* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >Encryption is possible with both the userland hibernation (aka uswsusp) and > >TuxOnIce (formerly known as suspend2). Still, I don't consider it as a > >"must > >have" feature for a framework to be generally useful (many users don't use > >it > >anyway). > > he's talking about the main system useing an encrypted device/partition, > not the hibernate image being stored encrypted. > > This would require the main system 'forget' the keys when it does the > hinbernate and prompt for it again during the wake-up phase. Indeed - although as I say I really don't know what you would do with apps using the mounts at that point. Still it seems like a sensible requrest from the security side. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - 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/
