dis...-bek(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet dislocker-bek — she reads .BEK files and prints information about them. that's the whole gig. she's nosy in the best way 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dislocker-bek [-f file.bek]

like. that's it. one tool, one flag, infinite main character energy 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the lore, bestie 🫶 Dislocker was literally designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions under a Linux system. the driver it uses reads volumes encrypted by Windows system versions Vista to 10, plus BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions — and by "partitions" we mean USB/FAT32 partitions, okay? no cap.

a BEK file is a BitLocker Encryption Key. and BitLocker Drive Encryption? that's a full disk encryption feature included with Microsoft's Windows versions Vista to 10. it's designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes. it's giving security, it's giving locked down 🔥

the software works with a driver composed of a library, with multiple binaries using this library. so when you're decrypting the partition, you have to give it a mount point where — once the keys are decrypted — a file named dislocker-file appears ✨ and bestie, that file is a virtual NTFS partition, so you can mount it as any NTFS partition and then read from it or write to it. lowkey wild.

⚠️ heads up: writing to that NTFS virtual file will change the underlying BitLocker partition content. so like, be mindful, okay? 🙈

this tool is useful in cryptography managing and forensics investigations. periodt. 🔍

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — print all options to help. your little cheat sheet, bestie 🌸
• -f — read information about a .bek file. the whole point of the girl's existence 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the DISLOCKER was written by Romain Coltel <romain.coltel@gmail.com> and Hervé Schauer Consultants <Secretariat@hsc.fr> 🫶 absolute icons, honestly.

this manual page was written by Giovani Augusto Ferreira <giovani@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay 💜

and that's the vibe check bestie — this was DISLOCKER-BEK 0.7.1, dated Jul 2017. iconic since 2017, fr fr 💖✨🎀