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 auto-nick support to Irssi, so that the user specified nickname
21 would be sent to the server immediately (automatically) after the
22 client is connected to the server.
24 o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
26 o Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
27 that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
28 help of the mutual_authentication setting.
30 o Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
31 /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
34 TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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37 o The PRIVATE_MESSAGE_KEY packet is not handled (it is implemented
38 though). This should be added and perhaps new client operation
39 should be added to notify application that it was received and
40 set the key only if application wishes to set (accept the key) it.
42 o should /nick nick and /nick Nick cause the Nick to be Nick@host becase
45 o When changing own nickname and there exists a same nickname the library
46 can give the client now nickname in format nick@host. This is new
47 behaviour and maybe should be removed. The changer should always
48 get the one it wants and not have the formatted nickname.
50 o Remove the command destructor all together from the client, it is
51 not needed and its usage is buggy when the context is registered
52 to multiple pending commands.
54 o Additions to do after protocol version 1.1:
56 o Fix the NICK_CHANGE notify handling not to create new entry
57 for the changed client, but take the nickname from the notify
58 (removes need for resolving as well). Protocol TODO entry 3.
60 o Add support for list of errors in command replies. Protocol
64 TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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67 o Remove the command destructor all together from the server, it is
68 not needed and its usage is buggy when the context is registered
69 to multiple pending commands.
71 o strerror messages from premature EOF's to signoff messages.
73 o Backup router related issues
75 o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
76 switching to backup router on router crash.
78 o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
79 enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
80 seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
81 and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
82 each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
83 to everybody on the channel.
85 o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
86 done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
87 tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
88 when adding the new config file format:
90 o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but
91 currently that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single
94 o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
97 o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
98 format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
100 o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
101 authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
102 be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
105 TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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108 o make install copies the symblic links from lib/silcsim/ and not
111 o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
112 than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
113 is not actually async currently.
115 o Rewrite the lib/silcsim/silcsim.h. The SilcSimContext should be
116 private and silc_sim_alloc should take necessary arguments.
119 TODO in SILC Protocol
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122 Current protocol version is 1.0. However, it is far from being perfect,
123 and needs to include additional features. Following protocol TODO entries
124 describe new stuff to be added to protocol versions 1.x.
126 1. Re-define the Status Payload: it is now 16 bits, split it into two
127 8 bits fields. First field includes status types from 0 - 9 and
128 10 - n *if* it is not an list of errors. If it is list of errors then
129 the first field includes 1, 2 and/or 3, and the second field includes
130 the error status 10 - n. This way it is possible to send multiple
131 errors (list of errors) and we have a way to tell the receiver that
132 there will be other errors as well. The second field is used only
133 if there is list of errors. If normal status, or normal (single)
134 error status the second field is set to zero, and must be ignored.
135 Hence, the status works same way as now except for list of errors.
136 To be included in protocol version 1.1.
138 2. Define that WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands must send list of errors
139 if multiple Client ID (or Channel ID and Server ID for IDENTIFY) was
140 requested and was not found. Each unfound entry must cause an error
141 command reply to the sender. Also define that errors must be sent
142 *after* sending successfully found entries (this way receiver may
143 ignore them). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
145 3. Define the NICK_CHANGE notify to send the changed nickname as a new
146 third argument. This will make the NICK_CHANGE notify handling easier
147 in the receiver's end (client primarily) since it removes the
148 requirement that receiver must resolve (using IDENTIFY or WHOIS) the
149 new Client ID received in the notify (because of the new nickname is
150 unknown). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
152 4. Add "request parameters" or similar to the WHOIS command, which can
153 be used to request various parameters (something not returned by
154 standard WHOIS command) about clients (info that could be fetched
155 even from clients). Additional specification (or appendix) should
156 be done to define the payload and the parameters. It could be used
157 to make the WHOIS command support various search conditions as well.
158 This would be the way to extend the WHOIS command to support various
159 new features without always making the command incompatible to previous
160 version. To be included in protocol version 1.1.
162 5. Inviting and banning by public key should be made possible. To be
163 included in protocol version 1.x.
165 6. Add perhaps SILENCE_USERS, SILENCE_OPERS channel user modes which
166 can be used to silence (moderate) normal users and opers (this set
167 only by founder). To be included in protocol version 1.1.
173 o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
174 compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
175 defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
176 not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
177 tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
179 o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
180 lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h.
182 o Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
183 SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
186 o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
187 it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
188 support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
189 package as it has X.509 certificate support (and ASN.1 as well).
190 The code does not look very good to my eye but it has some potentials.
191 This should be looked at more closely.
193 Naturally own SILC Certificate API has to be defined regardles what
194 the actual X.509 library is (OpenSSL X.509 or something else). Other
195 choice is to write own X.509 library but I'm not going to do it -
196 I can help to migrate the OpenSSL X.509 into SILC and I can help if
197 someone would like to write the X.509 library - but I'm not going
198 to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
201 Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library,
202 which I like more over OpenSSL package.
204 o SSH2 public keys support.
206 o OpenPGP certificate support.
208 o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.