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bdeinfo LOCAL bdeinfo

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:
shows this help
keys
the full volume encryption key and tweak key formatted in base16 and separated by a : character e.g. FKEV:TWEAK
offset
specify the volume offset
fl p password
specify the password
password
specify the recovery password
filename
specify the file containing the startup key. typically this file has the extension .BEK
verbose output to stderr
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: http://code.google.com/p/libbde/

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011-2014, 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.

SEE ALSO

bdemount(1)
April 3, 2014 libbde