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
that the user has. And a local command to dump the contents of the
public key to the screen. Something like LISTKEYS, SHOWKEY...
- o The QUIT command should wait for server's disconnection (at least for
- a while) before exiting the application.
-
o The JOIN command's HELP is generated from Irssi IRCs JOIN help and
the syntax is not same in SILC. This must be fixed. Most likely
we must forget the Irssi's JOIN command and mimic it to get our
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 Add perhaps /var/run/silcd.pid for PID information for the server.
+ 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 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 The backup router support described in the protocol specification
- should be done at some point.
+ o Announcements are incomplete: channel topics are not announced,
+ user modes (UMODE) are not announced.
- o Add a timeout to handling incmoing JOIN commands. It should be
+ 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
seconds. Now it is possible to accept n incoming JOIN commands
and process them without any timeouts. THis must be employed because
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
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 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.
+
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,
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.
+ 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:
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