Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:28:49 +0200 | From | Micha Feigin <> | Subject | Re: -nice tree [was Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: swsusp problems [was Re: Your opinion on the merge?]] |
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:37:48AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:08 am, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 10:22, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > You are right, that would be ugly. How is encryption supposed to work, > > > kernel asks you to type in a key? > > > > I haven't thought about the specifics there. Perhaps the plugin prompts > > for one, or perhaps it takes a lilo parameter? > The only purpose I can think of for encryption would be so someone can't grab > the HD and boot it on another PC or read the image directly. > Unless I'm missing something, that would imply that the key would need to be > generated from a hardware profile (only creatable by root) somehow to > restrict its readability to that one system. >
Actually it would be very unlikely that grabbing the hard disk would enable to boot on another machine since you are restoring all the context/modules etc. The grabber would need an identical system, and even then I doubt it would work (I don't know how flexible linux and the hardware are in this respect.
Its more a question of grabbing you entire computer and getting access to you hard disk, including encrypted partitions. In this case you would want to request a key from the user and not use a hardware related key.
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