hal , gotta question regarding your perl scripts . i ran em thru sh and d/l'd em , and here are the results of my tests . first , i pgp'd a file in binary format , then ran " perl pgppadt.pl test.pgp 10 " . the error i got was " Couldn't create test.pgp.pad " . so i renamed the file to " test " and tried again with good results ! i got " Input file test has size 732 bytes 10 bytes pgppad returns code -3 " . then , iran " perl pgppad.pl test 10 " and after the bit about perl running under dos/4gw protected mode , i get dropped to my command prompt . i took a look at the file , and it's size wasn't any different , so i renamed the file to test.pgp and ran it again and got the same results . so i guess i'm wonderin' if it added the padding , or what might be the problem ? for your info , i'm using perl 4.0.