While poking around at www.ustreas.gov, I found the following: http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/sba/electro.html The first paragraph reads: --SNIP-- The Financial Management Service is implementing an Electronic Certification System to permit fast, secure, and accurate transmission and certification of payment data. The system has been approved by the General Accounting Office for satisfying the signature certification requirements of 31 U.S.C. 3325 and 3528. --SNIP-- Would anyone like to comment on what is being used to provide signatures? Reading on down a bit, we get to this: --SNIP-- It uses a microcomputer to generate voucher schedules, electronically certify the vouchers, and transmit them via a dial-up telephone line to a mainframe host computer at the servicing Regional Financial Center. The electronic certification process provides positive identification of the certifying officer who authorizes the voucher for payment and ensures the authenticity of the transmitted data. It also detects any deliberate or inadvertent manipulation, modification, and loss of data between the time the voucher is certified in the Federal Program Agency microcomputer and the time it is verified at the servicing Regional Financial Center host computer. --SNIP-- Comments? -abc \ Alan B. Clegg Just because I can \ Internet Staff does not mean I will. \ gateway.com, inc. \ <http://www.gateway.com/>