My silence recently isn't me ignoring you -- I'm in the middle of another project for the next couple of weeks... I think you guys will be interested when it's done. But don't fret -- I keep all these messages in my "jEmplode Bugs/RFE's" folder and I do actually review all the ideas that come up.

I definitely agree that the full hash algorithm is too much and we need a much faster first-line-of-defense ... I just need to play around some with these ideas and a couple others I've been tossing around to figure out what makes the most sense.

ms