On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:04:16 +0200, Milan Broz wrote: > Martin Milata wrote: > > Would it be possible to have e.g. luksSuspend and luksResume commands in > > [...] > > wakeup? > > Yes, I plan to add this, you can track this issue here > http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/issues/detail?id=3 > > > Does such a feature make sense or wouldn't it increase security of the > > partition in question at all? > > Depends on situation, after key wipe there should be no > volume key in memory but memory still can contain unencrypted data... > > > If it's not total nonsense and none of the developers would like to > > implement it himself, I'm willing to try to write a patch for > > cryptsetup. > > It should be easy to implement but my priority is now prepare new libcryptsetup > api (will appear in svn soon) and implementation of these new features will follow > - over this new api. Old api remains in its current state without > new features added - just to retain compatibility, so implementing anything new > using it is waste of time for now:-) Ok, thanks for clarification. I'll be looking forward to trying the new version.
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