Re: BitLocker (was Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux)

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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>> My understanding is that Windows preloads are now blank-encrypted.
>> That is, there's a BitLocker volume wrapping the filesystem, even with
>> encryption turned off. It makes encrypting the disk later
>> significantly easier (it doesn't have to do filesystem resizing and
>> reallocation games).
>
> Huh, okay.  It seems cryptsetup can't open it, but dislocker can.

You can do something like

dd if=/dev/nvme0n1p5 skip=1024000 count=2048 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

And see if that 1MiB range looks like ciphertext (garbage) or plaintext. I wouldn't be surprised if it's encrypted, and the encryption key itself isn't wrapped, it's just exposed in the Bitlocker metadata in a way dislocker can discover and cryptsetup can't (yet) - but I'm speculating.


> But this does mean that doing anything in anaconda based on detection of
> BitLocker being present should consider that...

Either libblkid or cryptsetup would need to learn how to differentiate between the two kinds of Bitlocker volumes, in order for anaconda to have a chance of treating them differently. I'm not sure what the consideration would be though.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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