Not entirely 100% sure on this one, but I do hope to be of some help
)
When you change the key, the drive does become re-encrypted inline with the
new key. From what I imagine, if you try and understand that the way the
drive encrypts depends on the key you first type, so if you type in the same
key on another machine, in theory it could be encrypted the same way (I
think...)
If the computer reboots, not necessarily in beta builds (so might apply to
the public release), the encryption will either kick off from where it left
off, or decrypt it and ask for the key again - whether it's the same key you
used before the encryption or whether it starts the whole process off again,
still not sure.
I do think it'll vary on the software/hardware types of encryption though -
you can get hardware chips with encryption stuff on it, so this may change
how things encrypt and whether the answers I gave still apply or not. It's
sketchy... but I hope that sheds *some* light on it
) We'll definately
know when the public release comes out, as will a whole load of
documentation comes with it.
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