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previous question - here is a follow-up. This comes from England
incase you are questioning the date and time.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">Panther
bitten by second data damaging bug<br>
By Tony Smith<br>
Posted: 04/11/2003 at 13:30 GMT<br>
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Mac OS X 10.3's FileVault system, which protects each user's home
folder with on-the-fly 128-but AES data encryption, has been found to
contain a data-damaging glitch, Apple has admitted.<br>
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The bug manifests itself as a request to regain lost disk space in the
encrypted directory. If the user responds in the affirmative,
FileVault's reclamation process damages the user's keychain data.
Keychain is the Mac OS' secure password storage system, allowing
passwords to be accessed through a single master code.<br>
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Damaging the data held in the keychain prevents the Safari web browser
from automatically signing on to certain web sites, stops Mail logging
on to email servers and so on. Many other applications that store
passwords in the keychain are likely to be affected too.<br>
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Apple last night said it was aware of the problem but was not yet
recommending that users disable FileVault. Simply refusing to allow
the software to reclaim lost disk space keeps the bug at
bay.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">The
FileVault problem follows an earlier clash between Panther and version
1.0.3 of Oxford Semiconductor's 800MBps FireWire interface chip. That
bug lead to data being damaged on external hard drives connected to
the host Mac after Panther had been installed on the host system.
Oxford sent out updated firmware in September, but drive vendors have
only now started to offer it to their customers. ®</font></div>
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