[arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Tue Oct 27 04:13:29 EDT 2009


vlad schrieb:
  > Thanks, helpful hints.
> But does this also work with "suspend-to-ram"?
> I mean, when suspending to ram everything remains unencrypted?
> Do I see this right?

Suspend to RAM always works - however, there are potential attacks where 
people freeze your laptop, take out the (frozen) RAM and recover the 
encryption keys from there.

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