BDEINFO(1)

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💖 bdeinfo — bestie's guide to peeking at your BitLocker volume 💖

okay so this whole thing lives in the libbde manual, and it's literally about figuring out what's going on inside a BitLocker Drive Encrypted (BDE) volume. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bdeinfo — determines information about a BitLocker Drive Encrypted (BDE) volume

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bdeinfo [-k keys] [-o offset] [-p password] [-r password] [-s filename]
        [-huvV] source

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bdeinfo is a utility to determine information about a BitLocker Drive Encrypted (BDE) volume. it's giving "just tell me what's in there" energy 💅

bdeinfo is part of the libbde package. libbde is a library to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) format.

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h — shows this help
  • -k keys — the full volume encryption key and tweak key formatted in base16 and separated by a : character, e.g. FKEV:TWEAK
  • -o offset — specify the volume offset in bytes
  • -p password — specify the password
  • -r password — specify the recovery password
  • -s filename — specify the file containing the startup key. typically this file has the extension .BEK
  • -u — unattended mode (disables user interaction)
  • -v — verbose output to stderr
  • -V — print version

🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

None

🍓 FILES 🍓

None

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

# bdeinfo -p Password /dev/sda1
bdeinfo 20140403

BitLocker Drive Encryption information:
        Encryption method:              AES 128-bit
        Volume identifier:              a31a8153-5dc1-4bc3-a5b8-e6d77a17c4c0
        Creation time:                  Aug 05, 2011 11:04:38.739926900 UTC
        Description                     :MYPC BDE TEST 8/5/2011
        Number of key protectors:       2

Key protector 0:
        Identifier:                     240c5287-d4a5-4f2d-8d38-06a2e563257f
        Type:                           Password

Key protector 1:
        Identifier:                     e70fad99-e63f-45c1-92e0-1cadabe08ae9
        Type:                           Recovery password

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. 🙈 so like, if you're not seeing the tea, it might be because it wasn't even compiled in, bestie.

😭 BUGS 😭

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libbde/

💜 AUTHOR 💜

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

Copyright (C) 2011-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

fr fr, NO warranty. like, not even the implied ones. read the source, babes. 📖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bdemount(1)

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this gorgeous lil page is from libbde, and it's dated January 21, 2022. slay, go read your volumes. 💅✨

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