Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-27 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > 2) An attacker breaks into your machine remotely while you're using it. He has access to all your RAM, which if you're actually using it, very likely including the same IPSEC, dm_crypt, and ssh-agent keys as are saved on suspend. Further, he can trivi

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > 2) An attacker breaks into your machine remotely while you're using > > > it. He has access to all your RAM, which if you're actually using it, > > > very likely including the same IPSEC, dm_crypt, and ssh-agent keys as > > > are saved on suspend. Further, he can trivially capture your >

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:12:49AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Well, "how long are my keys going to stay in swap after > > > swsusp"... that's pretty scary. > > > > Either they're likely in RAM _anyway_ and are thus already trivially > > accessible to the attacker (for things like dm

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Well, "how long are my keys going to stay in swap after > > swsusp"... that's pretty scary. > > Either they're likely in RAM _anyway_ and are thus already trivially > accessible to the attacker (for things like dm_crypt or IPSEC or > ssh-agent), or the application took care to zero them o

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:14:46AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > the attached patches are acked by Pavel and signed off by me > > > > > > OK, well I queued this up, without a changelog. Because you didn't send > > > one. Please do so. As it adds a new feature, quite a bit of info

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > the attached patches are acked by Pavel and signed off by me > > > > OK, well I queued this up, without a changelog. Because you didn't send > > one. Please do so. As it adds a new feature, quite a bit of info is > > relevant. > > I don't like this patch. It reinvents a fair amount

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > the attached patches are acked by Pavel and signed off by me > > > > OK, well I queued this up, without a changelog. Because you didn't send > > one. Please do so. As it adds a new feature, quite a bit of info is > > relevant. > > I don't like this patch. It reinvents a fair amount

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:10:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andreas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > the attached patches are acked by Pavel and signed off by me > > OK, well I queued this up, without a changelog. Because you didn't send > one. Please do so. As it adds a new fe

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Andreas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the attached patches are acked by Pavel and signed off by me OK, well I queued this up, without a changelog. Because you didn't send one. Please do so. As it adds a new feature, quite a bit of info is relevant. It should include a description of

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-17 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the >>suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note >>that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system >>is suspended... sti

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-07 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Hi! To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system is suspended... still it means that sa

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>>To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the > >>>suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note > >>>that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system > >>>is suspended... still it means that saved data are wiped from disk >

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-06 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system is suspended... still it means that saved da

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the > > suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note > > that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system > > is suspended... still it means that saved data are wiped from disk > > d

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt the > suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on resume. Note > that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the system > is suspended... still it means that saved d