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Seth David Schoen writes:

> People also don't necessarily check it in practice.  Someone made fake
> keys for all of the attendees of a particular keysigning party in
> 2010 (including me); I've gotten unreadable encrypted messages from
> over a dozen PGP users as a result, because they believed the fake key
> was real or because software auto-downloaded it for them without
> checking the signatures.

This happened once again today, shortly after I wrote this message!
The person who made the mistake was a cryptography expert who has done
research in this area.  So I fear the web of trust isn't holding up
very well under strain, at least in terms of common user practices with
popular PGP clients.

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