NAME

bdeinfo —

determines information about a BitLocker Drive Encrypted (BDE) volume

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

bdeinfo is a utility to determine information about a BitLocker Drive Encrypted (BDE) volume

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:

-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
fl 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
-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.

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

Copyright (C) 2011-2021, 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.