file security?

does anybody know of a way to basically make files...well...invisible? i dont mean like making them hidden...i guess what im trying to do is get my program to take the place of the explorer window, except have it require a password before it lets people see the files, hopefully, even if they went in with explorer, they still would only see my exe, and only after they had typed in a password and username would they be able to see files. something tells me this is next to impossible, but id like to see if it can be done....

knowing me, this is probably on the wrong forum, feel free to move it :p

I'm not sure if you can make files invisible.
I do recommend encryption for your problem.
I found a very good example here
Good Luck :wave:

we got md5 all around already :P im getting lost in some of my own code. anyway, have you ever bought a flash drive with U3 on it? it does something to protect files...not sure what though...

Doesn't that U3 hide the whole partition?

pretty sure it does

Have you seen safehouse they have a free u3 product not used it in any way, but they also have a windows one (so their website says).

im not really doing this to protect my flash drive, my friend and i are tryn to put out an open source file security program

its still in its infancy, we barely have the basic program done yet