I’ve just been using the same password for my FDE forever, and only for that purpose. I figure it keeps my data safe from theft, but probably not from the feds or my wife if she wanted in there, because they could either compel me to unlock it or have access to put some keyboard sniffer in my boot loader.
The password is quite a few random characters that I memorized when I first used FDE decades ago and I’ve never had reason to change it.
I rotate my other passwords often and never use this one anywhere other than a boot loader; I don’t even type it into a running operating system to save it.
I’ll never forget it, but if I had to change it then I think I would go with the “battery horse stapler” method of pass phrase.
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I’ve just been using the same password for my FDE forever, and only for that purpose. I figure it keeps my data safe from theft, but probably not from the feds or my wife if she wanted in there, because they could either compel me to unlock it or have access to put some keyboard sniffer in my boot loader.
The password is quite a few random characters that I memorized when I first used FDE decades ago and I’ve never had reason to change it.
I rotate my other passwords often and never use this one anywhere other than a boot loader; I don’t even type it into a running operating system to save it.
I’ll never forget it, but if I had to change it then I think I would go with the “battery horse stapler” method of pass phrase.
No need to imagine someone trying to hack your EFI or bios when they can just insert a usb keyboard sniffer ordered off amazon or aliexpress
I used to think that, too. Narrator: He did forget it... Lesson learned. As always, YMMV.
battery horse stapler in a playfair grid?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipher
Not the full cypher but just reading out the letters in the grid in a different direction.
Sorry, I assumed wrongly that most people heard of this: https://xkcd.com/936/