[COLUG] Linux Laptop

[Josh Glover]

On 05/08/06, Duane <duane at cacert.org> wrote:

> 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...

I am not sure how we handle this at work--maybe we overwrite the key
in RAM before writing to disk. I know returning from a suspend
requires re-entering the private key passphrase. If you are
interested, I can ask our laptop guru how he does it.

-Josh