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Comment by koolba

> 1) store passwords in the password manager, even the ones you think aren't important.

Losing the password that unlocks full disk encryption (FDE) is like losing the password that unlocks your password manager. At some point you have to have something stored only in your mind.

Now sure you could have your FDE password stored in a password manager as well but that's probably not a good idea. Also, compared to just about everything else saved in a password manager, you'd have to manually type the FDE password at boot. You can't copy/paste it as if anything your password manager would be running on a different computer.

parent koolba 10 years ago

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