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  1. February 20th, 2002, 12:11 PM #1
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    Has anyone seen any reviews on how strong the microsoft encyption is? And is anyone using this regularly? I keep hearing it touted, but I haven't seen that anyone has really tested it against crackers yet.
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    MS and encryption good one
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  3. February 21st, 2002, 09:28 PM #3
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    There is no encryption made by man that can't be cracked by man. It never hurt anyone to encrypt anything though and every bit of security helps.

    Oh, and as said above - the words M$ and security do not go together. M$ will usually only make a patch for an issue when it becomes an issue and of course they are going to tout their product. They wouldn't sell OS 1 if they said "Hey! Our stuff sucks!"
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    Right, right, I know. But how does MS encryption stand up to other encryption methods (e.g. PGP)?
    Nothing is uncrackable, ultimately, but does it reach the standard of 'good enough for now?' I haven't heard of anyone cracking it yet, so maybe it's not too bad.
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    Well, sure, I guess. The actual encryption is great. The problem is that there are so many exploits that can be run on M$ stuff that it really shouldn't be trusted with your life. I don't know how else to say it. I guess that I would worry about M$ encryption unless you were sending stuff you would be afraid people might see on the other end. I suppose that if I was super worried about M$ encryption I would never order from websites that use secure transactions.
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  6. February 27th, 2002, 09:24 PM #6
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    I know, there's no use putting a great lock on the door if the window's open. I don't really have a need to file system encryption right now, but I was curious whether MS had got something right the first time out. They were pushing the idea of encryption pretty well when W2K came out, and I just hadn't heard anyone discuss the matter. I'm not sure how useful it will be to most people - probably most corporate networks will disable it for most users through Group Policy anyway. I can just imagine trying to rescue hundreds of encrypted files from users who didn't know what they were doing.
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