When Microsoft announced that Windows Vista was going to be available in multiple editions, curiosity turned toward the higher-end versions of Vista targeted at corporate environments (Vista ...

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Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe ...

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I just encrypted my OS drive with Bitlocker, and am in the process of doing the same to my data drive. I do not have a TPM module, and have opted to use a password to unlock the OS drive. During the ...

BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...

The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK). This FEK is in return encrypted with a public or a private key algorithm like RSA and stored with the ...