#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

# Monkeysphere Validation Agent, Perl version
# Copyright © 2010 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

use warnings;
use strict;

use Crypt::Monkeysphere::MSVA;

my $server = Crypt::Monkeysphere::MSVA->new();
$server->run(host=>'localhost',
             log_level=> $server->logger->get_log_level(),
             user => POSIX::geteuid(),  # explicitly choose regular user and group (avoids spew)
             group => POSIX::getegid(),
             msva=>$server);
__END__

=head1 NAME

msva-perl - Perl implementation of a Monkeysphere Validation Agent

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  msva-perl [ COMMAND [ ARGS ... ] ]

=head1 ABSTRACT

msva-perl provides a Perl implementation of the Monkeysphere
Validation Agent, a certificate validation service.

=head1 INTRODUCTION

The Monkeysphere Validation Agent offers a local service for tools to
validate certificates (both X.509 and OpenPGP) and other public keys.

Clients of the validation agent query it with a public key carrier (a
raw public key, or some flavor of certificate), the supposed name of
the remote peer offering the pubkey, and the context in which the
validation check is relevant (e.g. ssh, https, etc).

The validation agent then tells the client whether it was able to
successfully validate the peer's use of the public key in the given
context.

=head1 USAGE

Launched with no arguments, msva-perl simply runs and listens forever.

Launched with arguments, it sets up a listener, spawns a subprocess
using the supplied command and arguments, but with the
MONKEYSPHERE_VALIDATION_AGENT_SOCKET environment variable set to refer
to its listener.  When the subprocess terminates, msva-perl tears down
the listener and exits as well, returning the same value as the
subprocess.

This is a similar invocation pattern to that of ssh-agent(1).

=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

msva-perl is configured by means of environment variables.

=over 4

=item MSVA_LOG_LEVEL

msva-perl logs messages about its operation to stderr.  MSVA_LOG_LEVEL
controls its verbosity, and should be one of (in increasing
verbosity): silent, quiet, fatal, error, info, verbose, debug, debug1,
debug2, debug3.  Default is 'error'.

=item MSVA_ALLOWED_USERS

If your system is capable of it, msva-perl tries to figure out the
owner of the connecting client.  If MSVA_ALLOWED_USERS is unset,
msva-perl will only permit connections from the user msva is running
as.  If you set MSVA_ALLOWED_USERS, msva-perl will treat it as a list
of local users (by name or user ID) who are allowed to connect.

=item MSVA_PORT

msva-perl listens on a local TCP socket to facilitate access.  You can
choose what port to bind to by setting MSVA_PORT.  Default is to bind
on an arbitrary open port.

=item MSVA_KEYSERVER

msva-perl will request information from OpenPGP keyservers.  Set
MSVA_KEYSERVER to declare the keyserver you want it to check with.  If
this variable is blank or unset, and your gpg.conf contains a
keyserver declaration, it will use the GnuPG configuration.  Failing
that, the default is 'hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net'.

=item MSVA_KEYSERVER_POLICY

msva-perl must decide when to check with keyservers (for new keys,
revocation certificates, new certifications, etc).  There are three
possible options: 'always' means to check with the keyserver on every
query it receives.  'never' means to never check with a
keyserver. 'unlessvalid' will only check with the keyserver on a
specific query if no keys are already locally known to be valid for
the requested peer.  Default is 'unlessvalid'.

=back

=head1 COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL DETAILS

Communications with the Monkeysphere Validation Agent are in the form
of JSON requests over plain HTTP.  Responses from the agent are also
JSON objects.  For details on the structure of the requests and
responses, please see
http://web.monkeysphere.info/validation-agent/protocol

=head1 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

msva-perl deliberately binds to the loopback adapter (via named lookup
of "localhost") so that remote users do not get access to the daemon.
On systems (like Linux) which report ownership of TCP sockets in
/proc/net/tcp, msva-perl will refuse access from random users (see
MSVA_ALLOWED_USERS above).

=head1 SEE ALSO

monkeysphere(1), monkeysphere(7), ssh-agent(1)

=head1 BUGS AND FEEDBACK

Bugs or feature requests for msva-perl should be filed with the
Monkeysphere project's bug tracker at
https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/monkeysphere/issues/

=head1 AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Daniel Kahn Gillmor E<lt>dkg@fifthhorseman.net<gt>

The Monkeysphere Team http://web.monkeysphere.info/

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright © Daniel Kahn Gillmor and others from the Monkeysphere team.
msva-perl is free software, distributed under the GNU Public License,
version 3 or later.

