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"The problem for a user is that after the system is shut down, anyone who has physical access to the PC..." This is what bitlocker is for, isn't it?
by 13of40 7y ago
"The problem for a user is that after the system is shut down, anyone who has physical access to the PC..."
This is what bitlocker is for, isn't it?
- caf 7y agoIf you have to rely on bitlocker anyway, then what problem is DPAPI solving?
- la_barba 7y agoIt was created as a system level vault to store private keys, passwords and the like without requiring a library. But that was 20 odd years ago, so who knows what problem its solving now. Full-disk encryption was probably considered computationally expensive back then too..