[or-cvs] r10021: some todo items that have been sitting in my sandbox (tor/trunk/doc)

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Author: arma
Date: 2007-04-25 01:59:30 -0400 (Wed, 25 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 10021

Modified:
   tor/trunk/doc/TODO
Log:
some todo items that have been sitting in my sandbox


Modified: tor/trunk/doc/TODO
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/doc/TODO	2007-04-24 21:33:06 UTC (rev 10020)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/TODO	2007-04-25 05:59:30 UTC (rev 10021)
@@ -173,18 +173,28 @@
     - A better UI for authority ops.
       - Follow weasel's proposal, crossed with mixminion dir config format
       - Write a proposal
-    - Bridges (rudimentary version) (By Jun 1)
+    - Bridges users (rudimentary version) (By Jun 1)
       - Ability to specify bridges manually
-      - Use bridges to build circuits
+      D cache of bridges that we've learned about and use but aren't
+        manually listed in the torrc.
+        D and some mechanism for specifying that we want to stop using
+          a given bridge in this cache.
+      - Config option 'UseBridges' that bridge users can turn on.
+        - uses bridges as first hop rather than entry guards.
+      D Do we want to maintain our own set of entryguards that we use
+        after the bridge? Open research question; let's say no for 0.2.0
+        unless we learn otherwise.
       - Ask all directory questions to bridge via BEGIN_DIR.
+    - Bridges operators (rudimentary version) (By Jun 1)
       - Ability to act as dir cache without a dir port.
       - Bridges publish to bridge authorities
+      - Fix BEGIN_DIR so that you connect to bridge of which you only
+        know IP (and optionally fingerprint), and then use BEGIN_DIR to learn
+        more about it.
+    - Bridges authorities (rudimentary version) (By Jun 1)
       - Rudimentary "do not publish networkstatus" option for bridge
         authorities.
       - Clients can ask bridge authorities for more bridges.
-      - Fix BEGIN_DIR so that you connect to bridge of which you only
-        know IP (and optionally fingerprint), and then use BEGIN_DIR to learn
-        more about it.
     - Bridges (not necessarily by Jun 1)
       - Clients can ask bridge authorities for updates on known bridges.
       - More TLS normalization work: make Tor less easily
@@ -201,6 +211,8 @@
     - Blocking-resistance.
     - It would be potentially helpful to https requests on the OR port by
       acting like an HTTPS server.
+    - add an 'exit-address' line in the descriptor for servers that exit
+      from something that isn't their published address.
     - Audit how much RAM we're using for buffers and cell pools; try to
       trim down a lot.
   o Deprecations:
@@ -211,6 +223,7 @@
       packages, as documented in tor-doc-unix.html
 P - Figure out why dll's compiled in mingw don't work right in WinXP.
 P - Figure out why openssl 0.9.8d "make test" fails at sha256t test.
+  - add an AuthDirBadexit torrc option if we decide we want one.
 
 Deferred from 0.1.2.x:
   - BEGIN_DIR items
@@ -397,6 +410,9 @@
 
 
 Future version:
+  - we try to build 4 test circuits to break them over different
+    servers. but sometimes our entry node is the same for multiple
+    test circuits. this defeats the point.
   - when we hit a funny error from a dir request (eg 403 forbidden),
     but tor is working and happy otherwise, and we haven't seen many
     such errors recently, then don't warn about it.