1 TODO for 1.1 And Beyond
2 =======================
4 NOTE: Any item that doesn't have (***DONE) in it, isn't done yet. The
5 (***TESTING NEEDED) means that the item has been done but not yet properly
9 SILC Client ****PARTLY DONE****
12 o Porting to new Toolkit API and new Client Library API
14 o Improve help files, especially /cmode, /cumode and /key.
17 lib/silcclient, The Client Library ***PARTLY DONE****
18 ==================================
20 o silcclient.h clean up and API rewrites.
22 o silcclient_entry.h finishing, all entry relates APIs to this header.
24 o SilcChannelEntry, SilcServerEntry, SilcChannelUser, allocating,
25 freeing, finding, etc. rewrite. Also making them reference counted for
26 multi threads use. (***DONE)
28 o Finish all the missing SILC packet processings, rewrites.
30 o The client_notify.c rewrite. (***TESTING NEEDED)
32 o Resuming to client_register.c (remove client_resume.c)
35 o Rekey rewrite. (***DONE)
37 o Remove protocol.[ch]. (***DONE)
39 o File transfer rewrite.
41 o Connection auth request.
43 o Starting key exchange directly, rewrite. (***DONE)
45 o Channel messages, channel private keys, channel entires, channel
48 o For many APIs leave the hash context allocations to the caller instead
49 of using client->sha1hash and client->md5hash, or some kind of thread
50 safe (no locking) concept.
52 o Password auth test, public key auth test.
54 o Key agreement rewrite. (***TESTING NEEDED)
56 o Connecting to remote client (***DONE)
58 o peer-to-peer private messages
60 o Private message waiting API (in threads)
62 o client_attrs.c, attributes rewrite. (***TESTING NEEDED)
64 o No SilcBuffer lists back to application in command_reply operations.
65 Convert them all to real lists and/or structures for easier use.
68 o Nickname formatting rewrite. (***TESTING NEEDED)
70 o UDP connections. (***TESTING NEEDED)
72 o in /cmode and /cumode with +r, maybe the public key and private key
73 could be just some "string", which would then match to "string.pub" and
76 o All packet waiting timeout tests and error condition tests.
82 o Porting to use the new util library.
85 lib/silccore/silcpacket.[ch] ****DONE****
86 ============================
88 o SilcPacketEngine. (***DONE)
90 o New SILC Packet API. (***DONE)
93 lib/silccore/silcpacket.[ch] ****PARTLY DONE****
94 ============================
96 o IV Included flag support, UDP transport support (***TESTING NEEDED)
99 lib/silccore/silcid.[ch] ****DONE****
100 ========================
102 o Add silc_id_str2id to accept the destination buffer as argument
103 and thus not require any memory allocation. Same will happen
104 with silc_id_payload_* functions. (***DONE)
106 o silc_id_str2id, silc_id2str to non-allocating routines. (***DONE)
112 o All payload encoding routines should take SilcStack as argument.
114 o All payload test routines into lib/silccore/tests/.
120 o Removing key from the repository is not possible currently. It should
124 lib/silcske/silcske.[ch] ****DONE****
125 ========================
127 o IV Included flag support in SKE (***DONE)
129 o UDP transport changes; retransmission support by using exponential
130 backoff algorithm. (***DONE)
132 o SilcConnAuth header file documentation. (***DONE)
135 lib/silccrypt ****PARTLY DONE****
138 o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
139 lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
141 o SSH2 public keys support, allowing the use of SSH2 public keys in
144 o OpenPGP certificate support, allowing the use of PGP public keys
147 o SILC PKCS (silcpkcs.h) reorganizing when other PK supports added.
148 Move the SILC Public Key routines away from the crypto library into
149 the core library (silccore). silc_pkcs_public/private_key_* routines
150 to silc_public/private_key_* routines. The silc_public_key_* routines
151 should also automatically handle SILC Public Keys, and other keys
152 and certificates as well. Add fe. silcpk.h into silccore. It should
153 also include the Public Key Payload encoding and decoding routines.
158 o Assembler AES (***DONE)
163 lib/silcutil ****PARTLY DONE****
166 o The regex code from lib/contrib might compile fine on all platforms.
167 No need to make it silcutil/unix/ specific. Add them to generic
170 o silc_stringprep to non-allocating version.
