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Paul: There's a program called PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) that was reciently uploaded to the libs. With it you can crypt and decrypt files (both text based email type messages, and binary files). It uses a new form of encryption called Public Key encryption. Basically in a nutshell (if that's possible) what it does is create a private key, and a public key. You use the recepients public key to encrypt a file, and only that persons private key can decrypt it. With the public key that I entered into the messagebase you can add my public key into you 'keyring' of public keys, and then use it to encrypt files you send to me. The PGP program also acts as a key management system, to hold all the public keys you've received in a 'keyring' file. If you're interested in this, download the PGP program, and read the docs, it goes into much greater detail, and can explain much better than I am! // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale