So the command is gnupg? I man gnupg which lead me to gpg. Thank you for = your=20 help. On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:28 pm, der.hans said: ~ Am 11. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Michael Havens so: ~ ~ > I'm never going to need to encrypt anything but.... ~ > This book says that the way to encrypt things is: ~ > cryptencrypted ~ > And then decryption is: ~ > cryptplainfile ~ > ~ > But that is wrong. What is the command? ~ ~ Look at gpg. www.gnupg.org ~ ~ ciao, ~ ~ der.hans --=20 <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net