Import a pubkey sans self-sig?

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 8 23:44:25 2003


Yenot wrote:

>I was shocked that non-self-signed UID's were allowed at all.

It is mostly done to work with old keys. Some very old pgp versions
didn't default to selfsign keys. I don't remember which ones, but
2.6.3ia already does selfsign keys it creates.

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