Re: security of hibernate (was: hibernate function)

2011-02-19 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:54:57PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Actually, if one could specify an encryption password for the memory written to disk, a stolen hibernating system would be less dangerous than a

Re: security of hibernate (was: hibernate function)

2011-02-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:54:57 -0500 Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Actually, if one could specify an encryption password for the memory written to disk, a stolen hibernating system would be less dangerous than a

Re: security of hibernate (was: hibernate function)

2011-02-18 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:17:57PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:17:25 +0100 Joachim Schipper wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:27AM -0600, Orestes Leal R. wrote: does it exists? Not yet. Hibernate offers more integrity of user data but it's a lot less

Re: security of hibernate (was: hibernate function)

2011-02-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Actually, if one could specify an encryption password for the memory written to disk, a stolen hibernating system would be less dangerous than a running/ACPI-sleeping system because it's suddenly impossible to