Using GPG for user authentication in ssh

[Joel N. Weber II]

     Ok. Are  you planning the user  part ?

I wasn't when I woke up this afternoon, but I think now I am, having
convinced myself that it really won't be all that hard.

     If  yes, do you plan  to work
     the way that the proprietary version of ssh is working ? 

I would like to see the two implementations interoperate on the
network protocol level.

I intend to implement what the IETF secsh working group says is the
protocol for doing this; if the commercial ssh happens to also follow
that spec, then they certainly should interoperate.  If
experimentation demonstrates that they don't, I will probably be
inclined to invest at least a little effort in trying to discover why
not.

The format of the files for configuring keys is rather different
between openssh and the proprietary ssh, though.