User-level changes:
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- libgpgme is not used anymore; it is replaced by a built-in piece of code called OpenPGP-SDK
(http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk/cgi-bin/trac.cgi) that was improved to be used by RetroShare
for handling PGP keys.
- the gnupg keyring is not used anymore. Now, RetroShare has it's own gpg keyring, shared by all instances.
On linux it's located in ~/.retroshare/pgp/. A lock system prevents multiple locations to read/write keyrings
simultaneously.
- the trust database from gnupg is not documented, so RetroShare cannot import it. This comes from the fact that
the GPG standard (RFC4880) asks explicitly not to export trust information. So RetroShare has it's own
trust DB shared by locations. This means you need to re-trust people. Sorry for that!
- at start, if no keyring is found, RS will propose to copy the gnupg keyring to use your existing keys. Clicking on
"OK" will do the copy, and you should find back all existing locations, except for DSA keys.
- locations for which the suitable keypair is not in the keyring will not be displayed in the login window
- locations for which the suitable keypair is not a RSA/RSA key will not be displayed. RetroShare does not
support DSA/Elgamal keypairs yet.
- a key import/export exchange function has been added in the certificate creation window (you go there from the login
window by clicking on "manage keys/locations". This allows to easily create a new location with the same pgp key on
another computer. To obtain a suitable keypair using gnupg, you need to concatenate the encrypted private key and the
public key into an ascii file. This can be done using:
gpg -a --export-secret-keys [your ID] > mykey.asc
gpg -a --export [your ID] >> mykey.asc
- importing a key with subkeys in not yet possible. Please remove subkeys before importing.
- The code has been tested for a reasonnable amount of time, but it's not possible to prevent some new bugs
to appear. Please report them asap supplying: call-stacks if possible, and terminal output. In particular,
openpgp has some assert()'s that should not be triggered unless RetroShare is calling it in an improper way.
Internal changes
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- a specific component, PGPHandler, takes care of the interface between openpgp-sdk and RetroShare
openpgp-sdk is c-code, with it's own memory management, which has been kept well separated from
RetroShare.
- GPG Ids are now a specific class (not a std::string anymore) for code consistency reasons. As strings are
still used in many places, this requires a few conversions. In particular, AuthGPG takes strings as
function params and calls GPGHandler with the proper PGPIdType class. In the future, RetroShare should
only use PGPIdType. The same will be done for SSL ids.
- signature cleaning is still handled by the Retroshare built-in function, not by openpgp, but we will
do this later.
Still to do
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- DSA needs subkey handling, since the encryption is performed by a Elgamal subkey. Not sure this will be done.
- GPGIds/SSLIds cleaning (meaning replace strings by appropriate types). Lots of confusion throughout the code in retroshare-gui in particular.
- key removal from keyring. This is a challenge to keep locations synchronised.
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added new nxs net test hub code for testing nxs netservice (fails at the moment)
also a completed definitions and other related compile time issue due to incorrect inheritance statements
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- Modified dummy data so new comments / votes get added in (testing background processing).
- exposed fns for GUI rankings & testing.
- corrected order of extraction from ranking Map.
- fixed up debug output.
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- Defined expected parameters for GxsGroups (see comments in rsidentity.h)
- Added Various #defines for Groups / Msgs (again in rsidentity.h)
- Converted new Group / new Msg into async "token" calls, returing MetaData.
- Refined Grp/Msg Status Flags... similarly to how Forums used them...
Expect UNREAD & UNPROCESSED flags to be set for a new msg,
and UPDATED flag to be set for the corresponding group.
There is flexibility for services to add their own flags too.
- removed groupsChanged(). This can alternatively be implemented using.
getGroupList(opts.Status == UPDATED)...
- refined SubscribeFlags in a similar manner.
- Added "ServiceString" to Group/Msg MetaData. This is freeform cache
storage for service to use... currently p3Posted uses it to count Votes.
- Added MsgStatus & SubscribeFlag filtering to Cache Requests.
- Implemented these filters in GxsDataProxy (no efficient yet!)
* Cleaned up all 6 new Cache Services to conform to new interface.
* Removed old interface code that was #ifdef'd out.
* Implemented Basic Ranking algorithms for p3posted:
- Background process to process new votes/comments.
- getRanking(token) interface call.
- Intercept StatusRequests, etc to hide internal data requests.
- While the basic code is complete, it needs much testing / tweaking.
- Should shift work to a seperate thread.
- Comment Ranking has still to be done.
- Interfacing with GUI not yet attempted.
