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 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.
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 used by OpenSSH for authentication, checking them for cryptographic
 validity.
 
-## Conceptual overview ##
+## Overview ##
 
 Everyone who has used secure shell is familiar with the prompt given
 the first time you log in to a new server, asking if you want to trust
@@ -53,8 +51,6 @@ invites broader participation in the
 [OpenPGP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpgp) [web of
 trust](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust).
 
-## Technical details ##
-
 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
@@ -65,51 +61,10 @@ 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
+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".
 
-## Philosophy ##
-
-Humans (and
-[monkeys](http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-17/mi-17.html))
-have the innate capacity to keep track of the identities of only 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
-because of their trust of Person B.
-
-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/)