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vardump on June 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]

Depends on the layering order. You can do both dedup and encryption in the same time, if the encryption occurs on a lower layer.

lilyball on June 11, 2019 [–]

Encryption in iOS is per-file. I'm not sure the OS really wants to go ahead and individual decrypt large numbers of files just to check if there are any duplicated blocks.

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