Re: Linux 5.3-rc8

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 06:20:02PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> AES keys are used for a variety of long-lived purposes (eg, disk 
> encryption).

And as an example of when we'd want to do that during early boot - swap 
is frequently encrypted with a random key generated on each boot, but 
it's still important for that key to be strong in order to avoid someone 
being able to recover the contents of swap.

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