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 Handle unverified monkeysphere hosts in such a way that they're not
9 always removed from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host
12 Handle multiple hostnames (multiple user IDs?) when generating host
15 Work out the details (and describe a full use case) for assigning a
16 REVOKER during monkeysphere-server gen_key -- how is this set? How
17 do we export it so it's available when a second-party revocation is
20 Actually enable server hostkey publication.
22 Streamline host key generation, publication, verification. See
23 doc/george/host-key-publication for what dkg went through on
26 Ensure that authorized_user_ids are under as tight control as ssh
27 expects from authorized_keys: we don't want monkeysphere to be a
28 weak link in the filesystem.
30 Consider the default permissions for
31 /var/lib/monkeysphere/authorized_keys/* (and indeed the whole
32 directory path leading up to that)
34 Make sure alternate ports are handled for known_hosts.
36 Script to import private key into ssh agent.
38 Provide a friendly interactive UI for marginal or failing client-side
39 hostkey verifications. Handle the common cases smoothly, and
40 provide good debugging info for the unusual cases.
42 Make sure onak properly escapes user IDs with colons in them.
44 Build a decent, presentable web site for documentation, evangelism,
45 etc. Include a mention of how to report trouble or concerns.
47 Create ssh2openpgp or convert to full-fledged keytrans.
49 Resolve the bugs listed in openpgp2ssh(1):BUGS.
51 Understand and document alternate trustdb models.
53 Understand and document the output of gpg --check-trustdb:
54 gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
55 gpg: depth: 0 valid: 2 signed: 20 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 2u
56 gpg: depth: 1 valid: 20 signed: 67 trust: 15-, 0q, 1n, 3m, 1f, 0u
57 gpg: next trustdb check due at 2008-10-09
59 Understand and document the numeric values between sig! and the keyid
60 in "gpg --check-sigs $KEYID" . Compare with the details found from
61 "gpg --with-colons --check-sigs $KEYID". This has to do with trust
64 Fix gpg's documentation to clarify the difference between validity and
65 ownertrust. Include better documentation for trust signatures.
67 Make it easier to do domain-relative ssh host trust signatures with
68 gnupg. (e.g. "i trust Jamie McClelland (keyID 76CC057D) to properly
69 identify ssh servers in the mayfirst.org domain") See:
70 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.21 and grep for
73 Fix the order of questions when user does a tsign in gpg or gpg2.
75 File bug against ssh-keygen about how "-R" option removes comments
76 from known_hosts file.
78 File bug against ssh-keygen to see if we can get it to write to hash a
79 known_hosts file to/from stdout/stdin.
81 Add environment variables sections to man pages.
83 Environment variable scoping.
85 Move environment variable precedence before conf file.
87 When using ssh-proxycommand, if only host keys found are expired or
88 revoked, then output loud warning with prompt, or fail hard.
90 Update monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand man page with new keyserver
93 File bug against seahorse about how, when creating new primary keys,
94 it presents option for "RSA (sign only)" but then creates an "esca"
97 File bug against enigmail about lack of ability to create subkeys.
99 Privilege separation: monkeysphere user to handle authn keyring and
100 generate authorized_keys file (which would be moved into place by
101 root). Host keyring would be owned by root.
103 Test and document what happens when any filesystem that the
104 monkeysphere-server relies on and modifies (/tmp, /etc, and /var?)
107 Optimize keyserver access, particularly on monkeysphere-server
108 update-users -- is there a way to query the keyserver all in a