full-disclosure - Microsoft EFS

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Message-ID: <039c01c5ce81$f78e5350$331f060a@othello>
Date: Tue Oct 11 18:29:44 2005
From: niceman at att.net (Mike Nice)
Subject: Microsoft EFS

If the system was set up with Syskey level 2 or 3, you'll not have much luck 
cracking the logon passwords either except by brute force.   You'd need a 
brute force tool to try all passwords to expose the SAM data to precomputed 
password cracking tools.

----- Original Message ----- 
> you'll have to crack the usesrs or the admins pw and either logon 
> interactively or export their keys to get access to the efs-encrypted 
> data.