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Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion
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Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion

by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1632 pages
43h 48m
English
Microsoft Press
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Securing Local Data

Encryption of stored files in Windows Server 2003 is accomplished through the use of EFS. Using public-key encryption, EFS allows files and directories stored on NTFS partitions to be encrypted and decrypted transparently. EFS accesses the user’s EFS public and private keys to perform self-encryption. Therefore, files encrypted with EFS can’t be shared with (that is, encrypted to) other users. Another encryption method, such as S/MIME, must be used to securely share files with other users. In addition, if files encrypted with EFS are saved to another machine, the user’s key information must be imported to that machine for decryption to occur.

Files are automatically encrypted to a third party, called a recovery agent. In ...

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