Open Bitlocker USB stick on OS X I have a USB stick encrypted by Windows 7 built-in tool (bitlocker). I would like to open it on my OS X El Capitan.

When I open it, all I get is a file "BitLockerToGo.exe" and another "Read Me.url"

I found some pieces here and there but no full procedure for mac.
Actually I asked after some success because I thought it would benefit everyone ;-)

Here is the complete process. Some links are missing because I don't have enough reputation to embed them all. Sorry about that.

High-level, we "just" need dislocker.

But to install it, there are some dependencies to resolve... we need:


"Fuse for OS X"


Simply download the .img on their site, open and run the .pkg installer

Xcode command-line developers tools


I'm not sure what's the generic answer.
Open a terminal, and type 

xcode-select --install



If you get an error "-bash: xcode-select: command not found", you need to install Xcode from the App store, then start again this command.
If an alert windows popup asking if you want to install, click on "install" button.
If it prints error "xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, [...]", you're all set.


"Homebrew"


Following instruction on their website, type following in terminal: 

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

If you get an error about Xcode tools not being installed whereas you did install it, then change the path to Xcode:

sudo xcode-select -switch /


and obviously dislocker !


Download ZIP (available in green button "Clone or Download" on the right)
Extract ZIP content
Open terminal and change directory to the dislocker-master directory
Compile and install dislocker:

brew install src/dislocker.rb



If you get an error about Xcode tools not being installed whereas you did install it, then change the path like this:

sudo xcode-select -switch /







Don't be desperate, it's now time to mount the USB stick !

But it's not gonna be trivial...


Identify the device of the USB stick, using Disk Utility:


Open Disk Utility and select the USB stick drive. Somewhere you should get something like "disk3s1". Replace this example with your actual value in following lines.
Keep Disk Utility open, it will be used in next steps

Eject the USB drive for example from Disk Utility (Unmount button)
Create a directory for the decrypted file

sudo mkdir /tmp/mydrive


Warning: this directory will have strange characteristics: it appears with "ls" but not with "ls -l" and not in the Finder wherever it is, moreover the content can't be listed, and trying to delete it often fails with strange error messages. That's why I put it in /tmp which is cleaned at every reboot.
Decrypt the USB stick with dislocker. If disk is "disk3s1" and the password is "MyPassword", the command will look like:

sudo dislocker-file -V /dev/disk3s1 -v -uMyPassword -r -- /tmp/mydrive

Add the disk image to Disk Utility and mount it

sudo hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage /tmp/mydrive/dislocker-file


Note: Don't try to list "/tmp/mydrive/dislocker-file" by yourself. Just assume it is there and write the path as is.


Hourray !!!, the new drive is there !



Because really nothing is easy, to clean-up you need to do the following:


Unmount the drive


For example from your friend Disk Utility, select its icon and click on "Unmount" button

Get rid of the image


From "Disk Utility", select the greyed drive, and from the menu "File" select "Eject".

Detach the fuse volume

sudo  hdiutil detach /tmp/mydrive/



Only now the directory /tmp/mydrive is a plain directory that can be deleted...



As you noticed the process is definitely complex and finally I just get a read-only drive.
I'm interested by any better answer.