Hi guys, In the examples, uuencode seems to always be used when creating a pass phase. My question: is there any real reason the pass phase needs to be uuencoded if losetup will have it piped in with the -p option? I tried piping in raw output generated from /dev/random and it seems to work. Just want to make sure that does not some how weaken the encryption... Thanks, and sorry if I've missed something obvious... Rob __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/