1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
5 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
8 o The QUIT command should wait for servers disconnection (at least for
9 a while) before exiting the application.
11 o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
12 several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
13 keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
16 o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
17 that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
18 public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
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 The public key authentication is missing for example in OPER and SILCOPER
34 commands. See the XXX's in the lib/silcclient/command.c.
36 o The client library must manage somehow when receiving client that has
37 same nickname, same server, same username but different Client ID than
38 what we have in the cache. It is now assumed that they are different
39 client but it might not be. It should at least number the clients
40 using the client->num so that they can be accessed from the user
41 interface separately or it could just remove the old client unless
42 it is on some channels.
45 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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48 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
50 o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
52 o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
53 should be done at some point.
55 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
56 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
57 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
58 when adding the new config file format:
60 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
61 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
64 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
67 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
68 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
70 o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
71 serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
72 ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
75 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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78 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
80 o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
82 o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
83 lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
85 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
86 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
87 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
88 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
89 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
91 o All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
92 and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
93 routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
94 The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
95 is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
96 routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
97 of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
98 should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
99 only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
100 payload interfaces consistent.
102 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
103 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
107 TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
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110 o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
111 Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32.
114 TODO In SILC Protocol
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117 o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
118 then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
119 if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
120 channel wihtout being invited.
126 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
127 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
128 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
129 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
130 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
131 This should be looked at more closely.
133 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
134 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
135 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
136 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
137 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
138 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
141 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
143 o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
144 nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
145 supports SSH2 public keys.
147 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.