From: IN%"cme@TIS.COM" "Carl Ellison" 30-NOV-1995 12:34:35.18 Once an element of that set is identified, it can be assigned a codeword (to make parsing easier). ---------- How about an email address? Or a URL? Those can be autodetected easily enough. Plus, the email one could be used to automatically use the appropriate key if reading something from a particular address (whether for decryption or for signature verification). If there are more than one with that address, try all of them and if one turns up looking right (looks like email headers, for instance) use that decryption. That last is even easier with the signature verification, and that can show up the user-specified portion of the field so as to remind you who's sent the message. Sorry if this has been thought of (and suggested) before... it is kind of obvious. -Allen