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SubjectRe: Announcing crypto suspend
On Po 20-03-06 21:26:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 20 March 2006 20:11, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > and please read the HOWTO. Unfortunately the RSA-related part hasn't been
> > > documented yet, but it's pretty straightforward.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't understand why you are working so hard on this... If
> > you want encryption, you should care about all of your data!
>
> I hope you realize there may be sensitive data in the suspend image
> that are not stored in filesystems (eg. crypto keys, passwords etc.).

If you have your swap partition on encrypted filesystem, that may
actually work okay.

OTOH uswsusp _destroys_ data after resume. Even if you are forced to
reveal your passphrase later, it should not be possible to recover
data from swsusp image.
Pavel
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