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Updated dataservice tests and fixed subsequent bugs
added bug fixes for RetroDb and fixed postability issue (removed map.at use)
Added:
Data access module used as token service
gxs service backend (RsGenExchange)
RsPhotoV2 which is a modification to deal with different interface provided by RsGenExchange
also added subsequent p3photoserviceV2
NxsTestHub to help with testing nxsnetservice (RsGxsNetService is not yet working)
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* Added p3Posted service. This is a *better* Links Cloud, based on the new Cache system.
* Fixed p3GxsService retrival of Thread / Children messages. (for Forum support).
* Added Dummy Data for testing Forum integration.
* switched on both these services in libretroshare
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timestamp has been added to grp sync item
updated data service and grps to deal with this
added msg and grp meta types which serves to hold meta data of grp and msg
removed observer temporarily
updated nxs item tests, need to update data service tests
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- Fixed retransmit algorithm. Much more closely matched to TCP standard: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2988
- This increases retransmit timeouts, and reduces the number of packets resent.
- Added better debugging for retrans/close as separate #defines.
- Further testing is required ;)
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- p3bwctrl.h/.cc & rsbwctrlitems.h/.cc
- New Interface in pqihandler to extract the data.
- New Interface in rsconfig to display in GUI.
- Added extra debugging in pqistreamer for catching big outqueues.
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- added PublishTS and AuthorID to GropuMetaData.
- added Mod & Set Flags to PhotoData. (mainly for the GUI).
- added "isNew" parameter to sumbitPhoto/Album calls.
- support modifications to Photos.
- improved Photo Thumbnail handling. (still not right).
- added LATEST msg search in GxsService.
- added ATTRIB flags to rsphoto.h
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- unchecked chunks are not made available to swarming sources, not saved as done.
- force check now uses the simple method to put all chunks in checking mode
- force checked files can be cancelled (finally!)
- improved display (use red for active chunks, yellow for checking)
- cache file are not using chunk checking (assume_availability=true)
The code still contains the #ifdef. It should be removed soon if everything works ok.
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- Added missing check of file pointer in PGPHandler::decryptTextFromFile
- Added missing fclose of the ssl passphrase file in RsLoginHandler::getSSLPasswdFromGPGFile. Is this still needed, because PGPHandler::decryptTextFromFile does the same check?
- Fixed possible memory leak in ops_decrypt_memory.
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- Defined a generalised Group/Msg retrieval interface (RsTokenService), which is defined in rsidentity.h
- Defined MetaData for both Groups and Messages (not finalised yet).
- Implemented a general Data Backend for Local Testing of interface - inside p3gxsservice.cc
- Modified services to use this temporary backend.
- Added Wire and ForumV2 services.
Still lots to do:
- work out request options.
- finalise metadata.
- group permissions.
- identities
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added orig msgid and removed sign from nxsmsg, renamed nxsitems more appropriately
added more code to nxs net service
removed msg versioning from data service and added extra msgField
modified nxsitem test and datastore service appropriately, all pass
added serialisation of transactions and added transaction number to nxsitems
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- Fixed crash after the second call to RsInit::InitRetroShare when keyring does not exist.
The instance of AuthSSL was created twice and AuthGPG was deleted without stopping the thread. Stopped the AuthGPG thread on exit of RetroShare.
- Added the correct path to the keyring for Windows in RsInit::copyGnuPGKeyrings.
- Changed the detection of the portable version on Windows from the file "gpg.exe" to the file "portable".
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As opposed to the previous ones, this ends up with a massively complicated set of data calls to build
the tree of modifications... It suggests the need for a dbase cache of MetaData for both Groups and Msgs.
- modified rsphoto/p3PhotoService interface to conform to 'developing style'
- shifted fakeprocessrequests() to p3GxsService - as its generic.
- added requestMsgRelatedList() request to allow searching for OrigMsgId, MsgVersions + LatestVersions.
- added RsTokReqOptions class to allow fine tuning of requests.
- major changes to p3WikiService to conform to new standard.
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Moved notify of lobby nick name change from the gui to p3ChatService.
Added missing mutex locks for p3ChatService::_default_nick_name.
Recompile needed.
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updated rsnxsitems with discrete msgs and grp item rather than collection of msgs/grps
added flags header file
added first declaration of implemented genexchange service (client API interface)
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- tunnels can borrow data chunks from only slower tunnels, to prevent blocking fast tunnels
- tunnels can handle up to 50 data chunks at once instead of 5
Multi-source transfers are generaly faster and more stable.
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RS_CHAT_LOBBY_EVENT_PEER_CHANGE_NICKNAME is send, when changing nickname, so the blocklist can be updated (in future).
This will never wort for 100% as discussed in the developer forum, but should stop the most spam.
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nxsitems not tested yet
renamed retrodb src file to .cc regular librs naming convention
wrote deserialisation section of nxsitems, need to write print and clear rsitem base functions
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