I've been going through several tutorials on different methods of File Access, Text, Random, Binary, etc. I'm wanting to save the users passwords in a file that someone can't easily view. I've also seen several different methods on encryption. My first thought was that binary mode was a way to actually create, read and write to a binary file, not easily viewed in a text editor. But it seems just to be the method by which the data is writtrn and retrieved, it still being an actual text file.

Is there a way to create a file that cannot be edited or viewed easily, and the data encrypted, or do I use the Text, Random, or Binary method and encrypt and decrypt the passwords.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.