Encrypting File System: an NTFS capability for encrypting single files or folders, using keys linked to a user's certificate.
Also called Encrypting File System.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains EFS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- NTFS
NT File System, the Windows file system; Azure Files honours its ACLs.
- Capability
Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- Certificate
Key Vault object holding an X.509 certificate, whose associated key and secret are managed alongside it.