bdeinfo(1)

bdeinfo1

Determines information about a bitlocker drive encrypted (bde) volume

Usage

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

Overview

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

-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.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10–12
  4. 13

-u since Debian 13 (Trixie).

Bugs

Please report bugs of any kind to <[email protected]> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libbde/

Author

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

From libbde-utils 20240502-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.