1 TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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4 o /key msg * list crashes the client
6 o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
7 several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
8 keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
11 o JOINing to +a (requires passphrase to JOIN) does not work on autojoin.
12 Seems the passwords in the .silc/config has no effect.
14 o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
15 that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
16 public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
18 o The QUIT command should wait for server's disconnection (at least for
19 a while) before exiting the application.
21 o The JOIN command's HELP is generated from Irssi IRCs JOIN help and
22 the syntax is not same in SILC. This must be fixed. Most likely
23 we must forget the Irssi's JOIN command and mimic it to get our
24 required syntax for it too.
26 o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
27 cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
30 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
32 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
33 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
34 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
36 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
37 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
40 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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43 o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code.
46 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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49 o On normal server the channel count can go negative (like -3 channels).
51 o Change the sever to connect to another server from low ports (706)
52 and not from high ports. Currently we cannot do incoming connection
53 checking by remote port because the port is not fixed.
55 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
56 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
57 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
58 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
59 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
60 to everybody on the channel.
62 o Optimize the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands to somehow check whether the
63 requested clients are on some channel that the server knows about. If
64 this is the case then the request is not needed to be forwarded to the
65 router. One specific optimization could be done with JOIN command.
66 If the previous command to the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands are JOIN
67 command (from the client) it can be expected (though it must be
68 verified) that the client is resolving the users on the channel it just
69 joined. If server has done this once there is really no reason to
70 resolve it twice (from the router), it can reply directly back with
71 the information it knows. This is because the server would (will)
72 receive notifications from the router for users that are on a local
75 The same is with whowas command. Actually with all these commands
76 it should be checked also whether the requested information is local.
77 If it is, there is no reason to send it to the router, since the server
80 o Add support for sending the LIST command to primary router on normal
81 server to receive all the created channels. Currently the command
82 returns only the channels the server knows about. The protocol spec
83 does not prohibit of sending the LIST to the router.
85 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
87 o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
89 o Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server.
91 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
92 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
93 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
94 when adding the new config file format:
96 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
97 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
100 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
103 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
104 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
106 o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
107 serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
108 ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
111 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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114 o Security fixes from the latest draft for MAC key and MAC computation:
115 the packet sequence number.
117 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
118 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
119 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
120 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
121 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
123 o All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
124 and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
125 routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
126 The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
127 is more convenient to use. These are currently only cosmetic changes
128 but at some point must be done to make the payload interfaces
131 o Incomplete IPv6 support:
133 o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
135 o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
136 lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
138 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
139 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
143 TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
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146 o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
147 Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but is not
148 actually async currently.
151 TODO In SILC Protocol
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154 o If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
155 then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
156 if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
157 channel wihtout being invited.
163 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
164 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
165 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
166 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
167 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
168 This should be looked at more closely.
170 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
171 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
172 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
173 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
174 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
175 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
178 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
180 o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
181 nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
182 supports SSH2 public keys.
184 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.