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Announcing hardware-accelerated BitLocker

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Rafal_Sosnowski
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Dec 19, 2025
We know that users desire both security and great performance. Historically, we have strived to keep BitLocker performance overhead within single digit percentage points. However, with the rapid rise...
Updated Dec 19, 2025
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Shoveler
Copper Contributor
Dec 24, 2025

 . . . Well, what we need is a universal TPM; several smart cores to insure the that Policy is independently delivered independently of USERs involvement; PLUS an Xbox super disk drive would be fabulous.  Should fit in a 5 & 1/4 drive Bay.  Thanks.  🤠 

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Zamroni
Copper Contributor
Dec 28, 2025

tpm only stores the key.

opal sed has been around for 10+ years but microsoft refuses to adopt it