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                            wallet To-Do List

Minimum required to replace leland_srvtab:

* Add support to the test suite for specifying a different database than
  SQLite for testing.  For MySQL and other database types that we can't
  just delete, also requires adding a method to Wallet::Schema to drop all
  of our tables and indices in reverse order of creation.

* Write the remctl configuration and finish Debian packaging of the
  wallet client and server.

Release 0.3:

* Write the LDAP entitlement ACL verifier.

* Write the PTS ACL verifier.

* Use the class names in the database tables when loading object and
  ACL verifier implementations.

Release 1.0:

* Add POD testing for the client and server programs.

* Add POD coverage testing using Test::POD::Coverage for the server
  modules.

* Provide a way to get history for deleted objects and ACLs.

* Display ACL names rather than index numbers when displaying history of
  owner and acl_* settings.

* Provide an interface to list all objects in the database by type, by
  owner (including null), or by all uses of an ACL.

* Provide an interface to list all ACLs in the database.  Most
  interestingly, an interface to list all empty ACLs.

* Add a help function to wallet-backend listing the commands.

* The client may not compile against Heimdal due to changes in how the
  krb5_keyblock structure is laid out.  Check and fix.

* Rewrite the client test suite to use Perl and to make better use of
  shared code so that it can be broken into function components.

* Stop hard-coding library names in the build system for kasetkey and
  wallet.

* Add a test suite for kasetkey.

* Compiling kasetkey should be optional and probably not enabled by
  default.

* Log failures in the wallet-backend properly, which also requires
  catching all exceptions.

* Implement default ACL policy to allow dynamic object creation on first
  request for keytabs.

* Implement special handling for keytabs in the wallet client.

* Add support to the wallet client for getting Kerberos tickets, using the
  -u option similar to leland_srvtab.  Needs good error messages on
  Kerberos failures.

* The wallet client should read configuration information from krb5.conf,
  and possibly from some other configuration as well.

* Error messages from ACL operations should refer to the ACLs by name
  instead of by ID.

* Add the database schema version to a global table so that we can use it
  to support schema upgrades in the future.

* On upgrades, support adding new object types and ACL verifiers to the
  class tables.

* Write a wallet-admin program to provide an interface to things like
  database initialization and, eventually, upgrades.

* Implement store support in the wallet client.  Add an option to read the
  data from a file.  The initial implementation, depending on the
  underlying remctl support, may have to ban nul characters in the
  uploaded data.

* Implement a simple file wallet object.  Document a naming convention for
  those files (group-service, perhaps).

* Revisit the way default ACL creation is handled.  Add a new function to
  verify an ACL given as an array without requiring that it be in the
  database first and write better code for comparing two ACLs.

Future work:

* Write a conventions document for ACL naming, object naming, and similar
  issues.

* Write a future design and roadmap document to collect notes about how
  unimplemented features should be handled.

* Support displaying and possibly specifying dates in some format more
  normal than seconds since epoch.

* Support limiting returned history information by timestamp.

* There is a lot of duplicate code in wallet-backend.  Convert that to
  use some sort of data-driven model with argument count and flags so
  that the method calls can be written only once.

* There's a lot of code duplication in the dispatch functions in the
  Wallet::Server class.  Find a way to rewrite that so that the dispatch
  doesn't duplicate the same code patterns.

* Refactor the test suite for the wallet backend to try to reduce the
  duplicated code.

* Pull common test suite code into a Perl library that can be reused.

* Add a function to wallet-admin to purge expired entries.  Possibly also
  check expiration before allowing anyone to get or store objects.

* Add a comment field for objects that can be set by the owner.

* Implement an ssh keypair wallet object.  The server can run ssh-keygen
  to generate a public/private key pair and return both to the client,
  which would split them apart.  Used primarily for host keys.  May need a
  side table to store key types, or a naming convention.

* Implement an X.509 certificate object.  I expect this would store the
  public and private key as a single file in the same format that Apache
  can read for combined public and private keys.  There were requests for
  storing the CSR, but I don't see why you'd want to do that.  Start with
  store support.

* Implement an X.509 CA so that you can get certificate objects without
  storing them first.  Need to resolve naming conventions if you want to
  run multiple CAs on the same wallet server (but why?).  Should this be a
  different type than stored certificates?

* Add details to design-api on how to write one's own ACL verifiers and
  object implementations and register them.

* Add support for enforcing a naming policy through another policy
  function.

* The keytab backend currently only supports MIT Kerberos.  Add support
  for Heimdal.

* Add readline support to the wallet client to make it easier to issue
  multiple commands.

* The wallet-backend and wallet documentation share the COMMANDS section.
  Work out some means to assemble the documentation without duplicating
  content.

* Add support for rekeying in the wallet client.  Need to resolve how to
  get a list of principals to rekey and which keytabs to work on.  This
  possibly should be a separate binary from the regular wallet client
  binary.

* Document using the wallet system over something other than remctl.

* Provide a REST implementation of the wallet server.

* Provide a CGI implementation of the wallet server.

* Document all diagnostics for all wallet APIs.

* Write a test suite to scan all wallet code looking for diagnostics that
  aren't in the documentation and warn about them.

May or may not be good ideas:

* Remove the hard-coded ADMIN ACL in the server with something more
  configurable, perhaps a global ACL table or something.

* The ACL implementation is currently rather inefficient for ACL
  verifiers that need to maintain state (such as LDAP binds).  Now
  they're created and destroyed when verifying each ACL.  It may be useful
  to somehow return global verifiers, probably through a factory
  implementation.  On the other hand, performance may not be worth it.