How to share an encrypted USB drive on Windows, Mac and Linux in a secure way?

Posted by Tim to BitLocker for Mac Tips on March 15th, 2017

I got a 2TB hard drive that I have to use with both Windows 10 and macOS 10.12 Sierra, maybe even on Linux in future. I need to encrypt this 2TB hard drive so that I can share the encrypted files on macOS 10.12 Sierra. Now I use Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption. On Mac and Linux nothing, obviously. What do you recommend?

Although Microsoft didn't develop and release BitLocker for Mac and BitLocker for Linux, but with the help of M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac and M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux, you can still use BitLocker on Mac and Linux to access BitLocker encrypted drive.

BitLocker for Mac

M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac is a BitLocker encrypted drive read-write tool for Mac computer, it can open BitLocker encrypted drive and then read/write BitLocker encrypted drive on macOS 11 (Big Sur)/10.15 (Catalina)/10.14 (Mojave)/High Sierra 10.13/10.12 (Sierra)‎ and Mac OSX 10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8 Operating Systems.

Tutorial to open/access/read/mount BitLocker encrypted USB drive on Mac

Step 1: Download, install M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac on your Mac computer.

Step 2: Launch M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac and insert a BitLocker encrypted USB drive.

Select BitLocker encrypted drive and then click "Open" icon to continue.

Step 3: Enter the password (or 48-digit BitLocker recovery key) to open/unlock BitLocker encrypted USB drive.

Step 4: Read/Write BitLocker encrypted drive on Mac computer.

BitLocker for Linux/Ubuntu

M3 BitLocker Loader for Linux is a command tool to mount, read, write, create BitLocker encrypted drive in Linux/Ubuntu.