Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262930AbTFOWXr (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262931AbTFOWXr (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:23:47 -0400 Received: from corky.net ([212.150.53.130]:36772 "EHLO marcellos.corky.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262930AbTFOWXq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:23:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:37:34 +0300 (IDT) From: Yoav Weiss X-X-Sender: yoavw@marcellos.corky.net To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Ahmed Masud , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. In-Reply-To: <1055459980.2388.14.camel@laptop-linux> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 31 On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:58, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > Actually, I forgot that swsusp is now included. I haven't tried it in a > > while. Anyone knows if its stable enough to start playing with encrypting > > it ? > > Sorry for the slow response - I guess Pavel didn't notice your question > either. In it's current form in the 2.5 kernel, swsusp is stable enough > to try encrypting the data. However you might want to wait as the 2.4 > version is nearly at its 1.0 release, and the plan is for me to then > start submitting a whole swag of patches that will make the code much > more feature complete. The 2.4 code includes support for compressing the > image; I guess we'd want to hook encryption in at the same point (it > will use BIO calls, not the swap read/write routines). > Sounds great. I'll wait until the patches are submitted before introducing any changes. And the compression hooks sound like the right place to add encryption. Just be sure to encrypt AFTER compression and not vice versa. Yoav Weiss - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/