* david@xxxxxxx (david@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >Encryption is possible with both the userland hibernation (aka uswsusp) and > >TuxOnIce (formerly known as suspend2). Still, I don't consider it as a > >"must > >have" feature for a framework to be generally useful (many users don't use > >it > >anyway). > > he's talking about the main system useing an encrypted device/partition, > not the hibernate image being stored encrypted. > > This would require the main system 'forget' the keys when it does the > hinbernate and prompt for it again during the wake-up phase. Indeed - although as I say I really don't know what you would do with apps using the mounts at that point. Still it seems like a sensible requrest from the security side. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
