICK_CHANGE notify is handled. This should be fixed so - that if the old nick is to be removed the new nick will *replace* - the old one. - - o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code. + 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. TODO/bugs In SILC Server ======================== - o Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server. + o If auto-reconnecting to router and EOF is received during the + connecting phase the server will not try to auto-reconnect anymore + after that. Fix to auto-reconnect. + + o Backup router related issues - o Add a timeout to handling incmoing JOIN commands. It should be + 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 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 @@ -82,63 +70,71 @@ 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 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 - support IPv6. - o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file - lib/silcutil/silcutil.c. - - 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 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/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries) -============================================= + o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be + private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments. - 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 In SILC Protocol +TODO in SILC Protocol ===================== - 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. + 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 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 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. + 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 @@ -154,10 +150,11 @@ 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. - 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 OpenPGP certificate support. o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.