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Re:Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline by tedunangst on Saturday February 14, 2015 @12:22AM (#9048848)
Not false sense of security: suspending VMs to disk. The contents of previously used, free memory that has not been reused by the kernel are written to disk. Now it has a lifetime far longer than RAM.
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Re:Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline by pslam on Sunday February 15, 2015 @01:23PM (#9053446)
So you're essentially trying to protect against a hypervisor attack? That's never going to work unless you put the primitives in the hypervisor. Assuming you own it.
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Re:Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline by tedunangst on Monday February 16, 2015 @01:33AM (#9055631)
No, I'm trying to protect against somebody grabbing my laptop off the table and scraping the hard drive for suspended VM RAM contents from last month.
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Re:Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline by pslam on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:28PM (#9057967)
That's exactly the threat full disk encryption is designed for.
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