Re: EFS File Decryption Problems

From: Mike Brannigan [MS] (mikebran@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/11/02 

From: "Mike Brannigan [MS]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:24:46 -0000

"Ferras Elshair" <elshair@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I just installed windows XP on my machine and previous had
> windows 2000. I had some encrypted files on my storage
> drive using the windows EFS encryption. Now i cant
> decrypt the files using cipher and obviosly cant view
> them. Knowledge base says i need the key to unecrypt them
> but i dont have the key. Is there any other way to
> decrypt the files? I remember my admninistrator password
> but thats it.

If you did not export the keys for the account you used to encrypt the
data or the key recovery agents keys or your machine was not a member of
a domain and still is , then you have lost the contents of those files
permanently.

EFS is secure and does not have back doors. 

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"Ferras Elshair" <elshair@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:06d701c2a0f1$199da700$d2f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA09...
> Hello,
>
> I just installed windows XP on my machine and previous had
> windows 2000.  I had some encrypted files on my storage
> drive using the windows EFS encryption.  Now i cant
> decrypt the files using cipher and obviosly cant view
> them.  Knowledge base says i need the key to unecrypt them
> but i dont have the key.  Is there any other way to
> decrypt the files?  I remember my admninistrator password
> but thats it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated it. They're just text files
> with important data.
>
> Ferras
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