using a key without self-signature

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu May 16 00:15:01 2002


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Gregor Zattler wrote:
> Dear gnupg-users,
> 
> i want to use a pub key which is has no self-signature.  I know I
> can do this using the --allow-non-selfsigned-uid option. But i
> want to use this key on an regular basis and search for a way
> without this option.
> 
> Is there a way to --edit the key so I can use it?

No.  If it doesn't have a self-sig, and you don't want to use the
--allow-non-selfsigned-uid option, then there is nothing you can do,
aside from asking the key owner to sign it.

Why don't you want to use allow-non-selfsigned-uid ?

David

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