If you've purchased a laptop or pre-built PC in the last year or so and just ran through the typical setup, chances are your drive is encrypted right now. Windows doesn't tell you that's what it's ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

A BitLocker recovery key is a 48-digit number that acts as a "spare key" to the lock protecting the contents of your computer ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Allowing end users to use BitLocker encryption at will is a risky proposition. I strongly recommend storing BitLocker recovery passwords in Active Directory to avoid data loss as a result of lost ...

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A decision by Microsoft to supply BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI has drawn renewed attention to how encryption systems are designed - and whether storing keys in the cloud weakens their security.