2010-01-05 18:21:59-0500
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msva is the Monkeysphere Validation Agent.

Its goal is to simplify bindings between cryptographic tokens and the
real-world entities that humans actually care about.

In its current technical conception, is a minimal HTTP server that
accepts two requests:

POST /reviewcert (vars: uid, context, pkc)
POST /extracerts (vars: certificates)

the variables that are posted are posted in a JSON string (*not* as www-form-encoded).

the variables that are returned are application/json as well.

(PKC means: public key carrier: raw key, OpenPGP cert, or X.509 cert)
(UID means: User ID (like in OpenPGP))
(context means: (this is too vague right now) something like "this certificate was used to try to identify an HTTPS server")


Authors: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
         Matthew James Goins
         Jameson Rollins