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1 .TH dislocker-bek "1" "Jul 2017" "DISLOCKER-BEK 0.7.1" "Reads .BEK files and prints information about them".\" Text automatically generated by txt2man

2 .SH NAME

3 \fBdislocker-bek \fP- Reads .BEK files and prints information about them

4 .SH SYNOPSIS

5 .nf

6 .fam C

7 \fBdislocker-bek\fP [\fB-f\fP file.bek]

8 .fam T

9 .fi

10 .fam T

11 .fi

12 .SH DESCRIPTION

13 Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions under

14 a Linux system. The driver used to read volumes encrypted in Windows system

15 versions of the Vista to 10 and BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions,that's

16 USB/FAT32 partitions.

17 .PP

18 BEK file is a BitLocker Encryption Key. BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full

19 disk encryption feature included with the Microsoft's Windows versions Vista

20 to 10. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire

21 volumes.

22 .PP

23 The software works with driver composed of a library, with multiple binaries

24 using this library. Decrypting the partition, you have to give it a mount

25 point where, once keys are decrypted, a file named dislocker-file appears.

26 This file is a virtual NTFS partition, so you can mount it as any NTFS

27 partition and then read from or write to it. Writing to the NTFS virtual

28 file will change the underlying BitLocker partition content.

29 .PP

30 This tool is useful in cryptography managing and forensics investigations.

31 .SH OPTIONS

32 .TP

33 .B

34 \fB-h\fP

35 print all options to help

36 .TP

37 .B

38 \fB-f\fP

39 read information about a .bek file

40 .SH AUTHOR

41 The DISLOCKER was written by Romain Coltel <romain.coltel@gmail.com> and

42 Hervé Schauer Consultants <Secretariat@hsc.fr>

43 .PP

44 This manual page was written by Giovani Augusto Ferreira <giovani@debian.org>

45 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).