I'm trying to figure out who the author respondible for Crypt::DES is. This module is very similar to the one found at www.cryptix.org in their perl package--except it has some endianness issues. I wanted to let the author know so he could fix it. As it stands, the Crypt::DES module on CPAN is worthless for anyone with a big-endian system. I spent an hour or so today tracking down the problem and fixing it. Thankfully Cryptix has their code available and the module is VERY similar. -- Michael Douglass Texas Networking, Inc. Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature. -- from some indian guy