EFS and a whole heap of mess

From: Craig Bloodworth (cb228_at_york.ac.uk)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 06:27:52 -0700

I store my documents in a folder located on a secondary
drive and decided to encrypt is as I am on a very public
network. However I recently, due to some currupt system
files, had to format my promary drive.

After reinstalling windows I found to my agony that I
can't access my documents as they are still encrypted and
the certficate used to encrypt them is no longer on my
system. I can however view the certificate needed's
fingerprint. Is there any way I can create a valid
certificate or fool the encryption in any way? Or does
anybody know of any tools or companies who could decrypt
the files for me?

Please help!!!
Cheers

Relevant Pages

  • RE: EFS File Share Help
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    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Security flaw in how Outlook verifies digital signatures
    ... > Security Flaw with Digital signatures in Microsoft Outlook - ... > Emails in Microsoft Outlook digitally signed with S/MIME using either ... > a commercial personal certificate like Verisign or using a certificate ... whom the certificate was assigned that used it to sign or encrypt the ...
    (microsoft.public.outlook)
  • Re: About EFS and local certificate that I want to export
    ... EFS does not encrypt over the network as that would expose the data to ... with no certificate authority. ... Pascal logs on XP_A and encrypt a file with EFS. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: About EFS and local certificate that I want to export in SBS
    ... It's probably not a good practice to let users encrypt data otherwise, ... It's a two-second thing to install the CA - on the SBS ... I just have to do what you say if I have a certificate authority ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Public Encryption Key
    ... encrypt the message with the recipient's public key (or ... the two can be combined by: first do a digital signature of the ... certificate, certifying the validity of the assertion (ex: ...
    (sci.crypt)