Timo Maier, at 23:08 +0200 on Fri, 7 Sep 2001, wrote: I see, but I'd like to have a password, because I feel better (: If you absolutely need to use a password, try doing something like this: gpg --passphrase-fd 3 --sign foo.asc 3<passfile.txt This means that GnuPG will read in the passphrase from the file passfile.txt. -- Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/