Where windows save encryption certificate

[juanito_03]

i have recoven the data from my crashed windows, but have some encrypted files in an external disk i need to open, but cant, where i can look for the encryption certificates on my recovered data of my crashed disck? in that way i can manage to open thoes encrypted files?

thx for your help

 

[ex_bubblehead]

If you are using EFS, and didn't back up your certificates before the crash, you have just lost your encrypted data. There are no back doors to the encryption (wouldn't be secure if there were)

 

[juanito_03]

If you are using EFS, and didn't back up your certificates before the crash, you have just lost your encrypted data. There are no back doors to the encryption (wouldn't be secure if there were)

but is called: back up of certificates, so arent they stored somewhere in my hdd? i did recovered the data from it, is just safe in a new hdd now, there is nothing i can do? if i would like to spend the time trying to bruteforce create the key, is there any way to do it?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

No. If you didn't back up the certificates before the crash, and cannot log in to the old system to perform the backup, the data can not be decrypted. Feel free to try brute forcing the keys but expect it to take several lifetimes.