Hi! > >> - Support for multiple swap devices > >> - Support for non-swap (an ordinary file can be used) > >> - Uses cryptoapi (LZO support, more than 2x speed of uncompressed data!) > >> - Asynchronous I/O, readahead, multithreaded. Get the maximum throughput > >> possible with your hardware. > >> - Userspace user interface that lets you abort hibernating and abort > >> resuming, get nice progress display etc. > > > > All these are either done by uswsusp already, or could be done w/o > > modifying kernel code. > > Given that tuxonice DOES work reliably with dm-crypt encrypted swap > partitions, does uswsusp offer this functionality? Looking into the docs > on the sourceforge site does not give any information about this > - point. uswsusp does not care what kind of device it writes on, so yes, dm-crypt works. IIRC seife was working on some YaST scripts so that setting it up was easy for users. > Further, being someone with a crypto background, the userland suspend > helper does have some issues with the password/key handling: > 1) no support for keys containing a 0 byte. (cryptsetup can handle > this) "passwords containing 0 byte" ? Is that a big deal? How would user enter such password? > 2) the rsa functionality seems to use the unsound practice to encrypt > the symmetric key directly without any padding (aka encoding in libgcrypt). If this is easy to fix, can you tell me what to do? Otherwise, can you write a short note to bugtraq? Having bad crypto in uswsusp would indeed be very very bad. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
