Importing keys

[A Guy Called Tyketto]

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:17:09PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
> Hi
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> I'm having a great deal of trouble importing keys with gnupg 1.0.1.
> When I do...
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> gpg --import keyfilename
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> I get...
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> gpg: key 16F4CCE9: unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key 16F4CCE9: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
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> What am I doing wrong?

        Actually, you're doing everything right, except that the key that=
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you're importing, was not signed by the person who owns it (self-signature,=
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believe). This is most common with PGP 2.6.x keys (I had to import my 2.6.3=
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and 2.6.3ia keys into GnuPG, and had the same problem. Try the import again=
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and pass the --allow-non-selfsigned-uid option to gpg, and you should be ok=
ay.

                                                        BL.
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Brad Littlejohn                         | Email:        tyketto@wizard.com
Unix Systems Administrator,             |           tyketto@ozemail.com.au
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  PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569  F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF


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