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Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM

www.tomshardware.com

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BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM

www.tomshardware.com

Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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BitLocker's reliance on a TPM for security is its own downfall in this specific exploit.
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    Question: if I have an bitlocker encrypted SSD in a modern computer with embedded TPM, can I move this SSD to an old computer with external TPM to sniff the cod this way? Be gentle. I am dumb. Thanks.

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      22•1 year ago

      “Sniff the cod” This is a typo right? I don’t know any better, but I had a good laugh.

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        What about the salmon and the halibut? :-D

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      19•1 year ago

      Not unless you entered your recovery code to unlock it on the old computer with the external tpm.

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      Nope. As soon as you move the disk to your second system/TPM, you lose any ability to decrypt it at all.

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        9•1 year ago

        unless you have the key?

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          The key is inside the TPM.

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            2•1 year ago

            For LUKS user set the key; for bitlocker, I believe the key is automatically uploaded to either your Microsoft account or you system admin’s account.

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              2•1 year ago

              Sure LUKS will do what you tell it. Bitlocker will do what it wants and just use the TPM unless you jump through a bunch of group policy edits and such. But you are correct, I had forgotten it does give you the option to backup the key to a txt file during the installation or initial encryption process :)

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      4•1 year ago

      The Key is stored on the Internal TPM. Only it can unlock the SSD.

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