One question we’re asked a lot is why ElcomSoft has two different tools for breaking BitLocker encryption. Some tools we have will seemingly do the same job, while achieving the result via different paths. This publication will be followed by Part II, in which we’ll discuss brute-force possibilities if access to encrypted information through the backdoor is not available. In today’s Part I, we’ll discuss the possibility of using a backdoor to hack our way into BitLocker. Due to the sheer amount of information, we had to break this publication into two parts. We did our research, and are ready to share our findings. How can you break into BitLocker encryption? Do you have to brute-force the password, or is there a quick hack to exploit? Investigators start seeing BitLocker encrypted volumes more and more often, yet computer users themselves may be genuinely unaware of the fact they’ve been encrypting their disk all along.
