Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu> won the second part of the "turn Ecash into 2-D bar code and back into an Ecash payment" contest. Building on Jeremey Barrett's Ecash -> PDF417 encoder, Ian wrote an Ecash PDF417 encoder and decoder. http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/tools/pdf417-1.0.tar.gz It is now possible to print Ecash on a laser printer and scan it back in on a standard flat bed scanner. Possible applications include sending Ecash by fax or mail. Ian notes the following: "Also: these are general PDF417 tools; they can be used to encode any binary data, not just ecash (the decoder will _not_ be able to decode arbitrary barcodes; it doesn't know about "numeric compaction" mode and other things in the spec that the encoder doesn't actually use)." Congratulations to Ian for this accomplishment! -- Marc Briceno <mailto:marc@digicash.com> Ecash(tm) Electronic Cash Evangelist/Developers Support <http://www.digicash.com/>