authentication subkey

Jameson Rollins jrollins at finestructure.net
Thu Oct 21 15:39:28 CEST 2010


On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:24:13 +0200, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> Regarding ssh, there is no actual need for gpg.  You can use it but it
> is not required because usually you import an existing ssh key into
> gpg-agent.

Hi, Werner.  There is need for authentication subkeys with Monkeysphere
[0].  The point of Monkeysphere is to use OpenPGP and the Web of Trust
as a PKI for ssh.  So it therefore uses OpenPGP authentication subkeys
as ssh keys, affording users the ability to set expiration dates on
them, expire them, more easily rekey them, etc.

jamie.

[0] http://web.monkeysphere.info/
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