| 1 | $Id: TODO 157 2009-11-23 00:47:22Z tim $ |
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| 3 | If you are interested in contributing to this project, here's a few |
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| 4 | things you could look into: |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | - Currently there is no way on the command line to search for exotic |
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| 7 | paths/types. For instance, if reglookup encounters an unknown VK |
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| 8 | type, it just prints it out in Hex. However, if you wanted to search |
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| 9 | specifically for that type, there is no way to do it. Similarly, it |
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| 10 | isn't possible to specify certain binary or weird characters in |
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| 11 | paths. Reglookup should take the user path and unquote each path |
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| 12 | component using the \xQQ syntax prior to searching. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | - It might be nice to have a way to filter results by security |
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| 15 | descriptor information. Maybe by MTIME as well. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | - Testing, testing, and more testing. reglookup needs to be more |
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| 18 | heavily tested on all recent Windows platforms. A regression test |
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| 19 | suite would be nice too. Some thoughts on this include a script |
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| 20 | which randomly fuzzes an existing registry file, and tries to detect |
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| 21 | crashes of reglookup when parsing it. Another test script might |
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| 22 | randomly truncate an existing registry file, which will help improve |
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| 23 | reglookup's parsing on fragmentary files. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | - Build system. I do not wish to use automake/autoconf in this |
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| 26 | project. I have also now decided that make is painful to use for |
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| 27 | everything. I'd like to switch to a suite of shell scripts driven by |
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| 28 | minimal make rules. If you got any ideas on this, shoot them my way. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | - Unicode support still needs improvement. While parsing strings seems |
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| 31 | to be decent, UTF-8 output would be nice. Need support for |
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| 32 | UTF-16LE key and value names. To do this, the UTF conversion |
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| 33 | functions need to be moved to regfi. |
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| 35 | - The interface between reglookup.c and regfi.c is much better than it |
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| 36 | used to be, but the parsing of data objects needs to be moved into the |
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| 37 | library. The quoting syntax should stay in reglookup/reglookup-recover |
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| 38 | but the basic parsing of data types into proper structures should |
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| 39 | happen in the library so that they are accessible to other users of the |
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| 40 | library. |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | - Develop and solidify regfi API. Regfi should be better documented and |
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| 43 | eventually needs a set of Python wrappers. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | - Documentation. The security descriptor output format needs to be |
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| 46 | documented. Also, function contracts should be added to the |
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| 47 | lower-level functions of regfi.c. |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | - The smb_deps.h and smb_deps.c content is almost eliminated. Just need |
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| 50 | to integrate parts that are being kept into regfi or other modules. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | - Consider switching from libiconv to Joachim Metz's libuna for |
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| 53 | increased portability and easier builds. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | - Grep through the source for 'XXX', and you'll find more. |
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