evacideDo not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.
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If you (everyone who's reading this) have already uploaded the recovery key, use
Bitlocker would work with no recovery key set, but if you do want to generate a new recovery key, see Microsoft documentation below:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/manage-bde
If you (everyone who's reading this) have already uploaded the recovery key, use
manage-bde -protectors -get D: to find the ID of "Numerical Password" (recovery key) and delete it with manage-bde -protectors -delete -id ID D: .Bitlocker would work with no recovery key set, but if you do want to generate a new recovery key, see Microsoft documentation below:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/manage-bde
