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You don't have to be an OpenSSH or OpenPGP expert to use the
-Monkeysphere. However, you should be comfortable using secure shell and
-you should already have GnuPG installed and an OpenPGP key pair before
-you begin.
+Monkeysphere. However, you should be comfortable using secure shell
+(ssh), and you should already have GnuPG installed and an OpenPGP key
+pair before you begin.
As a regular user on a system where the monkeysphere package is
installed, you probably want to do a few things:
-Keeping your keyring up-to-date
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+Keep your keyring up-to-date
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Regularly refresh your GnuPG keyring from the keyservers. This can be
done with a simple cronjob. An example of crontab line to do this is:
The remaining steps will complete the second half: allow servers to
verify you based on your OpenPGP key.
+
Setting up an OpenPGP authentication key
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The first line (starting with sec) will include your key length followed
by the type of key (e.g. 1024D) followed by a slash and then your keyid.
+
Using your OpenPGP authentication key for SSH
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-Once you have created a OpenPGP authentication key, you can feed it to
-your ssh agent by running seckey2sshagent (currently this is found in
-the src directory). Please run:
+Once you have created an OpenPGP authentication key, you will need to
+feed it to your ssh agent.
+
+Currently (2008-08-23), gnutls does not support this operation. In order
+to take this step, you will need to upgrade to a patched version of
+gnutls. You can easily upgrade a Debian system by adding the following
+to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monkeysphere.list:
+
+ deb http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
+ deb-src http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
+
+And then adding the following to /etc/apt/preferences:
+
+ Package: libgnutls26
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
-./seckey2sshagent --help
+ Package: libgnutls26-dbg
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
-And read the directions - particularly the part about being dropped into
-a gpg edit session. This is a work in progress!
+ Package: gnutls-bin
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
-NOTE: the current version of openpgp2ssh does *not* deal well with
-encrypted keys (as of 2008-07-26)
+ Package: gnutls-doc
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
+
+ Package: guile-gnutls
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
+
+ Package: gnutls-dev
+ Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project
+ Pin-Priority: 990
+
+Next, run `aptitude update; aptitude install libgnuttls26`.
+
+With the patched gnutls installed, you can feed your authentication sub
+key to your ssh agent by running:
+
+ monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent
+
+You may want to add this command to your ~/.xsession file so it is run
+automatically everytime you login.
FIXME: using the key with a single session?
+
Miscellaneous
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