Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] RFC: Suspend-to-ram cold boot protection by encrypting page cache

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 06:39:56 EST


Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:

[snip]

> I believe uswsusp could be used rather easily. Just modify s2disk to
> encrypt image in ram without writing it out, then decrypt it from ram
> and resume... it should be interesting hack.

As far as I understand, that would be completely useless since the image
that would be encrypted would just be a copy of what would still remain
in memory.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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