Quote from: ccxv01 on July 11, 2012, 08:43 amI don't know what the purpose is of posting your PGP Fingerprint...The fingerprint is used to correctly identify a key. Anyone can create a key in any name. I could, for example, create a key in the name of any of the vendors here and put it on the keyservers, but if a buyer confirms the fingerprint of a vendor's key by some other means (e.g. the SR message system) they can see that the key they may have obtained doesn't match. The correct fingerprint can the be used to obtain a key (if it is on the keyservers) and confirm it is correct.Keys used by people with their real names are compared to fingerprints so that they can be publicly signed (as distinct from locally signed) to become part of the Web of Trust.To see a list of obviously faked keys, go here:http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?search=president%40whitehouse.gov&op=vindex&submit=+Search+To see a key in the Web of Trust with a large number of signatures, go here:http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?search=0xF5C75256&op=vindex&fingerprint=on&submit=+Search+That second one is a Debian developer who has done a fair bit of crypto work. Another good example from within the Web of Trust is Werner Koch, the author of GPG:http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?search=0x1E42B367&op=vindex&fingerprint=on&submit=+Search+