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-General
-=======
-
- o Create apps/tutorial containing various Toolkit API tutorials.
-
- o The Toolkit split. The Toolkit is to be splitted in parts. How many
- parts and what the parts are isn't decided yet. Each part is a separate
- software package. Current thinking is of the following:
-
- SILC Toolkit SILC protocol, client and server library
- SILC Runtime Toolkit runtime library
- SILC Crypto Toolkit crypto, asn1, math, skr, pgp, etc.
-
- The rationale for this is of course that other than SILC projects
- might like to use the various libraries SILC Toolkit provides, but
- naturally they don't want the bloat of SILC protocol related stuff.
-
- The Runtime library in SILC Toolkit is a general purpose runtime library,
- like Glib and APR are. The runtime library is to be developed further
- to provide alternative to Glib and APR.
-
- The Crypto library in SILC Toolkit is a general purpose crypto library
- providing pretty nice APIs compared to many other crypto libraries,
- especially OpenSSL. The Crypto library is to be developed further
- to include support for OpenPGP, X.509 and SSH2.
-
-
lib/silccore
============
o Ability to recover from rekey errors, at least try to.
-Runtime library, lib/silcutil/
-==============================
-
- o silc_malloc et. al. to respect --with-alignment.
-
- o Fix universal time decoding (doesn't accept all formats) in silctime.c.
-
- o Additional scheduler changes: optimize silc_schedule_wakeup. Wakeup
- only if the scheduler is actually waiting something. If it is
- delivering tasks wakeup is not needed.
-
- o silc_stringprep to non-allocating version.
-
- 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 Add directory opening/traversing functions (***DONE, TODO Windows & Symbian)
-
- o regex from /lib/contrib to lib/silcutil, define SILC Regex API. (***DONE)
-
- o Add functions to manipulate environment variables. (***DONE)
-
- o Add functions to loading shared/dynamic object symbols (replaces the
- SIM library (lib/silcsim) and introduces generic library). Add this
- to lib/silcutil/silcdll.[ch]. (***TESTING NEEDED WIN32, TODO Symbian)
-
- o silc_getopt routines (***DONE)
-
- o The SILC Event signals. Asynchronous events that can be created,
- connected to and signalled. Either own event routines or glued into
- SilcSchedule. (***DONE)
-
- o If the event signals are added, the SILC_PARAM_* stuff needs to be
- moved from silcbuffmt.h to silctypes.h or something similar. (***DONE)
-
- o In case the SILC Events are done we shall create a new concept of
- parent and child SilcSchedule's. When new SilcSchedule is created a
- parent can be associated to it. This association could be done either
- directly by the parent or by any other children. This way the signals
- would in effect be global and would reach all children schedulers.
-
- This relationship would be associative only. The schedulers are still
- independent and run independently from each other. All schedulers
- would be linked and could be accessed from any of the schedulers.
- It should be possible to retrieve the parent and enumerate all children
- from any of the schedulers.
- (***DONE)
-
- o Base64 to an own API (***DONE)
-
- o Timer API (***DONE)
-
- o silc_hash_table_replace -> silc_hash_table_set. Retain support for
- silc_hash_table_replace as macro. (***DONE)
-
- o SilcStack aware SilcHashTable. (***DONE)
-
- o SilcStack aware SilcDList. (***DONE)
-
- o Thread pool API. Add this to lib/silcutil/silcthread.[ch]. (***DONE)
-
- o Add new functions to SilcStack API in lib/silcutil/silcstack.[ch]. Add
- silc_stack_[set|get]_alignment. It defines the default alignment used
- when allocating memory from stack. It can be used to specify special
- alignments too when needed (such as for hardware devices like crypto
- accelerators). Move also the low level silc_stack_malloc and
- silc_stack_realloc from silcstack_i.h to silcstack.h. Remove the
- _ua unaligned memory allocation routines. Remove unaligned memory
- allocation possibility. (***DONE)
-
- o silc_stack_alloc shouldn't require multiple by 8 size argument, it
- should figure it out itself. (***DONE)
-
- o Add '%@' format to silc_snprintf functions.
- (***DONE)
-
- o SILC Tls (Thread-local storage) API to lib/silcutil/silcthread.[ch].
- (***DONE)
-
- o Change silc_gettimeofday on Unix to use clock_gettime with REALTIME
- clock if it is available, otherwise use gettimeofday(). (***DONE)
-
- o Generic SilcResult that includes all possible status and
- error conditions and generic errno API. (***DONE)
-
- (o Structured log messages to Log API. Allows machine readable log
- messages. Would allow sending of any kind of data in a log message.) maybe
-
- (o Change some stream routines (like socket stream API) to accept ANY
- stream and use silc_stream_get_root to get the socket stream from the
- given stream. This will make various stream APIs more easier to use
- when user doesn't have to dig up the correct stream.
