From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dm-crypt userland key patch
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:13:51 +0200
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Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Patch to the dm-crypt module so that it hides the crypto-key from
> userland. (dmsetup table)

Does it also overwrite the key in memory when unloading dm-crypt, make
sure that the memory is pinned so the key doesn't leak to swap, unload
the key before a 'hibernate', and that sort of stuff?