hi ! Does anyone know how to make a very , very simple password protected program ? Not anything fancy just a Win32 Console App that stops the user from viewing somit in less he/she knows the password.
Please help
thanx

ive done something like that b4. check the threads in programming for disable keyboard keys. You will just need to read in the user password and compare with the real password(s). You can use the password in 2 ways: hard coding it into the program or creating a password file. Either method works fine but 1 is easier to crack.
Also you might want to use some kind of "encrypted" input ie just capture the password as it is being typed in and display "*" to the screen for each one.
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Obviously everything whizkide suggested is completely useless if the user knows how to read assembly code and thus find the right password. You would need to use _real_ encryption, like RSA or whatnot, to avoid that.

Hashing is the future man, go with md5.

You guys do realise he said very very simple, so whizkides answer is fine ^^

umm, very technical ! Ive only just began prgramming so dont really understand anything. But thanx anyway whizkide!