Importing and using non-self-signed PGP keys

[MFPA]

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On Monday 19 October 2015 at 9:10:17 AM, in
<mid:A45B1767F1002449A37508C2CC6003D71A00D5 at DEFTHW99EJ1MSX.ww902.siemens.net>,
Schwarz, Konrad wrote:


> my organization issued to me a public/private PGP
> keypair that is not self signed.

Just out of curiosity, do you know what they used to create the key? I
thought all current openPGP applications for quite a few years have
automatically self-signed keys they generate.



> How can I self-sign the new uid in GPG

I thought the answer was just:-

          gpg --edit-key <keyid>

  then

          setpref


But a quick web search showed me [0] which says:-

    create a new UserID for the key in question
    sign your old UserID with the same key
    delete the new UserID



[0] <https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/kb/gpg-keychain-faq/add-self-signature-to-an-old-key-which-does-not-have-one>




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