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