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I would recommend using your Mac for encryption - not the external SSDs hardware encryption. Makers of externals SSDs generally have a quite bad reputation for the security of their products. … The T2 chip cannot be use to hardware-accelerate encryption of external drives. However, in general, you do not need to worry about performance penalties in performing encryption with the CPU. …

The keys for encrypting the backup are created on your local machine when you enable encryption. … Apple does not get a copy of your encryption keys (unless ofcourse you yourself send them a copy somehow). …

For accessing CoreStorage encrypted volumes, you can use the freely available libfvde software on Linux: https://github.com/libyal/libfvde For APFS encrypted containers you can use either: The comm …

On older versions of macOS, you could make sure that the FileVault encryption key was removed from memory when closing the lid by enabling two features via the Terminal: sudo pmset hibernatemode 25 sudo … Effectively this means that when you open the lid again, you would have to enter your password to unlock the FileVault encryption again. …

From the password, macOS derives the encryption key using a password-based key derivation function. … As you can test millions of passwords per second on a home computer, this makes the encryption relatively weak. …

I detailed how to find the hint in my earlier answer to you here: Which encrypted items show a hint? In particular, the hint is NOT stored on the EFI or boot partitions. It is stored (if it is indeed …

Yes, this mean that your data is already encrypted. There's nothing to worry about.

Choosing between having a recovery key or using the iCloud method is largely a matter of personal choice. Neither option is universally "better": If you're particularly worried about the iCloud system …

The kevinn user probably hasn't got a secure token. You can check if that is the case by running the following command in the Terminal: sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus kevinn To add a secure token for …

Encryption on the iPhone is "active by default" as you call it, it is however not done with a "system default password". … You can find complete information about encryption on the iPhone on this link. Remember to click the "Next" link at the bottom to go through the multi-page document. …

Apple Silicon Macs require that all executables are signed. When you run an unsigned executable, it is not allowed to run - and it will show up in the shell as "killed". As you compiled the tool yours …

The Apple Silicon Macs all have encryption of the drive enabled at all times - no matter if you enable FileVault or not. …

It is the Mac that is responsible for the encryption when you (on the Mac) have chosen to make encrypted backups. …

No, enabling FileVault on your system drive cannot cause an external drive that is not connected to suddenly become non-encrypted. It also doesn't do it to a drive that is connected. If your external …

There's no known, general issue with encrypted drives for the M1 Mac. The symptoms you're describing sound very much like a corrupted file system. Together with bugs in the operating system's file sys …