Is self-signing necessary? Basic questions.

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Sunday 2 January 2011 at 5:05:06 AM, in
<mid:497685A4-E286-455B-AA00-26C3265059EB at jabberwocky.com>, David Shaw
wrote:

> There is a way to sign a key alone, without signing any
> user IDs.  Nobody supports it for 3rd party signatures
> like these.

That brings two questions to my mind.
1. How would you do that with GnuPG; it prompts to select user IDs?
2. What statement would such a signature actually be making?


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