Encryption

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I had encrypted some files and moved them from Drive c to Drive D so I could
install a new Drive C. I then reinstalled Windows but now when I try to
move them back to Drive C I get the message access denied. Any ideas on how
I can move them back.. Thanks
 
Did you save the original certificate and keys for them? Try the double
clicking the certificate and follow the wizard.
 
When I click on properties, cant find any certificate listed. Must be doing
something wrong.. Help
 
As Doug has said, unless YOU have saved the certificate, to a place where
you can recall it from, you can kiss your files goodbye!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Greetings --

If the your encryption certificates and keys were not backed up
before the user deletion/creation caused by the reinstallation, and
the workstation isn't part of a domain, those files are gone, for all
practical purposes. Encryption works well and there is no "back
door" or hack to access the files. (Wouldn't be much point to EFS if
it were vulnerable.)


Bruce Chambers
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Encryption uses "keys" to scramble meaningful sequences of letters into
meaningless sequences of letters. Equally important, the same key must be
available to descramble the now meaningless sequence of letters back to a
meaningful sequence of letters. Encryption has been around long before
there were computers. Problem was, the process took a lot longer. Now
imagine you lived in the days before computers. You use a decoder ring to
scramble a top secret document into a meaningless sequence of letters. Then
you burn both the decoder ring and the original document. That's what just
happened on your PC in layman terms.

To prevent this from happening in the future, you can do 2 things. First,
open up Help and Support in XP (or buy an XP book) and read about the
encryption feature (e.g. page 490 of Windows XP Inside Out), before you use
it. Keys and certificates are not Properties of a file. By reading the
instructions first, you will know why and how to export your encryption
certificate/key. Second, use a backup program like MS Backup, to backup the
entire contents of your disk. You can use the MS Backup program to safely
keep a backup of either (a) your original document, or (b) both the
encrypted document and the decoder ring.

When I click on properties, cant find any certificate listed. Must be doing
something wrong.. Help
 
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