>Hi Joe - thanks for answering. That is a good idea, but how would
>I encrypt the user name?. Would I scramble the letters of
>the user name and have internal code that unscrambles when
>it is time to check the user database? thanks .. :)

Yeah, that's what I'd do...and unscramble if you display contents on the screen..I would convert the letters to numbers (probably using ASCII values) and run them through some type of formula...the most complicated formula that you can reverse would be best....

Joe