Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:27:31 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > What's wrong with using swap over dmcrypt + initramfs? People have > > already used that to do encrypted swsusp. > > Nothing. The problem is the fact that after resume there is then > unencrypted(*) data on disk that should never have been there, e.g. > dm-crypt keys, ssh keys, ...
Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes the disk directly. All operations are done through dmcrypt.
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