[[meta title="Modified GnuTLS 2.4.x available"]]
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+
+**2008-10-25 UPDATE:** [GnuTLS 2.6 has been released, and it contains the
+functionality we needed](/news/gnutls-2.6-enables-monkeysphere).
+Please upgrade to GnuTLS 2.6 if you need Monkeysphere to deal with
+passphrase-protected authentication subkeys. The information on this
+page is now of historical interest only.
+
+-----
+
The MonkeySphere project is now making available a patched version of
[GnuTLS](http://gnutls.org/) version 2.4.x, which enhances the utility
of the `monkeysphere` package by enabling it to read authentication
You can track this package in debian lenny by adding the following
lines to `/etc/apt/sources.list`:
- deb http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
- deb-src http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
+ deb http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
+ deb-src http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls
Or you can patch and build the packages yourself with the patches and
scripts provided in [the MonkeySphere git repo](/download).
And [`gpg(1)`](http://linux.die.net/man/1/gpg) says of `--export-secret-subkeys`:
- \[This\] command has the special property to render the secret
+ [This] command has the special property to render the secret
part of the primary key useless; this is a GNU extension to
OpenPGP and other implementations can not be expected to
successfully import such a key.