What are the system requirements for hardware-accelerated BitLocker announced in ignite 2025?

Hi there!

From what I gather you will need:

1) NVMe SSD

Must be an NVMe drive (PCIe).

SATA SSDs and HDDs do not support hardware acceleration.

A Supported SoC (System on a chip) with a Hardware Crypto Engine

2) The device must have a modern SoC that includes:

A dedicated AES‑XTS‑256 hardware crypto engine

Hardware‑protected key‑wrapping (stronger than TPM alone)

Integration with Windows’ new BitLocker offload path

This is only present in newer-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm platforms designed with Microsoft’s updated security architecture.

3) TPM 2.0

Still required

But not sufficient on its own — the SoC must provide additional secure hardware blocks.

Of course on top of this Windows 11.

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