[COLUG] Linux Laptop

[Duane]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 09:29 +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> On 05/08/06, Duane <duane at cacert.org> wrote:
> 
> > Since I want to run crypto on my hdd, hibernate is the last thing I want
> > to run...
> 
> You can do a suspend to an encrypted partition.

Actually it gets messy because encryption keys are usually held in ram,
and when you hibernate and/or suspend it can dump those keys to hdd in
plain form which can be potentially copied by an attacker...

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