Next-Steps Monkeysphere Projects:
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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.
Handle unverified monkeysphere hosts in such a way that they're not
always removed from known_hosts file. Ask user to lsign the host
key?
Work out the details (and describe a full use case) for assigning a
REVOKER during monkeysphere-server gen_key -- how is this set? How
do we export it so it's available when a second-party revocation is
needed?
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.
Create ssh2openpgp or convert to full-fledged keytrans.
Resolve the bugs listed in openpgp2ssh(1):BUGS.
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.
File bug against ssh-keygen about how "-R" option removes comments
from known_hosts file.
File bug against ssh-keygen to see if we can get it to write to hash a
known_hosts file to/from stdout/stdin.
When using ssh-proxycommand, if only host keys found are expired or
revoked, then output loud warning with prompt, or fail hard.
File bug against enigmail about lack of ability to create subkeys.
Test and document what happens when any filesystem that the
monkeysphere-server relies on and modifies (/tmp, /etc, and /var?)
fills up.
Optimize keyserver access, particularly on monkeysphere-server
update-users -- is there a way to query the keyserver all in a
chunk?
Create DSA authentication subkey for server during gen-key
Fix behavior when add-identity-certifier fails to fetch a key from the
keyserver.
Allow server administrators to add-identity-certifier from a key in
the filesystem (or on stdin, etc)
Think about packaging monkeysphere for other (non-apt-based) operating
systems. RPM-based linux systems, FreeBSD ports, and Mac OS X seem
like the most likely candidates.
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