Re: encrypted files to ntfs

[N407ER <n407er () myrealbox com>]

 > <IMHO>
> The thing that you are mentioning is talking about DRA (recovery agent).
> Usually administrators group have that permission which allows them to do
> that. While logging in as administrator (or other DRA agent) one should be
> able to decipher the data. AFAICR taking over the file(s) ownership does not
> solve the case - if the new owner is not DRA then it can not correctly
> decipher the data.
> What is other problem is the mentioned 'lost of the encryption key' -
> personally I haven't heard about that, so no real idea what to do.
> </IMHO>
>
> bests
> Scibor Lapies
I believe I read that the DRA has been disabled by default in XP--the 
default DRA as the admin user in 2K was a pretty big vulnerability, 
considering that its not really that hard for a local user to break the 
admin account.

Good luck, though.


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