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16 hours ago, Dang_Im_a_noob said:

LOL, I just figured out why AW failed.

No Res Mods. wink wink.

AW failed because soviets wanted money milking WoT clone and that was not something that wanted Obsidian. So soviets got half-baked WoT clone and Obsidian got walking papers.

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Unfortunately there will be always enough cocksuckers that will pay them, especially after epic fail of Armored Warfare.

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19 hours ago, SRQFlyer said:

Again you miss the point.  If you are logged into windows, any app you run will have access to any of the encrypted files.

Nope. If you encrypt files under windows account1 and then switch to account2, you will see these encrypted files in green and you will get access denied error when you try to open them. So content of these files is only accessible for those who encrypted them and have key in certificate. Of course anything which is running under your account, even something runned from another account will have access to these files.

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16 hours ago, SRQFlyer said:

This negates Windows encryption for “protecting” files.

It is protecting your files from other users on same computer, even administrators. It also protects your files against users who steal your HDD.

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1 hour ago, SRQFlyer said:

If you read the link it will detail how you can recover the non public key to decrypt. In general you can not copy the files to another system and decrypt, if you used Windows encryption. But in general with Windows encryption you can not copy encrypted files to another computer and decrypt.  When law enforcement tries to recover encrypted files, they do it through the OS and not file by file.

Consider following scenario: I will encrypt some files on flash drive formatted to NTFS or external HDD, then try to access it on another computer from windows. Would it work if I import that certificate on that second computer? BTW there are lot of other ways to access encrypted files (in their encrypted form) out of OS.

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22 hours ago, SRQFlyer said:

Not at all correct.  Windows does not use a certificate it uses public key encryption in conjunction with symmetric key encryption. These keys are tied to you Windows User Certificate (aka UserID)

From https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc962103.aspx
The file encryption key (FEK) — a symmetric bulk encryption key — is used to encrypt the file and is then itself encrypted by using the public key taken from the user’s certificate, which is located in the user’s profile. The encrypted FEK is stored with the encrypted file and is unique to it. To decrypt the FEK, EFS uses the encryptor’s private key which only the file encryptor has.

We try not to get into too low level of detail here as most people would not understand what a certificate is and it would add no value. 

So, you are saying that you can not decrypt encrypted files on another system if you have only that certificate with private key?

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On 8. 2. 2017 at 6:32 PM, kupjones said:

your windows userid/passwd hold the key to perform the decryption

 

You are wrong son. Private key contained in personal certificate which is created in first moment of encryption is used for encryption/decryption. So even creating account with same user name and password will not help you to recover encrypted files, you must have that certificate exported with private key.

You should be ashamed to say that you have done that for living…

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11 hours ago, kupjones said:

Windows encryption (aka BitLocker) is applied to all files

Windows encryption is NOT BitLocker and is not connected to it in any way. Windows encryption is available in Professional+ versions of Windows, while BitLocker is available only in Ultimate/Enterprise. Windows encryption can encrypt only selected files/folders, while BitLocker encrypts entire volume.

You control Windows encryption in properties of file/folder, BitLocker from Control Panel.

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27 minutes ago, kupjones said:

Quite a number of players have no idea how programming works, what pcode is, how code gets loaded into memory, etc.   — which shouldn’t be surprising given the number of players in the world versus the number of real programmers (note:  I define “real” as those who understand compute models — not how to simply write a script).

When to use Windows encryption is basic knowledge of common Windows user and if you are recommending it in public forum, you must know more than nothing about it. Encrypting WoT folder is completely useless because for any Windows application (including WoT client), these encrypted files are fully transparent as if they are not encrypted. You use encryption to protect your data from other users and when your HDD is stolen.

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On 13. 1. 2017 at 1:26 PM, buju said:

IMPORTANT. ENCRYPT ENTIRE “world of tanks” folder. Use Windows encryption.

You are making me laugh. Do you have even slightest knowledge how that encryption works? Or you think that someone from WG will take your HDD and look at your data?

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On 1. 12. 2016 at 0:43 PM, soulza said:

As I expected on first look, it is only pathetic Base64 encoding, which can look like encrypted data for common tomato.

For example, string KGRwMQpTJ3Nob3dMZXZ1bHMnCnAyCkkwMQpzUydzdGF0ZScKcDMKUydzaG9ydCcKcDQKc1Mnc2hvd1R5cGVzJwpwNQpJMDEKcy4=

is this:

(dp1
S’showLevuls’
p2
I01
sS’state’
p3
S’short’
p4
sS’showTypes’
p5
I01
s.

 

Give me text version of that shit and I will decode that and see what is really in this file. I expect that it will be Base64 encoded JSON data just like any shit from WG is JSON (replays).

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