1The Monkeysphere Project
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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.
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8Specifically, monkeysphere currently offers a framework to leverage
9the OpenPGP web of trust for OpenSSH authentication.
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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.
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