Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    Veracrypt drive encryption does not have the same problem, it would be secure even with physical access

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      I don’t think a Veracrypt setup could use a hardware pairing for the decryption key, and also boot from an encrypted drive, though.

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        18 months ago

        Yeah, it’s safe because of no TPM usage. You can boot from an encrypted drive, it’ll prompt for the key instead of auto loading from vulnerable hardware

        • Natanael
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          38 months ago

          Bitlocker supports the same usecase, but everybody wants that automatic boot feature so…

          It also lets you store a secondary key on a server and require the computer to be on trusted networks to be able to retrieve it to boot, but I’ve never ever heard of anybody using that

            • Natanael
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              28 months ago

              That’s the default, but you can block it in the command line configuration tool