-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In case you lost your random PGP look-alike message generator :-), here is one in PERL. Run it with an argument (number of lines of "encrypted" text to produce). Such a message won't pass pgp itself, since magic bytes and checksums aren't there. - ----------8< cut here >8---------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl #creates random messages that look like PGP messages @pgpchars = (a .. z, A .. Z, '+', '=', '/'); $lenpgpchars = @pgpchars; $pgplinelength = 64; $numlines = shift @ARGV; print "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\n"; print "Version 2.3a\n\n"; foreach $i (0 .. $numlines) { foreach $j (0 .. $pgplinelength) { $char = $pgpchars[rand $lenpgpchars]; print $char; } print "\n"; } print "-----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n"; - ----------8< cut here >8---------- Karl L. Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLKuzBIOA7OpLWtYzAQHJZgP+PE0kcLVyHr2Ml/D0QEYJqVh58x8h0UGD U8aShHVcryrKk7Uj2xXNtC8OAH1ltoi98jiEuJvqi3rcLaj8lui+gTSe96vpoWRP iQSMuQUn0NNMOP3BooeCoeV2KY7Kd4511Km8yOtzJflwPrk2AyeI8Bra4tpuVxnH 6eErL3MBUzU= =Xcys -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----