Jim Henderson wrote:
> That's good to know - I know this can be implemented a number of 
> different ways, and not being a Windows user, I wasn't sure which method 
> was used.

The main drawback, of course, is that you're still limited by your login 
password's length. You can't have a 90-character pass phrase locking the 
files like you can in some other systems.  But it's probably good enough 
to keep out random curiousity seekers, general laptop thieves, and so 
on. Just don't store your child porn that way and expect to get away 
with it.  I wouldn't trust lives to it, but it *is* convenient that you 
can encrypt some files and not others.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that if you (say) encrypt files on a USB drive, 
the actual private key to decrypt the files isn't on the drive itself. 
Rather, it's only stored on the C: drive on the machine you log in 
to[1]. So if you encrypt your backups, it's probably pretty secure, and 
certainly better than nothing.


[1] Bonus points to any flames about AD, that you can install windows on 
something other than C:, and so on.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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