TODO list related to Status nim integration

[kdeme]

Here is a list of items that I deem useful to get Whisper (and underlying protocols) more stable & secure + also get some additional features. For the Status nim integration PoC, these are probably not necessary and only definition & implementation of the wrapper/API is needed.

General

• [x] EIP-8 checking https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/109
• [ ] Connection Limiting: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/107 & https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/108
• [ ] More unit tests + further & additional fuzzing on rlpx (& Whisper)
• [ ] Code coverage on these unit tests + perhaps also on fuzzing corpus
• [ ] Stretch: Integration tests with geth whisper implementation
• [x] Metrics https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/110
• [x] Have a basic standalone whisper node cli application: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus/issues/426
• [ ] Add to standalone Whisper node: mailclient, mailserver & discv5.
• [ ] Per IP peer limiting? https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/111
• [ ] Stretch: Peer rating?
• [ ] Whisper privacy considerations: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/105 & https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/106
• [x] Add nix recipe for Nimbus, or at least for building the nim-status API
• [ ] Discovery v5 with Topic discovery to be able to find "whisper" registered nodes.
• [ ] https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/130

Waku Swarm related tasks:

• [x] Refactor: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/122
• [x] Waku/0: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/123
• [x] Waku/0 + waku mode ( = waku/1 ?): https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/124
• [x] Waku <-> Whisper compatibility PoC: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/125
• [ ] Waku <-> Whisper effective bridge: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/126
• [x] Mail client part I
• [ ] Mail client part II: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/149
• [ ] Mailserver https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/102
• [x] Waku light client: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/131

Regarding wrapper/API implementation

• [ ] Prefer not to require makeDeterministicID, but it is something used in the fork of Whisper for status-protocol-go, see https://github.com/status-im/status-protocol-go/issues/112
• [ ] Return hash on nimbus_post: https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/132
• [ ] Make an json/rpc version of the current API
• [ ] Investigate integration with react-native directly

[oskarth]

Great stuff!

What do you think of Waku mode (with mailserver support) as a possible "trojan horse" to get Nim into the app as an option?

[kdeme]

Closing as no longer relevant