"skipped user ID"?

[Franz Gorkotte]

Hello!

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, James Troup wrote:
> I've got a key here which GnuPG + RSA/RSAREF is refusing, and it's not
> being terribly forthcoming as to why.  Plain jane PGP 2.6.3ia accepts
> the user ID fine... que?  If it's not just luser error, I can supply
> the key(s)...

> | 03:01:15 at cookie| ~/temp $gpg --no-default-keyring --load-extension rsaref --verbose ./foo
> | gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
> | gpg: armor header: Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
> | pub  1024R/E6DDE1C9 1998-12-09 Michael Schmitz <mschmitz at lbl.gov>
> | sig        E6DDE1C9 1998-12-09   [selfsig]
> | 03:01:18 at cookie| ~/temp $gpg --no-default-keyring --load-extension rsaref --verbose ./7
> | gpg: armor header: Version: 2.6.3i
> | pub  1024R/E6DDE1C9 1998-12-09 Michael Schmitz <schmitz at biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
> | sig        70629D49 2000-01-26   [User id not found]
> | uid                            Michael Schmitz <mschmitz at lbl.gov>
> | sig        E6DDE1C9 1998-12-09   [selfsig]

The uid 'Michael Schmitz <schmitz at biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>' does not
have a self-signature. Because there exists another uid (with a valid
self-signature) GnuPG accepts/imports the public-key. Case there were no
other uids (with a valid self-signature), GnuPG would have refused to
import the key, with the message:

gpg: key XXXXXXXX: skipped user ID 'NON VALID'
gpg: key XXXXXXXX: 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



Franz