Dear all, At present I am putting a COM wrapper (with a VB front end) around cli.cpp and serv.cpp. My intention is to get to a state where I can connect and disconnect at will, and send and receive messages freely. The client seems to be working well, but I have a problem with the server. In order to use my .pem certificate I need a password (to decrypt the exported key within it???). This is normally passed in as a command line thing (see function def_callback() in file pem_lib.c) - but in this case I have no command line and need to pass it in as a function argument somewhere via my COM API. Am I on the right track here? Has anyone implemented this or something similar? Can anyone recommend a technique? Please reply to me direct as well as through the mailing lists. - Richard -- APT Computer Systems Ltd., The Executive Centre, 7-9 North St. David Street, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. EH2 1AW phone: 0131-524-9450 direct: 0131-524-9632 mobile: 07803-161002 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]