encryption performance

Microsoft’s recent rollout of a hardware-accelerated BitLocker mode changes the long-standing trade-off between full-disk encryption and storage performance: on supported machines running the latest Windows 11 servicing updates, BitLocker can now offload AES/XTS encryption to a dedicated crypto...

Microsoft has begun shipping a long‑promised performance and security upgrade to BitLocker: hardware‑accelerated BitLocker, an operating‑system level capability that offloads bulk disk encryption to a SoC/CPU crypto engine and keeps encryption keys sealed inside silicon — reducing CPU load...

Microsoft says hardware-accelerated BitLocker will land on new Windows 11 PCs next year — a move that promises faster, lower-overhead disk encryption by offloading cryptographic work to dedicated silicon and keeping encryption keys isolated inside the chip, but it also raises immediate questions...

With the arrival of Windows 11 version 24H2, a fierce debate has erupted in the global Windows community, marking what many now term “The BitLocker Controversy of 2025.” Microsoft’s long-standing approach to device encryption—once the provenance of IT administrators and security...