Re: Decrypting Files

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 11/02/02 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:02:45 -0500

"Desperate" <nospam@nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:8b3701c281b1$0829d930$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> Ok -- User left the company and encrypted a folder full of
> files. Are they pretty much useless now?

... and that's only if Windows 2000 / XP EFS encryption was used. If PGP or
another third party program was used, you need to get the user's passwords
or the files are probably gone.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Help Help Help Please !
    ... Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP ... not have permissions for if you are an administrator for that computer. ... Change the Folder Encryption Atribute. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: Cached Domain Password on Notebook, secure?
    ... "Backing Up an Encrypted Folder or File ... Backup created using the Copy command or menu ... or any backup utility that supports Windows 2000 features. ... the file encryption, and the backup operator does not need access to private ...
    (Focus-Microsoft)
  • Re: MS EFS Question
    ... Copying an Encrypted Folder or File ... Windows 2000 location to another NTFS partition in a Windows 2000 location. ... destination file system does not support encryption, the copy is in clear text. ...
    (Security-Basics)
  • Re: password protecting folders - is it possible???
    ... I can't comment on Windows XP Home due to lack of experience with it but in ... general with ntfs you restrict access by assigning permissions to ... set encryption in the folder or file properties in the advanced section. ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: password
    ... If you used XP's encryption, ... If you only had a password for your Windows username, ... Taking Ownership: ... Sometimes, in order to get access to a folder, you need to "take ownership" ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)