TODO/bugs in Irssi SILC client
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- o /NAMES kees showing things wrong after JOIN and after ppl has left
- channel.
-
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
o JOIN command's argument handling is buggy. See the XXX in the code.
- o key agreement with itself causes the packet sequence numbers go grazy.
-
TODO/bugs In SILC Server
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- o After backup resume protocol the TOPIC_SET was not handled correctly
- by all (unknown Channel ID).
+ o Implement the <founder auth> and founder privileges gaining to
+ the JOIN command. This will bypass invite-only mode as well for
+ the client who got the founder mode during JOIN.
+
+ o Optimize the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands to check if the request
+ includes an ID or multiple IDs, then they are checked from local cache
+ first, and not sent directly to router. This is because if they
+ are found in the local cache there's no need to send them to the
+ router. Only if some ID is not found, or an found entry is
+ incomplete it can be queried from the router. This way these
+ commands become faster, and for example JOIN command becomes a lot
+ faster since the server ends up resolving the same information only
+ once, as opposed to resolve it everytime JOIN command is issued, like
+ it does now.
+
+ The same thing can be done with WHOWAS command as well.
- o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when switching
- to backup router on router crash.
+ It is important to send these requests to router only if they can be
+ expanded to many results (as when doing WHOIS for nickname). If
+ they are explicit (like requesting by ID) the local cache MUST be
+ searched before sending it to router.
+
+ o Announcements are incomplete: channel topics are not announced,
+ user modes (UMODE) are not announced.
o Change the server to connect to another server from low ports (706)
and not from high ports. Currently we cannot do incoming connection
checking by remote port because the port is not fixed.
- o Announcements are incomplete: channel topics are not announced,
- user modes (UMODE) are not announced.
+ o Backup router related issues
+
+ o After backup resume protocol the TOPIC_SET was not handled
+ correctly by all (unknown Channel ID).
+
+ o Channel user mode changes are notified unnecessarely when
+ switching to backup router on router crash.
+
+ o If client's public key is saved in the server (and doing public key
+ authentication) then the hostname and the username information could
+ be taken from the public key. Should be a configuration option!
o Add a timeout to handling incoming JOIN commands. It should be
enforced that JOIN command is executed only once in a second or two
each JOIN command will create and distribute the new channel key
to everybody on the channel.
- o Optimize the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands to somehow check whether the
- requested clients are on some channel that the server knows about. If
- this is the case then the request is not needed to be forwarded to the
- router. One specific optimization could be done with JOIN command.
- If the previous command to the WHOIS and IDENTIFY commands are JOIN
- command (from the client) it can be expected (though it must be
- verified) that the client is resolving the users on the channel it just
- joined. If server has done this once there is really no reason to
- resolve it twice (from the router), it can reply directly back with
- the information it knows. This is because the server would (will)
- receive notifications from the router for users that are on a local
- channel.
-
- The same is with whowas command. Actually with all these commands
- it should be checked also whether the requested information is local.
- If it is, there is no reason to send it to the router, since the server
- knows it best.
-
- o Add support for sending the LIST command to primary router on normal
- server to receive all the created channels. Currently the command
- returns only the channels the server knows about. The protocol spec
- does not prohibit of sending the LIST to the router.
-
- o Incomplete IPv6 support:
-
- o silcd/serverid.c and its routines supports only IPv4.
-
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
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
+ 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.
TODO/bugs In SILC Libraries
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- o Optimizations to lib/silcsftp
-
- o Do not allocate new req for every client request. Use
- preallocated requests and recycle them.
+ o WIN32 silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way
+ than on Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but
+ is not actually async currently.
- o Use SilcList instead of SilcDList for requests. It is faster.
- o Do not allocate new buffer for every packet. Use preallocated
- buffer and reallocate only if necessary.
+TODO After 1.0
+==============
o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
- compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Comp API must be
+ compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip 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 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. These are currently only cosmetic changes
- but at some point must be done to make the payload interfaces
- consistent.
-
- o Incomplete IPv6 support:
-
- 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 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.
-
-TODO/Bugs in native WIN32 support (libraries)
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-
- o silc_net_create_connection_async does not work the same way than on
- Unix. Do it with threads on WIN32. The function works but is not
- actually async currently.
-
-
-TODO In SILC Protocol
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-
- 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
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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
nice as SSH is widely used all over the place. SILC Protocol
supports SSH2 public keys.
+ o OpenPGP certificate support.
+
o Cipher optimizations (asm, that this) at least for i386 would be nice.
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