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ben at valinux

Jun 25, 1999, 10:19 AM

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can't import signature

I went to the web and found a person whose key I should have and I
double checked it against the fingerprint on his card and they
match. The problem is that it doesn't seem to want to import into
gpg. Why is this? Does it have something to do with gpg not supporting
RSA or something?

Sorry for asking so many questions. I'm kind of new to all of this
stuff.

[ben [at] wyth ben]$ gpg --import dbrumley.key
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: key 03846505: no valid user ids
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: w/o user IDs: 1

wk at isil

Jun 26, 1999, 12:51 AM

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Re: can't import signature [In reply to]

Ben Woodard <ben [at] valinux> writes:

> gpg: key 03846505: no valid user ids
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature

Either: - It is a RSA key ("gpg file-with-key" should list that")
or: - or the user ID has no self-signature: It is not bound to
the key and therefore easy to replace. Ask the holder of
the key to self-sign his key.

--
Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

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