From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IdV3o-0004hp-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:04:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l94Hs1Gf020341; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:54:01 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l94HnUXU015355 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:49:30 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 11FC9207D00 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04296207BEB for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 26523637 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:49:29 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions? Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:49:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <68b1e2610710032342j1b47ff5g8f868d8fcc0179ef@mail.gmail.com> <200710041752.03322.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <68b1e2610710040904j4c8168b4pd5693b0133451e1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610710040904j4c8168b4pd5693b0133451e1f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710041949.27911.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 3a7830e2-6a32-46c0-8b14-b78f3c085848 X-Archives-Hash: 83f8791fdb3573eccf1d51bd0a4cbf62 On Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > in practice, the ram has to refreshed every few cycles (on reason why it > > is slow) because it is loosing its load so fast. > > > > In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost. > > > > But not the stuff in swap.... > > Considering that swap is encrypted, is it realistic for this "lost" > RAM data to be recovered? Again, take the case of a well funded > organization. that depends on the encryption. Some algorithms are easy to break. Some are not, some will be broken as soon as we get quantum-computers ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list