-
- Add silc_stream_get_root and add get_root stream operation. It
- returns the root of the stream or NULL if stream doesn't have root.) maybe
-
- (o Compression routines are missing. The protocol supports packet
- compression thus it must be implemented. SILC Zip API must be
- defined.) maybe
-
- (o SilcIpAddr abstraction. Ipv4 and Ipv6 support to the abstaction.)
- maybe
-
- (o SILC specific socket creation/closing routines to silcnet.h, wrappers
- to all send(), recv(), sendto() etc. Bad thing is that we'd have to
- define all socket options, sockaddrs, etc.) maybe
-
- (o Fast mutex implementation. Fast rwlock implementation. Mutex and
- rwlock implementation using atomic operations.) not for now.
-
- (o mmap) maybe
-
-
-lib/silcutil/symbian/
-=====================
-
- o Something needs to be thought to the logging globals as well,
- like silc_debug etc. They won't work on EPOC. Perhaps logging
- and debugging is to be disabled on EPOC. The logging currently works
- by it cannot be controlled, same with debugging.
-
-
SFTP Library, lib/silcsftp/
===========================
be done easily.
-SKR Library, lib/silcskr/
-=========================
-
- o Add fingerprint as search constraint.
-
- o Add OpenPGP support. Adding, removing, fetching PGP keys. (Keyring
- support?)
-
- o Add support for importing public keys from a directory and/or from a
- file. Add support for exporting the repository (different formats for
- different key types?).
-
- o Change the entire silc_skr_find API. Remove SilcSKRFind and just simply
- add the find constraints as variable argument list to silc_skr_find, eg:
-
- silc_skr_find(skr, schedule, callback, context,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_PUBLIC_KEY, public_key,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_COUNTRY, "FI",
- SILC_SKR_FIND_USAGE, SILC_SKR_USAGE_AUTH,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_END);
-
- NULL argument would be ignored and skipped.
-
- o Add OR logical rule in addition of the current default AND, eg:
-
- // Found key(s) MUST have this public key AND this country.
- silc_skr_find(skr, schedule, callback, context,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_RULE_AND,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_PUBLIC_KEY, public_key,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_COUNTRY, "FI",
- SILC_SKR_FIND_END);
-
- // Found key(s) MUST have this public key OR this key context
- silc_skr_find(skr, schedule, callback, context,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_RULE_OR,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_PUBLIC_KEY, public_key,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_CONTEXT, key_context,
- SILC_SKR_FIND_END);
-
- o SilcStack to SKR API.
-
-
-Crypto Library, lib/silccrypt/
-==============================
-
- o Add silc_crypto_init and silc_crypto_uninit. The _init should take
- SilcStack that will act as global memory pool for all of crypto
- library. It should not be necessary anymore to separately register
- default ciphers, HMACs, etc, the _init would do that. However, if
- user after _init calls silc_pkcs_register, for example, it would take
- preference over the default once, ie. user can always dictate the
- order of algorithms. (***DONE)
-
- o Add fingerprint to SilcSILCPublicKey and retrieval to silcpk.h, and
- possibly to silcpkcs.h.
-
- /* Return fingerprint of the `public_key'. Returns also the algorithm
- that has been used to make the fingerprint. */
- const unsigned char *
- silc_pkcs_get_fingerprint(SilcPublicKey public_key,
- const char **hash_algorithm,
- SilcUInt32 *fingerprint_len);
-
- o Change SILC PKCS API to asynchronous, so that accelerators can be used.
- All PKCS routines should now take callbacks as argument and they should
- be delivered to SilcPKCSObject and SilcPKCSAlgorithm too. (***DONE)
-
- o The asynchronous functions to perhaps to _async to preserve backwards
- compatibility with synchronous versions, and make easier to migrate
- from 1.1 to 1.2.
-
- o Change PKCS Algorithm API to take SilcPKCSAlgorithm as argument to
- encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify functions. We may need to for exmaple
- check the alg->hash, supported hash functions. Maybe deliver it also
- to all other functions in SilcPKCSAlgorithm to be consistent. (***DONE)
-
- o Add DSA support to SILC public key.
