Vista - Smart card/encryption

I encrypted some files a while ago. Any time I try to decrypt them now a box
appears asking for a smart card and pin. I dont have one and never have.
There doesnt seem to be anyway around this.

Os - vista, any ideas?

"Siuk25" <Siuk25@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I encrypted some files a while ago. Any time I try to decrypt them now a
>box
> appears asking for a smart card and pin. I dont have one and never have.
> There doesnt seem to be anyway around this.
>
> Os - vista, any ideas?


It's asking for a smart card and pin because it's looking for a private key
to use.

You obviously don't have the private key in your personal store on this new
machine, and as a result, it's asking you to provide external keying
material, such as might be found on a smart card.

You can fix this by going to the machine on which you originally encrypted
the files, and exporting your private key. Since I'm a command-line junkie,
I like to do this by running "cipher /x:export.pfx" to create export.pfx
containing my private key. Then I can import the private key (just open the
export.pfx file) on the new machine, and start using it to decrypt files.

Alun.
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