But if you are using text files in the first place then you can expect them to be found. Setting it to read-only would make it to where you couldn't edit them either, as for an encryption, yes, that would work. But it doesn't seem completely right to protect a password with a password, because what password would you use to protect that password, and for that one, and so on.

But yeah, I don't think that an encryption would need any such additional maintenance.

Also, that is why you make it pretty much impossible to find, make a series of folders with numbers in the name as well as in the filename, so the user will not know what name to search for, it could look like:

D:
--->foldnm[1003388]
------->foldnm[97643]
----------->filenm[0773].txt
------->foldnm[97378]

Sorry, I meant I instead of we. I don't know why I typed that. The text file will be secure, but I'm not doing encryption. I'm making a folder and then renaming it so that it will act like the control panel when clicked upon.

That is my plan at least. Thanks for the help.

jdm

To make it a more secure method, you could do a binary write to the file with the time of day (in clock ticks) that the file was written, the number of guesses that occured, and a strange binary combination of the two (AND with time of day + binary shift once left then XOR with time of day). This way if anyone tampers with the file, this coded number will not be correct, and is sort of a 'keyed' encryption. This will require a hex viewer to read in the binary data, as well as a fair bit of reverse engineering to guess the algorithm! Happy coding!

Thanks for the help, but this program isn't going that far. It is meant to be a fun program, but certain areas like typing debug and getting the source code will have this. For the most part it is a fun app. Thanks for all of the help and suggestions. I appreciate it a lot.

Sincerely yours;

jdm