Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen
After the July Microsoft update some systems boot into a BitLocker Recovery screen. How can you find the key you need?
After the July Microsoft update some systems boot into a BitLocker Recovery screen. How can you find the key you need?
Im about to upgrade my CPU that has TPM in it. Bitlocker is TPM+PIN+Keyfile. Now, naturally when upgrading CPU I will suspend Bitlocker, shutdown, change CPU and reboot. OK, I can understand that since plaintext key is/was stored in hdd, i…
Assuming a disk was full-disk encrypted using Bitlocker and the partition table is corrupted or entirely missing. Is it possible in any way to recover from this, given that the original Bitlocker password and Bitlocker recovery key are ava…
Background: A Bitlocker encrypted hard disk (5TB WD Elements HDD USB) was accidentally wiped partially using the wiping tool Eraser Classic Portable (using the US DoD 7 passes method). The wiping only went on for a few minutes (max. 5 min…
I have a situation where I have access to a huge list of Bitlocker recovery keys but only the combination of the identifier (GUID) and recovery key are available. However the disk in question is corrupted and I don’t know which identifier …
Apologies if any of these questions have been answered previously. Also, apologies for the sheer number of questions asked here. I’ve done some digging, and have been unable to find a good resource that goes into a little more depth on how…
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Taking Microsoft’s page on CVE-2024-20666 at face value, that Bitlocker vulnerability is darn serious in an "evil maid" attack:
A successful attacker could bypass the BitLocker Device Encryption feature on the system storage dev…
With Bitlocker, is there only one "master key" that is used to encrypt/decrypt for both HD and USB data?
I saw this article today which talks about sniffing the encryption key to get access to Bitlocker data on an HD. https://www…
I use microsoft bitlocker encryption all my disks. Some day, maybe I click on a phishing email and my computer be hacked. Hacker sends my data to his server. Is the data encrypted or plaintext in his server?