Good afternoon. I am running MySQL version 3.23.55-nt and do not have SSL of any kind complied. The question I have is this: I am using a combination of several values to build up a 'key' string. Is the ENCODE/DECODE combination using this method a good enough encryption to allow the storing of credit card #'s or would AES emcryption be better? Thanks for any information to guide me in this issue. Robin Kopetzky -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php