Everything about BitLocker

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BitLockerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Microsoft Windows server 2012 inside outThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Implementing BitLocker Drive Encryption for forensic analysisCited 12 times
5. Go sideways: Disk encryptionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Comparison of disk encryption softwareA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Implementing BitLocker Drive Encryption for forensic analysis

  Jesse D. Kornblum · 2009 · Digital Investigation · 12 citations

• Forensic method for decrypting TPM-protected BitLocker volumes using Intel DCI

  Matheus Bichara de Assumpção, Marcelo Abdalla dos Reis, Marcos Roberto Marcondes · 2023 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 4 citations

• The Hardware Isolation Gap: A Systematic Survey of BitLocker Forensics in the TPM 2.0 Era

  Vinay Kumar Sankalagere Ramesh, Sapna Vikram Mewundi, Prasad Balakrishna Honnavalli · 2026 · Electronics · 1 citations

• Analisis Perbandingan Keamanan Data VeraCrypt dan BitLocker pada Perlindungan Data Pengguna

  Erdi Rahmatullah Erdi Rahmatullah, Adhe Prastyo Ramadhan Adhe Prastyo Ramadhan, Yustian Servanda Yustian Servanda · 2026 · Jurnal Teknologi informasi dan Ilmu Komputer · 0 citations

• Aplikasi Credant dan BitLocker untuk Sistem Keamanan Data Computer

  Mohammad Hamdani, Dwi Darmi Sa’diyahti · 2018 · SAINSTECH: JURNAL PENELITIAN DAN PENGKAJIAN SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI · 0 citations

• Microsoft downplays BitLocker claim

  · 2008 · Network Security · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs

  E. Agostini, M. Bernaschi · 2022 · International Journal of Information Security · 4 citations

• Implementasi dan Evaluasi Keamanan Data at Rest Menggunakan BitLocker dan VeraCrypt

  Erina Malinda Lubis · 2025 · Journal of Information Systems and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Microsoft Windows server 2012 inside outWilliam R. Stanek · 2012

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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