Re: PST encryption

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From: Fennis (awesomefennis-nospam-_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 03:14:05 -0700

Hi thanks for reply.

However, the solution of setting encryption on NTFS
permissions will not help if the person who wants to read
the email is on a shared network who has access to the
pst file. Is this right? I.e. if the people we are
worried about are internal people.

Would you happen to know what type of encryption is used
in Outlook anyway, or where I could find this out?

Thanks

Fennis

>-----Original Message-----
>This is not a secure way to work with your pst-files.
>
>A more secure way would be to work with NTFS permissions
on folder level.
>Additionally you can encrypt a file/folder by
rightclicking it->
>Properties-> Advanced...-> option Encrypt contents to
secure data. Once
>encrypted you can press the Details buttons to manage
the certificate needed
>to view the data. Now when the harddisk gets stolen
there is no way to
>retrieve the data as the certificate is not available.
>
>You might want to take a look here for additional info
about security
>techniques;
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/identity
/default.mspx
>
>--
>Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>www.howto-outlook.com
>
>Tips of the month:
>-Backup and Restore
>-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
>
>-----
>"Fennis" <awesomefennis-nospam-@hotmail.com> wrote in
message
>news:267c901c46296$9fa98540$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hey,
>>
>> I am currently doing a project on Email Recovery, and I
>> am looking in to methods to protect the PST file.
>> Obviously the two features which Outlook provide are
>> encryption and password protection.
>>
>> In Outlook there are 3 options for PST encryption.
>> No Encryption
>> Compressible Encryption
>> High Encryption
>>
>> With Compressible wencryption, it is still possible to
>> crack this encrytion with tools available.
>>
>> I want to know what type of encrytion is being used in
>> the compressible encyption and the high encryption.
>> Do you know of any tool that is able to bypass the
>> encryption?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Fennis
>>
>
>
>.
>

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