No, this is not file vault. By default keychains on now in the cloud and then shared down to each machine. But since Apple is privacy counscious it does ntot keep a decryption key for the keychain. So, your new computer is asking for the password for one of your older computers in order to decrypt the keychain so you can use it to fill in application and web passwords.
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