FileVault
Sign in to saveFileVault is a disk encryption program in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003) and later. It performs on-the-fly encryption with volumes on Mac computers.
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Key facts
- Software.name
- FileVault
- Software.logo_size
- x64px
- Software.screenshot_size
- 300px
- Software.caption
- FileVault in the System Preferences under Security
- Software.other_names
- Disk encryption software
- Software.operating system
- macOS
- Software.license
- Proprietary
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- macOS Tahoe
- Operator
- system administrator
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- intended public
- user
- product or material produced
- ciphertext
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Versions and key features
- FileVault
- Master passwords and recovery keys
- Migration
- Manual encryption
- Limitations and issues
- Backups
- Issues
- FileVault 2
- Security
- Performance
- Master passwords and recovery keys
- Validation
- Starting the OS with FileVault 2 without a user account
- See also
- References
FileVault is a disk encryption program in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003) and later. It performs on-the-fly encryption with volumes on Mac computers.
==Versions and key features== FileVault was introduced with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and could only be applied to a user's home directory, not the startup volume. The operating system uses an encrypted sparse disk image (a large single file) to present a volume for the home directory. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard use more modern sparse bundle disk images which spread the data over 8 MB files (called bands) within a bundle. Apple refers to this original iteration of FileVault as "legacy FileVault".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FileVault” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.