I won’t be as kind going forward with you. You pick pointless fights for the most pedantic reasons on these forums.
If people took your advice, rather than an idiot like me, they wouldn’t have found out about their bad RAM, causing system issues, from a simple memtest.
Funny how you didn’t mention this part:
Tell me, oh wise one @truenas-fan, what is the difference between
8a96262a49cbfc3251173424896233c328b4f6bf0778919da10fee6270406221
and
8a96262a49cbfc3251173424896233c328b4f6bf0778919da10fee6270406221
?
Both can be used as keystring for native ZFS encryption. Both can be exported and saved. Both can be stored in a password vault.
Does it matter that one of them is the SHA256 hash of a JPEG whose significance is known only to you?
It costs you nothing extra, but if all else fails or the worst-case scenario happens with your backed up key, you can still retrieve your keystring.
@truenas-fan: “Nobody needs a phrase/string in order to generate a passphrase.”