Thank you andye and everyone for your help. I really appreciate it. It does work. however i am getting an extra "1" at the end of the password. for example...$password gets assigned, after the decryption, "77ujump5" it becomes "77ujump51". ANy ideas why? thnx Ray I figured it out. I was having the script print the password on the console and also return a result(1 - success) :). Thanks to everyone for their help. Much Appreciated.