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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36 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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39 o Backup router related issues
41 o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
42 switching to backup router on router crash.
44 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
45 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
46 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
47 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
48 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
49 to everybody on the channel.
51 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
52 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
53 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
54 when adding the new config file format:
56 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
57 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
60 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
63 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
64 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
66 o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
67 authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
68 be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
71 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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74 o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
75 than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
76 is not actually async currently.
82 o Add "request parameters" or similar to the WHOIS command, which can
83 be used to request various parameters (something not returned by
84 standard WHOIS command) about clients (info that could be fetched
85 even from clients). Additional specification (or appendix) should
86 be done to define the payload and the parameters. It could be used
87 to make the WHOIS command support various search conditions as well.
88 This would be the way to extend the WHOIS command to support various
89 new features without always making the command incompatible to previous
90 version. To be included in protocol version 1.1.
92 o Re-define the Status Payload: it is now 16 bits, split it into two
93 8 bits fields. First field includes status types from 0 - 9 and
94 10 - n *if* it is not an list of errors. If it is list of errors then
95 the first field includes 1, 2 and/or 3, and the second field includes
96 the error status 10 - n. This way it is possible to send multiple
97 errors (list of errors) and we have a way to tell the receiver that
98 there will be other errors as well. The second field is used only
99 if there is list of errors. If normal status, or normal (single)
100 error status the second field is set to zero, and must be ignored.
101 Hence, the status works same way as now except for list of errors.
102 To be included in protocol version 1.1.
104 o Define that WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands must send list of errors
105 if multiple Client ID (or Channel ID and Server ID for IDENTIFY) was
106 requested and was not found. Each unfound entry must cause an error
107 command reply to the sender. Also define that errors must be sent
108 *after* sending successfully found entries (this way receiver may
109 ignore them). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
115 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
116 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
117 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
118 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
119 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
121 o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
122 lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
124 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
125 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
128 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
129 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
130 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
131 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
132 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
133 This should be looked at more closely.
135 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
136 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
137 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
138 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
139 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
140 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
143 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
144 which I like more over OpenSSL package.
146 o SSH2 public keys support.
148 o OpenPGP certificate support.
150 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.