Re: recovering from compromised keys
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:50:26PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> ...
> > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk
> > really means "except the bootloader and /boot"). For a 2-year-old recipe for
> > it, which I believe still mostly works with grub2, see
> > http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/09/cryptroot/
>
> Can we maintain suspend/resume type-features with such configuration?
>
> Unless we use unencrypted swap, it seems we have to give up
> suspend/resume. Then we a bit of loose security ....
>
> How people cope with this on laptop ... I am curious.
You only need to give up *randomized* swap encryption. You can still
have an encrypted swap, you just can't use a random key.
Mike
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