Importing and using non-self-signed PGP keys

[Schwarz, Konrad]

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> Subject: Re: Importing and using non-self-signed PGP keys
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> On Monday 19 October 2015 at 9:10:17 AM, in
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> Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
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> > my organization issued to me a public/private PGP keypair that is not
> > self signed.
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> 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.

No, I don't know.  Various messages generated by GPG indicate PGP 2.x keys.  The message digest is MD5, which GPG warns about.

What I have found out is that the key is signed by my organization -- although I don't know how to display that in GPG.

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

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

Your google-fu certainly outclasses mine! 
 
>     create a new UserID for the key in question
>     sign your old UserID with the same key
>     delete the new UserID
 
Amazingly (considering the time I had invested beforehand), this works.

Thank you!

Konrad