From: "John John (MVP)"

OK -- I concede, I was mistaken.

This is an important point in the light of EFS being a DAR complaint solution.

If a malicious actor steals a notebook that has data encrypted using EFS, the actor will
be unable to decrypt the data even if the password to the account has been cracked.

This is different in the situation of cryptographic logons where account names and
passwords are not used, a Smart Card is used for account authentication. In thta scenario
the malicious actor would need physical access to the Smart Card and have to know the PIN.

** My apologies go to Patrick Keenan for injecting faux information into the thread.

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Dave
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