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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Jamaal Speights <jamaal.speights@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptesetup remove question
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:58:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAC774B.5060802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a87818a1003251638m5f6fbf85v23545f5acad506e4@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/26/2010 12:38 AM, Jamaal Speights wrote:
> I am curious about the cryptsetup remove function and its purpose after
> rebooting a system.  Is my system still vulnerable to someone else
> mounting my encrypted file if I don't remove the mapping before I
> reboot?  When my system comes back up I don't see the mapping in
> /dev/mapping/cryptfile  .  Also if I do cryptsetup to mount the image
> again I have to re-enter the password.  So whats the point of using
> cryptsetup remove when shutting your system down?

Remove key from memory? (google coldboot attack)

Deactivate crypt mapping so underlying storage can safely deactivate
devices (LVM for example)?

Umount underlying filesystem if mappping is to file on it?

...

Milan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25 23:38 [dm-crypt] cryptesetup remove question Jamaal Speights
2010-03-26  8:58 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-03-29 20:21   ` Jamaal Speights
2010-03-29 21:41     ` Arno Wagner
2010-03-29 22:59     ` Milan Broz
2010-03-30 18:52       ` [dm-crypt] device-mapper: remove ioctl failed: Device or resource busy Ali Reza Sajedi
2010-03-30 19:43         ` Milan Broz

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