>On first inspection, the June 2001 class did not look like strong encryption. I'd certainly hesitate to use it for medical data under HIPAA or sensitive employee data. Isn't encrypt to disk now a feature of Windows 2000?

Actually the encryption is quite strong as long as the password you supply for the encryption is not somthing simple or a dictionary word. You can provide up to 32 mixed-case alpha/numeric/special character password. To decrypt correctly, you have to provide the same case-specific password along with the encrypted string. Pass a password like Fwo9#rtX4@lwMx*81Q?~9IYpzA9 and I venture to say that would not be guessed.