How to lock and access folder by trusted application?

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I want to lock folder.
And then only allow to access by trusted application.

What I have tried:

function lock_folder(string path){
...
}
function unlock_folder(string path){
...
}
function add_trusted_application(string appPath){
...
}

Posted 1-Mar-20 22:41pm

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Richard MacCutchan 2-Mar-20 5:06am

Check the documentation for your OS to see how to protect folders.

Stefan_Lang 2-Mar-20 7:49am

"function add_trusted_application(string appPath)"

It is always the OS that will decide what is a trusted application, and which applications should be granted what access to any particular files! If the OS doesn't have the exclusive right on that, that opens the gates to all kinds of malicious software: Who would want an OS that allows a program to hide the folder that holds the malicious code which infects evrything?

Richard Deeming 3-Mar-20 7:24am

"Who would want an OS that allows a program to hide the folder that holds the malicious code which infects evrything?"
Seems like most commercial OSs have that option. It's mostly used by malicious software, but some poor attempts at DRM have used it as well.
Rootkit - Wikipedia[^]

masesk 19-May-20 22:13pm

You can use encryption methods/Libraries to “lock” a folder if you have write access to it. I don’t know what you mean by trusted application. Are you assuming the application that you are writing is trusted? Elaborate on that.

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