System disk encryption with key file is not available anymore

DavidXanatos / DiskCryptor

A fork of the DiskCryptor full disk encryption tool

https://www.diskcryptor.org/

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Open andrey-che opened 1 week ago

andrey-che commented 1 week ago

In version 1.2 and all previous releases was ability to encrypt system drive with key file and no password

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but starting with 1.3 it become unavailable

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andrey-che commented 1 week ago

But I can encrypt system partition with password and after that change password to key file with no password

andrey-che commented 6 days ago

according to this code in prc_wizard_encrypt.c:

EnableWindow( GetDlgItem( hwnd, IDC_USE_KEYFILES), boot_device ? FALSE : TRUE );

this was done intentionally and not a bug. But why?