Comments on: Review: Windows 7 BitLocker to Go – Part 1: Usability

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:27:47 +0000

I was wondering how are encryption keys shared in a corporate environment? For example, if I have a department sharing removable media, I want it encrypted with a key that they can all access and don’t need to call me for the password or recovery password.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:22:59 +0000

A real downside to every software encryption system right now is that you can’t mount the encrypted disk on just any computer. Usually you’re stuck with a extremely cumbersome reader/writer program as a middle man between explorer and the disk. The reason for this is because “limited” users don’t have privileges to load drivers and the only way to get the encrypted disk to talk with the OS directly is with a driver. And even if Microsoft would backport this to XP, it still wouldn’t work on Linux or Mac systems. What is needed is a good STANDARD encryption format for removable devices. Currently, every OS has encryption capabilities, but they all do it in different ways so nothing is interoperable.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:41:09 +0000

It is unfortunate that Microsoft has restricted the capability to write to such a “Bitlocker To Go” encrypted device to only 7 Ultimate and Enterprise. I, as a personal user, (and am sure many others) would be willing to upgrade to Ultimate to be able to create an encrypted USB stick, but the fact that I wouldn’t be able to write to it on any other standard Windows machine would completely put me off even using this feature in the first place.

By: System

System — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:19:31 +0000

I have used Bitlocker-To-Go to encrypt a USB drive on my Windows 7 machine and then used the drive on a Vista Home Premium machine without any problems. It asked for a password when I tried to access the drive and then let me get at my data. I haven’t tried it on XP or 2000 yet but I don’t imagine they would have nay problems either.

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