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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/george/changelog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/common | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/monkeysphere-server | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/allow-publishing-to-public-keyservers.mdwn | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys.mdwn | 83 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/missing-known_hosts-causes-error.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/reorganize-monkeysphere-server-shortcuts.mdwn | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/download.mdwn | 2 |
9 files changed, 138 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ hosts are. This can be done with the monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand $ monkeysphere update-known_hosts -This will command will check to see if there is an OpenPGP key for +This command will check to see if there is an OpenPGP key for each (non-hashed) host listed in the known_hosts file, and then add the key for that host to the known_hosts file if one is found. This command could be added to a crontab as well, if desired. diff --git a/doc/george/changelog b/doc/george/changelog index 93f00db..0790f65 100644 --- a/doc/george/changelog +++ b/doc/george/changelog @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ * changes to this system (first command at top, last at bottom) * ****************************************************************************** +2008-08-13 - dkg + * aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade + * restarted services to clear up dependencies on old libraries + 2008-08-07 - dkg * aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade * removed debian's experimental from the sources.list @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ file_hash() { # character # FIXME: undo all escape character translation in with-colons gpg output unescape() { - echo "$1" | sed 's/\\x3a/:/' + echo "$1" | sed 's/\\x3a/:/g' } # remove all lines with specified string from specified file diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-server b/src/monkeysphere-server index 9e025f9..d9b8676 100755 --- a/src/monkeysphere-server +++ b/src/monkeysphere-server @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ subcommands: gpg-authentication-cmd CMD gnupg-authentication command - help (h,?) this help + -h|--help|help (h,?) this help EOF } @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ gen_key() { revoker= # get options - TEMP=$(getopt -o l:e:r: -l length:,expire:,revoker: -n "$PGRM" -- "$@") + TEMP=$(getopt -o e:l:r -l expire:,length:,revoker: -n "$PGRM" -- "$@") if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit 1 @@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ publish_server_key() { # FIXME: need to figure out better way to identify host key # dummy command so as not to publish fakes keys during testing # eventually: - #gpg_authentication "--keyserver $KEYSERVER --send-keys $(hostname -f)" + #gpg_authentication "--keyserver $KEYSERVER --send-keys =ssh://$(hostname -f)" echo "NOT PUBLISHED (to avoid permanent publication errors during monkeysphere development)." echo "The following command should publish the key:" - echo "monkeysphere-server gpg-authentication-cmd '--keyserver $KEYSERVER --send-keys $(hostname -f)'" + echo "monkeysphere-server gpg-authentication-cmd '--keyserver $KEYSERVER --send-keys =ssh://$(hostname -f)'" exit 255 } @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ case $COMMAND in gpg_authentication_cmd "$@" ;; - 'help'|'h'|'?') + '--help'|'help'|'-h'|'h'|'?') usage ;; diff --git a/website/bugs/allow-publishing-to-public-keyservers.mdwn b/website/bugs/allow-publishing-to-public-keyservers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6c8057 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/allow-publishing-to-public-keyservers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta title="monkeysphere-server publish-key does not work"]] + +Currently, if you try to run `monkeysphere-server publish-key`, you +can get the following output: + + Really publish key to subkeys.pgp.net? (y/N) y + NOT PUBLISHED (to avoid permanent publication errors during monkeysphere development). + The following command should publish the key: + monkeysphere-server gpg-authentication-cmd '--keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-keys foo.example.org' + +I think we've demonstrated that this system works enough to warrant +using the public keyserver infrastructure. + +I suggest that we should actually enable this feature explicitly. +(leaving in the prompt is fine, though it would be nice to be able to +`--force` it or something). diff --git a/website/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys.mdwn b/website/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a61b5ba --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/handle-passphrase-locked-secret-keys.