Hello Jari, > > Are you using a password that has different encodings in UTF-8 and 8859-1? > > > > Are you sure that keyboard key mappings are set the same? If I remember > > correctly .de keyboards use transposed locations for Z and Y characters > > versus default United States key locations. The password consists of characters [a..z], [A..Z], [0..9], no z, no y, no special characters. > Just to check that gpg is statically linked, can you also provide output of > "ldd /bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg /boot/gpg" command? Yes. :-) ---cut--- merkur:~# ldd /usr/bin/gpg not a dynamic executable merkur:~# ldd /boot/gpg not a dynamic executable merkur:~# /usr/bin/gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.6 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Home: ~/.gnupg Unterstützte Verfahren: Öff.Schlüssel: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG Verschlü.: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256 Komprimierung: nicht komprimiert, ZIP, ZLIB merkur:~# ---cut--- Michael - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/