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Right now, monkeysphere-server list-identity-certifiers runs as the superuser, and just lists the keys in the host's keyring. This might not be the actual list of valid id certifiers, for a number of reasons:

  • the keys themselves might have been revoked by the owner

  • the id-certifiers might have been added with a different trust level, or a regexp/domain limitation.

It would make more sense to derive the list of trusted certifiers directly from the keyrings as seen by the non-privileged monkeysphere user, since this user's keyrings are what are going to judge the validity of various user IDs.