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This might make your brain hurt, but here goes.....I have 2 folders that were encrypted on a Windows 2000 Pro PC, using NTFS, and were backed up to a hard drive using Backup Exec. Well, my OS got bunged, and I had to reinstall, so I decided to install Windows XP Pro. No big deal. When I restored the files, the 2 folders were still encrypted and gave me access denied. Did I save the key ? No. I realize my SID has changed, and it doesn't know who I am. My question to anyone who might know is, is there a way around this ? The only thing I can think of is to restore these folders to a FAT or FAT32 partition to strip away the NTFS permissions, but I'm not sure if that will work. Anybody ?
Thanks in advance for any help
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Cynan 
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Posted 12 November 2001 - 10:24 AM
I think your pretty screwed. If there was a way to strip away the "encryption", then it wouldn't be done very well.
Personaly, and you might want to try this in future, I use PGP to encrypt my files. It has something called PGPdisk which allows you to have a virtual partition that it encrypts on the fly - having the added advantage of using just a passphase, and being able to mount it even if you do lose your NT profile.
Hope the data wasn't anything important... maybe there is a brute-force hack program out there.. but I'd imagine it'd take a while.
--Cynan.
Personaly, and you might want to try this in future, I use PGP to encrypt my files. It has something called PGPdisk which allows you to have a virtual partition that it encrypts on the fly - having the added advantage of using just a passphase, and being able to mount it even if you do lose your NT profile.
Hope the data wasn't anything important... maybe there is a brute-force hack program out there.. but I'd imagine it'd take a while.
--Cynan.
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Posted 12 November 2001 - 12:59 PM
I'm pretty sure recovering them to a FAT or FAT32 partition and 'stripping away the encryption' is not an option.
What exactly would the use be of encrypted folders if within a few minutes somebody could read all the data inside?
You've stumbled accross 128bit security and I think you've got a fair few years ahead of you now using some kind of brute force program before you see that data again
What exactly would the use be of encrypted folders if within a few minutes somebody could read all the data inside?
You've stumbled accross 128bit security and I think you've got a fair few years ahead of you now using some kind of brute force program before you see that data again
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