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Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've been curious about people who have been disabling the TPM. Where are you storing your disk encryption keys?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I'm not using disk encryption. It's a desktop and if it's every stolen I've got bigger problems.
Also, I presume that disk encryption makes it so you can't just pop the drive in an adapter and pull stuff off it, which I sometimes need to do with old, retired drives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

veracrypt is a thing, encrypting drives does not need TPM.

Just boot using the good old Master Boot Record for a clean solution (The Veracrypt documentation gives a good overview). Veracrypt works with EFI too, but the EFI partition itself cannot be encrypted. You can even create a hidden OS, if you are forced to give out your password, theres still plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for the Veracrypt reminder. Adding that to my stuff to setup and document list.

Sometimes Bitlocker really pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can run bitlocker without TPM using a usb flash drive instead. I think you can also store the key in your mind as a password.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, but when they're on USB the keys are much more accessible. You can just plug it in and dump them.

If you're only using a password, the keys are stored in an unencrypted part of the drive, which can again easily be dumped.

Once you've dumped the keys, you can brute-force the passphrase offline.