Encryption

From: aaron (alklink@bellsouth.net)
Date: 01/03/03 

From: "aaron" <alklink@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:01:22 -0800

I'm looking in my crystal ball and see many long nights
ahead.
>-----Original Message-----
>In my curiosity and gross ignorance, I encrypted some of
>my documents using the NTFS encrytion attribute. I then
>deleted the user account and eventually erased the entire
>OS (the encrypted documents are on another drive). I
have
>since found out that the encryption is user account
>specific (although I should have know that in the first
>place). Is there any way to restore my documents now, or
>have I just killed two months of work?
>
>Cheers,
>John
>.
>

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