Microsoft Private Folder - Cracking it?

Originally Posted by DeLorean

If I use My Private Folder to encrypt something again and use the same password I used before, will the encryption keys be the same? Can I reproduce them?

Not if the encryption scheme is worth its salt. (oh, ho ho)

Its more likely that at the time of encryption, a generated salt is combined with the pass-phrase to produce the final key (or key-pairs in the case of asymmetric encryption) for ciphering. This means that encrypting the same data with the exact same pass-phrase will result in two completely different outputs and prevents the use of rainbow-table attacks in the event that someone should get a hold of your encrypted data.

The bottom line is that if you cannot recover the keys that were generated at the time of encryption, you are SOL.

Jam it back in, in the dark.