bitlocker
March 25th, 2010 at 03:07pm
Under TPM
The site IT Expert Voice had a detailed how-to on configuring BitLocker, including how to enable the TPM, and even how to get around not having a TPM to enable. It’s a useful guide, although it also has the statement: TPM chips are already used in some consumer devices to restrict video playback. Is this [...]
Continue Reading How to set up BitLocker on a Windows 7 computer
Tags: bitlocker, it expert voice
By Ken Y-N
December 14th, 2009 at 02:48pm
Under TPM
As I suspected two months ago when the Evil Maid first came to my attention, she can get at your hard disk encryption passwords even if you use TPM, as discussed in a recent article on The H. Note that even though they described the hack in detail, Fraunhofer also stressed that: Despite the security [...]
Continue Reading Fraunhofer SIT and their BitLocker TPM hacks
Tags: bitlocker, evil maid, Fraunhofer, heise
By Ken Y-N
November 7th, 2009 at 02:39pm
Under TPM
I enjoyed reading this article from Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen blog on how to set up BitLocker but still be able to boot into virtual hard disk images. It was also interesting to see that Microsoft now require all contractors (and presumably full-time staff too) to encrypt all their drives with BitLocker.
Continue Reading TPM, BitLocker, and Microsoft contractors
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
October 18th, 2009 at 03:49pm
Under TPM
While reading up another article that I am going to be posting about later this week, I followed a link to a FAQ on the TrueCrypt web site regarding TPM containing this paragraph: The only thing that TPM is almost guaranteed to provide is a false sense of security (even the name itself, "Trusted Platform [...]
Continue Reading TPM is merely security theatre
Tags: bitlocker, truecrypt
By Ken Y-N
April 22nd, 2009 at 02:32pm
Under Advocacy
DarkReading recently described the new security features in Windows 7, as presented by Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, in a keynote at the RSA Conference 2009. One excellent feature (it will be interesting to see how exactly it is implemented), is BitLocker To Go, using the TPM, if present on [...]
Continue Reading Security in Windows 7
Tags: bitlocker, darkreading, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
April 1st, 2009 at 03:49pm
Under TPM
The blog Erich sieht recently posted about an upcoming paper on Attacking the BitLocker Boot Process, to be presented at Trust 2009 in Oxford 6th to 8th April. Although as you can see from my other posts, I’m a really big fan of the TCG’s Storage encryption standards, but I’m not much of a fan [...]
Continue Reading Attacking Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, microsoft, secure boot
By Ken Y-N
January 21st, 2009 at 03:11pm
Under TPM
On the Invisible Things Lab’s blog, there was an interesting post on why the writer misses Microsoft’s BitLocker now that she has switched to a Mac. I’m very pleasantly surprised to see such a positive article from a serious security researchers! She details how BitLocker (Microsoft’s TPM-based disk encryption for Vista) can protect you from [...]
Continue Reading Positive review of Microsoft’s BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, Invisible Things Lab, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
October 22nd, 2008 at 01:53pm
Under General
Most of the stories I post here are related to corporate applications for trusted computing, so it makes a nice change for me to be able to pass on a tip on how to use the TPM that may be in your own computer to encrypt your drive with Microsoft’s BitLocker on Windows Vista. This [...]
Continue Reading How to use your TPM with BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, vista
By Ken Y-N
March 11th, 2008 at 03:05pm
Under TCG+ TPM
The Trusted Computing Group recently posted to their official blog a short reply to an attack on BitLocker discovered by Princeton University, the EFF, and Wind River Systems. In order to clarify any confusion about the role of the TPM and its security, we have published a new document on our website. The full story [...]
Continue Reading TCG, Princeton, EFF, and BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, eff, princeton, TCG
By Ken Y-N