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| gazza74 2002-02-20, 6:14 am |
| G'Day Everyone,
Well this is it. My first post, here, anywhere, ever.
I hope this is the correct place to ask.
An encrypted file will become compressed (and hence lose its encryption) when moved from an encrypted folder to a compressed folder. What is to stop someone (who can't view the file) from moving an encrypted file to a compressed folder for easy access.
Thanks guys | |
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| keep your post!! and welcome!!!!
you are right. this is the correct place to ask!!!
files in a ntfs enviroment in win2k can be compressed or encrypted, not both.
if you have the appropiate permises to access the encrypted file, and so you can manage this file (erase / move / rename / ect) and you move this encrypted file to a compressed file, the file lost the encryption and become a compressed file.
in this case, the ntfs persmises apply to the compressed folders. the users that have permises in the security tab can access locally to the file. you canīt apply encrypted access method now to this file because is compressed now, not Encrypted.
best regards
alex | |
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| Sorry... iīm lost your point of question...
If you have a encrypted file and you want to move it to a compressed folder, you must have the right to access to the encrypted file, you must be a owner of this file. only the user that encrypt the file can access / delete / move the file.
if you are administrator you can use a recovery aggent to recover the file.
best regards
later some guys here can send you more help.... i only put my point of view.... | |
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| Hi gazza74,
Welcome to the forum. Good question.
Besides the fact that compression and encryption are mutually exclusive, there are a couple of things you have to look at with this scenario. (we'll keep DRA's out of the mix for now..that's a whole other story we can talk about  ) For this, we'll just look at a user trying to be sneeky and move an encrypted file to a compressed folder to unencrypt it.
The only way that this file could be moved by someone other than the one who encrypted it is if it is moved to a location on the same NTFS partition. In all other instances, that person will get an access denied message.
Also, remember that files and folders always inherit their attributes unless moved within the same NTFS partition, where they would then retain their attributes.
So for your question, if the compressed folder is located on the same NTFS partition as the encrypted file and we (someone who didn't encrypt the file) move that file into the compressed folder, it will get moved into that compressed folder, but it will stay encrypted and not get compressed.
Hope this helps! Anyone else have a take on this. | |
| cm2gj 2002-02-20, 10:04 am |
| yes...
all this things are right...
encrypted files moved to compressed folders retain their encryption attributes.... | |
| gazza74 2002-02-20, 9:44 pm |
| Hi Guys,
Thanks heaps. Totally understand now. Thanks again.
Gazza |
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