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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> Andreas is right. They are encrypted in swap, but they should not be
> there at all. And they are encrypted by key that is still available
> after resume. Bad.

The dmcrypt swap can only be unlocked by the user with a passphrase,
which is analogous to how you unlock your ssh private key stored
on the disk using a passphrase.

So I don't see the problem.

> First version simply overwrote suspend image in swap with zeros. This
> is more clever way to do same thing.

This version looks to me like a custom implementation of dmcrypt that
lives inside swsusp which ends up being either less secure than simply
using dmcrypt due to the lack of a passphrase, or it's going to involve
more hacks to get a passphrase from the user at resume time.

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