You've got it right. Moving/copying to a FAT32 partition decrypts the file. But the only person who can do this is the owner of the file. Anyone else attempting it will receive an error. NTFS 5 partitions will retain the encryption.
J Forman -----Original Message----- From: leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MS EFS Question -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Quick (and perhaps easy?) question for the MS folks. If you have a file on an NTFS volume that is encrypted (with EFS) and you transfer it to a fat32 partition what happens? What happens if you copy the EFS file from one NTFS volume to another? I am going to guess that in the 1st case it decrypts the file (not sure). I am pretty sure that in the 2nd case it retains the encryption. Can anyone quickly verify? I don't have a fat32 partition to test on. In the meantime I will try out the 2nd scenario and you are welcome to mail me off-list if you are curious (unless someone answers it on list). Thanks guys (and ladies of course). Cheers, Leon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPD0RqtqAgf0xoaEuEQJiZwCgw7TNQs9wVbIZdxAdSZGR8J6D3IoAoNZz SUCaNmqheFn+HZIPhSYY+Btp =Ptbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
