Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

Summary

Throughout this chapter, you learned how to use the new EFS feature of Windows 2000. Now you should be able to understand file encryption and the importance of recovery agents. Simple operations such as copying or moving require certain considerations with EFS. I also gave you the most important advice for dealing with EFS: Always export private user keys to a secure media. (You should never leave it in the same machine, especially in a portable.) This chapter covered the first steps of creating a encrypted file, the internal process, and enabling and disabling EFS. You read guidelines for deploying EFS in your environment. If you are a UNIX user, you know that UNIX had offered file encryption for a long time. Now Microsoft offers the ...