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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC Core Library
SILC Authentication Interface
SILC Message Interface
SILC Channel Interface
SILC Command Interface
SILC Notify Interface
SILC Status Types
SILC Modes
SILC ID Interface
SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC Argument Interface
SILC Attributes Interface
Packet Protocol Interface
SILC Utility Library
Basic SILC Types
SILC Buffer Interface
SILC Buffer Format Interface
SILC Hash Table Interface
SILC Logging Interface
SILC Memory Interface
SILC Mutex Interface
SILC Thread Interface
SILC Network Interface
SILC Schedule Interface
SILC Socket Interface
SILC Protocol Interface
SILC Config Interface
SILC File Util Interface
SILC String Util Interface
SILC UTF-8 Interface
SILC Stringprep Interface
SILC Util Interface
SILC List Interface
SILC Dynamic List Interface
SILC VCard Interface
SILC Application Utilities
SILC MIME Interface
SILC Crypto Library
Introduction to SILC RNG
SILC RNG Interface
SILC Cipher API
SILC PKCS API
SILC PKCS#1 API
SILC Hash Interface
SILC HMAC Interface
SILC SFTP Library
SILC SFTP Interface
SFTP Filesystems Interface
SILC Client Library
Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
Arguments for notify Client Operation
Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
Client Library Interface Reference
SILC Key Exchange Library
SILC SKE Interface
SKE Status Types
SKE Diffie Hellman Groups
SKE Payloads
SILC Math Library
SILC MP Interface
SILC Math Interface
Resource Links
SILC Project Website
SILC Protocol Documentation
SILC White Paper
SILC FAQs

Platform Implementations
This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms that the SILC Toolkit support. Some of the supported platforms does not support all the features delivered with the Toolkit or they may behave differently from other platforms. This document descibres these differences between platforms.
- Unix & Linux Implementation
- Windows Implementation
- Mac OS X Implementation
  Supported Platforms
  SILC Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 98 and newer, and Mac OS X. In the future there is also plans to add support for other platforms such as Symbian OS (EPOC).
  Unix Implementation
  All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on all Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.
  Windows Implementation
  By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the Windows version of the SILC Toolkit.
- Toolkit users should not use `silc_client_run` function to execute the Client Library. Instead the `silc_client_run_one` should be used, for example as an timer task and the Windows application's own message loop should be used as the main message loop.
- The function `silc_net_create_connection_async` is not actually asynchronous on Windows, but synchronous and it will block the process while the connection is created. This means also that the function `silc_client_connect_to_server` is not asynchronous but synchronous.
  Mac OS X Implementation
  All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on Mac OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.

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