Bug#795735: encrypt on suspend2ram (Re: Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap)

2017-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 04:37:54PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > suspend-to-disk > --- > If the user suspends to disk, then the memory will be written to disk. even if the user suspends to RAM, the key will stay in memory, which is can be pretty bad (as it can be taken from

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2017-10-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 04:37:54PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > It's a shame that encrypted swap by default hasn't happened yet for > debian. [...] > actual hardware performance > --- > > I suspect the cost is negligible on most hardware today, particularly > when

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2017-10-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
It's a shame that encrypted swap by default hasn't happened yet for debian. As i see it, the three outstanding concerns are: a) source of entropy at boot time b) actual hardware performance c) suspend-to-disk boot time entropy - The linux kernel's getrandom() situation is

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2015-08-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Lars, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi (2015-08-16): Package: partman-crypto Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Could we enable encryption of swap by default, even when full disk encryption is not used? As far as I undrestand, there is no performance issue for this for most hardware made in the

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2015-08-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: partman-crypto Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Could we enable encryption of swap by default, even when full disk encryption is not used? As far as I undrestand, there is no performance issue for this for most hardware made in the past half-decade. Swap encryption also doesn't require the

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2015-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Could we enable encryption of swap by default, even when full disk encryption is not used? As far as I undrestand, there is no performance issue for this for most hardware made in the past half-decade. This is obviously wrong.