1 Next-Steps Monkeysphere Projects:
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4 Detail advantages of monkeysphere: detail the race conditions in ssh,
5 and how the monkeysphere can help you reduce these threat vectors:
6 threat model reduction diagrams.
8 Determine how openssh handles multiple processes writing to
9 known_hosts/authorized_keys files (lockfile, atomic appends?)
11 Handle unverified monkeysphere hosts in such a way that they're not
12 always removed from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host
15 Handle multiple hostnames (multiple user IDs?) when generating host
18 Work out the details (and describe a full use case) for assigning a
19 REVOKER during monkeysphere-server gen_key -- how is this set? How
20 do we export it so it's available when a second-party revocation is
23 Actually enable server hostkey publication.
25 Streamline host key generation, publication, verification. See
26 doc/george/host-key-publication for what dkg went through on
29 Ensure that authorized_user_ids are under as tight control as ssh
30 expects from authorized_keys: we don't want monkeysphere to be a
31 weak link in the filesystem.
33 What happens when a user account has no corresponding
34 /etc/monkeysphere/authorized_user_ids/$USER file? What gets placed
35 in /var/cache/monkeysphere/authorized_keys/$USER? It looks
36 currently untouched, which could mean bad things for such a user.
37 - if authorized_user_ids is empty, then the user's authorized_keys
38 file will be also, unless the user-controlled authorized_keys file
39 is added. I believe this is expected, correct behavior.
41 Consider the default permissions for
42 /var/cache/monkeysphere/authorized_keys/* (and indeed the whole
43 directory path leading up to that)
45 As an administrator, how do i reverse the effect of a
46 "monkeysphere-server trust-keys" that i later decide i should not
49 Make sure alternate ports are handled for known_hosts.
51 Script to import private key into ssh agent.
53 Provide a friendly interactive UI for marginal or failing client-side
54 hostkey verifications. Handle the common cases smoothly, and
55 provide good debugging info for the unusual cases.
57 Make sure onak properly escapes user IDs with colons in them.
59 Build a decent, presentable web site for documentation, evangelism,
60 etc. Include a mention of how to report trouble or concerns.
62 Create ssh2openpgp or convert to full-fledged keytrans.
64 Resolve the bugs listed in openpgp2ssh(1):BUGS.
66 Understand and document alternate trustdb models.
68 Understand and document the output of gpg --check-trustdb:
69 gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
70 gpg: depth: 0 valid: 2 signed: 20 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 2u
71 gpg: depth: 1 valid: 20 signed: 67 trust: 15-, 0q, 1n, 3m, 1f, 0u
72 gpg: next trustdb check due at 2008-10-09
74 Understand and document the numeric values between sig! and the keyid
75 in "gpg --check-sigs $KEYID" . Compare with the details found from
76 "gpg --with-colons --check-sigs $KEYID". This has to do with trust
79 Fix gpg's documentation to clarify the difference between validity and
80 ownertrust. Include better documentation for trust signatures.
82 Make it easier to do domain-relative ssh host trust signatures with
83 gnupg. (e.g. "i trust Jamie McClelland (keyID 76CC057D) to properly
84 identify ssh servers in the mayfirst.org domain") See:
85 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.21 and grep for
88 Fix the order of questions when user does a tsign in gpg or gpg2.
90 File bug against ssh-keygen about how "-R" option removes comments
91 from known_hosts file.
93 File bug against ssh-keygen to see if we can get it to write to hash a
94 known_hosts file to/from stdout/stdin.
96 Add environment variables sections to man pages.
98 Environment variable scoping.
100 Move environment variable precedence before conf file.
102 When using ssh-proxycommand, if only host keys found are expired or
103 revoked, then output loud warning with prompt, or fail hard.
105 Update monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand man page with new keyserver
106 checking policy info.
108 Update monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand man page with info about