1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
5 several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
6 keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
9 o JOINing to +a (requires passphrase to JOIN) does not work on autojoin.
10 Seems the passwords in the .silc/config has no effect.
12 o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
13 that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
14 public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
16 o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
17 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
20 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
22 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
23 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
24 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
26 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
27 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
30 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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33 o When changing own nickname and there exists a same nickname the library
34 can give the client now nickname in format nick@host. This is new
35 behaviour and maybe should be removed. The changer should always
36 get the one it wants and not have the formatted nickname.
39 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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42 o Backup router related issues
44 o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
45 switching to backup router on router crash.
47 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
48 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
49 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
50 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
51 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
52 to everybody on the channel.
54 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
55 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
56 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
57 when adding the new config file format:
59 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
60 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
63 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
66 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
67 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
69 o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
70 authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
71 be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
74 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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77 o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
78 than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
79 is not actually async currently.
81 o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be
82 private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments.
88 o Add "request parameters" or similar to the WHOIS command, which can
89 be used to request various parameters (something not returned by
90 standard WHOIS command) about clients (info that could be fetched
91 even from clients). Additional specification (or appendix) should
92 be done to define the payload and the parameters. It could be used
93 to make the WHOIS command support various search conditions as well.
94 This would be the way to extend the WHOIS command to support various
95 new features without always making the command incompatible to previous
96 version. To be included in protocol version 1.1.
98 o Re-define the Status Payload: it is now 16 bits, split it into two
99 8 bits fields. First field includes status types from 0 - 9 and
100 10 - n *if* it is not an list of errors. If it is list of errors then
101 the first field includes 1, 2 and/or 3, and the second field includes
102 the error status 10 - n. This way it is possible to send multiple
103 errors (list of errors) and we have a way to tell the receiver that
104 there will be other errors as well. The second field is used only
105 if there is list of errors. If normal status, or normal (single)
106 error status the second field is set to zero, and must be ignored.
107 Hence, the status works same way as now except for list of errors.
108 To be included in protocol version 1.1.
110 o Define that WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands must send list of errors
111 if multiple Client ID (or Channel ID and Server ID for IDENTIFY) was
112 requested and was not found. Each unfound entry must cause an error
113 command reply to the sender. Also define that errors must be sent
114 *after* sending successfully found entries (this way receiver may
115 ignore them). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
121 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
122 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
123 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
124 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
125 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
127 o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
128 lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
130 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
131 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
134 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
135 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
136 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
137 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
138 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
139 This should be looked at more closely.
141 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
142 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
143 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
144 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
145 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
146 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
149 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
150 which I like more over OpenSSL package.
152 o SSH2 public keys support.
154 o OpenPGP certificate support.
156 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.