[Elektrix]

Hi all,

Not sure if anyone else saw this:

http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2003No...1106022559.htm

This is an article about a report in The Register that there is some FileVault bug that can apparently result in your Keychain data being lost......

But the Geek.com article portrays this as something that would permanently make any FileVault encrypted data unreadable (it seems to be making this assumption that if you lost your keychain, you couldn't unencrypt filevault, as if it permanently deleted the original password or something). But I can't see anything to back that up.

It really seems like Geek.com should correct the story, as it is very inflammatory, and Windows users there are eating it up as a story about it permanently destroying data or making it unreadable, even though there seems to be no basis for this.

Anyone have any comments on this?

-Elektrix

[neoTony]

Reclaiming space on FileVaults does seem to corrupt data on the disk image.

It has nothing to do with the keychain - if you lose the keychain, but remember the password you used when creating the FileVault (and haven't been bitten by the reclaim space bug!), then FileVaults act just like AES-128 encrypted sparse images (I use them at work to hold personal data).

They really do need to update their information...