E.R.,

Check out the free Encryption FLL on Craig Boyd's www.sweetpotatosoftware.com blog. IMO its a much better choice than VFP's Crypto API class.

Malcolm

>We’re using the CryptoApi class to encrypt and decrypt a string using EncryptSessionStreamString and DecryptSessionStreamString.
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>The problem is that the app running on Windows 2000 Server created the encrypted string (into a file on the network) and client apps on XP are not able to decrypt the string.
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>Do you know of a workaround for this?