Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed

Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by sroussey on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:34AM (#29091671)

I mean, just turn off encryption if that’s what you want.

I don’t think you grasp how the encryption keys are generated, derived, and stored.

And I doubt you are using a password the length of the key. Well, maybe you create a USB human interface device that fits on your keyring to type it for you. I do have something like that for one time codes, but if that is your sophistication level, then we wouldn’t have this discussion really.

I feel for the “it’s mine, I bought it” logic, and I miss the days when our rights were more absolute. But that’s not today.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by grishka on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:27AM (#29091967)

There are key-derivation functions like PBKDF2 that are computationally expensive enough that it would make brute-forcing infeasible at best and impossible at worst. Perhaps only if your password is 1234 or qwerty, but even then it would take literal years.

> I don’t think you grasp how the encryption keys are generated, derived, and stored.

And you're wrong.

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