1# What's left to do                                 -*- org -*-
2
3* Next API break:
4** gcry_ac_io_t
5  Remove use of anonymous union.
6** gcry_ac
7  Consider to remove it.
8
9* udiv-qrnbd.o should get build as *.lo [HPUX]
10
11* Allow operation using RSA keys consisting of the OpenSSL keys.
12  This requires the introduction of a parameter names (say) U which
13  is calculated according to OpenSSL/PKCS#1 rules.
14
15* linker script test
16  Write an autoconf test to check whether the linker supports a
17  version script. 
18
19* Add attributes to the MPI functions.
20
21* cipher/pubkey.c and pubkey implementaions.
22  Don't rely on the secure memory based wiping function but add an
23  extra wiping.
24  
25* Use builtin bit functions of gcc 3.4
26
27* Consider using a daemon to maintain the random pool
28  [Partly done] The down side of this is that we can't assume that the
29  random has has always been stored in "secure memory".  And we rely
30  on that sniffing of Unix domain sockets is not possible.  We can
31  implement this simply by detecting a special prefixed random seed
32  name and divert in this case to the daemon.  There are several
33  benefits with such an approach: We keep the state of the RNG over
34  invocations of libgcrypt based applications, don't need time
35  consuming initialization of the pool and in case the entropy
36  collectros need to run that bunch of Unix utilities we don't waste
37  their precious results.
38
39* gcryptrnd.c
40  Requires a test for pth [done] as well as some other tests.
41
42* secmem.c
43  Check whether the memory block is valid before releasing it and
44  print a diagnosic, like glibc does.
45
46* threads
47** We need to document fork problems
48  In particular that reinitialization is required in random.c
49  However, there is no code yet to do it.
50
51* Tests
52  We need a lot more tests.  Lets keep an ever growing list here.
53** Write tests for the progress function
54** mpitests does no real checks yet.
55** pthreads
56  To catch simple errors like the one fixed on 2007-03-16.
57** C++ tests
58  We have some code to allow using libgcrypt from C++, so we also
59  should have a test case.
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