>>Craig Boyd has made some encryption functions freely available in an FLL: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/2009/08/09/MajorVFPEncryptionUpdate.aspx
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>It's not my thread Al, but the thing with products like Cryptor and NetLib etc is that they plug into your existing app and read/write the encrypted DBF\DBC\etc file without requiring code changes to speak off. Minimal code required to load, activate the library is about all that is required.
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>Encryption tools are a dime a dozen - I like the ones from Chilkat myself. But that requires recoding lots of things if you want to start encrypting your data files. Whole disk file encryption is simplicity.

Amen to everything you just said. It's a shame Xitech couldn't get Cryptor working with AES.