1The Monkeysphere Project 2------------------------ 3 4The Monkeysphere project's goal is to extend OpenPGP's web of trust to 5new areas of the Internet to help us securely identify each other 6while we work online. 7 8Specifically, monkeysphere currently offers a framework to leverage 9the OpenPGP web of trust for OpenSSH authentication. 10 11In other words, it allows you to use secure shell as you normally do, 12but to identify yourself and the servers you administer or connect to 13with your OpenPGP keys. OpenPGP keys are tracked via GnuPG, and 14monkeysphere manages the known_hosts and authorized_keys files used by 15OpenSSH for authentication, checking them for cryptographic validity. 16