You can avoid device encryption by using a local account.
    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      AES-NI has been standard for over a decade. There shouldn’t be a significant hit to processing speed.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          83·
          3 months ago

          You’ve benchmarked this? Using what encryption algorithm, what processors, what benchmark?

          • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
            8·
            3 months ago

            More to the point, I think, is are there even any systems that will run Windows 11 that don’t have AES-NI?

            Performance without it is kinda irrelevant because there’s no situation where you’d have Windows 11 and bitlocker and NOT AES-NI.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      91·
      3 months ago

      the days of popping out a hard drive, and grabbing whatever the hell’s on there with a usb connection are over

      Independent repair shops are going to suffer big time from this.

        • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
          161·
          3 months ago

          I’ve supported bitlocker in corporate deployments. I have also spent some time in independent repair shops. I have little confidence in users to supply a bitlocker key, let alone even know what one is. I anticipate a lot of “what? I already gave you my password.”

      • AceBonobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        3 months ago

        Obviously, Microsoft will happily sell you one drive cloud backup to solve the problem they are creating.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      3 months ago

      You can still mount it to another machine if you have the key. It’s an extra layer of pain in the ass, though.

      I don’t use an M$ account so if your key is backed up to the cloud (aside: can’t wait to read the headline about when that gets breached) I don’t personally know offhand how difficult it is to extricate your BitLocker keys from Microsoft.