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DavidXanatos / DiskCryptor

A fork of the DiskCryptor full disk encryption tool
https://www.diskcryptor.org/
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Major Keyfile issue - is it true? #75

Closed ghost closed 8 months ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Lifewire reports a massive DiskCriptor bug, but is it true? It basically says that keyfile cannot be applied to boot/system partition - https://www.lifewire.com/diskcryptor-review-2619178

Selecting a keyfile on this screen will make it impossible to boot back into Windows! Whether you do or don't enter a password on this screen, if you add a keyfile, you will NOT be able to log back into Windows. If you were to select a keyfile, DiskCryptor would seemingly ignore your decision during boot up by not asking for it, which results in a failed authentication, which in turn means you can't proceed past the password checkpoint.

DavidXanatos commented 1 year ago

You can configure the UEFI bootloader to load a key file from the volume it is on configuring the KeyFilePath entry in the config file but this is not done autoamtically. So yea when encrypting a boot volume this option should be grayed out.

DavidXanatos commented 8 months ago

build 1.3.0 now verifies if the decryption works on a test reboot with a test file before touching the system volume