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EFS encryption key pop up

I'm getting notifications to back up my encryption key for EFS in Vista, however i haven't enabled bit locker or drive encryption. Anyone know how to find out what files may be encrypted or have an explanation for why it would notify me? ...

Encrypting Source Code

I work on relatively sensitive code that we wouldn't want falling into the wrong hands. Up until now, all the code has been keep in house so it hasn't been an issue. I am moving to working from home a day or two a week and we want to secure the code on my laptop. We have looked at a few alternatives, but Windows EFS and Bitlocker seem t...

Prevent Save As Functionality

I need to prevent a document from being saved / saved as (say from ms word). I've looked around and I havn't quite found a satifying answer. I've considered EFS... but I don't think it prevents the user from saving the document as... (though it prevents access to the original source file). Any ideas outthere? ...

C# Programmatically adding EFS Certificates to encrypted file(EFS)

After a file has been encrypted using EFS, its possible to share file access with other users by selectig their certificates from a list provided when you click on the 'Details' button next to the 'Encrypt' check box in the 'Advanced Attribute' dialog. I am looking for an API to allow me do this in C#. Any ideas? ...

How to create a local IIS site with encrypted wwwroot using EFS on Vista

I'm preparing a laptop to take with me while travelling, so all my user data is encrypted using EFS in case someone decides to steal it. I also need to set up a couple of local sites for development with IIS. If I turn off encryption on the wwwroot of a site, IIS can serve it just fine. However, I really would like to be able to use encr...

How to determine whether a file is encrypted with EFS?

Is there a library method somewhere for figuring out whether a file has been encrypted with EFS? I see the Encrypt() and Decrypt() methods on FileInfo, but am looking for a way to query a file's state. ...

Anyway to decrypt an EFS file?

I have the user's password, but nothing else - is there a way to decrypt an EFS-protected file? ...

Decrypting EFS encrypted files

I have a number of files that were encrypted using EFS on my old Windows XP installation. I installed Windows 7 and now I can't access these files. You can read about the whole embarrassing situation here. The good news is that I have keys that will allow the files to be decrypted. I know this because I used EFS data recovery and it ...

How to get access to Eclipse fileindex/EFS or how to find a specific file with a plugin?

Hi I want to create a Eclipse Plugin which search in all open projects/EFS for a specific file. The first aproach was, to walk over the full filesystemtree, what is not very fast. Now I want to reuse the mechanism behind the "Open Resource" Dialog (CTRL+SHIFT+R) ~ OpenResourceDialog . But how it is possible to access the mechanism/file...