Hi all, [I'm resending this hope the first doesn't appear as well] I followed the directions for compiling and making the plugin. But I'm having some problems. Should I have uninstalled the rpm's which came with 8.2 pro? I think I had libgcrypt, pinentry, cryptplug, & newpg. I also have gpg but that is needed I believe. What should go into xsession to cause the gpg-agent info to be known for each xsession? is it gpg-agent --daemon(or /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent --daemon)? or is it the output of this, which was GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-p8EjKX/S.gpg-agent:1060:1; export GPG_AGENT_INFO; or should it be ... eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)" Rhe directions weren't very clear, or they weren't clear to me. Also should ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf have use-agent uncommented? When i try to sign a mail with kmail I get This message could not be signed! The Crypto Plug-In '/usr/local/lib/cryptplug/gpgme-openpgp.so' reported the following details: #19 : No Passphrase Your configuration might be invalid or the Plug-In damaged. Please contact your system administrator If i try to configure the plugin in settings > configure kmail > security > crypto plug ins > configure there's a start certification manager button that doesn't do anything when pressed. When i tried to start it before the plugin was activated i got an error stating The crypto plugin could not be initialized; the error message was . Certificate Manager will terminate now. gpg works from the command line, which I guess is a good thing.. TIA -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Professional