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> BitLocker, the encryption software built into Microsoft Win- dows will rely exclusively on hardware full-disk encryption if the SSD advertises support for it. Thus, for these drives, data protected by BitLocker is also compromised.

I thought BitLocker stopped trusting SEDs after the last time around when drives were discovered to be trivially broken? [1]

But apparently this change only just happened a couple months ago. [2]

[1] - https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/flaws-in-self-encry...

[2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/3441864/bitlocker-windows-bu...

parent zaroth 7 years ago

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