Re: Urgent Cryptswap Bug!

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs

On 10/17/2012 04:27 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:22:21 AM Braden Wolfe wrote:

Hi all,
As of last night I finished up allbeta bug testing for 12.10 beta, as
the relase is tomorrow. Everything on i386, x32, x64, and x86 work
fine, wth one exception:
On AMD Single Core mobile processors, Cryptswap does not write
properly. During the Ubuntu boot screen, it says 'Crypswap/1 is not
present' and says I can wait to write or skip. This hapens every time
I boot weather I execute manual control or have the system write it. I
have not found any soloutions to this issue, and it is a serious
security issue for encryption savvy user. Hopefully this issue can be
resolved quickly...hope this helps!
-Braden W.

NOTE: I had this issue on 12.04 and 12.04.1 as well.

I see this issue on and off.  It's a race condition in the boot process.  It is
not a security issue because if you skip, you don't have access to the
encrypted area, so there's no information exposure.

For me, if I wait a few seconds it just goes away on it's own.

Scott K

I too have seen this happen, but it's only a matter of seconds before 
being mounted and I can unencrypt.



Nicholas

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Re: Urgent Cryptswap Bug!

2012-10-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:22:21 AM Braden Wolfe wrote:
> Hi all,
> As of last night I finished up allbeta bug testing for 12.10 beta, as
> the relase is tomorrow. Everything on i386, x32, x64, and x86 work
> fine, wth one exception:
> On AMD Single Core mobile processors, Cryptswap does not write
> properly. During the Ubuntu boot screen, it says 'Crypswap/1 is not
> present' and says I can wait to write or skip. This hapens every time
> I boot weather I execute manual control or have the system write it. I
> have not found any soloutions to this issue, and it is a serious
> security issue for encryption savvy user. Hopefully this issue can be
> resolved quickly...hope this helps!
> -Braden W.
> 
> NOTE: I had this issue on 12.04 and 12.04.1 as well.

I see this issue on and off.  It's a race condition in the boot process.  It is 
not a security issue because if you skip, you don't have access to the 
encrypted area, so there's no information exposure.

For me, if I wait a few seconds it just goes away on it's own.

Scott K

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Re: Urgent Cryptswap Bug!

2012-10-17 Thread James Gifford
Can replicate on dual-boot machines with encrypted home - 10.04 and 12.10.

I just thought it was a boot slowdown, didn't think anything of it
since it "works".

So this should probably be reported on the ecryptfs bugtracker, unless
it already has been.
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Braden Wolfe  wrote:
> Hi all,
> As of last night I finished up allbeta bug testing for 12.10 beta, as
> the relase is tomorrow. Everything on i386, x32, x64, and x86 work
> fine, wth one exception:
> On AMD Single Core mobile processors, Cryptswap does not write
> properly. During the Ubuntu boot screen, it says 'Crypswap/1 is not
> present' and says I can wait to write or skip. This hapens every time
> I boot weather I execute manual control or have the system write it. I
> have not found any soloutions to this issue, and it is a serious
> security issue for encryption savvy user. Hopefully this issue can be
> resolved quickly...hope this helps!
> -Braden W.
>
> NOTE: I had this issue on 12.04 and 12.04.1 as well.
>
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>
> -Braden Wolfe
> Founder, Optixi.Com
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