Hi, The keys were generated using dnskeygen. (RSA 512Bit). Any idea why base64 encoding is failing? Thanx! Alex >getkey user1.fopra.edu getkeybyname(user1.fopra.edu) => 1 h_errno = 0 dname = user1.fopra.edu ttl = 86400 flags = 0x0 protocol = 2 algorithm = 1 keylen = 66 key = [base64 encoding failed]