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Paper Reading Questions

Please remember to print your answer for each day's paper question on a sheet of paper and hand it in at the beginning of class.

Suppose an adversary steals a laptop that uses BitLocker disk encryption. In BitLocker's design, Windows has a key to decrypt the contents of the drive.

  1. What prevents the adversary from extracting this key from Windows?
  2. If the adversary cannot extract the key, what prevents him or her from simply using Windows to access files?

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