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Re:Evernote hacked by martinkallstrom on Saturday March 02, 2013 @11:57AM (#5310088)
Passwords are typically not used for encryption, since you don't want to re-encrypt data when user changes the password.
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Re:Evernote hacked by lawnchair_larry on Saturday March 02, 2013 @12:03PM (#5310112)
Yes they are, just in a more complicated way. You don't have to re-encrypt if the user changes their password. FDE would be pretty useless if so.
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