Yeah but this is pretty bad in itself (really long number) when you're traveling. And needing the recovery key so often will lead to people writing it down and keeping it with the laptop so they're not locked out next time. Which invalidates the whole point of FDE.

The last time I had this the key didn't even work, my work rotates it regularly so something must have been out of sync.. Every Linux update seemed to break bitlocker this way so I stopped dualbooting.