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by asciilifeform 4046 days ago
I, for one, would still like to learn who and why placed the garbage on the SKS servers. (And no, I cannot prove to the satisfaction of everyone that I had not somehow done it myself. Though if anyone can picture what such proof would look like, I'd be happy to try.)

And why Mr. Anvin's key was chosen, rather than another.

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I don't find that especially interesting.

If the design of the keyservers is such that they'll accept untrusted info and will relay it expecting clients to verify it, we shouldn't be surprised when we find bogus data on the keyservers.

We should be surprised if the clients do something other than reject the bogus data, but so far we're seeing them do the right thing.