Thanks Scott. Yes Cryptor is a fine product but it does not match my requirements. I need to encrypt only certain fields oa an unencrypted table. At this time it seems that Craig's FLL is the ideal solution. We had a little trouble initially, but Craig did a fine debugging job and I have gone through over 1,000,000 encryptions and decryptions of varying number/strings and it works both flawlessly and quite fast.

Glenn

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>FWIW, and a little off focus considering the direction the resulting thread from your original question went: This morning I received an e-mail from www.Xitech.co.uk that they will shortly be releasing Version 6 of Cryptor which will contain AES. I have been using Version 5 at 9 locations for the last few months with no problems. If Xitech sticks to their schedule that'll be great because I found their product easy to implement a comprehensive encryption of the entire database and associated text and log files.
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>Scott