README.md

Enabling FileVault2 Disk Encryption

MAMMAMIA MARCELLO WHAT IS IT!? WHAT YOU DOIN?

As @dortania says in its "How to enable FileVault2" guide:

FileVault is macOS's builtin drive encryption, and with OpenCore support for it has been drastically improved compared to the legacy Clover drivers.

ALBERTO COME AND LOOK AT MARCELLO. MAMMAMIA THIS IS HOW YOU ENABLE FILEVAULT 2 WITH OPENCORE!

In order to enable FileVault2 support, I had to edit config.plist as it follows:

• Misc/Boot/PollAppleHotKeys = True
• UEFI/Input/KeySupport = True
• UEFI/Output/ProvideConsoleGop = True
• UEFI/ProtocolOverrides/FirmwareVolume = True
• UEFI/Quirks/RequestBootVarRouting = True

With the above settings, I successfully enabled FileVault 2 from SysPrefs/Security and Privacy/FileVault. Please note that the encryption process can take up to several hours depending on the data contained on your SSD.

Performances

You may notice a lower performance from your machine, but that's pretty normal since your PC encrypts-decrypts the data every time you edit it :p

Anyways, I did a few benchmarks using AmorphousMemoryMark and AmorphousDiskMark and the gap with no-FileVault performances isn't too big at all:

Credits

• MAMMAMIA MARCELLO original video which helped me writing this smol guide
• Dortania for "How to enable FileVault2" guide