-TODO
-====
+TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
+==============================
-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.
+ o We should get rid of the clientconfig.[ch] in Irssi SILC and move the
+ cipher, hash, hmac and pkcs configuration to the Irssi SILC's config
+ file.
-Feel free to contribute if you have the ability and free time - all the
-help is really appreciated - and needed.
+ o The QUIT command should wait for servers disconnection (at least for
+ a while) before exiting the application.
- - Pekka
+ o Add local command to switch the channel's private key when channel has
+ several private keys. Currently sending channel messages with many
+ keys is not possible because changing the key is not possible by the
+ user.
+ 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. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
-New features TODO
-=================
+ o Add PERL scripting support from Irssi CVS.
- 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 Extend the /HELP command to support sub commands or something. So
+ that user can say /help set mutual_authentication they would get
+ help of the mutual_authentication setting.
- 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 Set different kind of settings, like, /set mutual_authentication,
+ /set key_exchange_timeout, /set conn_auth_timeout etc etc.
- 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.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Client Library
+================================
- 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 The public key authentication is missing for example in OPER and SILCOPER
+ commands. See the XXX's in the lib/silcclient/command.c.
- 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.
+ o The client library must manage somehow when receiving client that has
+ same nickname, same server, same username but different Client ID than
+ what we have in the cache. It is now assumed that they are different
+ client but it might not be. It should at least number the clients
+ using the client->num so that they can be accessed from the user
+ interface separately or it could just remove the old client unless
+ it is on some channels.
- 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.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Server
+========================
- 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 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.
-
- 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.
+ o Incomplete IPv6 support:
+ o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
-TODO In SILC Server
-===================
+ o The backup router support described in the protocol specification
+ should be done at some point.
- o TODO in command.c and in command_reply.c:
+ o New configuration file format must be added. The new one will be
+ done using the dotconf config library (lib/dotconf). The following
+ tasks relates closely to this as well and must be done at the same time
+ when adding the new config file format:
- o LIST is not implemented
- o RESTART is not implemented
- o INVITE is probably not working correctly
- o INFO works only with local server. It must work with any
- server in the network, implement the sending to other servers.
- o PING works only with local server. It must work with any
- server in the network, implement the sending to other servers.
- o MOTD works only with local server. It must work with any
- server in the network, implement the sending to other servers.
- o JOIN does not check the invite and ban lists
- o CMODE should be rewritten as it uses a lot duplicated code.
- Some of the modes may still not be implemented or is implemented
- the wrong way. Also, setting ban and invite lists does not
- work at all and requires some thinking how to do them.
+ 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 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 Protocol execution timeouts are hard coded, should be
+ configurable.
- 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 IP address fields in configuration file should accept mask
+ format as well, IP/MASK, and not just plain IP.
- 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.
+ o Connection classes should be actually implemented in
+ serverconfig.c. They can be defined but they are totally
+ ignored currently. And they should be redefined also.
- 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 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.
-
-
-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.
+TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
+===========================
- 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 Move all utility stuff to undef lib/silcutil/. This includes trq,
+ dotconf and zlib.
- o Re-key in general is actually missing (from everywhere) and must be done.
+ o Incomplete IPv6 support:
- o ID Cache expiry does not work.
+ o All network routines in lib/silcutil/silcnet.[ch] does not
+ support IPv6.
+ o silc_id_render supports only IPv4 based ID's in the file
+ lib/silcutil/silcutil.c.
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 All payload parsing (decoding) functions should take unsigned char *
+ and uint32 as data and data length as arguments. Now some of the
+ routines do already that but most of the routines use SilcBuffer.
+ The SilcBuffer ones should be removed since buf->data and buf->len
+ is more convenient to use. However, the silc_buffer_[un]format
+ routines support only SilcBuffer so they would require reallocation
+ of SilcBuffer. Maybe support for raw data (and not just SilcBuffer)
+ should be added silc_buffer_[un]format_? routines. These are currently
+ only cosmetic changes but at some point must be done to make the
+ payload interfaces consistent.
- 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 Add builtin SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support, well the SOCKS at least.
+ SILC currently supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 but it needs to be compiled
+ in separately.
- 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.
+TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
+=============================================
-Other Things TODO
-=================
+ o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
+ Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32.
- o Write manuals for server.
- o Write manuals for client.
+TODO In SILC Protocol
+=====================
- 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 If channel founder mode is set and the invite mode is set on channel
+ then the founder should be added to the list automatically so that
+ if the founder signoff's it will be able join again to the invite only
+ channel wihtout being invited.
TODO After 1.0
==============
- o Pthreads support. A lot of problems are solved with server (and with
- client as well) if we add pthread support. We can forget things such
- as non-blocking connecting etc, and we can do things such as DNS/IP
- lookups async. The server itself also benefits great deal from
- threads, especially from performance point of view.
-
- But, this is not a small task and almost entire SILC Library has to
- be made re-entrant. Own API is probably added for the threads support
- to make changes in the future as painless as possible. So the API
- would have things like silc_mutex_lock, silc_mutex_unlock and
- friends...
-
o X.509 certificate support. SILC protocol supports certificates and
it would be great to have support for them. This is a big task as
support has to be made for ASN.1 as well. I've looked into OpenSSL
to start writing one myself. Anyhow, the OpenSSL X.509 lib should
be checked.
+ Other package that should be checked is the NSS's X509 library.
+
o SSH2 public keys support. Maybe - not really needed but could be
nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
supports SSH2 public keys.
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