Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

[Herbert Xu]

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.

The user has to enter a password before the system can be resumed.
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