Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:35:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 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 -- Picture of sleeping (Linux) penguin wanted... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |