Re: How to decrypt files that i can decrypt?

Hello Ian,

Did you encrypt both files with your account? Or is the second encrypted with another account?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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i have two test files on my computer:
a.dat
b.dat
i am the Owner and have Full Control over both files. Both files are
encrypted with the same Encryption File System Certificate:

efsinfo /C

a.dat: Encrypted
Users who can decrypt:
JOSE-PC\Administrator (Ian)
Certificate thumbprint: 1E01 673B B646 8FBA 21A6 122A 2D1F 0629
7229
914D
b.dat: Encrypted
Users who can decrypt:
Unknown (Ian)
Certificate thumbprint: 1E01 673B B646 8FBA 21A6 122A 2D1F 0629
7229
914D
My login uses that same EFS Certificate:

efsinfo /Y

Your current EFS certificate thumbnail information on the PC named
JOSE-PC is:

1E01 673B B646 8FBA 21A6 122A 2D1F 0629 7229 914D

And yet one file i can decrypt (open, read, decrypt), the other i
cannot. What gives?

i know: these unanswerable questions suck.



.

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