Next-Steps Monkeysphere Projects: --------------------------------- Detail advantages of monkeysphere: detail the race conditions in ssh, and how the monkeysphere can help you reduce these threat vectors: threat model reduction diagrams Determine how openssh handles multiple processes writing to known_hosts file (atomic appends?) Handle unknown hosts in such a way that they're not always removed from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host key? Handle multiple multiple hostnames (multiple user IDs?) when generating host keys with gen-key. Make sure alternate ports are handled for known_hosts. Add environment variables sections to man pages. Script to import private key into ssh agent. Provide a friendly interactive UI for marginal or failing client-side hostkey verifications. Handle the common cases smoothly, and provide good debugging info for the unusual cases. Make sure onak properly escapes user IDs with colons in them. Build a decent, presentable web site for documentation, evangelism, etc. Include a mention of how to report trouble or concerns. Create ssh2openpgp or convert to full-fledged keytrans. Resolve the bugs listed in openpgp2ssh(1):BUGS. Understand and document alternate trustdb models. Understand and document the output of gpg --check-trustdb: gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model gpg: depth: 0 valid: 2 signed: 20 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 2u gpg: depth: 1 valid: 20 signed: 67 trust: 15-, 0q, 1n, 3m, 1f, 0u gpg: next trustdb check due at 2008-10-09 Understand and document the numeric values between sig! and the keyid in "gpg --check-sigs $KEYID" . Compare with the details found from "gpg --with-colons --check-sigs $KEYID". This has to do with trust signatures. Fix gpg's documentation to clarify the difference between validity and ownertrust. Include better documentation for trust signatures. Make it easier to do domain-relative ssh host trust signatures with gnupg. (e.g. "i trust Jamie McClelland (keyID 76CC057D) to properly identify ssh servers in the mayfirst.org domain") See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.21 and grep for "tsign" in gpg(1). Fix the order of questions when user does a tsign in gpg or gpg2.