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Re: it looks like Microsoft didn't get it right

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taral)
Sun Nov 21 14:59:43 2004

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:52:23 -0600
From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: "Dean, James" <Jdean@lsuhsc.edu>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:59:08AM -0600, Dean, James wrote:
> This is not as serious as I thought.  According to
> http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEFSDR/whatsnew.txt, the cracker would need your
> password and access to your drive.=20

It is the case, however, that EFS does not zero out spare space in a
cluster. So if you encrypt a file, it can leak plaintext.

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Taral <taral@taral.net>
This message is digitally signed. Please PGP encrypt mail to me.
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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