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Device Encryption and BitLocker use the same encryption, BitLocker offers more options for key management. If you login to a Windows Home machine as admin with
by lozenge 2y ago
Device Encryption and BitLocker use the same encryption, BitLocker offers more options for key management.
If you login to a Windows Home machine as admin with a Microsoft account, then the key is stored in the TPM with a recovery key in the Microsoft account. Before that, the key is stored in plain text on the drive, meaning it's not really secure. There's no option to save the recovery key onto paper or a USB key.
So, they are really just saying the data is stored on your hard drive, which follows the usual hard drive format of Windows.