Gnus v5.13 (from emacs v24.4) fails to encrypt messages with gnupg 2.1.0. The reason for this is that freshly released gnupg 2.1.0 changed the output slightly: $ gpg-filter --with-colons --no-greeting --batch --with-fingerprint \ --fixed-list-mode --list-keys "Matthias Maier" pub:u:4096:1:B5A4E06FBD3A97A3:1242087539:1468755388::u:::scESC:::::: older verions produced pub:u:4096:1:B5A4E06FBD3A97A3:1242087539:1468755388::u:::scESC: instead. With the additional five empty colons ":::::", however, epg--list-keys-1 returns additional arguments which let egp-list-keys fail: epg-list-keys: Args out of range: ["pub" "u" "4096" "1" "B5A4E06FBD3A97A3" "1242087539" "1468755388" nil "u" nil ...], 15 So, a more robust filtering in epg--list-keys-1 might be necessary. Best, Matthias