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-[[meta title="Install seckey2sshagent in /usr/bin/"]]
+[[!meta title="Install seckey2sshagent in /usr/bin/"]]
 
 I know it's a hack - but installing seckey2sshagent in /usr/bin/ would make it
 much easier for people to use. 
+
+---
+
+I'm not sure I really want to include this hack with the debs.  It's
+really not useful for any kind of regular use.  I would rather focus
+on getting openpgp2ssh to support passprotected keys.
+
+As another possibility, I was planning on modifying the script so that
+it could export to a passprotected file.  I think this would be a lot
+more useful.  Let me get that working, then let's revist the issue of
+including it in the packaging.
+
+-- Big Jimmy
+
+---
+
+Ok - sounds good to me. I'm thinking in terms of getting other people to try
+out the Monkeysphere - maybe the README should just say: we're only half
+done. You can verify the identity of servers, but we haven't completed the
+part about verifying you to a server. Then it could say: if you're really
+interested, you can run this hacky script but we make no guarantees.
+
+-- Sir Jam Jam
+
+---
+
+I just realized that i think i can test for the presence of [GNU-dummy
+support in
+GnuTLS](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-08/msg00005.html),
+which means that we can cleanly test whether the proposed [handling of
+passphrase-locked secret
+keys](bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys/) is functional.  With
+that in mind, I'd like to propose that we could resolve this bug
+simply by adding a new subcommand: `monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent`,
+which would fail in the absence of a functionally-patched GnuTLS.
+
+Would this proposal be sufficient to resolve this bug?
+
+--dkg
+
+---
+
+Version 0.11-1 now has the `monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent`
+subcommand, which works cleanly in the presence of a
+functionally-patched GnuTLS.
+
+--dkg
+
+---
+
+I'm marking this bug as [[bugs/done]] - I no longer think we should install
+seckey2sshagent in bin now that we have a clean way of accomplishing that task.
+Nice work dkg!
+
+--sjj