On Monday, 12 February 2007 06:19, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:26:52AM +0000, Alan wrote: > > > Unless I'm mistaken, I have to type the passphrase twice then : > > > - once at suspend > > > - once at resume > > > > > > which is once more per "boot" than what I'm doing on loop-aes. > > > > You don't need to type in a key at suspend time if you don't want to. > > Think about gpg email - I can send you an encrypted email without typing > > any keys, you need the right key however to read it. > > OK, so that means that it can generate a random secret which is crypted > with your public key. That's very different from a crypted FS which has > to keep the same secret key over time for obvious reasons, but it is > smart to proceed this way. > > One less "myth" as Nigel would say call it ;-)
Yup. Our userland suspend tools available from http://suspend.sf.net are capable of doing that in a more or less transparent way. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
