From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>,
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: mlock(1)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:48:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929014810.GI4084@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096291898.9911.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-09-27 at 15:16, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > because I never use suspend/resume on my desktop, I never shutdown my
> > desktop. I don't see why should I spend time typing a password when
> > there's no need to. Every single guy out there will complain at linux
> > hanging during boot asking for password before reaching kdm.
>
> So attempt a decrypt with a null password before asking.
Not sure to understand, sorry. I was talking about the cryptoswap above.
there's no reason to type a password from userspace as far as cryptoswap
is concerned, nor to attempt a decrypt. A long random key choosen by the
kernel is more secure, that will be a single key used for both encrypt
and decrypt, and it'll always work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 19:57 mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 20:15 ` mlock(1) Neil Horman
2004-09-24 20:21 ` mlock(1) Neil Horman
2004-09-24 20:31 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-24 20:33 ` mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 20:39 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-24 20:22 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 20:41 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 20:46 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 20:54 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 20:59 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:48 ` mlock(1) Ryan Cumming
2004-09-24 21:07 ` mlock(1) Alan Cox
2004-09-24 22:19 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:30 ` mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 23:08 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:59 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-24 23:46 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 1:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 1:21 ` mlock(1) David Lang
2004-09-25 1:30 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 1:46 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 2:15 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 2:46 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 2:58 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 3:29 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 4:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 4:52 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 17:15 ` mlock(1) Andy Lutomirski
2004-09-25 2:33 ` mlock(1) Bernd Eckenfels
2004-09-25 1:27 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 22:03 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-28 22:15 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 23:26 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-29 1:16 ` mlock(1) Jon Masters
2004-09-29 1:23 ` mlock(1) Alan Cox
2004-09-29 3:46 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-29 12:34 ` mlock(1) Jon Masters
2004-09-29 15:57 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-29 22:56 ` mlock(1) Paul Jackson
2004-09-25 12:21 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 14:53 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 8:48 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-30 17:42 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 18:54 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-30 19:17 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 19:52 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-10-04 12:21 ` mlock(1) Jack Lloyd
2004-09-24 23:59 ` mlock(1) Bernd Eckenfels
2004-09-25 0:25 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 1:18 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 6:16 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 10:32 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-27 14:29 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 20:32 ` mlock(1) Wolfgang Walter
2004-09-27 14:16 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 13:31 ` mlock(1) Alan Cox
2004-09-29 1:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-09-27 14:34 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 15:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 15:25 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 15:38 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 13:04 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-27 22:22 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-27 22:43 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 22:03 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-24 20:24 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 21:17 ` mlock(1) Andrew Morton
2004-09-25 0:26 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-25 1:28 ` mlock(1) Andrew Morton
2004-09-25 1:33 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
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