+The Monkeysphere project's goal is to extend OpenPGP's web of trust to
+new areas of the Internet to help us securely identify each other
+while we work online.
+
+Specifically, monkeysphere currently offers a framework to leverage
+the OpenPGP web of trust for OpenSSH authentication.
+
+In other words, it allows you to use secure shell as you normally do,
+but to identify yourself and the servers you administer or connect to
+with your OpenPGP keys. OpenPGP keys are tracked via GnuPG, and
+monkeysphere manages the `known_hosts` and `authorized_keys` files
+used by OpenSSH for authentication, checking them for cryptographic
+validity.