OpenBSD 7.5 locks with improved disk encryption support

OpenBSD 7.5 locks with improved disk encryption support

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The OpenBSD project's 56th release is arguably the most secure Unix-like operating system to date.

OpenBSD 7.5 Encrypted installation with additional configuration.

OpenBSD's point releases are no less significant than any others, and as such OpenBSD 7.5 has some significant changes among many minor ones. One of the biggies is very specific and quite niche, while the other is something that would be seen as a big improvement on more mainstream operating systems, but for this project barely merits a mention in the release notes.

The less significant of the major updates in this release is that now OpenBSD's relatively rudimentary and rather user-unfriendly installer has a new option:

Added support in the installer for encrypting the root disk with a key disk.

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