recovering protected files

From: Robb (derivat_at_orangemail.sk)
Date: 09/30/03


Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:20:22 -0700


Even allowing for machine speed to double yearly, it
could take millions of years to crack a 128-bit key-
essentially

>-----Original Message-----
>OK KO ...
>
>I tried almost everything:
>
>none of the available programs can help you if you can't
>recover your previous installation of Windows in case it
>was deleted or formatted.
>
>My problem was, when my Win XP crashed and there was no
>way to repair it becasue of damaged registry I decided
to
>make a new installation without exporting a private key
>first for ntfs encrypted files,
>The another problem is that I made a new installation on
>the same disk where was the previous and this
>consequently caused that some files were overwritten and
>it simply means there's no way to recover it,
>I used NTFS R-Studio2 and Ontrack recovery Professional
>to recover almost 800 MB of privious installation but
>with no success,
>
>all of my encrypted files was not in My documents folder,
>
>Private key for encrypted files is stored in My
documents
>folder so if you have an access to this folder and there
>is everything like it was when windows was running you
>can use advanced EFS recovery to search for Private Keys
>first, than to search for encrypted files and matched
>them together, you will see 3 windows in program, it's
>very easy process with that program:
>
>1. encrypted files
>2. decrypted files
>3. files which can't be decrypted
>
>decrypted files than you can copy to some safe disk,
>
>if you have no key no data can be retrieved !!, and I
can
>repeat it againg NO kEY - NO dATA
>
>there is chance to use some cracking program using brute
>force maybe with some mask to break the cipher,
>but it's 128 bit long and that's no fun,
>
>however I have heard that there are some companies which
>are able to do it in short time, but I am not sure about
>the price,
>
>I appreciate any other suggestion which I may missed,
>I repeat I have no key to decrypt my files and it can't
>be recovered becase they were overwritten with new
>installation, all encrypted files weren't stored in My
>documents folder
>
>does anybody know some program, free to download .. with
>a good algorithm to break 128 EFS cipher?,
>
>thanx
>Robb
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>My windows install recently crashed and I can't seem to
>>get it back. I'm preparing for a reinstall and
>attempting
>>to copy my files onto a friends computer. He has my
hard
>>drive set as a slave in his pc. We have managed to copy
>>some files but we can't get the My Documents folder
>>because I have a password on my windows account so we
>get
>>a message saying that we don't have access to those
>>files. Is there any way I can recover these files?
>>.
>>
>.
>



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