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Re: Hard drive encryption in windows

Subject: Re: Hard drive encryption in windows
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:46:03 +0200
On 2005-09-27 Rob Thompson wrote:
No EFS is not good.

For starters it is only encrypting the data that you tell it to.  What
if that file that you are accessing is copied over to the Swap File?
Now you have an unencrypted copy on your computer, and a false sense
of security.

A valid concern. It can be mitigated to a point by configuring Windows
to wipe the pagefile on shutdown, but that will only help on a clean
shutdown.

Also, there are tools freely available on the internet, with just a
VERY SMALL amount of looking that will break into the EFS.

Please elaborate. AFAIK that was only true for EFS in Windows 2000.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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