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At it simplest, encryption means masking what you write, save, or transmit. Like codes of other kinds, encryption uses a special key. This means that without the key, data looks like gibberish. But ...

Many users prefer to encrypt their entire storage drive, considering it one of the simplest and most effective encryption ...

If you’re a Windows user, you may have been surprised to learn that from an update in May 2024 onward your system drive will ...

Encryption is an added level of security for you PC. Here are the pros and cons of Microsoft’s built-in encryption tool BitLocker.

Device encryption in Windows 11 provides a layer of security by encrypting the OS drive using the XTS-AES 128-bit BitLocker encryption method and cipher strength by default.

BitLocker is officially only available for Windows 10/11 Pro. However, the tool is actually also included in the Home versions, just hidden.