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Nick, What is your intention for how 5.8.n where 'n' is >= 3 will handle the hash key binary compatibility issue? At what point will we break backwards binary compatibility and just have *all* hashing use the seed with no 'Oh dear I'm under attack, switch behaviour' logic? Obviously there is a performance hit for this 5.8.0/5.8.1 binary compatibility stuff, and I did get the impression that at some point we would switch over entirely to the new mechanism. I think it needs to be clearly documented in 5.8.2 somewhere that we will at some point break binary compatibility, so people can prepare for it. Also, I don't actually care about 5.8.0/5.8.1 binary compatibility, as we didn't ship either version. I'd therefore like to permenantly enable the new behaviour so that I don't have to take a potential prrformance hit, and so I don't have to break binary compatibility in the future. Is there going to be a Configure flag to allow me to do this? Thanks, -- Alan Burlison --Thread Next