[7406] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Securing linux swap partition with crypto fs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?q?SteveC?=)
Fri Jun 30 16:26:23 2000
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:09:35 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?SteveC?= <gsv_excession@yahoo.co.uk>
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If mid-crypt someone swapped a process to the swap
partition, presumably they could read the in-memory
key (depending on the software?) from there.
Is it possible to use the crypto filesystems (eg
www.kerneli.org) to make the swap partition secure
somehow?
How open is the so called thinkpad sleep partiton that
writes laptop memory to disk?
Have fun.
SteveC steve@fractalus.com
www.fractalus.com/fracsaver/
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