Re: EFS Recovery

From: Martin v. Löwis (martin@v.loewis.de)
Date: 11/29/02 

From: "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:07:38 +0100

> Is there any way I can get these files back?

No. Your private key, if it was on the backup, is encrypted with the
system key (if this was W2k). It is extremely unlikely that the system
key is on the backup somewhere.

Regards,
Martin

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