Passwording Documents

[Mathew]

Hellooooo,
I'm wondering if there's any way to put a password on a notepad file or anything like that?

Thanks!
Matt

[David]

you can protect folders but not sure about other files, its somewhere in properties

[Mathew]

Yeah, I've been having a look around but the best thing I can find is setting it as a "Hidden" file... but that's not very secure at all. Can't find anything about setting a password.

[Chippiewill]

Winrar and archive it with a password

[Jack!]

You will have to get a program to do that for you unfortunately, you could always disguise it as something else though, something nobody will click on, The IE logo for example then name it Internet Explorer?

[Chippiewill]

You will have to get a program to do that for you unfortunately, you could always disguise it as something else though, something nobody will click on, The IE logo for example then name it Internet Explorer?

This kind of practise is only appropriate if the data you're hiding is already secure.

One thing you could try is encrypting the text with a symmetric key before putting it in the text file.

[Mathew]

Winrar and archive it with a password

Are you still able to edit the document after it's been archived?

You will have to get a program to do that for you unfortunately, you could always disguise it as something else though, something nobody will click on, The IE logo for example then name it Internet Explorer?

That's a pretty good idea, although it's still not really secure enough!

This kind of practise is only appropriate if the data you're hiding is already secure.

One thing you could try is encrypting the text with a symmetric key before putting it in the text file.

Would that do the trick? How would I go about trying that?

[santa-my-nana]

You can password pprotect files in MS word

[Mathew]

You can password pprotect files in MS word

How?

[santa-my-nana]

which version you using, 2003 or 2007 is it