Compressing and Encrypting

[stfn321]

How can you compress and encrypt any multiple files into one file that is your own format?

[z05DSL3A]

Design and implementation.

[stfn321]

anything i can read on!.

[z05DSL3A]

I would start by reading about something like Zip format.
http://www.pkware.com/support/zip-app-note

[stfn321]

Any algorithms i can make notes off -.-

[Athar]

Use an existing algorithm implementation, such as the LZMA algorithm:
http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Then just store the compressed data along with the uncompressed size and any other information you want to keep (name, modification date, hash...) into a file.

[stfn321]

Thanks very much :)