Comment by winstonwinston

15 days ago

The system handles these changes for the user automatically. The disk key is encrypted by user password, when user changes the password, the system completes disk key rollover automatically. Which means it will decrypt key with old password and then encrypt key with new password.

Windows also allows you to reset your user password via Microsoft, which complicates things a little

  • In practice, there's some bugs around this. There's no way to force Windows to update your password when you change it via Microsoft; I went through the password change due to Microsoft locking my Microsoft account, and Windows didn't update the password locally until I played around with group policy settings (that I'd never touched before) for password expiry and signed in via PIN and rebooted a dozen times (over the course of about 2 weeks).