> Now if I encrypt my portable SSD with the same password that is a problem. It would be trivial to brute force. Probably not so trivial. It's very likely (dis

> Now if I encrypt my portable SSD with the same password that is a problem. It would be trivial to brute force. Probably not so trivial. It's very likely (disclosure: I'd need to check, but I'd expect that to be true in 2022) that the actual encryption key of your storage is a randomly-generated key, which is then protected with your password and a very slow decryption algorithm, so that bruteforcing is not so fast. Still, single dictionary word + two ciphers won't be terribly hard to decrypt for a really interested party. But the point is that such attack requires physical access to your device (unless some other network hack is performed), which is a kind of 2FA.