TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
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- o Client library crashes if for example server timeouts protocol
- execution and disconnects the client. The client, on the other hand
- may still assume that the connection is active, even after receiving
- the EOF. Reason for this is that the clien library does not handle
- the SilcSocketConnection reference counter at all. This must be
- fixed.
-
- o When receiving client's public key with GETKEY or in key agreement
- protoocl it probably should be saved using the nickname and the real
- name of the client instead of the host name of the client.
+ o Add local commands to list the current server and client public keys
+ that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
+ public key to the screen.
o Add client library parameters or options that handle what kind of
messages the library should print out (using `say' client operation,
a bug and should be done only once per channel after all clients of
the server has been removed.
- o Acceptance of incoming connections (client and server connections)
- should be checked before key exchange protocol. Currently it is
- checked at the authentication phase after KE, that is ok, but it should
- be checked before starting KE, as well. This should be done so that
- is first checks denied connections, then client connections and then
- server connections. There is no use to execute the SKE if the connection
- will not be allowed.
-
o DNS/IP lookup blocks the server. This must be fixed. Check the
resolver stuff (resolver(3), resolver(5)). Either we have to do the
own resolver stuff (through scheduler, if possible without writing
too much own stuff) or use threads.
+ o The ID List must be optimized. When the lists grow the searching
+ becomes a lot slower and is some cases the lists are searched many
+ times, like with channel messages (twice at least). Some sort of
+ hash tables should replace the lists. Thus, the ID cache should be
+ rewritten to use hash tables internally.
+
+ o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
+ done using the dotconf config library.
+
o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
should be done at some point.
TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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+ o Some of the ciphers in lib/silccrypt does not implement the SILC
+ Crypto API correctly.
+
o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
defined. zlib package is already included into the lib dir (in CVS,
not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
- o Random Number Generator needs some tweaking. Reading /dev/random may
- block resulting slow initialization of RNG. Some other things in the
- RNG may block as well. Also, I have some pending changes to the RNG
- that needs to be commited (from Schneier's Yarrow-160 paper). They
- should make the RNG even better.
-
- o Some of the ciphers in lib/silccrypt does not implement the SILC
- Crypto API correctly.
-
- o SIM support for SILC PKCS API needs to made so that they could be
- used as SIM's. At the same time some work is required on prime
- generation as the way it is done now sucks. Read from code for
- more (silcpkcs.h).
+ o IPv6 support for ID's and into the code.
TODO After 1.0
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