Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:23:23 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Ahmed Masud <masud@googgun.com>
Cc: Yoav Weiss <ml-lkml@unpatched.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: encrypted swap [was: The disappearing sys_call_table export.]
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On Wed, 14 May 2003 12:13:03 -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote:
> 
> The idea is to have encryption keys for the pages to be unique on a
> per-uid per-process basis. So one user on the system cannot access (even
> if they are root) parts of another's private data.  To achieve this,
> different parts of swap device need to be encrypted with different keys.

How do user *know* that root cannot simply bypass this security?

Root, god, what's the difference? ;-)

J?rn

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