On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Joachim Schipper <joac...@joachimschipper.nl> wrote: > Actually, if one could specify an encryption password for the memory > written to disk, a stolen hibernating system would be less dangerous > than a running/ACPI-sleeping system because it's suddenly impossible to > get interesting data from the system memory. Interesting data like the > keys in ssh-agent or a softraid decryption key.
Not really much difference between encrypting memory that's written to disk and memory that's just left in memory.