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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-08-27 00:04:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-08-27 00:04:01 -0400 |
| commit | 56aa562e2079a33904840dce37605e2f25048f99 (patch) | |
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| parent | caf0fe076b0487c4a0c91028a21ea39b5e4b3e86 (diff) | |
draft of prospective d-a.org (and hence planet.debian.org) announcement.
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diff --git a/doc/announcement.html b/doc/announcement.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..489dae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/announcement.html @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"> +<title>Announcing the Monkeysphere</title> +</head> + +<!-- This is a draft of a wider announcement for the Monkeysphere. + dkg will probably post the final version in his blog at + https://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog + + Edits are welcome! --> + +<body> +<h1>Monkeysphere: an OpenPGP-based PKI for SSH</h1> + +<p>Ever thought that there should be an automated way to handle ssh +keys? Do you know the administrators of your servers, and wish that +SSH could verify new host keys from them automatically, based on your +personal connections to the web-of-trust? Do you wish you could +revoke and rotate your old SSH authentication keys without having to +log into every single machine?</p> + +<p>Do you administer servers, and wish you could re-key them without +sowing massive pain and confusion among your users (or worse, +encouraging bad security habits among them)? Do you wish you could +identify the users to grant access by name, instead of by opaque +string? Do you wish you could rapidly grant or revoke access to a +user across a group of machines by enabling or disabling +authentication for that user?</p> + +<p>A group of us have been working on a public key infrastructure for +SSH. <a href="http://monkeysphere.info">Monkeysphere</a> makes use of +the existing OpenPGP web-of-trust to fetch and cryptographically +validate (and revoke!) keys. This works in either directions: both +<code>authorized_keys</code> <em>and</em> <code>known_hosts</code> are +handled. Monkeysphere gives users and admins tools to deal with SSH +keys by thinking about the people and machines to whom the keys +belong, instead of requiring humans to do tedious (and error-prone) +manual key verification.</p> + +<p>We have <a href="http://monkeysphere.info/download">debian packages +available</a> which should install against lenny, <a +href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/monkeysphere">a mailing +list</a>, and open ears for good questions, suggestions and +criticism.</p> + +<p>If you have a chance to give it a try (<a href="???">as a user</a> +or <a href="???">as an admin</a>), it would be great to <a +href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/monkeysphere">get +feedback</a>.</p> + +</body> </html> |