{"id":19200,"date":"2017-10-12T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:28:55","slug":"apfs-and-institutional-recovery-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/apfs-and-institutional-recovery-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"APFS and Institutional Recovery Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/10\/unlocking-or-decrypting-using-an-institutional-recovery-key-does-not-work-with-encrypted-apfs-boot-drives-on-macos-high-sierra-10-13-0\/\">Rich Trouton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/10\/unlocking-or-decrypting-using-an-institutional-recovery-key-does-not-work-with-encrypted-apfs-boot-drives-on-macos-high-sierra-10-13-0\/\"><p>This recovery key model has continued to be used on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_File_System\">Apple File System<\/a> (APFS), starting with macOS High Sierra 10.13.0, with one important difference:<\/p><ul><li>You can encrypt an APFS boot drive using an IRK.<\/li><li>You cannot unlock or decrypt an encrypted APFS boot drive using an IRK.<\/li><\/ul><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The issue appears to be that a necessary function has not been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/legacy\/library\/documentation\/Darwin\/Reference\/ManPages\/man8\/diskutil.8.html\">diskutil<\/a> command line tool. For FileVault 2 on macOS Sierra and earlier, the command to unlock using an IRK is shown below[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Trouton: This recovery key model has continued to be used on Apple File System (APFS), starting with macOS High Sierra 10.13.0, with one important difference:You can encrypt an APFS boot drive using an IRK.You cannot unlock or decrypt an encrypted APFS boot drive using an IRK.[&#8230;]The issue appears to be that a necessary function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,537,706,30,1529,48],"class_list":["post-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-filesystem","tag-filevault","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19245,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions\/19245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}