Global Security Watch > Bitlocker Drive Encryption

[Windows Vista: Beyond the Manual] Nevertheless, this is quite limiting and Microsoft decided that there has to be a way of providing the encryption to older TPM-free clients, so it’s possible to set it up using a USB flash drive which is inserted into the USB port on system power on and the crypto material is read from there.

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[Schneier.com] Schneier on Security: Seagate's Full Disk Encryption: Any one remember the Trusted Computing Group (https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/)? They are still alive and kicking - and we are starting to see products (http://www.tonymcfadden.net/tpmvendors.html) rolling out that comply with their specifications.

http://weblog.infoworld.com [Weblog.infoworld.com] SMB IT | InfoWorld | Does Vista Kill Third-Party Disk Encryption ...: Also, as far as the partitions, I thought there was supposed to be a small partition where Bitlocker stored its boot-up data, and then the "main" partition(s) would be the encrypted one(s). The boot process would run code from the small partition, get the key out of the TPM or off the USB token, and then transparently encrypt/decrypt the big partition as you used it.

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