Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration

Microsoft Enhances BitLocker with Hardware Acceleration Support

Microsoft has officially announced a major upgrade to its encryption technology with the introduction of hardware-accelerated BitLocker. Revealed by Microsoft’s Rafal Sosnowski following the Ignite conference, this new feature is designed to solve performance bottlenecks that have plagued high-speed storage drives, ensuring that users no longer have to choose between robust security and system speed. […] The post Microsoft Enhances BitLocker wit…

Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs

The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.

Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration

Microsoft will soon start "accelerating" input/output (I/O) operations for BitLocker-encrypted volumes on PC systems with compatible hardware components. The company initially introduced the change at the Ignite conference last month, and has now provided some important details about how hardware-accelerated encryption will actually work.Read Entire Article