Boberg, Stefan wrote: > You’re wasting your time. Use a MD4 or MD5 hash and base64-encode the > result and use as the key. The computational cost for calculating the > hash will be lower than the time taken transmitting your key. I agree. In PHP, 1000 md5() calls takes .008 seconds. -- Brian Moon ------------- http://dealnews.com/ It's good to be cheap =)