I installed endeavourOS 2 days ago and then, the next day, there was a newnrelease of endeavourOS. It’s supposed to have better encryption. Is it possible to upgrade encryption on Linux? An unrelated question: is it possible to change the password of an encrypted partition? I’m a beginner, so please explain your magical commands.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    10 months ago

    EndeavourOS switched their key derivation function to argon2id, which Grub doesn’t support yet. LUKS2 will work fine, but only with the older PBKDFs, not the one that Endeavour switched to as of a few days ago.

    If OP wants to upgrade their encryption to argon2id to match a fresh Endeavour install, they won’t be able to do it with Grub. That said if they’re using Grub right now, nothing would’ve changed in terms of security whether they installed last week or today because the Endeavour change only affects systemd-boot installs.