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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:00:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050415170010.GV3174@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425F8CE6.90200@domdv.de>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:44:06AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Zero only the mlocked regions. This should take essentially no time at
> > all. Swsusp knows which these are because they have to be mlocked
> > after resume as well. If it's not mlocked, it's liable to be swapped
> > out anyway.
> 
> Nitpicking:
> What happens if the disk decides to relocate a close to failing sector
> containing mlocked data during resume zeroing? This just means that
> there will be sensitive data around on the disk that can't be  zeroed
> out anymore but which might be recovered by specialized
> companies/institutions.
> Encrypting these data in the first place reduces this problem to a
> single potentially problematic sector.

Well that's what the dmcrypt phase is for.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-15 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-10 23:19 [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-11 10:25 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-11 10:36   ` folkert
2005-04-11 11:01     ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-11 11:38       ` folkert
2005-04-11 16:28       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-11 16:36         ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-11 13:08     ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-11 11:08 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-11 13:11   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-11 16:11   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-11 20:57     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-11 21:08       ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-11 21:35         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-12 10:07           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-12 10:52       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-12 13:17       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-13 11:59         ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-13 12:59           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-13 21:27             ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-13 22:29               ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-13 23:10                 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-13 23:24                   ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-13 23:39                     ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-13 23:46                       ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14  0:35                         ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-14  6:51                           ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14  8:08                             ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-14  9:04                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-14 17:11                                 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-14 19:27                                   ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-04-14 19:53                                     ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-14 20:18                                       ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14 22:27                                         ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-14 22:11                                       ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-14 22:48                                         ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-15  9:44                                           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-15  9:44                                       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-15 17:00                                         ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-04-14 20:13                                   ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14  9:05                               ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-15  9:44                             ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-04-15  9:47                               ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14  1:13                       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-14  8:27                         ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-14  8:31                       ` encrypted swap (was Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality) Andy Isaacson
2005-04-14  8:38                         ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-14  8:49                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-14  1:11                   ` [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-13 13:22         ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-13 14:45           ` Andreas Steinmetz

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