From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: summary Re: encrypted swap
Date: 8 Aug 2001 00:43:16 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9kq1v4$ku7$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.g4fleqv.1mle133@ifi.uio.no> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0108071419300.2838-100000@cardinal0.Stanford.EDU>
You missed some scenarios. Suppose I run a server that uses crypto.
If swap is unencrypted, all the session keys for the past year might
be laying around on swap. If swap is encrypted, only the session keys
since the last boot are accessible, at most. Therefore, using encrypted
swap clearly reduces the impact of a compromise of your machine (whether
through theft or through penetration). This is a good property.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-08 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.g4fleqv.1mle133@ifi.uio.no>
2001-08-07 21:34 ` summary Re: encrypted swap Ted Unangst
2001-08-07 21:39 ` David Spreen
2001-08-08 0:43 ` David Wagner [this message]
2001-08-08 3:30 ` Ben Ford
2001-08-08 2:59 ` David Lang
2001-08-08 7:05 ` David Ford
2001-08-08 22:34 ` Marty Poulin
2001-08-09 4:56 ` David Ford
2001-08-09 5:02 ` David Wagner
2001-08-09 15:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-09 20:31 ` EOT " Rik van Riel
2001-08-09 0:19 ` David Wagner
2001-08-08 4:58 ` David Wagner
[not found] <fa.fk6d0vv.vgmm1i@ifi.uio.no>
2001-08-08 5:37 ` Ted Unangst
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