Problem importing keys with multiple UIDs?
Roger Williams
roger at coelacanth.com
Mon Jan 11 17:18:12 CET 1999
I'm having trouble importing a GPG key with multiple UIDs:
$ gpg foo.asc
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
pub 1024D/F7B083C7 1999-01-10 Foo Bar (Long-Term Key) <foo at foobar.com>
uid Foo Bar <foo at foobar.org>
uid Foo Bar <foo at foobar.net>
uid Foo Bar <foo at mit.edu>
uid Foo Bar <foo at anotherdomain.com>
uid Foo Bar <foo at anotherdomain.to>
sub 4096g/066EB82C 1999-01-10
That looks OK. But when I try to import it:
$ gpg --import foo.asc
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
gpg:foo.asc: key F7B083C7: invalid self-signature
gpg:foo.asc: key F7B083C7: public key imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
...it fails the self-signature, and doesn't list any sub keys:
$ gpg --list-keys
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
/home/roger/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
------------------------------
[...]
pub 1024D/F7B083C7 1999-01-10 Foo Bar (Long-Term Key) <foo at foobar.com>
uid Foo Bar <foo at foobar.org>
uid Foo Bar <foo at foobar.net>
uid Foo Bar <foo at mit.edu>
uid Foo Bar <foo at anotherdomain.com>
uid Foo Bar <foo at anotherdomain.to>
...and, of course:
$ gpg -ar foo at foobar.com --encrypt test
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
gpg: No key for userid
gpg: foo at foobar.com: skipped: public key not found
gpg: test: encryption failed: public key not found
Did "Mr. Bar" fail to properly self-sign his key before he distributed
it? Or does GPG have a problem with multiple-UID public keys? Sorry
about the bandwidth, but I didn't find a resolution to this problem in
the mailing list.
Thanks!
--
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