From: Pekka Riikonen Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:27:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: updates X-Git-Tag: 1.2.beta1~2492 X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06e4a2c3cc94f4a3432c10a0bf4a61ed4af0e3a9;p=crypto.git updates --- diff --git a/public_html/about.html b/public_html/about.html index d0e22c3a..db24ebe5 100644 --- a/public_html/about.html +++ b/public_html/about.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

+

About SILC

-

About SILC

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet over insecure channel. @@ -66,8 +66,10 @@ Protocol specification of SILC protocol is available for anyone to look at. There exists three Internet Drafts that has been submitted to IETF. See documentation page for more information. + +

-

Contact

+

Contact

Feedback and comments are welcome. You can reach me in the following Address. diff --git a/public_html/contribute.html b/public_html/contribute.html index b667d580..30f403ff 100644 --- a/public_html/contribute.html +++ b/public_html/contribute.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

+

Contributing

-

Contributing

Developers are needed in SILC project. Everyone who has the time and ability is welcome to come and join the project. We need C coders, diff --git a/public_html/cvs.html b/public_html/cvs.html index e9e92a08..fdaf035e 100644 --- a/public_html/cvs.html +++ b/public_html/cvs.html @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ align=center>

-

Anonymous CVS Access

+ Anonymous CVS access is now available to SILC CVS repository. The repository includes everything related to SILC project; source codes, documentation and even these web pages. The CVS access is of course public @@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ thus you cannot expect that the source tree would work or even compile. While it is our intention that the trunk would always at least compile there might be situations when it will not. +


-

Browsing the Source Tree

+

Browsing the Source Tree

+

If you want to browse the source tree using web browser before checking out the tree with CVS use following link: @@ -38,8 +40,10 @@ Note that this is not real-time access to the CVS repository. It is updated once a day. If you want real-time access then checkout the CVS repository. +


-

Howto Checkout The Source Tree

+

Howto Checkout The Source Tree

+

The repository can be checked out by using anonymous pserver with CVS.

@@ -86,8 +90,9 @@ directory named silc. SILC CVS repository currently does not have any branches thus this will check out the trunk. The size of the trunk is currently about 11 MB but will grow in the future. +


-

What SILC Source Tree Includes

+

What SILC Source Tree Includes

SILC Source tree includes a lot more stuff that appears in public distribution. The source tree includes, for example, internal scripts, @@ -129,21 +134,22 @@ Following directories currently exist in SILC source tree. never appear in public distribution, such as, configuration files. - +


-

Howto Compile SILC Source Tree

+

Howto Compile SILC Source Tree

+

After checkout from CVS the SILC source tree must be prepared for configuration and compilation. To compile the source three, give,

- 

+
 	./prepare
 	./configure --enable-debug
 	make
+
- The ./prepare script is included in to the source tree and it never appears in public distribution. The script prepares the source tree @@ -160,30 +166,34 @@ SILC_LOG_DEBUG* scripts. Warning is due here: The debugging produced by both cilent and server is very heavy, thus it is common to test the programs as follows:

- 

-	./silc -f configfile 2>log
-	./silcd -f configfile 2>log
+
+	./silc -d -f configfile 2>log
+	./silcd -d -f configfile 2>log
+
- +


-

Howto Clean SILC Source Tree

+

Howto Clean SILC Source Tree

+

To entirely clear the source tree to the state after it was checked out from CVS, give, - 

+
 	./prepare-clean
+
- This calls `make distclean' plus removes automatically generated files by hand. It also removes *.log files. However, it will not remove any other files you might have created. +


-

Makefiles and configuration files

+

Makefiles and configuration files

+

Developers should never directly write a Makefile. All Makefiles are always automatically generated by ./prepare and later by ./configure diff --git a/public_html/docs.html b/public_html/docs.html index 4d640bfb..5921455e 100644 --- a/public_html/docs.html +++ b/public_html/docs.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

+

SILC Documentation

-

SILC Documentation

Currently the SILC documentation is under work and the software does not have that much of a documentation. @@ -21,13 +21,19 @@ Coding Style in SILC source tree: CodingStyle

[Coming later: Software manual, SILC Library Reference manual] +


-

SILC Protocol Internet Drafts

+

SILC Protocol Internet Drafts

+ SILC Protocol is documented and three Internet Drafts exists. These Internet Drafts are also available from IETF.

+Note: These drafts are already pretty much outdated. If you really need +to know what is happening in the protocol designing I suggest checking out +the drafts from the CVS. They are updated constantly. +

  • Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC), Protocol Specification

    Abstract diff --git a/public_html/faq.html b/public_html/faq.html index 109e3358..d6541c78 100644 --- a/public_html/faq.html +++ b/public_html/faq.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

    +

    Frequently Asked Questions

    -

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Q: What is SILC?
    A: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides diff --git a/public_html/features.html b/public_html/features.html index b418cecd..62e856e3 100644 --- a/public_html/features.html +++ b/public_html/features.html @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Features to be included into the final release of SILC.

  • Normal conferencing services such as private messages, channels, channel messages, etc. All traffic is secured and authenticated.

    -

  • No unique nicknames. There can be same nicknames in SILC without +
  • No unique nicknames. There can same nicknames in SILC without collisions. SILC has unique Client ID's, Server ID's and Channel ID's to assure that there are no collisions.

    diff --git a/public_html/history.html b/public_html/history.html index ef82601f..f36c8919 100644 --- a/public_html/history.html +++ b/public_html/history.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

    +

    History

    -

    History

    Even though SILC were released in summer 2000 to the public the idea and the protocol itself is quite old. I got the idea about SILC in its diff --git a/public_html/lists.html b/public_html/lists.html index dd3c2abe..e6c864c6 100644 --- a/public_html/lists.html +++ b/public_html/lists.html @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ align=center>

    +

    Public SILC Mailing Lists

    -

    Public SILC Mailing Lists

    Available since: Sat Jul 22 17:23:48 EEST 2000