Importing non-self-signed keys

[Graham Murray]

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Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de> writes:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, André Dahlqvist wrote:
> 
> > I have had no luck importing PGP 4 and 5 keys neither, GnuPG tells me this
> > can be due to the fact that these keys are not self-signed. Is there a way
> > around this, or can only self-signed keys be imported? Lots of people seam
> > to forget to sign their own keys, it's a good thing it's done automatically 
> > with GnuPG:-)
> 
>     --allow-non-selfsigned-uid

I am having the same problem, and I *have* tried this solution and it
does *not* work.

The following output shows the problem:-

> gpg --allow-non-selfsigned-uid --import sher.asc 
gpg: key 34D6A5FD: 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

subsequent to this, gpg --list-keys does not list the key.
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iD8DBQE32pelEhN/ETQwnEERAnboAJ0ZIzmKW0xRF5cOI0HTASfyE/hdgQCfXeTc
DpYv97nw+pxKa64mBPl19Yw=
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