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1. to me the most important question is: why on earth can the disk password be retrieved in clear text in the first place ?! 2. also: the buggy version will be
by colinzoy 9y ago
1. to me the most important question is: why on earth can the disk password be retrieved in clear text in the first place ?!
2. also: the buggy version will be able to show disk passwords forever, until the encryption scheme is changed. macOS native encryption is useless until then (but given 1., it might already have been for some time).
- a_t48 9y ago(1) is the bug - you aren't supposed to be able to. the password was copied into a cleartext hint field. (2) you should be fine if you reset your password and hint.
- chaosite 9y agoIf I understand the blog post correctly, the bug was in the software that creates (or maybe mounts? Not too clear about that) the encrypted volume. It needs to have the clear-text password in order to function. Then it proceeded to set the clear-text password as a password hint due to the bug.
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- sitharus 9y ago1. The disk password cannot be retrieved. The bug occurred when creating a new encrypted volume - the password was copied in to the hint field as well as the password field. 2. Changing your password with the updated disk utility will fix the issue.
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- jsjohnst 9y agoThe answer to your question was shown in code and also explicitly stated in English in the article. Edit: removed the “did you read the article?” part