I need a some help from all of you crypto-literate people out in Net.Land. The company currently employing me has recently opened several overseas offices. We have connected ourselves to the Internet to send e-mail between the Houston office (corperate HQ) the new overseas offices. As to be expected, the powers-that-be here gave no thought to security for e-mail. I have brought this to their attention about 6 weeks ago and nothing has been done yet. I know 6 weeks is a short period of time but this is still a relatively small company (400 people) so something should have happened by now if anything was going to happen. That's the history of the current situation. I believe I need to provide some proof as to how easy it is to read unencrypted Internet E-mail. Not being an experienced programmer and not knowing how a lot of things work on the Internet, I do not know how easy it is to scan in-transit e-mail for keywords. Could some kind person please inform me as to how easy it is to do this, and, if possible, please direct me to a place that papers and/or programs have been written on the subject. I belive I need to "shock" the higher-ups that this could be a very big problem if we don't do something now while use of the Internet is light. Thanks, Kent Perrier keperrier@setpoint.com (work) kperrier@neosoft.com (play) Corporations don't have opinions, people do. These are mine.