Oh, the diffuser matters a lot actually. Your former colleagues (I think?) proved this by blindly popping calc on a bitlocker-protected Windows 8.1! https://cr

Oh, the diffuser matters a lot actually. Your former colleagues (I think?) proved this by blindly popping calc on a bitlocker-protected Windows 8.1! https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2014/12/08/code-execution-in-spite-of-bitlocker.html https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2014/12/08/code-executi... With the diffuser, we have ~9 years of conjecture and speculation, with no one overly certain that attacks are possible. Without it, we have calc.exe fairly quickly after someone got the idea to try. You can't say these are roughly the same in practical terms.