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| Gregory 2003-09-24, 10:27 pm |
| Dear all,
I'm all confused with the whole point of EFS. I figure the only purpose
for this feature is for multi-login 2k computers where 1 user don't want
others to be able to see the files he/she's work'in on. And when it
comes to decryption, how could the file owner possibly lost the key? i
could only think of one scenrio where a encrypted file is located on a
seperate drive let say, D: and the O/S was reinstalled for some reason.
Anyone please give me a good example of how this should work?
Many thanks.
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Gregory Lam, A+
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| David Iverson 2003-09-25, 3:26 pm |
| EFS is an extension of NTFS and is particularly useful at the file level. If
you have busy HR/Finance people in your organization that travel with
laptops, insist on it being used.
Qualified administrators have access to an EDRP, should the users encrypted
key get lost.
It is also necessary to couple the transfer of files using EFS with SSL,
TLS, or IPSec if wanting to maintain security during file transfers over a
network.
David
"Gregory" <Gregory_Lam@xhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm all confused with the whole point of EFS. I figure the only purpose
> for this feature is for multi-login 2k computers where 1 user don't want
> others to be able to see the files he/she's work'in on. And when it
> comes to decryption, how could the file owner possibly lost the key? i
> could only think of one scenrio where a encrypted file is located on a
> seperate drive let say, D: and the O/S was reinstalled for some reason.
> Anyone please give me a good example of how this should work?
>
> Many thanks.
>
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> Gregory Lam, A+
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