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before migration, FileVault must be disabled at the source. If transferring FileVault data from a previous Mac that uses 10.4 using the built-in utility to move data to a new machine, the data continues to be stored in the old sparse image format, and the user must turn FileVault off and then on again to re-encrypt in the new sparse bundle format.
FileVault: Apple Inc. 2003-10-24 Proprietary: Yes FileVault 2: Apple Inc. 2011-07-20 Proprietary: Yes FREE CompuSec CE-Infosys 2002 Proprietary: Yes FreeOTFE: Sarah Dean
Users concerned about tools like Kon-Boot should use disk encryption [23] (FileVault, Bitlocker, Veracrypt etc.) software as Kon-Boot is not able to bypass disk encryption. [24] BIOS password and enabled SecureBoot [25] [26] feature is also a good prevention measure. However Kon-Boot since version 3.5 is able to bypass SecureBoot feature. [27]
In October 2017, it was reported that a flaw enabled private keys to be inferred from public keys, which could allow an attacker to bypass BitLocker encryption when an affected TPM chip is used. [64] The flaw is the Return of Coppersmith's Attack or ROCA vulnerability which is in a code library developed by Infineon and had been in widespread ...
Option to enable/disable support for the TRIM command for both system and non-system drives was added in version 1.22. [15] Erasing the system encryption keys from RAM during shutdown/reboot helps mitigate some cold boot attacks, added in version 1.24. [15] RAM encryption for keys and passwords on 64-bit systems was added in version 1.24. [15]
A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on macOS that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as stored in it. Encrypted sparse image files are used to secure a user's home directory by the FileVault feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and earlier.
HFS Plus or HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended [5]) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with the 1998 release of Mac OS 8.1.
Rootpipe is a security vulnerability found in some versions of OS X that allows privilege escalation whereby a user with administrative rights, or a program executed by an administrative user, can obtain superuser (root) access.