Hi Simon,

Cipher50 is not industrial strength encryption. It is small, fast and easy, and it will easily keep out the average corporate worker from snooping around the data in your app. But it will not stop anyone skilled in encryption and code breaking.

Guy



>HI Dan
>
>Do you know what it does as far as encryption is concerned and how secure it is?
>
>Simon
>
>>Yes, that is what we are using also.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>>Hi Dan
>>>
>>>Which crypto.fll are you using? I was checking out Cipher50.fll orignally produced by Tom Rettig.
>>>
>>>Simon
>>>
>>>>Hi Simon.
>>>>
>>>>I came across this same issue with no resolution. I know Win95 OSR2 machines would not return the same encrypted strings as higher OSs. I went to a crypto.fll for that reason. See thread #634346.
>>>>
>>>>HTH
>>>>
>>>>Dan
>>>>
>>>>>Hi
>>>>>
>>>>>I am using the crypto control from VFP's foundation classes but it is becoming a real pain as the decryption fails on some machines. The last instance happened on a Win2000 laptop. I made sure that I specified that the encryption should be based on MS Base Cryptographic Provider so that it did not accidently use the new enhanced version. However it still fails occasionally on some machines.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone know why this occurs and anyway to guarantee that the Windows encryption will work correctly in Win98/ME/2000/XP? What files and versions are required in Windows to make this 100% reliable?
>>>>>
>>>>>I am beginning to think it would be easier to use a crypto.fll to eliminate these problems.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Simon White