bitlocker problem, turned off accidentally, with SSD, now can't turn on again without  MS asking to encrypt part or all of drive Hi, I had BL working fine with my Samsung SSD Evo, however, ...

After reports of widespread flaws in hardware-based SSD encryption, Microsoft has pushed out an update that defaults BitLocker protection to software-based AES encryption. To paraphrase Fox Mulder, ...

Tom's Hardware has found that the default software-based BitLocker encryption (XTS-AES 128, where XTX stands for XEX Tweakable Block Cipher with Ciphertext Stealing and AES is Advanced Encryption ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.

Reacting to a recently discovered security hole in hardware-based encryption in solid state drives, Microsoft recommends that if you’re using BitLocker to protect a solid-state drive, you switch from ...

Soon after research was released that BitLocker drives could be decrypted using SSD hardware encryption flaws, Microsoft released a support bulletin describing how to protect BitLocker from 1394 & ...

Microsoft may be rolling out a new feature as part of the latest Windows 11 update that will boost security but slow down SSD performance. We’re talking about BitLocker, of course, a device encryption ...

Forward-looking: Originally introduced with Windows Vista in 2006, BitLocker is Microsoft's own solution for managing fully encrypted volumes and storage units. The technology is also notorious for ...