Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
>
> > Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes
> > the disk directly.  All operations are done through dmcrypt.
> > 
> > The user has to enter a password before the system can be resumed.
> 
> Think of it the following way: user suspend and later resumes. During
> suspend some mlocked memory e.g. from ssh-agent gets dumped to swap.
> Some days later the system gets broken in from a remote place.
> Unfortunately the ssh keys are still on swap (assuming that ssh-agent is
> not running then) and can be recovered by the intruder. The intruder can

The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used.
When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from
swsusp are encrypted.

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