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BitLocker: How It Actually Works, How People Keep Breaking It

Nobody is cracking AES. Nobody ever was. People get past BitLocker by sniffing the key off the motherboard, pulling it out of RAM, or manipulating the trusted Windows component (usually the recovery environment) into unlocking the drive for them. This blogpost describes BitLocker, its components and inner workings as well as attacks/bypasses.