On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:46, sven at radde.name said: > "quality" level for the random data. Probably others can clarify, but I > assume that 2 is highest quality. Correct. You might want to add the option --armor to get base64 output without linefeeds. This may the easily be passed to gpg via --passphrase-fd. Shalom-Salam, Werner