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Fedora 41 Aims To Support Self-Encrypting Drives Within Its Installer
Coming in as a rather late change proposal for Fedora 41 is to support self-encrypting drives from within the OS installer.
The change proposal filed by three Red Hat engineers is to have optional support for leveraging native hardware encryption on TCG OPAL2 compliant drives from within Fedora's Anaconda installer. For Fedora 41 the hope is to add an "expert" option within the Kickstart installer configuration to use hardware encryption on capable systems. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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