How to Back Up your EFS Certificate and Key in Windows 10?
To create a back up of your encryption certificate and key gives you multiples of benefits; it helps you avoid permanently losing the access to your encrypted files & folders if in case you lose access to your user account. While the encryption certificate and key are tied to the local user account, and at the time, if you lose access to this account, then these files or folders will automatically become inaccessible. So this is where the backup of your encrypting file system certificate and the key comes in helpful, as by using this backup you can easily access the encrypted file or folders on the system. Generally, the Encrypting File System (EFS) is the integral encryption tool in Windows which is used to encrypt all the files and folders on NTFS drives to protect them from unwanted access. However, EFS always enables transparent encryption and decryption of files of your user account by using the advanced standard cryptographic algorithms. Here we will show you how to...
