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I haven’t used Windows since the XP days. Does Windows not have a login password? Or does something make it require a separate disk PIN and not just encrypt the
by wat10000 2y ago
I haven’t used Windows since the XP days. Does Windows not have a login password? Or does something make it require a separate disk PIN and not just encrypt the drive with the login password? macOS does the latter and it seems like an obvious approach.
- briHass 2y agoIn this case, they're talking about the Bitlocker disk encryption PIN, which is in _addition_ to the Windows password, or more common now, PIN. You can set them both to the same thing if you choose. The disk PIN on boot is uncommon/harder to do for home users, but it's a common setup in the corpo world. Enforced by AD, or Intune.
- wat10000 2y agoA disk PIN shouldn’t add much extra security, though, unless the login password isn’t actually used to key the encryption.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI'm not aware that Windows uses your login key to encrypt anything on the disk, but maybe Windows 11 does it differently than <=10. The disk password actually encrypts the disk, so you can't just pull the disk out and read it, or boot Linux from a flash drive and read it. You can do the above attacks when all that's set is a Windows password. In fact, you could even modify the OS at that point so it logs and exfiltrates passwords in the future.