On Ät 14-04-05 03:13:41, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > The dmcrypt swap can only be unlocked by the user with a passphrase, > > which is analogous to how you unlock your ssh private key stored > > on the disk using a passphrase. > > We talk about the unlocked system getting hacked. However I am not why the > hacker would head for the swap if he can as well read the ram.
Various openssl-s, ssh-s and others are pretty carefull to wipe their RAM when it is no longer neccessary. Pavel -- Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/