Re: Using Windows and bitlocker
Milan Broz <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:09:35 +0200
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On 6/20/25 12:55 AM, Mark Foley wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:45:30 Michael Kjörling <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> On 19 Jun 2025 11:57 -0400, from [email protected] (Mark Foley): >>> [...] I've downloaded and installed cryptsetup 2.7.5. [...] >> >> Most Linux distributions include cryptsetup in their repositories; you >> should not need to download and install it manually through >> out-of-band means. Using the distribution's packaged version is >> generally better unless you are working on the cryptsetup code; you >> get updates through the distribution's normal update process, and you >> don't risk unknowingly introducing incompatibilities between for >> example the kernel, libcryptsetup, and cryptsetup. > > Michael, thanks for your prompt response. My distro (Slackware) does not ship > with cryptsetup AFAIK Slackware packages cryptsetup, at least in recent versions. While it is one of the oldest distros I know, it is not so generic :) Milan