Password Update Without Re-encrypting: How?

⚜️ If your password is used to encrypt your hard disk, how can you change your password and still be able to decrypt your disk?

⚜️ Password update without re-encrypting
In some forms of encryption, the password or phrase you specify is not actually used to encrypt the data. It’s used to encrypt a completely random and typically more secure number that in turn is used to encrypt your data. Changing your password only changes how the intermediate number is encrypted and doesn’t affect the rest of the encrypted data.

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