Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode! * Before release: ** Some gpg tests fail with gpg 1.3.4-cvs (gpg/t-keylist-sig) The test is currently disabled there and in gpg/t-import. ** When gpg supports it, write binary subpackets directly, and parse SUBPACKET status lines. * ABI's to break: ** gpgme_edit_cb_t: Add "processed" return argument (see edit.c::command_handler). ** I/O and User Data could be made extensible. But this can be done without breaking the ABI hopefully. * All enums that should be enums need to have a maximum value to ensure a certain minimum width for extensibility. ** Compatibility interfaces that can be removed in future versions: *** gpgme_data_new_from_filepart *** gpgme_data_new_from_file *** gpgme_data_new_with_read_cb *** gpgme_data_rewind *** gpgme_op_import_ext *** gpgme_get_sig_key *** gpgme_get_sig_ulong_attr *** gpgme_get_sig_string_attr *** GPGME_SIG_STAT_* *** gpgme_get_sig_status *** gpgme_trust_item_release *** gpgme_trust_item_get_string_attr *** gpgme_trust_item_get_ulong_attr *** gpgme_attr_t *** All Gpgme* typedefs. * Thread support: ** When GNU Pth supports sendmsg/recvmsg, wrap them properly. ** Without timegm (3) support our ISO time parser is not thread safe. There is a configure time warning, though. * New features: ** Extended notation support. When gpg supports arbitrary binary notation data, provide a user interface for that. ** notification system We need a simple notification system, probably a simple callback with a string and some optional arguments. This is for example required to notify an application of a changed smartcard, The application can then do whatever is required. There are other usages too. This notfication system should be independent of any contextes of course. ** --learn-code support This might be integrated with import. we still need to work out how to learn a card when gpg and gpgsm have support for smartcards. ** Might need a stat() for data objects and use it for length param to gpg. ** Implement support for photo ids. ** Allow selection of subkeys ** Allow to return time stamps in ISO format This allows us to handle years later than 2037 properly. With the time_t interface they are all mapped to 2037-12-31 ** New features requested by our dear users, but rejected or left for later consideration: *** Allow to export secret keys. Rejected because this is conceptually flawed. Secret keys on a smart card can not be exported, for example. *** Selecting the key ring, setting the version or comment in output. Rejected because the naive implementation is engine specific, the configuration is part of the engine's configuration or readily worked around in a different way *** Selecting the symmetric cipher. *** Exchanging keys with key servers. * Documentation ** Document validity and trust issues. ** In gpgme.texi: Register callbacks under the right letter in the index. * Engines ** Do not create/destroy engines, but create engine and then reset it. Internally the reset operation still spawns a new engine process, but this can be replaced with a reset later. Also, be very sure to release everything properly at a reset and at an error. Think hard about where to guarantee what (ie, what happens if start fails, are the fds unregistered immediately - i think so?) ** Optimize the case where a data object has 0an underlying fd we can pass directly to the engine. This will be automatic with socket I/O and descriptor passing. ** Move code common to all engines up from gpg to engine. ** engine operations can return General Error on unknown protocol (it's an internal error, as select_protocol checks already). ** When server mode is implemented properly, more care has to be taken to release all resources on error (for example to free assuan_cmd). * Operations ** If an operation failed, make sure that the result functions don't return corrupt partial information. !!! NOTE: The EOF status handler is not called in this case !!! ** Verify must not fail on NODATA premature if auto-key-retrieval failed. It should not fail silently if it knows there is an error. !!! ** All operations: Better error reporting. !! ** Export status handler need much more work. !!! ** Import should return a useful error when one happened. *** Import does not take notice of NODATA status report. *** When GPGSM does issue IMPORT_OK status reports, make sure to check for them in tests/gpgs m/t-import.c. ** Verify can include info about version/algo/class, but currently this is only available for gpg, not gpgsm. ** Return ENC_TO output in verify result. Again, this is not available for gpgsm. ** Genkey should return something more useful than General_Error. ** If possible, use --file-setsize to set the file size for proper progress callback handling. Write data interface for file size. ** Optimize the file descriptor list, so the number of open fds is always known easily. ** Encryption: It should be verified that the behaviour for partially untrusted recipients is correct. ** When GPG issues INV_something for invalid signers, catch them. * Error Values ** Map ASSUAN/GpgSM ERR error values in a better way than is done now. !! ** Some error values should identify the source more correctly (mostly error values derived from status messages). * Tests ** Write a fake gpg-agent so that we can supply known passphrases to gpgsm and setup the configuration files to use the agent. Without this we are testing a currently running gpg-agent which is not a clever idea. ! ** t-data *** Test gpgme_data_release_and_get_mem. *** Test gpgme_data_seek for invalid types. ** t-keylist Write a test for ext_keylist. ** Test reading key signatures. * Debug ** Handle malloc and vasprintf errors. But decide first if they should be ignored (and logged with 255?!), or really be assertions. ! * Build suite ** Make sure everything is cleaned correctly (esp. test area). ** Enable AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and bump up autoconf version requirement. (To fix "./autogen.sh; ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode; touch configure.ac; make"). Currently worked around with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS??? * Error checking ** engine-gpgsm, with-validation Add error checking some time after releasing a new gpgsm. Copyright 2004, 2005 g10 Code GmbH This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.