Hello, According to the documentation, this should work: [588] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~/tmp >gpg -se -r bam@snoopy.apana.org.au Daemon.pm && echo OK || echo failed You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>" 1024-bit DSA key, ID 00530C24, created 2000-07-26 gpg: key 00530C24: already in trusted key table failed What is going wrong? What does this error mean? -- Brian May <bam@debian.org>