Re: Former Install Encryption Cracking

From: x y (jamescagney90210@yahoo.com)
Date: 05/27/02 

From: "x y" <jamescagney90210@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:19:29 -0400

Five days? As long as Windows was not reinstalled, it should have taken
them 15 minutes. [Maybe they should have posted here asking how to do it.]

But since you formatted the drive, unfortunately the files are gone. For
$1,000 or more, you could have a data recovery company try to get the
information back from before the format, but even then there's no guarantee.
Or, you could put a bomb in your shoe and wait for the FBI to retrieve your
files for you.

"greg b" <destrel69@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:acsfdd$av9$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I'm a newbie to here so forgive me if I'm green...
>
> I take lots of photos using a digicam, but unfortunately I wasn't wise to
> the fact that if I encrypted using Win2K's resident facilities with NTFS
> and then did a re-install the keys would be lost. I have the files still
but
> they're encrypted on my HDD stored mailnly as JPG
>
> I have the feeling I may have done a second install and
low-level-formatted
> the HDD before I re-installed, This is what happens if you're given a new
> OS, see new features and think you'll use them without realising the
> ramifications. So you're looking at three installs in total.
>
> I have the export version of Win2K, ie non-US to the best of my knowlegde.
I
> think this uses the 40-bit key not the bigger version the US domestic
> version uses. As a slight aside I heard the guy who tried to blow up his
> shoes on the way to Boston airport a few months back used Win2k with
> encryption. He was from the UK and I assume therefore, he had only the
> Export version to hand. If I remember righlty it still took the FBI five
> days number-crunching to crack the 40-bit version. ERK!
>
> Can I get my photos back?
>
> Many thanks and all help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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