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1998-10-18 17:21:22 +02:00
* Check that uids without a self signature don't become fully trusted and
print a warning when such a key is used.
1998-10-18 17:21:22 +02:00
Scheduled for 1.1
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* With option -i prompt before adding a key to the keyring and show some
info what we are about to add.
* Speed up calculation of key validation.
* Allow a replacement for the progress functions in ./cipher
* add an option to use an OpenPGP packet as input (and don't build a literal
data packet)
* print a warning when a revoked/expired _secret_ key is used.
Nice to have
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* Offcial test vectors for 3DES-EDE3
* use DEL and ^H for erasing the previous character (util/ttyio.c).
or better readline.
* Print a warning if the directory mode is wrong.
* replace the keyserver stuff either by a call to a specialized
utility and SOCKSify this utility.
* Do a real fix for bug #7 or document that it is a PGP 5 error.
* preferences of hash algorithms are not yet used.
* Replace the SIGUSR1 stuff by semaphores to avoid loss of a signal.
or use POSIX.4 realtime signals. Overhaul the interface and the
test program. Use it with the test suite?
* add test cases for invalid data (scrambled armor or other random data)
* add checking of armor trailers
* Burn the buffers used by fopen(), or use read(2). Does this
really make sense? And while we are at it: implement a secure deletion
stuff?
* the pubkey encrypt functions should do some sanity checks.
* dynload: implement the hint stuff.
* "gpg filename.tar.gz.asc" should work like --verify (-sab).
* for messages created with "-t", it might make sense to append the
verification status of the message to the output (i.e. write something to
the --output file and not only to stderr.
* configure option where to find zlib