Re: EFS: file decrypt problem
From: Antoine Blanche (antoineblanche_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:32:46 +0000
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:10:38 +0200, Andrei STROE wrote:
> Hello Guys
>
> I've got a scenario like that:
> a workstation with XP Pro SP1 and 2 NTFS Partitions (c-win,d-other files)
> need to reinstall Windows, due to a vorrupted ntdlr file, so I save all my
> documents to partition D and compress the folders, but by mistake instead
> of click on compress I did it on encrypt and i found that after I
> reinstalled Windows. "Of couse" I do not have any backup of the
> certificate. Is there any way in wich I could recover the files. I manage
> so far to take ownership of the files but I can not add any recovery
> agents to the files.
>
>
> Thank you very much!
Without the certificates, they're gone forever. I was stung by this
initially and lost part of a short story I was writing (thankfully not
too much of it). I hadn't realising the encrypted data was so tied to
the current OS installation and would be irretrievable upon a
reinstall of WindowsXP Pro.
It's a ridiculous situation really: that a hand-holding OS like Windows
doesn't warn you of the consequences whenever you encrypt a file. When
you generate GPG (the free alternative to PGP) keys to sign or encrypt
data, you are warned that you must back up your 'keyring' to external
media, just to protect yourself from irretrievable loss of data.
WindowsXP does nothing like this, and as a result, you'll find squillions
of posts on Usenet from people distraught at losing anything from a few
files to an entire partition. Merely because they checked a box so
easily without realising the consequences.
-- Antoine Blanche Et in Arcadia Ego
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