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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by eonti09taeuo on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:21PM (#15411377)
Keep in mind that this only happens if you turned it on using Disk Utility. If you did the normal upgrade (the vast majority of users) you didn't go through disk utility, and everything's fine (presumably). Still a terrible error, but affects far fewer people than your comment implied.
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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:25PM (#15411402)
What if you used command line diskutil?
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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by FabHK on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:26PM (#15411416)
Apparently the bug only affected the GUI app.

> When creating an encrypted APFS volume in Terminal with the diskutil command line utility, the actual hint is shown, rather than the password.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/macos-high-sierra-disk-...

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