Re: Announcing crypto suspend

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On Monday 20 March 2006 21:35, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Po 20-03-06 21:26:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday 20 March 2006 20:11, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > and please read the HOWTO.  Unfortunately the RSA-related part hasn't been
> > > > documented yet, but it's pretty straightforward.
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why you are working so hard on this... If
> > > you want encryption, you should care about all of your data!
> > 
> > I hope you realize there may be sensitive data in the suspend image
> > that are not stored in filesystems (eg. crypto keys, passwords etc.).
> 
> If you have your swap partition on encrypted filesystem, that may
> actually work okay.

Yes, but that's why you may want to encrypt suspend images even if you
don't need to encrypt your filesystems. :-)

Rafael
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