-Under the Monkeysphere, both parties to an OpenSSH connection (client and
-server) have a responsibility to explicitly designate who they trust to certify
-the identity of the other party. This trust designation is explicitly indicated
-with traditional GPG keyring trust model. No modification is made to the SSH
-protocol on the wire (it continues to use raw RSA public keys), and it should
-work with unpatched OpenSSH software.
-
-Monkeysphere does not modify ssh in any way, and ssh can be used "out
-of the box". Monkeysphere is a set of tools that manages keys in the
-known\_hosts and authorized\_keys files that ssh uses for connection
-authentication.
-
-## Philosophy ##
-
-Humans (and
-[monkeys](http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-17/mi-17.html))
-have innate capacity to keep track of the identity of a finite number
-of people. After our social sphere exceeds several dozen or several
-hundred (depending on the individual), our ability to remember and
-distinguish people begins to break down. In other words, at a certain
-point, we can't know for sure that the person we ran into in the
-produce aisle really is the same person who we met at the party last
-week.
-
-For most of us, this limitation has not posed much of a problem in our
-daily, off-line lives. With the Internet, however, we have an ability
-to interact with vastly larger numbers of people than we had
-before. In addition, on the Internet we lose many of our tricks for
-remembering and identifying people (physical characteristics, sound of
-the voice, etc.).
-
-Fortunately, with online communications we have easy access to tools
-that can help us navigate these problems.
-[OpenPGP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpgp) (a cryptographic
-protocol commonly used for sending signed and encrypted email
-messages) is one such tool. In its simplest form, it allows us to
-sign our communication in such a way that the recipient can verify the
-sender.
-
-OpenPGP goes beyond this simple use to implement a feature known as
-the [web of trust](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust). The web
-of trust allows people who have never met in person to communicate
-with a reasonable degree of certainty that they are who they say they
-are. It works like this: Person A trusts Person B. Person B verifies
-Person C's identity. Then, Person A can verify Person C's identity.
-
-The Monkeyshpere's broader goals are to extend the use of OpenPGP from
-email communications to other activities, such as:
-
- * conclusively identifying the remote server in a remote login session
- * granting access to servers to people we've never directly met
-
-## Links ##
-
-* [OpenSSH](http://openssh.com/)
-* [GnuPG](http://www.gnupg.org/)
-* [OpenPGP RFC 4880](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880)
-* [URI scheme for SSH, RFC draft](http://tools.ietf.org/wg/secsh/draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri/)
+Under the Monkeysphere, both parties to an OpenSSH connection (client
+and server) explicitly designate who they trust to certify the
+identity of the other party. These trust designations are explicitly
+indicated with traditional GPG keyring trust models. Monkeysphere
+then manages the keys in the `known_hosts` and `authorized_keys` files
+directly, in such a way that is completely transparent to `ssh`. No
+modification is made to the SSH protocol on the wire (it continues to
+use raw RSA public keys), and no modification is needed to the OpenSSH
+software.
+
+To emphasize: ***no modifications to SSH are required to use the
+Monkeysphere***. OpenSSH can be used as is; completely unpatched and
+"out of the box".