At 10:46 AM 05/30/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>Tim,
>
>And what about legitimate access via third party software??? [Excel via
>ODBC, Crystal Reports via OLE DB, Cognos PowerPlay 7.0 by native
>connection (we can hope)].

If you need to have access to it using ODBC you can always leave the
encryption off. If the ODBC driver was written with the encryption as an
option in the DSN it could decode the data for you.
:wq
Tim Uckun
Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/ Americas Background
Investigation Expert.
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