Re: [PATCH 3/3][RFC] tools: create power/crypto utility

Pavel Machek
2018-06-21T19:04:07Z

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On Thu 2018-06-21 14:10:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed 2018-06-20 17:40:51, Chen Yu wrote:
> >> crypto_hibernate is a user-space utility to generate
> >> 512bits AES key and pass it to the kernel via ioctl
> >> for hibernation encryption.(We can also add the key
> >> into kernel via keyctl if necessary, but currently
> >> using ioctl seems to be more straightforward as we
> >> need both the key and salt transit).
> >
> > Ah, here you go:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uswsusp
>
> No, not really.
>
> > It can already do encryption. If you see problems there, patches will
> > be gladly accepted to fix them.
>
> By whom?

By me.

> > If you want to maintain uswsusp in kernel tree, I guess that would be
> > an option, too.
>
> No, it isn't an option due to the dependencies on crypto libraries.

Why not?

Pavel
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