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +[[meta title="MonkeySphere needs to be able to cleanly export passphrase-locked secret keys from the GPG keyring"]] + +At the moment, the only tool we have to export passphrase-locked +secret keys from the GPG keyring is `gpg` itself (and `gpg2`, which +has roughly the same behavior). + +As a result, we have the `seckey2sshagent` hack, which is unfriendly +and awkward to use. + +Ideally, `openpgp2ssh` would be able to convert passphrase-locked +secret keys into clean subkeys. However, i've tried to do this via +GnuTLS, and that library is not ready for this. + +OpenCDK, which is the component of GnuTLS which reads OpenPGP-style +keys, cannot cope with encrypted secret key material. I have had +[some +success](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-06/msg00092.html) +in getting GnuTLS's OpenCDK to accept the existence of encrypted +secret key packets, [i learned that OpenCDK as included in GnuTLS is +incapable of dealing with the encrypted packets +themselves](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-07/msg00012.html). + + +Some possible resolutions: + +--------- + +If we can assume that the passphrase-encrypted key we want to use is +actually a subkey, and if we could fix GnuTLS to ignore the use of the +"gnu-dummy S2K" produced by `gpg --export-secret-subkeys` for the +primary key, then something like the following script should actually +work for reasonable values of `$KEYID`: + + TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) + uname 077 + mkfifo "$TMPDIR/passphrase" + kname="MonkeySphere Key $KEYID" + mkfifo "$TMPDIR/$kname" + ssh-agent "Please enter the passphrase for MonkeySphere key $KEYID" >"$TMPDIR/passphrase" & + gpg --passphrase-fd 3 3<"$TMPDIR/passphrase" --export-options export-reset-subkey-passwd,export-minimal,no-export-attributes --export-secret-subkeys "$KEYID"\! | openpgp2ssh "$KEYID" > "$TMPDIR/$kname" + (cd "$TMPDIR" && ssh-add -c "$kname") + rm -rf "$TMPDIR" + +--------- + +Ben Laurie and Rachel Willmer's +[OpenPGPSDK](http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk) is a candidate: this is a +C-based library that intends to implement RFC 4880 functionality. + +We could potentially re-write `openpgp2ssh` using this library, and it +*should* be able to handle everything we need from the OpenPGP side +(though it might need to be re-linked to OpenSSL to handle PEM-encoded +exports. + +Concerns: + +* OpenPGPSDK is not in debian yet, and doesn't currently (2008-08-13) + build with gcc 4.2 or 4.3. + +* OpenPGPSDK uses the apache license and appears to link to OpenSSL, + which has a GPL-incompatible license. I think this would mean that + `openpgp2ssh` could not remain GPL (though the rest of the + monkeysphere could). + +--------- + +We could try to use perl. The last time i checked, the pure-perl +OpenPGP implementations all depended on Math::PARI, which [is not in +debian](http://bugs.debian.org/440527). The most likely candidate is +[Crypt::OpenPGP](http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/Crypt-OpenPGP), +despite [some +bugginess](http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Crypt-OpenPGP). + +Concerns: + +* the aforementioned buggy reviews + +* there's a lot of dependency chasing to get anything like this + available in debian. + +--------- + +Other alternatives? diff --git a/website/bugs/missing-known_hosts-causes-error.mdwn b/website/bugs/missing-known_hosts-causes-error.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f4e27c --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/missing-known_hosts-causes-error.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[meta title="Missing `~/.ssh/known_hosts` file causes errors from monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand"]] + +As a user, if you don't have a `~/.ssh/known_hosts` file, +`monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand` produces some bogus output, like: + + cat: /home/foo/.ssh/known_hosts: No such file or directory + +this should be fixable with a simple test. diff --git a/website/bugs/reorganize-monkeysphere-server-shortcuts.mdwn b/website/bugs/reorganize-monkeysphere-server-shortcuts.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a4b946 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/reorganize-monkeysphere-server-shortcuts.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[meta title="Reorganize monkeysphere-server shortcuts"]] + +Currently, `monkeysphere-server` supports three subcommands to adjust +the "identity certifiers": + +* `add-identity-certifier` (`a`) +* `remove-identity-certifier` (`r`) +* `list-identity-certifier` (`l`) + +Since [we also want to be able to add/remove multiple +hostnames](multiple-hostnames), i think we should change the shortcuts +from `a`, `r`, and `l` to `c+`, `c-`, and `c`. + +This would let us create new subcommands like: + +* `add-host-name` (`n+`) +* `revoke-host-name` (`n-`) +* `list-host-names` (`n`) + diff --git a/website/download.mdwn b/website/download.mdwn index f215f80..982f88f 100644 --- a/website/download.mdwn +++ b/website/download.mdwn @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The git repo from this web site: [Daniel Kahn Gillmor](http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/dkg): - git clone http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/git/monkeysphere.git monkeysphere + git clone git://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/monkeysphere monkeysphere ## Contact ## |