• Personal Vault security

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    Can someone explain to this mostly non-techie user what statement in quotes below means – it is from MS website ?  What are ‘security boundaries’?  What are names and hashes of files?  What does that mean for me?  I have files in my PV.  Nothing too sensitive bc I don’t trust it completely, but I do like one drive and PV.  Works good for my needs.  thanks

    What security boundaries does Personal Vault enforce?  Two-step verification is required to gain access to Personal Vault.

    At this time, Personal Vault on Windows 10 doesn’t protect the names or hashes of the files in your Personal Vault when the Vault is locked. The OneDrive team is aware of this limitation and committed to extending protection to these attributes in a future update.
    When a Personal Vault file has been opened in a Windows application, the name of the file may appear in that application’s Recent list and in other locations throughout Windows. Consider opening Personal Vault files on OneDrive.com to avoid this behavior.

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      In this context a security boundary is what it takes to access the files. For PV you can’t access anything just using a password.

      The rest means the file names and hashes are not encrypted at this time and are available to anyone with access to your OneDrive account.

      --Joe

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