some thing i should have done before sending last post. clicking arrow beside 'openpgp', shows 'sign message' checked. clicking arrow beside 's/mime', shows 'do not encrypt this message' checked. if you change these setting and shorten your key, you will should still conform to pki and have a shorter sig. also, in thunderbird window, click 'openpgp', click 'about openpgp' and go from there. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines