Microsoft BitLocker encryption cracked in just 43 seconds with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico

[Kent Sharkey]

Techspot[^]:

BitLocker is available in Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions

The door is locked, but the key is under the mat

[Nelek]

43 seconds? :wtf: :omg: that has to be a new record... hasn't it?

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

[David ONeil]

Nelek wrote:

that has to be a new record... hasn't it?

for a non-state actor, maybe...

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[Richard Andrew x64]

This might be why some software license agreements specify that you are not allowed to publish benchmarks of the software or device. :-D

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[Richard Andrew x64]

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According to the researcher, targeted attacks can bypass BitLocker's encryption by directly accessing the hardware and extracting the encryption keys stored in the computer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) via the LPC bus.

Whoa! That is serious. :doh:

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It remains to be seen whether Microsoft will root out this particular vulnerability from BitLocker, but in the long run, cybersecurity researchers need to do a better job of identifying and fixing potential security loopholes before they become a problem for users.

And now we see that the article's author knows nothing about PCs. The article just got finished saying how it's a hardware problem, and the author is placing the blame on MS.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[obermd]

The key is also very, very rusted. They broke BitLocker on a 10-year-old system that was running TPM 1.0, which was a discreet chip. Modern systems don't have this data bus to tap into.