PGP to GnuPG

[Alphax]

Ash M wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a project to convert PGP keys to GnuPG.
> Most of the keys created recently have successfully been migtated but I am
> unable to migrate the ones created using PGP Version: 4.0 Business Edition.
> 
> The error I get is: ( gpg version 1.4.2 )
>   $ gpg --import pubkey.pub.asc
>   gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
>   gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
>   gpg: key 390CA571: 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
> 
> Following is the output from pgp for the same key:
>   $ pgp -kvv 0x390CA571
>   Looking for user ID "0x390CA571".
>   Type bits      keyID      Date       User ID
>   RSA  1024      0x390CA571 2003/09/24 KKK <one_e05>
>   sig            0xCC7AB923             MFF user <mff at check.com>
>   1 matching key found.
> 
> I have heard that there are compatibility issues between GnuPG and older
> versions of PGP but is there any way of getting around this ?
> Any help would be well appreciated.
> 

If you still have the secret key, you can have the key sign itself and
then this error will not occur. Otherwise, you can use the option in GnuPG

--allow-non-selfsigned-uid

to import the key, and then have it sign itself.

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