X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=website%2Fwhy.mdwn;h=7bb8fac8cafd8eeb07a344bdacaad4bf01388934;hb=37eb3fd1bdbc4e8659176ca66a91e0e20db12cd8;hp=336643988abae643b51c514f079194884fb67cc8;hpb=86f97d40d6fb60f7dde3c7e3a8aab0124f151d35;p=monkeysphere.git diff --git a/website/why.mdwn b/website/why.mdwn index 3366439..7bb8fac 100644 --- a/website/why.mdwn +++ b/website/why.mdwn @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ [[toc ]] +# Why should you be interested in the MonkeySphere? # + ## As an `ssh` user ## Do you use `ssh` to connect to remote machines? Are you tired of @@ -14,8 +16,8 @@ seeing messages like this? Do you actually tediously check the fingerprint against a cryptographically-signed message from the admin, or do you just cross your fingers and type "yes"? Do you wish there was a better way to -verify that the host your connecting to actually is the host you mean -to connect to? Shouldn't our tools be able to figure this out +verify that the host you are connecting to actually is the host you +mean to connect to? Shouldn't our tools be able to figure this out automatically? Do you use `ssh`'s public key authentication for convenience and/or @@ -118,10 +120,10 @@ allows a very flexible trust model, ranging all over the map, at the choice of the user: * individual per-host certifications by each client (much like the - stock OpenSSH behavior), + stock OpenSSH behavior), or * strict centralized Certificate Authorities (much like proposed X.509 - models), and + models), or * a more human-centric model that recognizes individual differences in ranges of trust and acceptance.