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This page seems somewhat outdated. Sparse bundles could be mentioned [1]. Also, are there any cryptographic enhancements in Leopard? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.191.62.46 ( talk) 20:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
"Time Machine is limited to restoring the home directory in its entirety" - That is not correct for 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Only the segments of the encrypted sparse bundle will be backed up. This article is really outdated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.192.56.110 ( talk) 12:29, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps VileFault [2] should be mentioned? -- SakJur ( talk) 14:44, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
As Mac OS X v10.7 Lion is now out and on a technical level, the FileVault 2 encryption is completely and totally new. The old implementation of FileVault is abandoned and a new implementation is
Old - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1877.html
New - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
From a wiki standpoint - how would such a large change be added here? Would it be better to make a new stub and work on that until it's ready to go? (perhaps merging them later?)
Bmike8 ( talk) 14:39, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
It would appear that the second, third and fourth paragraphs of this section (regarding FileVault and its encryption algorithms and use of recovery keys) are original research, or at the very least, make a lot of points without any citations to back up the information presented. It would be useful to have supporting citations for these sections to bolster the veracity of what is being said here. Scaredpoet ( talk) 21:23, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
The fourth paragraph uses editorial language, such as "glaring" and "unbearably long," which is not sourced and adds little to the article.
In light of the following links, I feel the entirety of this section is wrong and should be revised:
I.e., the appellation "XTS- AES 128 encryption" refers to a tweakable bloc cypher, optimized for sector-based storages. The number "128" refers to the block size, not the key size! FileVault should still use a 256bit encryption key. (I currently have no confirmation of this, other than what is discussed in the aforementioned references.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trimtabo ( talk • contribs) 20:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
References
Subsection added.
For selected points: detail, with photographic evidence, is within an answer in Ask Different. Readers may treat this as complementary to Apple's technical white paper. The up-votes signify confidence from external sources, but probably not enough to treat the material as encyclopaedic for Wikipedia.
Grahamperrin ( talk) 06:57, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
The recovery key is not encoded in base32, which only includes [A-Z] and [2-7] according to base32. The referenced paper is wrong on this. See for example [3] and [4] which includes non-base32 character 8 and 9. If somebody knows what encoding this is, please add it to the article. 2pem ( talk) 11:01, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
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