Re: Encrypted file holocaust

From: Jupiter Jones (jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com)
Date: 12/19/02 

From: "Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:17:49 -0700

When were the files encrypted?
If they were encrypted before the reinstall, you did not back-up the
encryption key or Recovery Agent and are not on a domain, the files
are as good as gone.
EFS is very good at what it does and there is no back door.
Read and understand this document before using EFS:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/recover
y/default.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316 

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"Facing total disaster" <pristine@asia.com> wrote in message
news:00f701c2a739$db583240$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04...
> I can no longer any files that had been encrypted using
> Windows XP professional, even though the username has not
> changed. It is a shared machine to which four users have
> administrative access. At least one of these users is a
> moron.
>
> It could well be me. In fact, I did not even know the
> files were being encrypted, until I noticed that files
> older than a certain date in specific folders would no
> longer open, and that these filenames were in green text.
>
> The date nearly corresponds with a system reinstall --
> but not exactly. In the folders I use most, nothing after
> the reinstall date was encrypted at all. But in the few
> folders that my wife and I share under the same username,
> the files are encrypted, even after the reinstall date,
> and they can no longer be accessed. The drive was not
> reformatted for the reinstall.
>
> So: has some all-important key or certificate been
> deleted? If so, where would I look for it?
>
> Please help.

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