-
- o Add DSS support. (***DONE)
-
- o Implement the defined SilcDH API. The definition is in
- lib/silccrypt/silcdh.h. Make sure it is asynchronous so that it can
- be accelerated. Also take into account that it could use elliptic
- curves.
-
- o Add ECDSA support.
-
- o Add ECDH support.
-
- o AES CBC is missing proper alignment code (see silc_1_1_branch).
-
- o All cipher, hash, hmac etc. allocation routines should take their name
- in as const char * not const unsigned char *. (***DONE)
-
-
-SILC Accelerator Library
-========================
-
- o SILC Accelerator API. Provides generic way to use different kind of
- accelerators. Basically implements SILC PKCS API so that SilcPublicKey
- and SilcPrivateKey can be used but they call the accelerators.
- (***DONE)
-
- o Implement software accelerator. It is a thread pool system where the
- public key and private key operations are executed in threads.
- (***DONE)
-
- o Add init options to SilcAcceleratorObject as a SilcAcceleratorOption
- structure. Each accelerator defines the options that they support and
- can be retrieved from the SilcAccelerator with silc_acc_get_options.
- The format must also be machine parseable. The structure can be of the
- following format:
-
- typedef struct SilcAcceleratorOptionStruct {
- const char *option; /* Option name */
- const char *display_name; /* Option displayable name */
- SilcParamType type; /* Option data format */
- void *default_value; /* Option's default value */
- SilcUInt32 default_value_len; /* Default value length */
- } *SilcAcceleratorOption;
-
- For software accelerator it could be for example:
-
- { "min_threads", "Minimum threads", SILC_PARAM_UINT32, (void *)2, 4 },
- { "max_threads", "Maximum threads", SILC_PARAM_UINT32, (void *)4, 4 },
-
- o Diffie-Hellman acceleration
-
- (o Symmetric key cryptosystem acceleration? They are always sycnhronouos
- even with hardware acceleration so the crypto API shouldn't require
- changes.) maybe
-
-
-lib/silcmath
-============
-
- o Import TFM. We want TFM's speed but its memory requirements are
- just too much. By default it uses large pre-allocated tables which
- will eat memory when there are thousands of public keys in system.
- We probably want to change TFM's fp_int dynamic so that a specific
- size can be allocated for the int. We could have two new functions:
-
- SilcBool silc_mp_init_size(SilcMPInt *mp, SilcUInt32 bit_size);
- SilcBool silc_mp_sinit_size(SilcStack stack, SilcMPInt *mp,
- SilcUInt32 bit_size);
-
- Which by default allocates `bit_size' bits instead of some default
- value. silc_mp_init would allocate the default FP_SIZE with TFM
- and do normal init with TMA and GMP. _init_size with TMA and GMP
- would be same as _init.
-
- o Add AND, OR and XOR support to TFM or ask Tom to do it.
-
- o The SILC MP API function must start returning indication of success
- and failure of the operation.
-
- o Do SilcStack support for silc_mp_init, silc_mp_init_size and other
- any other MP function (including utility ones) that may allocate
- memory.
-
- o Prime generation progress using callback instead of printing to
- stdout.
-
- o All utility functions should be made non-allocating ones.
-
-
-SILC XML Library, lib/silcxml/
-==============================
-
- o SILC XML API (wrapper to expat). Look at the expat API and simplify
- it. The SILC XML API should have at most 8-10 API functions. It should
- be possible to create full XML parser with only one function. And, it
- should be possible to have a function that is able to parse an entire
- XML document. It should also have a parser function to be able to
- parse a stream of XML data (SilcStream). It MUST NOT have operations
- that require multiple function calls to be able to execute that one
- operation (like creating parser).
-
-
lib/silcske/silcske.[ch]
========================
o Ratelimit to UDP/IP transport for incoming packets.
-lib/silcasn1
-============
-
- o Negative integer encoding is missing, add it.
-
- o SILC_ASN1_CHOICE should perhaps return an index what choice in the
- choice list was found. Currently it is left for caller to figure out
- which choice was found. (***DONE)
-
- o SILC_ASN1_NULL in decoding should return SilcBool whether or not
- the NULL was present. It's important when it's SILC_ASN1_OPTIONAL
- and we need to know whether it was present or not. (***DONE)
-
-
-lib/silcpgp
-===========
-
- o OpenPGP certificate support, allowing the use of PGP public keys.
-
-
-lib/silcssh
-===========
-
- o SSH2 public key/private key support, allowing the use of SSH2 keys.
- RFC 4716. (***DONE)
-
-
-lib/silcpkix
-============
-
- o PKIX implementation
-
-
apps/silcd
==========
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