Re: Built-in encryption questions
From: TC2 (neinspam.tomcantlon_at_vispath.com)
Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:21:22 -0700
I need to apply encryption to other devices, like external hard drives and
such. So making My Documents private doesn't cover it. There are recovery
keys, but as I said, all the documentation I can find is terribly involved
unless you're already set up with a domain and domain administrator and all
sorts of admin utils above and beyond the standard ones. Maybe MS has just
plain missed the trick here and I need a third party product.
Tom
"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> As fare as I am aware there are no backup keys, if you encrypt the data
> then
> only the machine it was encrypted on can view the files, if it crashed
> then
> it cant be vied period (even on the same machine). if you dont want other
> users to view your files then go to c:\documents and settings\ then right
> click your user name, go to the sharing tab and check the box that says
> "make
> this folder private".
>
> hope it helps
>
> Tom, U.K
>
> "TC2" wrote:
>
>> Having a hard time getting this answered. I posted it here yesterday but
>> it
>> didn't show up.
>>
>> I posted this to the security section but got no response so I'm trying
>> here.
>>
>> I tried encrypting a folder and its contents and noticed it changes all
>> the
>> file dates. That's a problem in itself. Isn't there a way to avoid or fix
>> this?
>>
>> So I tried encrypting just the folder thinking that would block others
>> from
>> getting to the files inside. But when I logon as someone else
>> (Administrator) the folder is
>> in a different color but I can open the files inside just fine.
>>
>> If I get all this sorted out I'll use encryption but want some way to
>> recover if the system crashes and I need to put this drive in another
>> computer and pull off files. I see there are such things as recovery
>> keys. I
>> read numerous articles about them trying to get a handle on it. This is
>> just
>> a lone computer, no domain, no policies or whatever. All the stuff about
>> recovery keys seem to apply to domain administrators and security
>> consoles
>> and administrator plug-in tools and a whole lot of hoops to jump through
>> just to get a recovery key. Plenty of things to go wrong and then I can't
>> recover my data.. Is there some straight forward way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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