Microsoft has rolled out a long-awaited improvement to BitLocker encryption with Windows 11 version 25H2, introducing hardware acceleration that significantly reduces storage overhead. The update ...

For Windows' BitLocker drive encryption, performance has been a long-standing pain point, especially as high-speed NVMe drives have become more dominant in the market. Fortunately, Microsoft has taken ...

Professional versions of Windows, such as Windows 11 Pro, include a storage encryption feature called BitLocker. A hardware-accelerated version of BitLocker that utilizes the SoC's encryption ...

I have immersed myself in the tech world for over five years, focusing my efforts on providing readers with in-depth reviews of gadgets. Exploring the ins and outs of the latest tech has been quite a ...

What Microsoft only roughly outlined at its "Ignite" event a month ago is now taking clearer shape: The Bitlocker drive encryption integrated into Windows will again support certain hardware ...

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by leveraging the capabilities of system-on-a-chip and CPU. BitLocker is the ...

The next generation of BitLocker, Microsoft’s encryption feature in Windows, will require next-generation Windows devices that are built on unannounced chips. “Hardware acceleration of BitLock ...

#2 0x560cdb2fe3ba in w_block_precomputed /home/user/john/src/opencl_bitlocker_fmt_plug.c:383 #2 0x560cdb300316 in create_clobj /home/user/john/src/opencl_bitlocker ...

What to do: Users should have their BitLocker recovery keys ready before installing the October security update for Windows 10 and 11. If the update triggers the security feature and users cannot ...

I was recently talking to someone I know about using Windows Defender to scan their system, and they decided to use the "offline scan" option (the one that reboots and does a scan before loading ...

LWS=32 GWS=348160 (10880 blocks) DONE Speed for cost 1 (iteration count) of 200460 Raw: 45570 c/s real, 236843 c/s virtual, Dev#1 util: 100% Benchmarking: BitLocker-opencl, BitLocker [SHA256 AES ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...