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Re:Brave New Trusted Boot World by evh on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:14PM (#33346643)
> the windows partition was using hardware-bitlocker

That sounds way too exciting, even without that involved I keep my Windows install on its own disk.

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Re:Brave New Trusted Boot World by RetpolineDrama on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:18PM (#33346672)
I mean I love the idea right? Software FDE comes with a performance hit, as well as increased wear on the SSD.

With hardware FDE the data written to the raw flash is always encrypted, the AES key is just 0 by default. Macs work this way AFAIK. With "hardware bitlocker" you just change that key (on a fresh drive).

Full performance, better security. Seems awesome huh? Well being outside the happy-path when it comes to hardware configs on free software is just asking for trouble...

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