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Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My guess is because that idea became tied to secure boot respectively chassis intrusion quickly, which makes encrypting every last bit unnecessary. There is true FDE baked into SSDs tho - they can store their key in a TPM.

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