Fedora 19 Update: dislocker-0.3.1-2.20140423git.fc19

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-5602
2014-04-26 06:34:37
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Name        : dislocker
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 0.3.1
Release     : 2.20140423git.fc19
URL         : https://github.com/Aorimn/dislocker#readme
Summary     : Utility to access BitLocker encrypted volumes
Description :
Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions ("drives")
under a Linux system. The driver used to only read volumes encrypted under a
Microsoft Windows 7 system but is now Microsoft Windows Vista capable and has
the write functionality.

The file name where the BitLocker encrypted partition will be decrypted needs
to be given. This may take a long time, depending on the size of the encrypted
partition. But afterward, once the partition is decrypted, the access to the
NTFS partition will be faster than with FUSE. Another thing to think about is
the size of the disk (same size as the volume that is tried to be decrypted).
Nevertheless, once the partition is decrypted, the file can be mounted as any
NTFS partition.

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Update Information:

Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions ("drives") under a Linux system. The driver used to only read volumes encrypted under a Microsoft Windows 7 system but is now Microsoft Windows Vista capable and has the write functionality.

The file name where the BitLocker encrypted partition will be decrypted needs to be given. This may take a long time, depending on the size of the encrypted partition. But afterward, once the partition is decrypted, the access to the NTFS partition will be faster than with FUSE. Another thing to think about is the size of the disk (same size as the volume that is tried to be decrypted). Nevertheless, once the partition is decrypted, the file can be mounted as any NTFS partition.

Alternatively for FUSE a mount point needs to be given to fuse-dislocker. Once keys are decrypted, a file named 'dislocker-file' appears into this provided mount point. This file is a virtual NTFS partition, it can be mounted as any NTFS partition and then reading from it or writing to it is possible.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #991689 - Review Request: dislocker - Utility to access BitLocker encrypted volumes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991689
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update dislocker' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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