AS you say, I don't really know how to interface PGP with Perl, thus my posting here. I looked at the references you gave me, looked like they were all written in some other language (I only know Perl, and that is very basic stuff). As for the admin - they won't support any "third party" scripts, so I'm basically screwed 'til I can figure this out. Any one out there want to really dumb down their solution to help me out? Just tell me where I'm going wrong?