Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 18:23:23 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: encrypted swap [was: The disappearing sys_call_table export.] |
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On Wed, 14 May 2003 12:13:03 -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote: > > The idea is to have encryption keys for the pages to be unique on a > per-uid per-process basis. So one user on the system cannot access (even > if they are root) parts of another's private data. To achieve this, > different parts of swap device need to be encrypted with different keys.
How do user *know* that root cannot simply bypass this security?
Root, god, what's the difference? ;-)
Jörn
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