In our case it's the PCI (Payment Card Industry) i.e. VISA requiring protection of card numbers that is driving our interest (as well as the large $$$ penalties for not complying.
Alan -----Original Message----- (in my best Seinfeld voice)... What's up with all these crypto related posts? :-) Seriously... any reason why suddenly so many IBM-MAINers are working on it at the same time? Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html