Re: Recovery Agent cannot recover encrypted files

Anders B-Copenhagen wrote:

I have about the same problem. My net bank key and all my documents tells me I have no access.

I am administrator on a stand alone XP SP2 IE 7.0.5330.11

By installing a public digital signature I by accident deleted all other certificates. Those certificates were the Self made certificates by encryption software. All my backups are too encrypted and not by my choice. So I can not get to any of it.

Help hint : microsoft seem to have a hotfix you have to apply for. After installing the hotfix you write a new policy script as an INF file, that should gain you access again. I am waiting to receive my hotfix

I don't think such a hotfix exist. That would be a backdoor into the encryption. If you have deleted your private key, you must recover it, you cannot just create a new one.

A recovery agent must be created *before* the encrypted files. If the agent is created after, the user who initially created the encrypted file must access it before the agent can get to it.
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