|-----handy-ruler----------------------------------------------------| msva-perl: msva-perl (Monkeysphere validation agent) msva-perl: msva-perl: The Monkeysphere Validation Agent offers a local service for tools msva-perl: to validate certificates (both X.509 and OpenPGP) and other public msva-perl: keys. msva-perl: msva-perl: Clients of the validation agent query it with a public key carrier, msva-perl: the supposed name of the remote peer offering the public key, and msva-perl: the context in which the validation check is relevant. The agent msva-perl: then tells the client whether it was able to successfully msva-perl: validate the peer's use of the public key.