smartcard daemon and gpg's S/MIME cousin gpgsm. The design is different to the previous versions and we may not support all ancient systems - thus POSIX compatibility will be an absolute requirement for supported platforms. 1.9 is based on an somewhat older 1.3 code and will peacefully coexist with other GnuPG versions. Happy Hacking, The GnuPG Team (David, Stefan, Timo and Werner) -- Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Free Software Foundation Europe http://fsfeurope.org