got any experience with this? I don't. If you do, here's an encrypted string and the key (base 64): RL5ZJUYNxNMnqa9wusptOSuDRAgIJ+mJ (string) L1uu9NwccM0TJWTmUj2heiO/WHMl7wKP (key) Can you tell me the original string? perl doesn't seem to have good 3des ... or i'm stupid.