Thanks for your input!

You state that it uses whatever level of encryption your particular version of the operating system has.

In a multi-user environment where we have users running anything from Win95 - WinXP, it seems like this would cause a problem. One user might encrypt data at 128-bit but the next guy who has permissions to view that data can't unencrypt something at that level. Is this correct?

Do you know of anything else aside from CAPICOM? We actually run in a LAN environment where our software resides on a Novell file server ... it never gets installed on each individual user's machine. We wouldn't necessarily want to have to run around to all 150 machines on our network and register a COM object. Any ideas?

Rodd

>Hi Rodd,
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>The VFP _crypto class is a wrapper around the Windows Cryptographic API. It uses whatever level of encryption your particular version of the operating system has. It works quite well but requries some knowledge of how Windows encryption works. Depending on your needs, you might look at CAPICOM, a COM component available for download from MS. There is quite a bit of info on it in the security section of the MSDN library. I have used CAPICOM with VFP without any problems. HTH