Registry protection

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Sriram A Nandakumar

My application requires a mechanism to protect some information which I am
planning to put it up int the registry from registry spies and other utility
programs that are available. Is there any way I can acheive it ? Better also
would be if anyone can tell me if there is any way to create hidden keys in
the registry.

or

is there any way to create hidden folders - not the attribute hide - but the
ones that windows creates in Windows/WinNT folder. Ones which are not
visible at all from the explorer but goes to the directory on giving a full
path. (Example is the Installer folder).

Sri Ram
 
In said:
My application requires a mechanism to protect some information
which I am planning to put it up int the registry from registry
spies and other utility programs that are available.
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No way that I know of other than the regular registry ACLs
(permissions) which typically permit at least Read to most account
types. In a specific case some things might be in effect "hidden"
due to no access permissions.
Is there any
way I can acheive it ? Better also would be if anyone can tell me
if there is any way to create hidden keys in the registry.
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Same answer. No mechanism specifically to "hide" keys. Only
restrict access.
or

is there any way to create hidden folders - not the attribute hide
- but the ones that windows creates in Windows/WinNT folder. Ones
which are not visible at all from the explorer but goes to the
directory on giving a full path. (Example is the Installer
folder).
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Same answer. You can restrict Groups/Accounts using ACLs (file
system permissions this time) from accessing a folder or child
folders, contents or files. The effect of such a restriction might
leave content and sub-folders effectively invisible to a particular
Group or Account.


I doubt that what you are asking for is possible. If you said
instead what the goals are, there may be many solutions (or none).
 
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