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It is possible. I have it set up like that on my laptop. |
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Apart from a small /boot partition. The whole drive is encrypted. |
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Decryption keys are stored encrypted in the initramfs, which is embedded in the kernel. |
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Joost |
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On May 25, 2017 12:40:12 AM GMT+02:00, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> |
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>wrote: |
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>> Apparently it is pointless to encrypt swap if unencrypted |
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>> hibernation image is used, because all memory is accessible through |
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>> that image (and even if it is deleted later, it can be restored |
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>> from hdd and in some cases from ssd). |
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>Yeah, that was my main concern with an approach like that. I imagine |
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>you could use a non-random key and enter it on each boot and restore |
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>from the encrypted swap, though I haven't actually used hibernation on |
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>linux so I'd have to look into how to make that work. I imagine with |
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>an initramfs it should be possible. |
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>Rich |
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