On Friday 18 Feb 2005 16:36, Nathaniel Hall wrote: <snip> Nathaniel I have a feeling you aren't thinking straight, or are describing your problem incorrectly. What do you mean by passwords? System passwords are normally encrypted using one-way algorithms .. so there is no way to decrypt them. So the second part of your problem just isn't relevant. If you are talking about PGP (or similar) encryption, then yes, this is possible in perl, if you have the right perl modules installed. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C.S. Lewis