The BitLocker exploit seems simple and very dangerous. Companies and individuals have been relying on BitLocker to protect information if the device is lost. Despite promises, Microsoft doesn’t seem to be serious about security.
What will it take for more companies to truly understand their risks with Windows and being locked into Microsoft’s platforms?
How is this even possible, backdoor or no? Isn't the whole point of this type of encryption that even a compromised machine can't decrypt without the passphrase? If this works it means that the key is stored unencrypted somewhere?
For those who use password (not PIN) based pre-boot authentication with BitLocker... do we know if that setup is safe?
I can't imagine there would be a way to bypass that if a password is required, unless it was a situation where like, there was originally some secret secondary key made that needs no password... or the password was never tied to the key in the first place.
Other links:
https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey
https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/GreenPlasma
What will it take for more companies to truly understand their risks with Windows and being locked into Microsoft’s platforms?
Ideally you'd want that key to be further protected with a password or some other mechanism because it's not impossible to extract TPM keys.
I can't imagine there would be a way to bypass that if a password is required, unless it was a situation where like, there was originally some secret secondary key made that needs no password... or the password was never tied to the key in the first place.
[1]: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/were-doing-silen...
That's the thing, we don't actually know how involved the PIN is in relation to the key... it might be completely separate (and hence bypassable).
Similarly I also wonder if password-based pre-boot auth is affected.