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Comment by g-b-r

1 day ago

I imagine you have to re-encrypt the drive after that, though, for it to have some real effect

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smileybarry  4 hours ago

No, you can just revoke and regenerate the recovery key with `manage-bde`.

vel0city  1 day ago

No, the actual data encryption key doesn't need to change unless you're very paranoid. The backup key and your normal key is just to decrypt the data encryption key.

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