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Microsoft released BitLocker Countermeasures [3] defining protection schemes for Windows. For mobile devices that can be stolen and attackers gain permanent physical access (paragraph Attacker with skill and lengthy physical access) Microsoft advise the use of pre-boot authentication and to disable standby power management.
BitLocker uses a low-level device driver to encrypt and decrypt all file operations, making interaction with the encrypted volume transparent to applications running on the platform. [41] Encrypting File System (EFS) may be used in conjunction with BitLocker to provide protection once the operating system is running. Protection of the files ...
If you have forgotten your password and you previously entered an email address when signing up for the account or in your Preferences, and you still have access to that email account, then this special page can help you recover access to your account. Go to Special:PasswordReset. You can enter either your username or your email.
Further, using special tools to reset the user's login password will render it impossible to decrypt the user's private key and thus useless for gaining access to the user's encrypted files. The significance of this is occasionally lost on users, resulting in data loss if a user forgets his or her password, or fails to back up the encryption key.
Done in software, encryption typically operates at a level between all applications and most system programs and the low-level device drivers by "transparently" (from a user's point of view) encrypting data after it is produced by a program but before it is physically written to the disk. Conversely, it decrypts data immediately after being ...
In the case of disk encryption applications that can be configured to allow the operating system to boot without a pre-boot PIN being entered or a hardware key being present (e.g. BitLocker in a simple configuration that uses a TPM without a two-factor authentication PIN or USB key), the time frame for the attack is not limiting at all. [2]
BitLocker: Microsoft: 2006 Proprietary: Yes Bloombase StoreSafe Bloombase: 2012 Proprietary: No [2] Boxcryptor: Secomba GmbH 2011 Proprietary: No CGD Roland C. Dowdeswell 2002-10-04 [3] BSD: Yes CenterTools DriveLock CenterTools 2008 Proprietary: Yes Check Point Full Disk Encryption Check Point Software Technologies Ltd: 1999 [4] [5] [6 ...
A major problem with self-service password reset inside corporations and similar organizations is enabling users to access the system if they forgot their primary password. Since SSPR systems are typically web-based, users need to launch a web browser to fix the problem, yet cannot log into the workstation until the problem is solved.