session keys, but does not support 3DES of the data stream in telnet. Is anyone aware of any such version of telnet? At this point, I'm not all that picky about what platform it runs on. Thanks, Keith -- "Once something has gone horribly wrong..." "...it just gets horribler and horribler." "Then, it's a matter of finding the original horriblism." -- from a conversation on debugging problems in a linked list