....... this is happening when someone is sitting too long before the computer: " What does Jari Ruusu use when he suggests head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 | gpg --symmetric -a >/boot/rootkey.gpg Is he using /dev/urandom ? - " have fun, Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/