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 If auto-reconnecting to router and EOF is received during the
43 connecting phase the server will not try to auto-reconnect anymore
44 after that. Fix to auto-reconnect.
46 o Backup router related issues
48 o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
49 switching to backup router on router crash.
51 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
52 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
53 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
54 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
55 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
56 to everybody on the channel.
58 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
59 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
60 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
61 when adding the new config file format:
63 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
64 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
67 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
70 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
71 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
73 o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
74 authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
75 be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
78 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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81 o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
82 than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
83 is not actually async currently.
85 o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be
86 private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments.
92 o Add "request parameters" or similar to the WHOIS command, which can
93 be used to request various parameters (something not returned by
94 standard WHOIS command) about clients (info that could be fetched
95 even from clients). Additional specification (or appendix) should
96 be done to define the payload and the parameters. It could be used
97 to make the WHOIS command support various search conditions as well.
98 This would be the way to extend the WHOIS command to support various
99 new features without always making the command incompatible to previous
100 version. To be included in protocol version 1.1.
102 o Re-define the Status Payload: it is now 16 bits, split it into two
103 8 bits fields. First field includes status types from 0 - 9 and
104 10 - n *if* it is not an list of errors. If it is list of errors then
105 the first field includes 1, 2 and/or 3, and the second field includes
106 the error status 10 - n. This way it is possible to send multiple
107 errors (list of errors) and we have a way to tell the receiver that
108 there will be other errors as well. The second field is used only
109 if there is list of errors. If normal status, or normal (single)
110 error status the second field is set to zero, and must be ignored.
111 Hence, the status works same way as now except for list of errors.
112 To be included in protocol version 1.1.
114 o Define that WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands must send list of errors
115 if multiple Client ID (or Channel ID and Server ID for IDENTIFY) was
116 requested and was not found. Each unfound entry must cause an error
117 command reply to the sender. Also define that errors must be sent
118 *after* sending successfully found entries (this way receiver may
119 ignore them). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
125 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
126 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
127 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
128 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
129 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
131 o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
132 lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
134 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
135 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
138 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
139 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
140 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
141 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
142 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
143 This should be looked at more closely.
145 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
146 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
147 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
148 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
149 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
150 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
153 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
154 which I like more over OpenSSL package.
156 o SSH2 public keys support.
158 o OpenPGP certificate support.
160 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.