Personal computing discussed
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churin wrote:My external USB SSD drive comes with an utility to set a password protection. What is the difference between such password protection and bitlocker protection? Is there any difference in protection level? Problem of bitlocker is that it takes long time to set up.
churin wrote:What is the difference between such password protection and bitlocker protection? Is there any difference in protection level?
Airmantharp wrote:Whereas Bitlocker can be difficult to access outside of a Windows machine- and you'll want that key handy.
[I have a WD portable drive that must run its software to decrypt and mount its contents- works well enough for me to not care]
Redocbew wrote:If there's no documentation available from the vendor, then it's going to be difficult to figure out exactly what's going on in there. It's almost certainly not encrypting the whole drive like bitlocker does, so either there's no encryption, or it's a kind of encryption weak enough to be done in real time. My guess would be on the former, but there's no way to know with the information available.
Airmantharp wrote:I'm not sure how it does it; I believe that the data partition is encrypted.
There is a difference in perspective here, though- the WD drive came empty, so there is no real setup time, whereas implementing Bitlocker on a populated drive would rightly take time.