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## External Validation Agent ##

This is probably at the crux of the Monkeysphere vision for the future:

* [Simon Josefsson proposed out-of-process certificate verification model in gnutls-devel](http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel&article=3231)
* [Werner Koch's dirmngr](http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/dirmngr/)
* [GnuTLS wiki external validation](http://redmine.josefsson.org/wiki/gnutls/GnuTLSExternalValidation)

## Other discussions ##

* [Wandering Thoughts blog discussion about Web of Trust flaws](http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WebOfTrustFlaws?showcomments)
* [Wandering Thoughts blog discussion about certificate authorities](http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/SSLCANeed?showcomments)