[opensuse-security] Plans for Full Disk Encryption - with Support for Suspend/Hibernate?
Hello, my name is Peter König and I'm new to this list. I've been using openSUSE for 3 years now and it's been the most reliable distribution I've used so far. I'm using openSUSE on a Dell laptop, partly for work. Disk encryption is a must to me, especially after a colleague's laptop got stolen and he had to deal with the consequences of identity theft and stolen work (song blueprints). I've had my /home partition encrypted with LUKS and so far I'm happy with it. Recently I came across this article in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System which explains the importance of addtional encryption of /root and /swap. I was very happy to see that 11.0 apparently will include support of encrypted /root partitions: http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.0#Support_root_on_encrypted_files... However, as far as I know, none of these strategies support suspending/hibernation yet, which is an important feature to me as it makes working with a laptop much more comfortable. Yet, I came across the feature list of Fedora 9, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureEncryptedFilesystems where under "Should Fix" of the Todo it lists "Suspending and resuming using an encrypted swap partition". It references Bugzilla #247794 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247794) with regards to a possible solution to the problem. My Question therefore: Are there any plans to include full disk encryption into openSUSE? Especially with suspend/hibernate support? Please bear with me if this is a question rather for the developer than the security mailinglist. Kind regards, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
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