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===Keys=== * user password (or smart card private key): used to generate a decryption key to decrypt the user's DPAPI Master Key * DPAPI Master Key: used to decrypt the user's RSA private key(s) * RSA private key: used to decrypt each file's FEK * File Encryption Key (FEK): used to decrypt/encrypt each file's data (in the primary NTFS stream) * SYSKEY: used to encrypt the cached domain verifier and the password hashes stored in the SAM
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