Enabling Encyption on an Unencrypted Alpha

[Paras (Paras Shah)]

@gja

Why? This is how FileVault (Apple’s Encyption) works. New files are encrypted, then old files are slowly encrypted in the background. Protect data on your Mac with FileVault - Apple Support

The FileVault begins encrypting in the background but starts immediately and will finish within a specified period of time.

This is not what Badger will do. It will encrypt when GC’ed/compacted and some data may not even get encrypted ever. Quoting Ibrahim

@ibrahim

The old data might get garbage collected/compacted and re-written in encrypted format but there is a possibity that this might not (never) happen for a long time.