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Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:26 PM

BitLocker Makeover

The Windows Vista RC1 release is quickly approaching and I know many of you are eager to hear the latest and greatest news about BitLocker. Well, wait no more my fervent comrades! Anyone who is familiar with previous builds may recall walking through
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Monday, August 21, 2006 4:40 PM

Open Sesame: BitLocker Recovery Passwords

Anyone who has tried enabling BitLocker will have been greeted with a friendly dialog box insisting that you create a recovery password. I remember the first time I saw this, I found myself asking, “what is this recovery password, and what am I supposed
Posted by BitLocker Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:36 PM

Keys to the Kingdom

Every wonder about all those keys in BitLocker? Here's the scoop on the ones you need to care about.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:26 PM

Heidi Waterhouse

Heidi Waterhouse is a technical writer with the BitLocker team. She spends her time translating security concepts into actionable steps.
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Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:50 PM

BitLocker and unallocated space

I often see two questions related to free (a.k.a. “unallocated”) disk space when people talk about Windows BitLocker™ Drive Encryption on various forums: Q: What happens to unallocated space when I enable BitLocker on my volume? Does it get encrypted?
Posted by BitLocker Team | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:46 PM

Bulat Shelepov

Bulat Shelepov is a Software Development Engineer with the System Integrity team at Microsoft.
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Friday, June 09, 2006 11:37 AM

Doing our part for BitLocker™ Drive Encryption: Particular requirements around partitioning

On May 23-25, members of the BitLocker team participated in the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. It was a successful event for us, and we even got some mentions in keynote speeches. Everyone we talked to understood the importance
Posted by BitLocker Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:43 PM

Why you need to own your Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

You might think that having your TPM security hardware be “owned” may not be a good thing. If you’re well-versed in slang , you’re excused. However, to own or “take ownership” of your computer’s TPM is actually desirable for both functionality and security.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 5:51 PM

“Is anyone out there?” — Using physical presence to turn on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Malicious software can lurk in the most humorous of dancing baby videos and cause havoc on your computer. To help protect against malware taking control of your computer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security hardware, computer manufacturers should
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Friday, May 12, 2006 5:43 PM

Xian Ke

Xian colludes with coworkers as a Program Manager on the System Integrity team of Windows Security. She started full-time at Microsoft in 2004 after undergraduate and graduate work at MIT and assorted internship stints. She puts academic knowledge into
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Friday, April 28, 2006 4:58 PM

BitLocker™ Technical Overview — Now Available

It’s been a while since WinHEC 2005, and it was time for a meaningful refresh of our BitLocker docs. In an effort to crystallize the product functionality in one relatively short, yet technical document, I have updated the BitLocker Technical Overview
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Friday, April 14, 2006 3:26 PM

Purna Gathani

I work in System Integrity-BitLocker Team as a Program Manager managing TAP customers to validate and gather feedback on pre-release products. I have been at Microsoft for 7 yrs primarily supporting and managing Enterprise customer needs.
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Friday, April 14, 2006 3:25 PM

BitLocker™ and FIPS

Because we have many government customers who will want to run FIPS-compliant software, Microsoft will certify BitLocker™ to the FIPS 140-2 standard. This is a long process, but if all goes well we should be in good shape within a few months after shipping.
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Friday, April 14, 2006 2:51 PM

Welcome

Welcome to the BitLocker™ Drive Encryption Team blog! The focus of this blog is to post technical content on a range of topics, but especially how you, our customers, can use BitLocker. Posts will include things like: Announcements of new documents, articles
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Friday, April 14, 2006 2:16 PM

Tony Ureche, Ph.D.

Tony is a Program Manager for the System Integrity part of the Windows Security team. Tony is working on key management, standards compliance and threat modeling. He has been working at Microsoft for over 6 years on several security technologies. He has
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