From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Encrypt all partitions with dm-crypt
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:58:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906195810.GA24770@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906175309.GA1621@fancy-poultry.org>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 07:53:09PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 06.09.2012, Arno Wagner wrote:
>
> > Encrypted swap is generally fine, as long as it gets a random
> > encryption key on system boot.
>
> This statement implies that swap is insecure if it doesn't get a
> random encrption key on system boot. Why do you think it is?
I was thinking about automatic swap set-up. If you do that
with a non-random key, you have to store it somewhere and that
will be a problem. This assumes that encrypted swap is
completely independent from the presence (or absence) of any
other encryption.
Or are you asking why unencrypted swap is insecure?
Arno
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 12:10 [dm-crypt] Encrypt all partitions with dm-crypt Stayvoid
2012-08-22 12:24 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-22 15:40 ` Stayvoid
2012-08-22 15:52 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-08-22 15:54 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-08-22 15:57 ` Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón
2012-08-23 7:28 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-23 9:00 ` Christophe
2012-08-23 11:27 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-23 14:12 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-08-23 15:10 ` Christophe
2012-08-23 16:07 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-23 18:12 ` Milan Broz
2012-08-23 19:34 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-24 14:01 ` Milan Broz
2012-08-24 14:40 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-08-24 15:14 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-05 4:21 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-05 13:01 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-06 12:54 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-06 16:46 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-06 17:53 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-09-06 19:58 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2012-09-07 16:10 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-07 19:04 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-08 2:50 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-08 7:01 ` Milan Broz
2012-09-09 16:21 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-15 0:52 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-15 1:09 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-15 1:10 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-20 7:13 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-20 9:18 ` Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón
2012-09-21 5:01 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-21 10:01 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-21 18:14 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-22 22:36 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-25 3:12 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-25 6:31 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-25 7:13 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-25 13:58 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-25 19:06 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-25 23:54 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-26 2:12 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-26 8:23 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-26 9:24 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-26 10:49 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-26 10:51 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-26 11:13 ` Matthew Monaco
2012-09-26 23:34 ` Stayvoid
2012-09-15 6:13 ` Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón
2012-09-08 8:13 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-09-08 13:26 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-08 14:37 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-09-08 16:05 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-08 16:39 ` Heinz Diehl
2012-09-08 19:36 ` Arno Wagner
2012-09-08 14:58 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-19 4:15 ` Two Spirit
2012-09-19 4:52 ` Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón
2012-09-19 5:13 ` Arno Wagner
2012-08-24 14:47 ` Arno Wagner
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