Re: How to recover encrypted files on an NTFS volume?

Only if you:
1) Know the password of your account at the time you encrypted the files
2) Still have the *original* profile files with the DPAPI protected key material *from that time*

Alternatively.
1) You exported the user's efs encryption certificate and private key
2) You exported the original local administrator's recovery certificate and private key (assuming no domain)
3) You were part of a domain, and the domain admins have the EFS recoveyr agent's certificate and private key
4) The certificate is not self signed, and issued by an enterprise CA. The certificate is based on a custom v2 certificate template and was issued by a CA that implemented key archival

My guess, based on your scenario.
The files are gone.
Brian

"DoB" <DoB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OYtBrFAAJHA.4528@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

Once I encrypted a few files on an NTFS volume on my local w2000 system
and... forgot about it.

In the meantime I changed my hardware and reinstalled my system many times,
but the files were copied each time to a new volume, by disk cloning or by simple
copying.

The question is... can I decrypt them? I believe I should remember the username
and password which was used when I encrypted the files, but I did not export
any certificates.

I know about two commercial programs that recover such files, but I am seeking
a free solution - the files are not worth it.

I found two free and simple solutions to my problem, basing of the fact that
w2000 local administrator is able to decrypt the files.
The solutions do not work, i get the "access denied" error or something similar.

Is it possible to decrypt my files for free?

DoB.


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