172 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
173 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
176 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
177 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
180 o bool -> SilcBool (***DONE)
182 o Silc FD Stream to WIN32 (lib/silcutil/silcfdstream.h)
184 lib/silcutil/silcbuffer.h ****DONE****
185 =========================
187 o Remove the `truelen' field from SilcBuffer as it is entirely
188 redundant since we can get the true length of the buffer by
189 doing buffer->end - buffer->header. Add silc_buffer_truelen
190 macro instead. Consider also removing `len' field too since
191 it effectively is buffer->tail - buffer->data, and adding
192 silc_buffer_len macro can do the same. These would save
193 totally 8 bytes of memory per buffer. (***DONE)
196 lib/silcutil/silcbuffmt.[ch] ****DONE****
197 ============================
199 o SilcStack aware silc_buffer_unformat (***DONE)
201 o SilcStack aware silc_buffer_format (***DONE)
203 o silc_buffer_format reallocates automatically (***DONE)
205 o SILC_STR_OFFSET (***DONE)
208 lib/silcutil/silcstack.[ch] ****DONE****
209 ===========================
211 o Data stack implementation (***DONE)
214 lib/silcutil/silcstream.[ch] ****DONE****
215 ============================
217 o Add abstract SilcStream. (***DONE)
220 lib/silcutil/silcsocketstream.[ch] ****PARTY DONE****
221 ==================================
223 o Add SilcSocketStream (***DONE)
225 o Add SilcSocketStream for WIN32
227 o Handle EOS sending to upper layer properly
229 o Test QoS after the changes made to socket stream
232 lib/silcutil/silcschedule*.[ch] ****PARTLY DONE****
233 ===============================
235 o Scheduler can be optimized for FD tasks by changing the fd_queue
236 to SilcHashTable instead of using linked list. We need to do
237 one-to-one mapping of FD to task and hash table is more efficient
240 Also redefine the silc_select to perhaps return a separate
241 structure of the events that actually occurred, instead of
242 returning the events in the fd_list which is then traversed
243 in the generic code to find the changed events. This can be
244 made faster by having own struct which includes only the
245 changed events, thus the tarversing is faster since the whole
246 fd_list is not traversed anymore (it is still traversed in the
247 silc_select but at least it removes one extra tarversing later
250 Other task queues should be changed to use SilcList. (***DONE)
252 o Add SILC scheduler's internal routines into a table of implementation
253 function pointers, that the generic code then takes as extern from
254 implementation. These are the silc_schedule_internal_* routines.
257 o Change SILC_TASK_CALLBACK to non-static, and remove the macro
258 SILC_TASK_CALLBACK_GLOBAL. (***DONE)
260 o SILC Schedule API changes to WIN32.
263 lib/silcutil/silcasync.[ch] ****DONE****
264 ===========================
266 o Add SilcAsyncOperation to utility library. Any function that takes
267 callback as an argument must/should return SilcAsyncOperation.
271 lib/silcutil/silctime.[ch] ****DONE****
272 ===========================
274 o SilcTime. (***DONE)
276 o system time, universal, generalized. (***DONE)
279 lib/silcutil/silcfsm.[ch] ****DONE****
280 =========================
282 o SILC Finite State Machine API. Replaces SILC Protocol API (***DONE)
285 lib/silcutil/silcnet*, lib/silcutil/*/silc*net* ****PARTLY DONE****
286 ===============================================
288 o Add UDP interface (***DONE)
290 o Add UDP interface for WIN32
292 o New network interfaces (***DONE)
298 o Import TFM. Talk to Tom to add the missing functions. Use TFM in
299 client and client library, but TMA in server, due to the significantly
300 increased memory consumption with TFM, and the rare need for public
301 key operations in server.
303 o Change LTM and TFM function names when importing to SILC tree to avoid
304 rare linking problems on system that has same named symbols already in
307 o The SILC MP API function must start returning indication of success
308 and failure of the operation.
310 o Do SilcStack support for silc_mp_init, silc_mp_init_size and other
311 any other MP function (including utility ones) that may allocate
316 o All utility functions should be made non-allocating ones.
319 lib/silcutil/symbian/ ****PARTLY DONE****
320 =====================
322 o lib/silcutil/symbian routines missing or not completed.
325 o Something needs to be thought to the logging globals as well,
326 like silc_debug etc. They won't work on EPOC. Perhaps logging
327 and debugging is to be disabled on EPOC.
330 lib/silcasn1 ****PARTLY DONE****
333 o ASN.1 library (***DONE)
335 o Header documentation missing. (***DONE)
337 o Some string encodings missing (copy/paste matter). (***DONE)
339 o Negative integer encoding
345 o PKIX implementation
351 o (Re)write commands/command replys.
353 o (Re)write notify handling.
355 o The SERVER_SIGNOFF notify handing is not optimal, because it'll
356 cause sending of multiple SIGNOFF notify's instead of the one
357 SERVER_SIGNOFF notify that the server received. This should be
358 optimized so that the only SERVER_SIGNOFF is sent and not
359 SIGNOFF of notify at all (using SIGNOFF takes the idea about
360 SERVER_SIGNOFF away entirely).
362 o Another SERVER_SIGNOFF opt/bugfix: Currently the signoff is
363 sent to a client if it is on same channel as the client that
364 signoffed. However, the entire SERVER_SIGNOFF list is sent to
365 the client, ie. it may receive clients that was not on the
366 same channel. This is actually against the specs. It must be
367 done per channel. It shouldn't receive the whole list just
368 because one client happened to be on same channel.
370 o MAYBE: The SilcChannelClientEntry can be:
374 where address is SilcClientEntry address XOR SilcChannelEntry.
375 You can get SilcClientEntry by doing client = chl->address XOR channel,
376 and SilcChannelEntry by doing channel = chl->address XOR client.
377 As long as the other pointer is always available when accessing the
378 structure this can be done.
380 o Add reference counters to all Silc*Entry structures
382 o SERVICEs support (plugin, SIM)
384 o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
385 authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
386 be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
388 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
389 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
390 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
391 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
392 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
393 to everybody on the channel (Fix this to 0.9.x).
395 o Related to above. If multiple JOINs are received in sequence perhaps
396 new key should be created only once, if the JOINs are handeled at the same
397 time. Now we create multiple keys and never end up using them because
398 many JOINs are processed at the same time in sequence. Only the last
399 key ends up being used.
401 o The CMODE cipher & hmac change problem (#101).