Time Machine HDD encryption

Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:59:37 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A 2010 "cheese grater" MacPro was decommissioned on us a while back, and all that's available to us now is its external Time Machine HDD. 

Will it do us any good to requisition the drive? It was likely encrypted. Is TM encryption "paired" to the host machine, or can the HDD somehow be used apart from the original host?

-Carl