Hi Everyone. If I wanted to program a 16F877's EEPROM with some data, and then prevent it from being read externally, how would I go about doing that? I.e. what sequence of events do I follow? This would be in a production environment, with different EEPROM data (e.g. a "key") in each chip. (I realize that the EEPROM can still be read internally, and one could hack an unprotected device to read the data out of EEPROM, etc.). The memory space will _not_ be code protected (I'm using a bootloader). Thanks, -- ______________________________________ Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. aek@pumpkininc.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.