On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 00:09 +0100, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 22:37 +0100, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > > > Your machine suspends, and writes a snapshot of its memory to > > > > disk. Sure, let's say it's even encrypted. When you wake the > > > > machine, is the encrypted disk still mounted? > > > > > > Obviously not. > > > > Why? This IS of course possible... > > Do you mean in a secure way? If yes, then that's not what I understood > that David meant.
He just meant that one has to now what one does in order to do it really secure, if I understood him correctly. > USB stick and secure? :-) Of course. The idea is that you can encrypt everything but the kernel +initrd, which is needed in order to decrypt the partition (better said, to set up the dm-crypt mapping). And an USB stick could be always with you. Chris.
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
