On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 10:15:05AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>    The widespread use of public key cryptosystems on the Internet has led to a
>    proliferation of publicly known but not necessarily acknowledged keys that
>    are used for testing purposes or that ship preconfigured in applications.
>    These keys provide no security, but since there's no record of them,
>    relying parties are often unaware that they provide no security.

Relying parties should be checking keys against the dataset maintained
by pwnedkeys.com, which has a great many keys, both test and otherwise,
including the keys contained in RFC9500 (included since ~December 2023).

- Matt

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