Timeline for Clarifying BitLocker Full Disk Encryption and the role of TPM
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 10, 2025 at 10:19 | vote | accept | allexj | ||
| Dec 30, 2024 at 12:16 | answer | added | Greg Askew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 10:33 | answer | added | CBHacking | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 20:40 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 29, 2024 at 13:31 | comment | added | Ja1024 | @security_paranoid: If the TPM performed all cryptographic operations itself, then there would be no need to load the key into RAM. But TPMs aren't powerful enough for that, so the full disk encryption has to be done by the CPU (with the key kept in RAM). | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 13:30 | comment | added | security_paranoid | How would not loading the decryption key into RAM work?? | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 13:25 | answer | added | Ja1024 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 12:19 | history | asked | allexj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |