Recovering News: Advanced EFS Encrypted Data Recovery

Recovering News: Advanced EFS Encrypted Data Recovery

EFS Encrypted Data Recovery

ElcomSoft’s EFS technology was one of the innovations of Windows 2000 and the NTFS 5.0 file system. Advanced EFS Data Recovery: What is the EFS Recovery Agent? EFS technology makes it so that files encrypted by one user cannot be opened by another. After encryption is activated, the file remains encrypted in any storage location on the disk, regardless of where it is moved. EFS seems like an all-around winning tool, but this is not the case.

For example, data encrypted using this technology can be entirely lost, for example, during an operating system reinstallation. How can one lose access to EFS-encrypted data? If the hard drive is connected to a different computer and the data can be read off it, but if it is EFS encrypted, this would not work. Almost all of us have encountered a situation where it was necessary to fully reinstall Windows.

The EFS Recovery Agent is a tool that enables you to decrypt data encrypted by another user if the user has lost the encryption certificate keys or if the account has been deleted but the encrypted data is still required. There can be multiple Recovery Agents – each user can be the Administrator and the Recovery Agent. The Recovery Agents’ private keys must be kept in a secure location in order to restore access to encrypted files after system reinstallation or after a private key is lost. Finally, in Windows Vista, there is a way to store the keys on a smart card. It should be noted that if an administrator attempts to reset a local user’s account password, the user will lose access.