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* Check Berkeley BD - it is in glibc -any licensing problems?
- * I noticed, that we sometimes have only 3 items in atrustrecord, but
+ * I noticed, that we sometimes have only 3 items in a trustrecord, but
a next pointer ro more records - check wehther the reuse code really
- works. Maybe this is the reason for the "Hmmm puiblic key lost"
+ works. Maybe this is the reason for the "Hmmm public key lost"
* Update the keyring at ftp.guug.de
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
* check support for mpi/powerpc
- * add a note, that gettext 10.35 is needed (for gettext) - and install
- it on tobold.
-
* use zlib 1.1.13 to avoid a bug with 13 bit windows
but there are more problems with large files
@@ -24,12 +21,17 @@
#define USE_DYNAMIC_LINKING
#define HAVE_DL_DLOPEN
and the ld option -export-dynamic.
+ Why does autoconf not figure that out?
* clearsig: keep lineendings as they are. Remember that trailings
blanks are not hashed.
* Check revocation and expire stuff.
+ * Always use the latest key signature (import). This is needed, so
+ that we are able to chnage the expiration time or other info in the
+ selfsignature
+
* OpenBSD: dynamic loading with dlopen works on OpenBSD, but:
OpenBSD binaries are a.out, so every symbol begins with "_"
@@ -58,8 +60,6 @@
* add some sanity checks to read_keyblock, so that we are sure that
the minimal requirements are met (?)
- * decryption of message with multiple recipients does not work.
-
* preferences of hash algorithms are not yet used.
* rewrite --list-packets or put it into another tool.
@@ -67,31 +67,19 @@
* Burn the buffers used by fopen(), or use read(2). Does this
really make sense?
- * Change the buffering to a mbuf like scheme? Need it for PSST anyway.
+ * Change the buffering to a mbuf like scheme? Need it for PSST anyway;
+ see Michael's proposal.
* add checking of armor trailers
- * remove all "Fixmes"
-
- * Change the internal represention of keyid into a struct which
- can also hold the localid and extend the localid to hold information
- of the subkey number because two subkeys may have the same keyid.
+ * remove all "Fixmes" ;-)
* add an option to re-create a public key from a secret key; we
can do this in trustdb.c:verify_own_keys.
- * signature verification is done duplicated on import: in import.c and
- tehn in trustdb.c too. Maybe we can use a flag to skip the actual
- verification process (this should work if we use the same keyblock,
- but I'm not sure how to accomplish that). Another way is to allow
- the import of bogus data and let trustdb mark these keys as invalid;
- I see an advantage in this that it may help to prevent a DoS on a
- keyserver by sending him a lot of bogus signatures which he has
- to check - Needs further investigation.
-
* change the fake_data stuff to mpi_set_opaque
* Is it okay to use gettext for the help system?
* Add some stuff for DU cc
- * Use "user ID", "trustdb" and "WARNING".
+ * Use "user ID", "trustdb", "NOTE" and "WARNING".