Re: Prohibit users from actually seeing folders?

From: Paul Busby (xbusby@tele2.co.uk)
Date: 11/01/02 

From: "Paul Busby" <xbusby@tele2.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:44:48 -0000

In news:7f2c01c28113$b037e4d0$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11,
Rick <Rick@EmbraceHisGrace.com> pulled the chain then typed:
> Mat, not sure about actually "hiding" the folders, but
> you can make them "private" and even "encrypt" them so
> only you can open and view the folder contents.

If I encrypt folders, the file name & extensions are visible to anyone with
admin rights! The files are safely encrypted but *not* the file names.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, this seems to be a serious security issue.
I'm encrypting at folder level then allowing child objects to inherit the
attribute.

As an aside, XP shouldn't be able to encrypt anything until a recovery cert
has been generated, erased off the system then imported back & tested -
could be coded as a Wizard. This would cut down on the number of users
permanently loosing encrypted data when they reformat their OS volume.

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