Questions tagged [cipher]
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Why is windows 10 encrypting so many files?
My current status: Paranoid.
Monday night I had a friend over and we were making travel plans on my computer.
A message appeared at some point asking about backing up encrypted files. I stupidly ...
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Windows 7 EFS, where are the FEK stored?
I feel confuse, I read from many technical doc from Microsoft and wiki. The FEK is generated for each file, and store in the file headers.
But refer to this blog windows-7-how-to-use-cipher-exe-a-...
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Windows built-in Cipher secure wipe
How secure is the bulit-in Cipher utility that can wipe out unrecoverable data on old harddisk?
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Can Windows 7 cipher.exe securely wipe USB drive?
Using the command line tool cipher.exe built into Windows 7, can it be used to securely wipe a USB attached drive?
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