Re: Announcing crypto suspend

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> First, you need to generate the RSA key pair using suspend-keygen and save
> the output file as /etc/suspend.key (or something else pointed to by
> the "RSA key file =" configuration parameter of suspend).  This file
> contains the public modulus (n), public exponent (e) and
> Blowfish-encrypted private exponent (d) of the RSA key pair.
> 
> Then, the suspend utility will load the contents of this file,  generate a
> random session key (k) and initialization vector (i) for the image
> encryption and use (n, e) to encrypt these values with RSA.  The encrypted
> k, i as well as the contents of the RSA key file will be saved in the
> image header.
> 
> The resume utility will read n, e and (encrypted) d as well as (encrypted)
> k, i from the image header.  Then it will ask the user for a passphrase
> and will try to decrypt d using it.  Next, it will use (n, e, d) to
> decrypt k, i needed for decrypting the image.

what interface will those tools use? can I replace them with my own
code, e.g. that uses smart cards instead of an encrypted public key
on a disk?

Andreas