Re: EFS confirmation

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/27/03


From: "David Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:54:46 -0800


yes, your assertions are correct.

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"Burt0n" <web@staticterminal.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Can somebody just confirm some details regarding efs to me please?
>
> Its my understanding that if a file is encrypted using efs, it will remain
> encrypted regardless of what NTFS5 partition it is moved/copied to.  That
> if it is copied to a non-ntfs5 partition BY ME it will lose its
encryption.
> However if someone else who isn't the creator owner or recovery key chap
> copies the file using NTFSDOS or something they will only get 'crap' to
> pardon the expression?
>
> I've been through these groups and there seems to be a lot of different
> ideas on how it works.  Is the above correct?
>
> Many thanks.


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