Notice how they are careful to specify they are talking about "locally
authenticated" users. In other words, episode 237 of "Why its a bad idea to
store the encryption keys along side the encyrypted data", also known as
"Why you should ideally be using EFS in a domain environment."
Everything is crackable given time and knowledge. It is my understanding
that as long as the system is still running or accessible that set the EFS
Microsoft has a tool for FBI, etc... to be able to decrypt the information.
Looks like they try to crack user's passwords if they don't have them. If
the key material is on the machine (almost always), EFS is only as strong as
the user's password.
Looks like they try to crack user's passwords if they don't have
them. If the key material is on the machine (almost always), EFS is
only as strong as the user's password.
As a practical matter with most peoples passwords thats "Not Very", then.
But from the standpoint of the strength or weakness of the encryption, there
is nothing new to see here.
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