There is a utility located here in the file section in the 3rd party folder called Cipher. It is a utility that will encrypt and decrypt passed strings. I think that it will do what you are looking for.

>Hi,
> My application has a logon screen and I save passwords as is into a table field. I think it is not right because if u open the table in VFP, u can see the exact passwords.
>I wonder whether there is any way to encode/decode a password using builtin VFP(or win32 api call).
>1) Whenever password is changed, I want to encode it and save it to table field.
>
>2) How to check the enetered password?
>
>I think this might be a standard problem with any VFP application that someone might have a solution.
>Please forward me ur solution.
>
>I appreciate ur help.
>
>Thanks
>Puri Malluru