[X4U] Apple Persistent State Encryption

[David Ledger]

At 23:03 +0200 8/3/14, lazilicata at gmail.com wrote:
>Any idea what Apple Persistent State Encryption is doing on my MBP 
>keychain? (I am using 10.9.2)
>
>Any idea when I would have a need to use this password?

Just a guess, but I would say 'never'. On the other hand, if you 
removed it the system may be unable to decrypt something vital and 
you could lose access to data, or network, or ....

>And, why would Apple get to pick the password and not me

Because only the system needs to use it. There are all sorts of 
reasons why the system may need to encrypt stuff, and no need to 
invent somewhere else to store keys when it has keychain.

David


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