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You need a separate pin because windows lives on the encrypted disk so you need to decrypt it before you can boot completely.
by bootsmann 5mo ago
You need a separate pin because windows lives on the encrypted disk so you need to decrypt it before you can boot completely.
- rafram 5mo agomacOS solved this (and a lot of other problems) by putting the OS on a separate read-only partition - technically an APFS volume - that doesn’t get encrypted. Microsoft’s backwards-compatibility obsession might not let them make that the default, but they could at least make it an option.
- ranger_danger 5mo agoNot encrypting the OS means it's no longer considered FDE in my opinion. But Windows doesn't need the OS to decrypt a BitLocker volume anyway because the bootloader can do it... otherwise how could a FDE disk ever boot in the first place?
- rafram 5mo agoWhy not? The macOS OS partition is signed and read-only. Unless you disable SIP (which you shouldn't), your OS partition is bit-for-bit identical to everyone else's.
- ranger_danger 5mo ago> your OS partition is bit-for-bit identical to everyone else's Unless I want to change it... or have multiple OSes/partitions where I need the entire disk encrypted.
- cubefox 5mo agoCouldn't they just use the PIN also Windows password? Then the PIN screen would have to look like the Windows login screen.
- majorchord 5mo agowhat about systems with multiple users?