I've played around with file encryption in XP, quite foolish but anyhow...
For some reason I lost access to my own files, which I encrypted while using my domain account. This account is the only one I use.
I have not reinstalled the os, nor have I deleted any certificates.
There is a certificate available, but the fingerprint seems to be different from the one having access to the files, even though it's linked to my domain account.
There's no recovery agent available, and I haven't exported any certificates, so there's no 'backdoor'.
Could someone pls explain how I coult loose access, and if there's any way of getting it back?
Thanks,
Sebastian
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If the files are encrypted on a domain share, then the key is tied to your domain login. If the files are encrpted on teh workstation/laptop then the key may reside on that machine, but in another cached or local profile. Look under Documents and Settings, is there more than one profile with your login name or similar?
Have a look at this tool EFSView: It claims to show you which user has the decryption key or recovery key for an EFS encrypted file:
http://ntsecurity.nu/toolb
Advanced EFS Data Recovery (or simply AEFSDR) is a program to recover (decrypt) files encrypted on NTFS (EFS) partitions
http://www.elcomsoft.com/a
EFS Key Beta retrieves EFS-encrypted files from NTFS partitions.
http://www.lostpassword.co
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by: ghanaPosted on 2003-03-12 at 01:51:34ID: 8118169
Microsoft describes a scenario where you can lose access to EFS encrypted data in a workgroup:
http://support.microsoft.c
Maybe this happened in your domain environment too? Did you change the password of the account that was used to encrypt the files?