Import a pubkey sans self-sig?

[Todd]

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gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> I'd like to encipher things to keyid 75E4988D (seems to be on
> wwwkeys.pgp.net)... but GnuPG simply refuses to import it because it's
> lacking a self-signature.

man gpg says this:

    --allow-non-selfsigned-uid
        Allow the import and use of keys with user IDs which are not
        self-signed.   This  is not recommended, as a non self-signed user
        ID is trivial to forge.

HTH

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Todd              OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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