From c2ff18f4070f6303a81fd7d9d967d7c9e01b588f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Steinmetz Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:56:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping The patch protects from leaking sensitive data after resume from suspend. During suspend a temporary key is created and this key is used to encrypt the data written to disk. When, during resume, the data was read back into memory the temporary key is destroyed which simply means that all data written to disk during suspend are then inaccessible so they can't be stolen lateron. Think of the following: you suspend while an application is running that keeps sensitive data in memory. The application itself prevents the data from being swapped out. Suspend, however, must write these data to swap to be able to resume lateron. Without suspend encryption your sensitive data are then stored in plaintext on disk. This means that after resume your sensitive data are accessible to all applications having direct access to the swap device which was used for suspend. If you don't need swap after resume these data can remain on disk virtually forever. Thus it can happen that your system gets broken in weeks later and sensitive data which you thought were encrypted and protected are retrieved and stolen from the swap device. Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz Acked-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/power/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/power/Kconfig') diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig index 2c7121d9bff11..917066a5767c3 100644 --- a/kernel/power/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig @@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ config PM_STD_PARTITION suspended image to. It will simply pick the first available swap device. +config SWSUSP_ENCRYPT + bool "Encrypt suspend image" + depends on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && CRYPTO=y && (CRYPTO_AES=y || CRYPTO_AES_586=y || CRYPTO_AES_X86_64=y) + default "" + ---help--- + To prevent data gathering from swap after resume you can encrypt + the suspend image with a temporary key that is deleted on + resume. + + Note that the temporary key is stored unencrypted on disk while the + system is suspended. + config SUSPEND_SMP bool depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && X86 && PM -- cgit 1.2.3-korg