Phil H wrote: > What is the purpose of the waitseconds (-w) option to aespipe? Consider this (stripped down) command line: mkisofs $to_burn |aespipe -w10 -K$key -O16 |cat $key - >/dev/dvdrecorder Without the -w10 option, aespipe's "Password:" prompt would get garbled by mkisofs's preliminary output, which can be quite verbose at times. I don't know if there are any other uses, but IMHO this usability one warrants the -w option by itself. Toby - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/