Heh, my math is slightly off: the chances of a duplication are actually 1/(62^60) since valid characters are [a-zA-Z0-9], and each cash string is of length 61, 60 characters taken randomly from the set of valid characters, and an initial 'B' (since all the cash issued from elee7h5@rosebud starts with an 'A'). On the other hand, I'm not using a cryptographically strong random number generator (I'm waiting for the soon to be released PGP library :-) Remailing seems to a bit slower, probably because the perl hacks I added slurp the entire file of valid strings, check payment, and rewrite the file, minus valid payment. Also, the more enterprising and devious among you :-) will soon note that the remailer elee6ue@rosebud passes along the subject line even when payment fails. Thus, if you collapse your entire message into the subject, you can still get a message through. I will fix this problem soon! -- Karl L. Barrus: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu keyID: 5AD633 hash: D1 59 9D 48 72 E9 19 D5 3D F3 93 7E 81 B5 CC 32 "One man's mnemonic is another man's cryptography" - my compilers prof discussing file naming in public directories