Re: What the hell encryption does?!

From: RCC (rcc76@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "RCC" <rcc76@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 09:13:04 +1200

"Chuck Conlow" <cconlow@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:ioPd9.9617$LI2.657511@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>
> "Joe Morris" <jcmorris@mitre.org> wrote in message
> news:al7kr5$g19$1@newslocal.mitre.org...
>
> > Incidentally, be ***VERY*** careful in considering the use of EFS.
> > If you don't back up your private key, reinstalling your system will
> > render the files unusable without possibility of recovery
>
> Lost your PKEY? Copy files to floppy or any available FAT volume. Guess
what
> happens?
>
> Chuck
>

Don't tell me it decripts the files!
The certificate is built in your account (not exactly , but this will do).
You can't really lose it unless you loose your account and don't have a
Recovery agent.
Therefore you can copy the files, but they will still be encrypted...
That's the theory. I'll give it a try , anyway.

Regards,
RCC

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