Encrypted attributes

[Chand]

Hi,

First I installed Win XP in my PC. There is a folder named "My Documents". I
encrypted this folder for security. Later I installed Windows 2000 Advanced
Server. Currently I am unable to access this folder because it is encrypted.
So I wants to remove my Encrypted attributes. But I am unable to do it.
Please help me to remove this encrypted attributes on this folder.

Thank you

With Regards
Chand

 

[Guest]

If you have a backup of your encryption "Certificate" from XP or if you created a "Recovery Agent", you can recover your data. The "Recovery Agent" will contain the required public key for decryption

Files are encrypted through the use of algorithms that essentially rearrange, scramble, and encode the data. A key pair is randomly generated when you encrypt your first file. This key pair is made up of a private and a public key. The key pair is used to encode and decode the encrypted files

If the key pair is lost or damaged and you have not designated a recovery agent, then there is no way to recover the data

This is why you Must Backup your Certificates
Because there is no way to recover data that has been encrypted with a corrupted or missing certificate, it is critical that you back up the certificates and store them in a secure location. You can also specify a recovery agent. This agent can restore the data. The recovery agent's certificate serves a different purpose than the user's certificate

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/efsguide.as

Austin M. Horst

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Files are encrypted through the use of algorithms that essentially rearrange, scramble, and encode the data. A key pair is randomly generated when you encrypt your first file. This key pair is made up of a private and a public key. The key pair is used to encode and decode the encrypted files.

If the key pair is lost or damaged and you have not designated a recovery agent, then there is no way to recover the data.

Hi

The data can be recovered in some cases even if you didn't export the encryption certificate:

Here is an extract from
http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/

<quote>
if you have following folders and their contents from the orginal install of 2k
or xp - you can recover you efs data. knowledge of your password is also
required for this amount of data.

c:\documents and settings\foo\application data\microsoft\crypto\
- private keys

c:\documents and settings\foo\application data\microsoft\protect\
- locks your current password to your private keys

c:\documents and settings\foo\application data\microsoft\systemcertificates\
- public keys (not essential to be the orginal as another valid key can be
madeup)

this data maybe on an unbootable system, a backup, roaming profile or currently
on the system, either in the file system or in the free space.
</quote>