Re: Using Windows and bitlocker

Milan Broz <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:09:35 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.cryptsetup
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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