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Most people don't have encrypted drives with fallbacks to retrieve its contents (whatever that means).
by mort96 4y ago
Most people don't have encrypted drives with fallbacks to retrieve its contents (whatever that means).
- jcynix 4y agoNot having encrypted drives is some kind of misfeature nowadays, especially for mobile devices. Fallbacks can be key escrow (i.e. put a printout or a physical key into a sealed envelope and deposit it at a family member, friend, or notary), and backups, encrypted with a different (or more than one) key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup for example allows the use of multiple keys, so a backup could use the same (primary) key as your drive and some secondary key(s) to access the backup if the primary key is lost somehow. As I mentioned in another comment here, keys should have been physical features for a long time, but hardware vendors would had to standardize on a general implementation and as we know, they all like to "standardize" on exactly their way of doing things.