Hello, Excuse any naivety in the question asking, but any help with the following will be very much appreciated: Using Emacs 23, built with NS on Mac OS 10.4..., and gpg built from fink, I am having the following issue: I can create a new buffer 'test.gpg', edit it, and save it, which encrypts the file using one of my keys. If I close the buffer, then try to open the file, (C-x C-f), I am asked for my passphrase, then I get the following error in the minibuffer: 'File exists, but cannot be read'. This is not a permissions issue (775). Also, decrypting from the command line with gpg works fine. Here are the messages in *Messages*: /Users/mkayala/org/t: 0% (0/607) File exists, but cannot be read Here is the output on " *epg-debug*" for the encryption: /sw/bin/gpg --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --enable-progress-filter --command-fd 0 --output /tmp/epg-output61144iH --decrypt -- /Users/mkayala/org/test.gpg gpg: can't open `/Users/mkayala/org/test.gpg' gpg: decrypt_message failed: file open error /sw/bin/gpg --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --enable-progress-filter --command-fd 0 --output /tmp/epg-output6114XJj --encrypt -r EFAE0C7BEEBB2B1F [GNUPG:] PROGRESS stdin ? 0 0 [GNUPG:] BEGIN_ENCRYPTION 2 9 [GNUPG:] PROGRESS stdin ? 20 0 [GNUPG:] END_ENCRYPTION And for the decryption: /sw/bin/gpg --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --enable-progress-filter --command-fd 0 --output /tmp/epg-output6114kTp --decrypt -- /Users/mkayala/org/test.gpg [GNUPG:] PROGRESS /Users/mkayala/org/t ? 0 607 [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 3D22E97EE828E82D 16 0 [GNUPG:] USERID_HINT 3D22E97EE828E82D Matt Kayala (MK) < matt.kayala@gmail.com> [GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE 3D22E97EE828E82D EFAE0C7BEEBB2B1F 16 0 [GNUPG:] GET_HIDDEN passphrase.enter [GNUPG:] GOT_IT [GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID E828E82D, created 2009-08-06 "Matt Kayala (MK) " [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION [GNUPG:] PROGRESS /Users/mkayala/org/t ? 607 607 [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT 62 1249671366 [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT_LENGTH 20 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_OKAY [GNUPG:] GOODMDC [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION If instead of using the epa-file, I try to directly do 'M-x epa-decrypt-file RET test.gpg', I get the following error: Decrypting test.gpg...0% (0/607) epg-decrypt-file: Wrong type argument: listp, exit And the corresponding " *epg-debug*" output: /sw/bin/gpg --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --enable-progress-filter --command-fd 0 --output /Users/mkayala/org/test --decrypt -- /Users/mkayala/org/test.gpg [GNUPG:] PROGRESS /Users/mkayala/org/t ? 0 607 [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 3D22E97EE828E82D 16 0 [GNUPG:] USERID_HINT 3D22E97EE828E82D Matt Kayala (MK) < matt.kayala@gmail.com> [GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE 3D22E97EE828E82D EFAE0C7BEEBB2B1F 16 0 [GNUPG:] GET_HIDDEN passphrase.enter [GNUPG:] GOT_IT [GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID E828E82D, created 2009-08-06 "Matt Kayala (MK) " [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION [GNUPG:] PROGRESS /Users/mkayala/org/t ? 607 607 [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT 62 1249671366 [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT_LENGTH 20 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_OKAY [GNUPG:] GOODMDC [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION Any help or thoughts you could give would be much appreciated! Thanks, -Matt Kayala mkayala@ics.uci.edu // matt.kayala@gmail.com PhD Student Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine