-TODO
-====
+TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
+================================
-This is more or less complete list of tasks that has to be done before
-SILC 1.0 could ever be released. It is clear that the list does not
-include all the bugs that exists. At the end of list are tasks that
-needs to be done but are probably post 1.0.
-
-Feel free to contribute if you have the ability and free time - all the
-help is really appreciated - and needed.
-
- - Pekka
-
-
-New features TODO
-=================
-
- o Optimization in general. I have not focused to program optimized code
- in many circumstances. It has been more important to get this up and
- working. A lot must be optimized especially the ID cache. Instead of
- using lists some hash tables should be used. The searching by ID and
- such must be made a lot faster. If someone would like dedicate their
- efforts purely to generate optimized code I'd be appreaciated.
-
- o We should replace all short, int, long, unsigned short, unsigned int,
- unsigned long with some pre-defined datatypes that really are what
- we want on all platforms. int16, uint16, int32, uint32 etc. are
- what we could use or maybe SilcInt16, SilcUInt16 etc. Also, boolean
- datatype should be defined.
-
- o Add boolean (or bool), typedef of unsigned char.
-
- o More platform supports should be added. The code is pretty much
- generic but there are some parts that require porting (SIM). Also,
- some support for different platforms is needed into configure.in.
-
- o SILC requires currently GCC to work because we use GCC specific
- compilation options. Generally any compiler that supports inline
- functions and can build shared libraries (for SIMs) should work.
- These cases should be included into configure.in.
-
- o Extended SIM (SILC Module) support. Currently only SILC Cipher API
- and SILC Hash API may be used as SIM's. What I have in mind is to
- have extended support for SIM's so that basically any SILC API could
- be used as SIM's. This would open tremendous possiblities but
- opens also issues on security that needs to be dealt with.
-
- Some sort of SIM compilation environment should be defined so that
- the SIM's could use SILC specific symbols from the modules (which they
- cannot do currently). In the future modules could add new features
- to SILC easily with this support. I'm more thinking this from client's
- perspective to add new features to client (such as IRC support as SIM)
- but server should have the support as well. Anyhow, this is an
- interesting feature...
-
- This maybe post 1.0 task - dunno.
-
- o SIM support for other platforms than just for Linux. Apache has
- example code (code that we could use directly pretty easily) for
- other platforms.
-
-TODO In SILC Client Library
-===========================
-
- 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 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,
for example) and what is left for the application to print. The
appliation could for example set that it handles all command printing
but all error printing should be handled by the library, etc...
-
- o Non-blocking connection on the background must be stopped if some
- other connection on same window has established. Now it is possible
- that some non-blocking connection timeouts on the background when
- we already have a working connection to some other place; things
- goes bad.
+ This is not a showstopper.
o Input line on UI is buggy. Cursor movement etc bugs. Too lazy to
fix it.
- o Logic for handling multiple same nicknames for example in private
- message sending. I guess the logic is done in server side but is
- missing from client.
-
- o I guess, public key authentication (when connecting to a server)
- is not working currently. It is just matter of loading the keys
- from file and using them (see corresponding code in server, it should
- support public key authentication already).
- o Connection Authentication request resolving is missing and must be
- done. This is required by the protocol.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Server
+========================
-
-TODO In SILC Server
-===================
-
- o Packet processing can be made faster. All packet function in the
- packet_receive.c has same prototypes. Instead of calling those from
- huge switch() make a table of callback functions that can be called
- directly by the packet type.
+ o When server quits and all clients of that server are removed from all
+ channels the channel keys are re-generated for all clients. This is
+ a bug and should be done only once per channel after all clients of
+ the server has been removed.
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 Length of the packet processing timeouts needs to be checked whether
- they are too short or too long. I haven't really tested whether they
- are suitable. They should be tested on high load which I haven't done
- at all yet.
+ 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 INVITE command must set the channel's invite list if channel is
- invite-only channel.
+ o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
+ should be done at some point.
o Server says that it is able to listen on multiple ports but currently
that is bogus. It can, but internals are for single server.
- o Command flag usage in general is not implemented yet.
-
- o Client history must be implemented. Protocol says that server must
- keep history information about clients for some period of time.
-
o Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be configurable.
o IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask format
as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
o Connection classes should be actually implemented in serverconfig.c.
- They can be defined but they are totally ignored currently.
-
- 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.
-
-
-TODO In SILC Libraries
-======================
-
- o Rewrite the task system. I made it too complex and too "neat" and
- it really should be rewritten. We don't need priorities really, one
- priority is enough. This will simplify a lot the task system.
+ They can be defined but they are totally ignored currently. And they
+ should be redefined also.
- o Implement PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) flag in SKE (and in client and
- server, actually). If PFS is set, re-key must cause new key exchange.
- This is required by the SILC protocol.
- o Re-key in general is actually missing (from everywhere) and must be done.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
+===========================
- o ID Cache expiry does not work.
+ 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
not in distribution), but it is not used yet, and it requires some
tweaking on the Makefiles (we want static lib not shared).
- 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 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 Scheduler needs to be analyzed on high load as it might be unfair
- towards select() because it may run timeout tasks before select() and
- after select(). If it is found to be unfair the timeout task running
- before select() should probably be removed.
-
-
-Other Things TODO
-=================
-
- o Write manuals for server.
-
- o Write manuals for client.
-
- o Write SILC Library Reference manual. This would include all the SILC
- API's with simple examples how the functions are to be used. This is
- pretty easy to create by taking all the functions plus their comments
- from source/header files. However, same sort of reference manual
- should be written for client and server as well.
+ o IPv6 support for ID's and into the code.
TODO After 1.0
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