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		colejohnson66 on Oct 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Subpoenas and Gag Orders Show Government Overreach... The problem is consumers like the ability to reset their password while keeping all their data. If you encrypt using a key derived from the password, resetting the password renders all your data useless.

Zigurd on Oct 6, 2016 [–]

Key pairs are not like passwords. Nevertheless it is possible to migrate encryption keys.

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