Importing keys

Steve Youngs youngs_s@ozlinx.com.au
01 Apr 2000 09:55:51 +1000


* A Guy Called Tyketto <tyketto@wizard.com> writes:


> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:17:09PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm having a great deal of trouble importing keys with gnupg 1.0.1.
>> When I do...
>>
>> gpg --import keyfilename
>>
>> I get...
>>
>> gpg: key 16F4CCE9: unsupported public key algorithm
>> gpg: key 16F4CCE9: 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

> pass the --allow-non-selfsigned-uid option to gpg, and you should be okay.
I had a block of 6 keys, doing what you suggested I was able to import 1 of them. The other 5 were rejected with the above error. --
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