The original post: /r/cybersecurity by /u/sulabh1992 on 2024-11-11 23:12:38.

When we encrypt a drive using bitlocker we create a password to access the drive. Now bitlocker uses AES 128 bit encryption which is very strong and hard to break. But doesn’t creating a password defeats the purpose of strong encryption. I mean someone else just have to know your password to access the data in the drive even if it is encypted. So does it mean that encryption is only as strong as your password or am I missing something?