Re: ** Encryption problem **
From: NobodyMan (none_at_none.net)
Date: 07/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:58:46 -0400
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:32:49 -0400, "Jethic" <dubeg30@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>On my PC I have 2 partition, one for my documents and one for my O/S and
>programs. I had to reinstall WinXP last week and I forgot that some of my
>files on my other partition were encrypted with the windows encryption
>system. Now I cannot open them anymore because the security key was for my
>older administrative password. It says I do not have the right to access
>them. I cannot take out the encryption either, neither move them in a FAT32
>partition(where I though it might take out all NTFS permission), cannot burn
>them, cannot convert this partition to FAT32 since there's some encrypted
>file in it. But I REALLY NEED THESE FILES!!
>
>Is there a way I can recover them? Or a way to take out the encryption out
>of them?
>
>thx
>
I have a question: did you actually encrypt the files, or are they
just not accessible because they are under a user account that is now
invalid due to a new SID? Your description is really vague and
misleading. Removing NTFS permissions won't help you decrypt files;
for that you need the correct encryption keys.
This is the danger with lay-people using ecncryption. Why did you
need it in the first place? What "state secrets" were you storing on
your computer?
The average home user has no need (I'm tempted to say no business) to
use encryption.
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