How can i unlock a Partition that has been created and encrypted using Apples Disk Utility on a linux machine?
There are 2 formats one can encrypt Volumes with Disk Utility :
- CoreStorage encrypted Volume
- apfs encrypted Container
I'm interested in both methods, if there are such.
Best Answer
For accessing CoreStorage encrypted volumes, you can use the freely available libfvde software on Linux:
https://github.com/libyal/libfvde
For APFS encrypted containers you can use either the commercial software "APFS for Linux by Paragon Software":
https://www.paragon-software.com/us/business/apfs-linux/
or the freely available apfs-fuse software:
https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse
Both are read-only.
Note that apfs-fuse is marked as "experimental", so YMMV. However as it is read-only it shouldn't do any harm to do your data.