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qwerty12qwerty t1_izdb0zn wrote

I don’t necessarily think it’s at rest, doing so would exponentially increase your computing power. But it’s probably something like Windows a bit locker. Where the entire drive is encrypted when you turn it on, requiring a key to even boot. To steal a drive, the power would be disconnected. Or some other thing to trigger a shut down/require the key.

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Gareth79 t1_izdo06d wrote

Bitlocker encrypts when the feature is enabled, not when the computer is "turned on". Every read and write requires encryption/decryption of the data. It doesn't "exponentially" increase the computing power required, modern CPUs have AES acceleration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker

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