Hi all, It seems that I have some problems in sending this post to the gnupg-users mailing list, so I post a copy here. The "gpg --gen-key" command failed on my machine, Here is the error message: ---------------------------------------------- gpg: no writable public keyring found: eof Key generation failed: eof gpg: can't create `/home/xia/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory ---------------------------------------------- Is there anything I missed? Thanks Xia