Open Sesame: BitLocker Recovery Passwords

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Anyone who has tried enabling BitLocker will have been greeted with a friendly dialog box insisting that you create a recovery password.  I remember the first time I saw this, I found myself asking, “what is this recovery password, and what am I supposed to do with it?” 

Let’s first take a look at the BitLocker system.